Games

Elden Ring Nightreign

FromSoftware

2025•Hack and slash•PEGI 16•About 26 hours

Taste attributes: actionadventurefantasyfastfresh & originalimaginarylinearglossybig & variedemotionally undemanding

Boxlist takeA fantastical hack-and-slash game that is wide-ranging, glossy and fast-moving. Best if you like the extraordinary over the everyday.

Pace: fast · Originality: balanced · Tone: balanced · Weight: balanced · Realism: imaginary world · Story: balanced · Structure: very linear · Look: very glossy · Scale: big and varied · Emotional punch: undemandingHow we score

IGDB rating

82 / 100

110 ratings

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About This Game

Elden Ring: Nightreign is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming experience by reimagining the game’s core design.

Summary: IGDB

Story

In a mysterious, ever-shifting land known as Limveld, a reshaped and unfamiliar version of the once-familiar realm of Limgrave, an encroaching darkness called the Night threatens to consume all. Into this peril step the Nightfarers, wandering warriors drawn together at a sanctuary called the Roundtable Hold. The tale begins with the Wylder, a greatsword-wielding Nightfarer fleeing through the dark before confronting a dreaded figure known as the Fell Omen. Waking at the Roundtable Hold, the Wylder is greeted by the enigmatic Priestess, who reveals the Nightfarers' grim purpose: to hunt down...

Characteristics

Where this game sits on each taste spectrum

SlowPACEFast

FamiliarORIGINALITYOriginal

DarkTONEWholesome

LightWEIGHTINESSHeavy

FantasyREALISMRealistic

SimpleINTRICACYIntricate

Non-LinearLINEARITYLinear

UnderstatedSTYLEStylised

IntimateSCALEEpic

RestrainedEMOTIONIntense

Genres and themes

ActionAdventureFantasy

Keywords

RoguelikePrequelProcedurally generatedOnline coop

Where to play

Details

Developer: FromSoftware
Publisher: Bandai Namco Entertainment
Released: 30 May 2025
Series: Elden Ring
Platforms: Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, PC (Microsoft Windows), PlayStation 5, Xbox One
Modes: Single player, Co-operative
Perspective: Third person
Time to beat: 10h rushed, 26h normally, 57h complete
Age rating: PEGI 16
Taste scores: How we score
Source: IGDB

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