A boss is a powerful, non-respawning enemy in Bloodborne. Bosses are easily identified, as their name and HP are displayed on screen. Every area in the game has at least one boss, though some can have more.
Though players are required to fight most bosses in order to progress through the game, some bosses are completely optional. Bosses in the DLC are optional.
List of Bosses[]
Central Yharnam[]
Cathedral Ward[]
Old Yharnam[]
Hemwick Charnel Lane[]
Forbidden Woods[]
Byrgenwerth[]
Yahar'gul, Unseen Village/Hypogean Gaol[]
Nightmare Frontier[]
Nightmare of Mensis[]
Upper Cathedral Ward[]
Forsaken Cainhurst Castle[]
Hunter's Dream[]
Hunter's Nightmare[]
Research Hall[]
Fishing Hamlet[]
Asterisks (*) signify an optional boss.
Two asterisks (**) signify a boss in The Old Hunters DLC.
Chalice Dungeon Bosses[]
- Abhorrent Beast
- Amygdala
- Beast-possessed Soul
- Blood-starved Beast
- Bloodletting Beast
- Brainsucker
- Celestial Emissary
- Ebrietas, Daughter of the Cosmos
- Forgotten Madman
- Keeper of the Old Lords
- Loran Darkbeast
- Loran Silverbeast
- Maneater Boar
- Merciless Watcher and Chieftan
- Pthumerian Descendant
- Pthumerian Elder
- Rom, the Vacuous Spider
- Undead Giant
- Watchdog of the Old Lords
- Yharnam, Pthumerian Queen
Notes[]
- The Cleric Beast and Blood-starved Beast are optional bosses, but at least one is required to be killed by the player in order to gain a means of entrance to Cathedral Ward.
- Laurence is the only boss in the DLC that doesn’t need to be defeated in order to complete it. The only reward for defeating him is Beast's Embrace.
- Ebrietas, Rom, Amygdala, the Blood-starved Beast, and the Celestial Emissary also appear in the Chalice Dungeons. An alternate version of Darkbeast Paarl, the Loran Darkbeast, also appears.