Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree
The Shadow of the Erdtree is a fully-fledged expansion that features an all-new story set in the Land of Shadow. It adds a whole new map with 70 new weapons, ten new shields, 39 new Talismans, 14 new…
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 21 June 2024 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 4.
What Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2024. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
The premise, in the publisher's words
The Shadow of the Erdtree is a fully-fledged expansion that features an all-new story set in the Land of Shadow. It adds a whole new map with 70 new weapons, ten new shields, 39 new Talismans, 14 new sorceries, 28 new incantations, 20 new Spirit Ashes, 25 New Ashes of War, 30 new armour sets, and new consumables and craftables.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player.
How it was received
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree holds a critic score of 97 out of 100. That places it above 99% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2024 averaged 76, so it scored 21 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 92, across 131 votes.
What you need to run it
The minimum specification calls for INTEL CORE I5-8400 or AMD RYZEN 3 3300X, 12 GB RAM and NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 1060 3 GB or AMD RADEON RX 580 4 GB. A 12GB memory requirement is demanding — worth checking before you buy, because 8GB is still common in older and budget machines. Install size is roughly 60GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.
What it launched against
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree launched on 21 June 2024, within three weeks of Still Wakes the Deep, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, Once Human and Zenless Zone Zero. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 4 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Still Wakes the Deep, Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance, Once Human, Zenless Zone Zero.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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