Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition
This edition of the game includes the original game “Elden Ring” , the expansion “Shadow of the Erdtree”, a new armor and horse appearance customization features.
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 28 August 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2.
What Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2026. It was published by Bandai Namco Entertainment. It is available on Nintendo Switch 2 only.
The premise, in the publisher's words
This edition of the game includes the original game “Elden Ring” , the expansion “Shadow of the Erdtree”, a new armor and horse appearance customization features.
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are fantasy. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component.
Where it sits in the Elden Ring series
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition is the fifth of 5 entries we hold in the Elden Ring series. It is the most recent released entry in the series. Its critic score of 90 is almost exactly the series average of 91. The highest-rated entry is Elden Ring at 97.
How it was received
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition holds a critic score of 90 out of 100. That places it above 92% of the 7,525 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2026 averaged 78, so it scored 12 points above the year average.
What it launched against
Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition launched on 28 August 2026, within three weeks of Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword and Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy. It reviewed better than 3 of the 4. It arrived 9 years into the Nintendo Switch's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Marvel's Wolverine, The Blood of Dawnwalker, Onimusha: Way of the Sword, Resonance: A Plague Tale Legacy.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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