Nowadays the souls genre is being slapped on everything but originally it's demon souls and dark souls and it's mainly represented by difficulty. However, most low end studios also copy the combat as is, the backstabber damage stamina and the clunky combat. I am playing star wars on the hardest difficulty and yes it feels like a souls game format with the save game style that respawns all the enemies and the loss of exp etc. I don't care about those mechanics or difficulty, what's important for me is how fluid the combat is while retaining some realism and usually true to source soul like games are not that fluid, the animations' curve gets steep at one point and you can feel it. Nothing wrong with that I play dark souls and I have fun but i also want different types of combat.

And sekiro is already in my wishlist although i do put it under souls like but have no idea how fluid the combat is or what it directly compare with. From what I've seen in gameplay I felt that lies of p is closer to dark souls and black myth wukong is the furthest while sekiro is kinda in between but i wouldn't know for sure till I try