Elden Ring: Nightreign Quick FAQ

[Dash]

https://www.famitsu.com/article/202412/27477

Summary from Claude:

The game is a cooperative survival action game directed by Junya Ishizaki, who previously worked on battles in ELDEN RING and other FromSoftware titles. Here are the key details:

Core Gameplay:

3-player cooperative game where players must survive for three in-game days

Each day has a day/night cycle, with boss battles occurring at night

The playable area shrinks over time, with rain marking the boundaries

Sessions last approximately 40 minutes when successful

Character System:

Features 8 fixed characters called "Yoruwatari" (Nightwalkers)

Each character has unique skills, arts, and initial equipment

Characters start at level 1 in each session and reset afterward

Players can collect "Relics" (similar to Bloodborne's Blood Stones) for permanent character improvements

Setting and Story:

Takes place in a parallel world to ELDEN RING

Shares only the basic premise that "there was once a Shattering War in the Land Between"

Features both ELDEN RING enemies and some DARK SOULS series enemies

New main antagonist called the "King of Night"

Gameplay Elements:

Random generation of bases, dungeons, and item locations in each session

Weapons have random stats and combat skills

Players can explore separately or together

Features a "loose connection" multiplayer style with minimal communication tools (pings and gestures)

No PvP elements - purely cooperative

Players can rescue fallen allies by attacking them

The game is designed to be what the development team calls a "short RPG," condensing the RPG elements of exploration, character growth, and boss battles into compact sessions. While it uses ELDEN RING's assets and basic control scheme, it's being developed as a distinctly different experience with its own unique gameplay systems.

The game is scheduled for release in 2025.

[u238spleen]

It's gonna be yet another banger from our glorious kings at fromsoft.

[Dash]

Originally posted by u238spleen:

It's gonna be yet another banger from our glorious kings at fromsoft.

Agreed. I love the Dark Souls formula but I'm excited for something new and glad to see they can branch out a bit.

[u238spleen]

Originally posted by Dash:

Originally posted by u238spleen:

It's gonna be yet another banger from our glorious kings at fromsoft.

Agreed. I live the Dark Souls formula but I'm excited for something new and glad to see they can branch out a bit.

I thought it was gonna be a battle royale cause of the shrinking arena but this is something i never would've thought of them doing.

[Nichronos]

This seems like their testing systems for future games.

[Nightmarian]

Originally posted by u238spleen:

It's gonna be yet another banger from our glorious kings at fromsoft.

Unless they have some solid progression systems or a TON of incredibly unique content in the randomizer, it's unfortunately not going to be received well.

On paper it sounds like all the boring fat in Elden Ring with none of the meat or bones. I got tired of those dumb copy and paste caves and catacombs 1 hour in and if you boil down the truly unique dungeons and so on, it's a far far smaller game. To be fair, all the unique stuff was truly top tier and amazing, but slogging through the boring filler fat to reach it wasn't fun.

So I don't know, no making your own characters, no builds, likely monetization, really lazy coop systems still...

Unless there's some kind of banger persistent progression system people are just going to go play Elden Ring lmao.

[Handsome_WombatX6969]

tons of recycled assets. will wait and see

[Renegat]

"No PvP elements - purely cooperative" thanks not gonna waist my time on this ****. FS chose to listen people who cry about not playing togever with out invader, its gonna be they grave. DemSouls, DS1, DS2, DS3, ER all have invasion and now they put this cheap ****. Great wat lose fan base

[Combo7]

Originally posted by Renegat:

DemSouls, DS1, DS2, DS3, ER all have invasion and now they put this cheap ****.

Your own quote justifies this game's existence. As you say, they've already made a ton of games with the invasion aspect. What's wrong with doing something different? They've been making various flavors of the same game for fifteen years for God's sake.

[˥nɔᴉɐu]

Originally posted by Renegat:

"No PvP elements - purely cooperative" thanks not gonna waist my time on this ****. FS chose to listen people who cry about not playing togever with out invader, its gonna be they grave. DemSouls, DS1, DS2, DS3, ER all have invasion and now they put this cheap ****. Great wat lose fan base

Invasions is the best part of FS games. Cry about it.

P.s. Sry, I misread your message. No invasions=much less fun

[Oven]

Originally posted by Renegat:

"No PvP elements - purely cooperative" thanks not gonna waist my time on this ****. FS chose to listen people who cry about not playing togever with out invader, its gonna be they grave. DemSouls, DS1, DS2, DS3, ER all have invasion and now they put this cheap ****. Great wat lose fan base

It's a spin off, you dumbass

[Phirestar]

I’m down for the idea of a Soulsborne roguelite. An experience that condenses the mechanics and systems of FromSoftware’s games into a repeatable gameplay loop sounds like a good time. Plus it would be something distinct, which is not super common in the realm of roguelites; it’s very much a quantity-over-quality kind of genre.

This and Hyper Light Breaker will be the two new ones I check out next year.

[Big Sneeze]

Time Trial?
HARD PASS!!!!
When will devs learn?

[Imrür]

Is it doable solo or its only coop?

[˥nɔᴉɐu]

Originally posted by Imrür:

Is it doable solo or its only coop?

It seems that's coop "survivor" only. As I see it

[ΛΞL™⚡]

Fixed characters seems a weird choice i also don't like random generated battle royalle map sound boring i wanted more real Elden Ring id rather have another Expansion to the main game with normal coop instead or no coop at all.