{"id":139087,"date":"2025-05-28T16:04:14","date_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:04:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139087\/"},"modified":"2025-05-28T16:04:14","modified_gmt":"2025-05-28T16:04:14","slug":"elden-ring-nightreign-reviews-are-in-and-they-are-just-okay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/139087\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Elden Ring Nightreign\u2019 Reviews Are In, And They Are Just Okay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"color-body light-text\" role=\"button\">Elden Ring Nightreign<\/p>\n<p>FromSoft<\/p>\n<p>FromSoft decided they should release the third piece of Elden Ring content in three years as it shoots for more accolades for its blockbuster hit. But Elden Ring Nightreign is not more DLC, but a standalone project focused on the concept of a co-op survival game of farming enemies, getting loot and killing big bosses in a repeating cycle.<\/p>\n<p>Now, reviews are coming in for Elden Ring Nightreign with the embargo lifted. They are\u2026pretty good, though far from the epic high scores we saw from the original game and its DLC. As it stands, here\u2019s how all three scored on <a class=\"color-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/elden-ring-nightreign\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.metacritic.com\/game\/elden-ring-nightreign\/\" aria-label=\"Metacritic\">Metacritic<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Elden Ring (2023) \u2013 96<\/li>\n<li>Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (2024) \u2013 94<\/li>\n<li>Elden Ring Nightreign (2025) \u2013 78 on PS5 (80 on PC, with fewer reviews)<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That\u2019s a perfectly acceptable score, but again, with FromSoft and Elden Ring, you\u2019re holding them to a higher standard. It may not surprise fans that doing a pure multiplayer game and straying away from the core of the series is not quite as attractive as sticking with what we know works.<\/p>\n<p class=\"color-body light-text\" role=\"button\">Elden Ring Nightreign<\/p>\n<p>Metacritic<\/p>\n<p>I did have a code myself, but did not have enough time to play to write a review. In my very limited time with the game, I understood the loop but my initial impression was that even if I loved the game and its expansion, this was probably not going to be for me. That\u2019s the case for some reviewers, but we\u2019ll see how fans feel when they get their hands on it in two days.<\/p>\n<p>Play Puzzles &amp; Games on Forbes<\/p>\n<p>The game is likely going to be overly challenging for those wanting to play solo, even if that\u2019s how the base game is played. It was at least somewhat balanced for that, but it\u2019s still harder than how it was meant to be played, with three players, either friends online or matchmade with randoms. FromSoft has admitted that it was an oversight not to make a duos mode, which is not possible to play in the current state of the game.<\/p>\n<p>What are critics saying? It\u2019s a range:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/elden-ring-nightreign-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.thegamer.com\/elden-ring-nightreign-review\/\" aria-label=\"TheGamer (9\/10):\">TheGamer (9\/10):<\/a> \u201cDiving into game after game, experiencing that Soulslike loop in a microcosm, was unbelievably satisfying, and those moments of victory have never felt better. There are some minor quirks, like the lack of cross-platform play and spongy bosses, but on the whole, Nightreign is one of the most inventive things to come out of FromSoftware since it coined the Soulslike genre.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/elden-ring-sue-fromsoftware-070730-20240729\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.gamingbible.com\/news\/elden-ring-sue-fromsoftware-070730-20240729\" aria-label=\"GamingBible (8\/10):\">GamingBible (8\/10):<\/a> \u201cAll in all, I did enjoy my time with Elden Ring: Nightreign and I\u2019m looking forward to seeing it grow and flourish with some post-launch updates. It\u2019s not perfect, and it nowhere near has the level of polish that Elden Ring did, but you can tell it\u2019s not really trying to be what that game was.\u201d<\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/review\/elden-ring-nightreign-review\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" data-ga-track=\"ExternalLink:https:\/\/www.videogameschronicle.com\/review\/elden-ring-nightreign-review\/\" aria-label=\"VGC (6\/10):\">VGC (6\/10):<\/a> \u201cElden Ring Nightreign is an overly clumsy attempt to graft multiplayer antics to one of the best RPGs ever. While its rougelike elements may entertain, a lack of variety and uneven combat system ultimately make for a curious sideshow that doesn&#8217;t come close to the series that shares its name.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>This is largely going to be player-dependent, whether co-op multiplayer or crushingly hard solo content in a roguelike world appeals to you when it\u2019s so different from how the base game functioned. These scores do not indicate a GOTY contender this time, but fans may enjoy it all the same. Or not, we\u2019ll find out at launch soon enough here.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Elden Ring Nightreign FromSoft FromSoft decided they should release the third piece of Elden Ring content in three&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":139088,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[60488,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-139087","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-elden-ring-nightreign","9":"tag-technology","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114586312234647269","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=139087"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/139087\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/139088"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=139087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=139087"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=139087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}