Elden Ring Nightreign hands-on: 10 takeaways from playing in Japan

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Elden Ring: Nightreign is FromSoftware’s next game, coming in 2025—and we’ve played it. This standalone spin-off throws weapons, enemies and bosses from Elden Ring into a new co-op roguelike set in an alternate version of Limgrave, with new "hero" characters with unique abilities replacing the usual RPG create-a-character. Here’s what we learned from 6 hours playing Nightreign at FromSoftware’s offices in Tokyo.

0:00 – Intro
1:28 – Three player co-op
2:30 – Premium-priced
3:05 – Predefined characters
5:46 – Not a battle royale, but it kinda looks like one
7:14 – How does it play?
9:49 – Randomly generated map?
12:47 – Loot system
14:59 – Meta progression
16:39 – Not an RPG
17:53 – When can you play it?

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