FromSoftware and publisher Bandai Namco have announced Elden Ring Nightreign, a co-op survival action spinoff of the wildly popular open-world action RPG, and it's due out next year.
The game, like the upcoming Okami sequel and Naughty Dog's next project, was announced during yesterday's Game Awards, and a followup announcement post on the official Bandai Namco website sheds some more light on this rather odd-looking title.
The publisher describes Elden Ring Nightreign as a "standalone multiplayer co-op action survival game" in which players must band together to defeat a creature known only as the Nightlord. You will also be able to "go solo" in Nightreign, although it very much seems to be designed around co-op play.
Nightreign will consist of a "three day-and-night cycle" in which you'll make "split decisions about combat and exploration" while taking down "terrifying bosses", which sounds like par for the course when it comes to Elden Ring.
This time around, however, you won't be making your own characters; rather, you'll choose from an existing pool of eight, each of which has their own "unique abilities and powerful Ultimates".
The game will take place in the parallel realm of Limveld, where you'll face increasingly difficult bosses at the end of each night, with the third night pitting you against the "chosen Nightlord".
Should you fall, you'll still be granted relics that you can use to "customize and upgrade" your characters, so it sounds like Elden Ring Nightreign will have more than a whiff of the roguelite about it as well.
Elden Ring Nightreign's announcement comes just days after FromSoftware head Hidetaka Miyazaki said the studio wouldn't be revisiting the IP anytime soon, which feels like a particularly brazen statement in hindsight.
However, given the massive sales figures of both Elden Ring itself and its Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, another game in the series was perhaps an inevitability.
Elden Ring Nightreign is set to arrive for PC, PlayStation, and Xbox sometime next year. Stay tuned for more.
