‘Elden Ring Nightreign’ Reviews Are In, And They Are Just Okay
- Elden Ring Nightreign, a standalone three-player co-op roguelite, released on May 30, 2025, across PS5, Xbox Series X|S, and PC, set in a reimagined Elden Ring world called Limveld.
- The game builds on Elden Ring’s core by condensing 80+ hours of progression into 40- to 45-minute runs focused on farming, loot, and defeating highly challenging bosses designed for coordinated squads of three.
- Nightreign lacks voice chat, crossplay, and a duos mode, forcing players to rely on limited pinging systems and matchmaking to fill teams, which causes communication and matchmaking difficulties.
- While the game features eight distinct Nightfarer classes, exciting boss designs, and compelling visual and musical elements, solo play is poorly balanced and considered overly difficult without a skilled, communicative squad.
- Reviews score Nightreign around 78 on Metacritic, praising its thrill with good teams but noting accessibility, matchmaking issues, and solo play challenges, suggesting it primarily appeals to hardcore Elden Ring fans seeking co-op experiences.
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Despite its co-op framework feeling stuck in the past, after 30 hours with Elden Ring Nightreign, I just want to keep playing it for years
Elden Ring Nightreign is a fascinating and addictive co-op adventure that shows what can be done by reusing and retooling an existing game.
Elden Ring Nightreign Is A Bizarre Experiment In Fortnite-ification I Can't Stop Thinking About
I’m playing with randos. One is a big burly guy dressed in animal skins and crowned with ram antlers. The other is a katana-wielding ninja in sleek black armor. We are frantically racing around, killing and plundering everything we can in a fever dream remix of the Lands Between from 2022's megahit Elden Ring called…Read more...
Elden Ring: Nightreign is one of FromSoftware's worst rated games since the Souls era. The studio set the bar extremely high for itself
Elden Ring: Nightreign received solid reviews, but it's still one of FromSoftware's worst-rated games in years. The Japanese studio has set the bar very high for itself.This info Elden Ring: Nightreign is one of FromSoftware's worst rated games since the Souls era. The studio set the bar extremely high for itself was first published on Gamepressure.com 29 May 2025.
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