Already over for several years now, the Game Awards 2024 have not left players unmoved, far from it! One of the biggest news, as big as it was unexpected, was from the famous FromSoftware studio which is once again back to offer a new version of its famous Souls-Like which has been talked about for more than two years now but in a very different form. Codename: Elden Ring Nightreign!
Elden Ring Nightreign : the missing project from FromSoftware
After the obvious success of the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, the Elden Ring fan community thought they were done with the FromSoftware license deployed in 2022, or at least for a while while waiting for a possible second DLC. And then there you have it, the Japanese publisher has, for once, chosen to surprise its players by revealing one of the most unexpected upcoming new features during the Game Awards 2024: Elden Ring Nightreign.
It is at the rate of a trailer of more than three minutes that we (re)discovered the dark universe of this Souls-Like, but this time embellished with a whole bunch of little references that the most assiduous fans were obviously quick to detect, such as the presence of certain bosses from the Dark Souls games to name only the most intriguing of them. A daring bet presented like this and yet there is much more in it than meets the eye!
Because unlike its two predecessors, Nightrein is not intended to be a game where you suffer alone the devastating assaults of creatures and other terrible bosses for long hours. This game claims to be a “standalone adventure taking place in the Elden Ring universe”, this time with the possibility and probably even the quasi-obligation of playing cooperatively with up to 2 other players to overcome the challenges. who are waiting for you. A multiplayer Elden Ring in fact, who would have thought it?
The idea seems to have been particularly welcomed by the public during and shortly after the Game Awards 2024, it remains to be seen whether the formula will be as promising controller in hand as on paper… and especially when it will be accessible since we don't know for the moment its release date apart from the fact that it is set for the year 2025.
The release date for the first review of Elden Ring Nightreign already set!
The problem with these highly anticipated new games, and The Witcher 4 and Borderlands 4 in particular are no exception, is that we often don't know when they will actually be released. They make us salivate and then we find ourselves waiting for long months, sometimes even long years without really knowing what to expect. You see it coming: that won't be the case with Elden Ring Nightreign, at least from what we know at the moment.
This new cooperation game is in fact planned to be deployed in the test phase from February 2025. The publisher mentions on its site that it will be a “network test” in order to ensure that the online features are perfectly functional with the help of large-scale network tests ahead of the official deployment of the game. Understand here that FromSoftware apparently intends to invite a lot of players to try a small game of Elden Ring Nightreign to see how long the servers will hold up.
To register for this test and get a first look at Elden Ring Nightreign, just one thing to do: rgo to the site dedicated to the game from Friday January 10, 2025 and click on “'Register!” at the bottom of the page. After that, all you will have to do is wait for a possible invitation from the publisher before diving for a short moment into this universe and discovering what will await you when the book is actually released. game a few weeks later!
