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Role-playing (RPG), Adventure, Action, Fantasy
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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 George R.
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Epic, richly built, demanding and cryptic.
16 profiled raters. Loved most by The Cartographers; disliked most by The Comfort Seekers.
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Got destroyed by the Tree Sentinel for an hour and then the game opened up and I forgot to eat. The world is the star. The bosses are the tax you pay to see more of it.
A world that does not care whether you understand it, which is the highest form of respect. I read the item descriptions like scripture. Caelid is the best bad place in games.
A hundred hours and I still found a door I had never opened. Nobody builds a world like this.
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PC, PlayStation 4/5, Xbox One/Series S/Series X; FromSoftware/Namco BandaiThis is a massive world, astonishingly rendered and seemingly limitless in its creative diversity
IGNMitchell SaltzmanFeb 202210/10Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path.
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Game RantPam K. FerdinandFeb 20225/5 starsMore than an open-world Dark Souls, FromSoftware's Elden Ring offers a new experience that will still feel familiar and satisfying to fans.
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EurogamerAoife WilsonFeb 2022Grandiose, mysterious, but now a touch more welcoming, Elden Ring tweaks the FromSoft formula to open up its world.
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IGDB rating 9.5/10 from 2303 ratings.
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Elden Ring is a wonderful action-RPG that features thrilling combat, an amazing open world, and tons of replay value. Unfortunately, its PC performance needs work.
Cubed3Michael McCannAug 20227/10Elden Ring is an experience that will not be forgotten in a hurry. It's a tremendous, hulking, massive achievement but because it is tremendous, hulking and massive, it is one that comes with many caveats. The shelves in CeX and conversations with people who stopped playing at Stormveil castle can certainly attest to some of those caveats. Much like any FromSoftware title, it's not going to be for everybody, but paradoxically it is one of their hardest and one of their most accessible to date. It offers huge value in one package, and perhaps is a little too much value, only becoming clearer when nearing the endgame. Don't be mistaken by the criticism, though. This is a phenomenal achievement with a moment-to-moment that is incredibly engaging and immersive. No doubt it will be deserving of the end-of-year accolades it will inevitably receive. One pushes through Elden Ring as one pushes through life, with all the highs and the lows that it brings.
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