The game is very different from Elden Ring. Read more about what we thought below. The game will be officially released on May 30th. While playing the Elden Ring Nightreign network test, the word that kept coming to mind to describe it was “frantic.

Elden Ring Nightreign looks like Elden Ring, the 2022 FromSoftware hit,and it seems like it should play like Elden Ring, an action-RPG about fighting massive bosses in a cursed open world. And in a lot of ways it does feel cut from the same cloth as its predecessor,

While DLC for Elden Ring Nightreign sounds like an obvious move, it invites comparisons to Shadow of the Erdtree as well as Elden Ring.

Elden Ring Nightreign (out May 30) is a multiplayer game set in The Lands Between, the primary location of the original Elden Ring (2022). It’s not a sequel or an expansion, like 2024’s Shadow of the Erdtree was,