Summary
FromSoftware and Bandai Namco just announced a new co-opElden Ringgame for 2025, an action spin-off called Neightreign that even appears to feature the Nameless King fromDark Souls 3.
While past Soulslike games have featured co-op in the form of invasions and summons, they involved using items in individual zones with a time limit. And you often needed to have a unique status effect after using something like Ember or Humanity. But this appears to be a more traditional approach, launching sometime next year on PS4/PS5, Xbox, and PC.
As reported byIGN, players can partner with two friends and drop into a map where enemies and locations are always randomised, a different experience to the usual FromSoftware game.
We didn’t get many other details about Nightreign in the show itself, but the rapid-fire gameplay montage did give us some interesting insights nonetheless.
Sites of Grace return, there’s a new glider (a magical bird you can summon) that goes hand in hand with horizontal wind vortexes, the map is a condensed version of Limgrave, and we’ll be hunting down a bunch of reimagined, past FromSoftware bosses.
How Sites of Grace will work in a traditional co-op setting remains to be seen. As Elden Ring’s equivalent to the Bonfire, they are the only way to ‘pause’ a Soulslike, allowing you to level up, restore your flasks, and replenish an area’s enemies. But as the game is allegedlyMonster Hunter-inspired, in that we’ll be hunting bosses with our friends, it’s likely they’ll factor into this new gameplay loop in some fashion.
Elden Ring
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With worldbuilding from Game of Thrones scribe George R.R. Martin and developed by FromSoftware, Elden Ring is a masterpiece in what has become known as the ‘Soulslike’ genre of action role-playing games.
