The second many FromSoftware followers have been ready for has arrived. Elden Ring Nightreign, the studio’s experimental, multiplayer-only off-shoot is right here, having launched worldwide in a single day.
Nightreign is a particular launch for the storied Japanese studio in numerous methods, and it’s clear gamers confirmed up for it, no matter how uncommon of a recreation it’s from that workforce.
On Steam, the place Elden Ring Nightreign currently tops Steam’s top sellers chart, the sport has launched to a big and devoted viewers, inflicting it to land a spot within the platform’s highly-competitive high 5 most performed video games.
That’s the results of its concurrent participant rely, which is the metric probably the most performed video games checklist relies on. Nightreign peaked at 313,593 concurrent gamers in a short time after it went stay (by way of SteamDB), and it has over 150,000 gamers in-game on the time of this writing.
It is a fairly respectable turnout for any recreation, and it definitely makes Nightreign certainly one of 2025’s best-performing video games on Steam. Contemplating the sport’s launch time on Thursday/Friday, there’s each likelihood extra gamers will bounce in on the weekend, pushing these figures even larger.
Clearly, we’ve little perception into how effectively it could be doing on consoles, however it’s very seemingly as profitable there, too. As huge as this day-one turnout is, it’s nowhere near Elden Ring’s all-time peak of 953,426 gamers. No one anticipated Nightreign to beat – and even match – that colossal peak concurrent, however it’s value maintaining in thoughts nonetheless.
Even setting apart the sport that spawned it, Nightreign’s Steam peak concurrent is already amongst FromSoftware’s highest, effectively above titles like Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and any of the Dark Souls video games.
A lot like professional critics, nevertheless, participant sentiment can also be divided on the sport. As issues stand, 67% of seven,481 Steam consumer opinions are optimistic, which is why it’s presently sitting at a Mixed general score.
Imagine it or not, Elden Ring itself started out pretty wobbly on the Steam review scale at its respective launch, too. Satirically, lots of the similar complaints about efficiency points and stuttering that had been widespread then have reemerged now. That stated, Nightreign’s distinctive state of affairs as a co-op-only recreation has created its personal set of grievances, a few of which need to do with the studio’s selections surrounding the sport and never essentially its technical state.
Opinions will seemingly settle as the times go by and transfer that score to Constructive. Till then, when you’re one of many hundreds of thousands leaping into the not-Lands Between, our Elden Ring Nightreign guide is stay and ever-growing. We not too long ago up to date it with new builds for Ironeye and Raider.
