Elden Ring Nightreign is a standalone co-op spin-off that takes the cautious dungeon crawls of Elden Ring and turbocharges them into propulsive, slash ‘n’ dash speedruns. And we played it!

TL;DR: It’s a co-op roguelike. Drop in, explore the map, survive 3 days and beat a unique boss.

Once you buy it you get access to the complete package, and there are no battle passes or microtransactions to contend with. It can also be played in singleplayer should you wish to stay offline, with enemy health pools that scale down so that it’s not too overwhelming for solo players (although curiously, there are currently no plans to allow players to play in pairs).

  • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
    322·
    10 days ago

    Souls games are nowhere near “yearly”, and there’s been massive changes throughout the games. How do you get anything close to “yearly FIFA slop” from that?!

    • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
      217·
      10 days ago

      2009: Demon’s Souls

      2011: Dark Souls

      2014: Dark Souls II

      2015: Dark Souls II King of whatever expansion

      2015: Bloodborne

      2016: Dark Souls III

      2019: Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice

      2020: Demon’s Souls (again)

      2022: Elden Ring

      2025: Elden Ring 2

      Thats almost yearly releases.

      You’d think after like 10 games of the same monotonous bullshit people would get tired of it but ig not

      • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
        81·
        9 days ago

        Meh, on average more than 1.5 years between games doesn’t qualify as yearly for me, especially if you’re counting DLC.

        It’s also simply not “the same monotonous bullshit”. Each game has variations and improvements, sometimes leading to drastically different gameplay (compare Sekiro and Elden Ring). Otherwise, why not also count Armored Core?

        Now they are releasing an experimental spin-off that again drastically changes a bunch of mechanics, but that’s also somehow not good enough? Seems like you just don’t like their games, irrespective of how much they evolve from the Dark Souls formula.

        • LainTrain@lemmy.dbzer0.comEnglish
          15·
          9 days ago

          Sekiro and Elden ring are literally just a demon souls reskin, I already played that game for free with ps plus on the PS3 and it was an ok time waster in school

          • FooBarrington@lemmy.worldEnglish
            31·
            9 days ago

            You either didn’t get past the start screen, or you’re trolling.

            • Sekiro has a single weapon, Elden Ring has hundreds
            • Sekiro has death blows and the parrying mechanic, Elden Ring has staggering, dodging and blocking
            • Sekiro has prosthetic tools you can upgrade and switch through, Elden Ring only has ashes of war
            • Sekiro has lots of vertical movement through grappling and jumping, Elden Ring has no comparable mechanic

            Elden Ring is an evolution of the Demon Souls formula, but already with large changes. Sekiro is completely different.