Elden Ring
Elden Ring is an action RPG developed by FromSoftware and published by Bandai Namco Entertainment, released in February 2022. Directed by Hidetaka Miyazaki, with world-building contributions from novelist…
Elden Ring is an adventure developed by FromSoftware, released 25 February 2022 on Nintendo Switch 2, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S and PlayStation 4. The main story takes about 119.4 hrs to finish.
What Elden Ring is
Elden Ring is an adventure game developed by FromSoftware and released in 2022. 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). It runs on Dantelion.
The premise, in the publisher's words
Elden Ring takes place in the Lands Between, a fictional realm over which several demigods rule. It was previously ruled over by the immortal Queen Marika, who acted as keeper of the Elden Ring, a powerful force that manifested itself as the physical concept of order. When Marika shattered the Elden Ring and disappeared, her demigod children began fighting over pieces of the Ring in an event called The Shattering. Each demigod has a shard of the Ring called a Great Rune, which corrupts them with power. In the game, the player character is a Tarnished, one of a group of exiles from the Lands Between who are summoned back after the Shattering. The player must traverse the realm to repair the…
How it plays
It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, fantasy and open world. It supports multiplayer for up to 3 players online, and includes co-op. Local play supports 1 players. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 42 achievements to unlock.
Where it sits in the Elden Ring series
Elden Ring is the first of 5 entries we hold in the Elden Ring series. The next entry was Elden Ring: Collector's Edition in 2022. Its critic score of 97 is 6 points above the series average of 91. That makes it the highest-rated entry in the series.
How it was received
Elden Ring 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 2022 averaged 74, so it scored 23 points above the year average. Player ratings track closely with critics at 95, across 2,323 votes.
How long it takes, and what that costs
The main story runs about 119.4 hrs. Completing everything takes closer to 171.8 hrs, roughly 1.4 times the length of the critical path.
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 launched on 25 February 2022, within three weeks of Horizon Forbidden West, Tunic, Sifu and Gran Turismo 7. It reviewed better than all of them. It arrived 2 years into the PlayStation 5's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.
Released around the same time: Horizon Forbidden West, Tunic, Sifu, Gran Turismo 7.
Cheats and codes
We have not confirmed any working cheat codes for Elden Ring yet. Rather than reprint a list we have not tested, this section stays empty until one is verified.
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