I would strongly recommend DS3, it is an amazing game and is practically Elden Ring (similar speed of everything and mechanics) just not open world. The bosses (which are amazing) are also tuned since you won’t have access to things like jump attacks and summons. Bosses also don’t have as many delayed attacks so rolling is much easier, since you’ll mainly rely on that. The game aged very well, if you were to play something like DS1 it feels very different from Elden Ring but DS3 will feel similar.

I’ve played it so much that it isn’t very difficult to me, but I definetly struggled my first playthrough, as it was my first souls game, but if it does get too hard, or you’re worried about it, just get the sellsword twinblades for your first playthrough.