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37/60 pts
Elden Ring Nightreign
On-line review · 37/60 pts
Elden Ring with friends, and a timer
FromSoftware let other people into the swamp. I died with company. That is new.
Elden Ring Nightreign (2025)
MINUTECRITIC · Jun 29, 2026
Nightreign takes the Elden Ring feeling and puts a clock on it and two other people in the mud with you. Sometimes that is hilarious. Sometimes it is three people rolling off a cliff in different directions. I had both nights.
It is not a replacement for the big game. It is a Friday. If you wanted another 80-hour solo myth, this is not that, and the marketing will try to confuse you about that.
Fun if your friends already speak FromSoft. Brutal if they do not. A session, not a life.
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