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Elden Ring

2022 · FromSoftware · ~60h to finish

Enormous and completely indifferent — most of its walls are optional, and it will never tell you which ones.

soulslikeactionexplorationPCPlayStation 5Xbox SeriesSteam DeckMetacritic 94
GlobalUNRATED
Baseline difficulty6.5PUNISHING

Sustained pressure. Progress is earned.

Price on Steam

$59.99

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Part of

FromSoftware, Demon’s Souls to Nightreign1 of 8 to playFine place to start

The one that lets you leave. Every other entry answers a wall with "get better at this"; this one answers it with "come back later", which is why it is the door in even though it is seventh out of the shops.

After it: Dark Souls

The fingerprint

12.55.07.510
Obscurity
7.4
Reaction
7.0
Learning Curve
6.5
Punishment
6.2
Execution
5.7
Strategy
5.5
Grind
5.5
Puzzle
1.5
PUBLISHEDHARDEST DEMAND FIRST
  • Assist options shave roughly 0.6 points off, if you use them.

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Screenshots

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Where it bites

SPOILER-SAFE BY DEFAULT
START25%HALFWAY75%CREDITS
  1. 12% · ~6hReaction

    the first boss the game puts directly across the critical path

    28
  2. 55% · ~40hLearning Curve

    the mid-game cliff at a city you were supposed to arrive at much stronger

    5
  3. 85% · ~70hReaction

    the optional boss that is harder than the ending of the game

    28
  4. 100% · ~60hExecution

    the last fight, which changes the rules halfway through

    21

Assists & accessibility

0/2 SOURCED

MOTOR & INPUT

  • Fully remappable controls [unsourced]

HEARING

  • Full subtitles [unsourced]

Claims marked unsourced have not been checked against a published accessibility review. Nothing here is inferred from genre — where we do not know, we say nothing.

What it is

An open-world action RPG built from FromSoftware’s combat template, with six large legacy dungeons, dozens of optional bosses and almost no direction.

Where to go from here

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