Co-op roguelike action Elden Ring Nightreign will be available to try in February, but not for everyone

FromSoftware’s cooperative roguelike action game with RPG and survival elements, Elden Ring Nightreign, has barely been officially announced and is already preparing for its first public testing.

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As publisher Bandai Namco reports on its website, closed network testing of Elden Ring Nightreign will take place in February 2025. It will be possible to sign up for participation in the tests from January 10.

As part of the network testing, only owners of PS5, Xbox Series X and S will be able to try out a limited area of ​​Elden Ring Nightreign – users of Steam, PS4 and Xbox One will be left out.

Spider Freya from Dark Souls 2 isn’t the only familiar boss Elden Ring Nightreign players will encounter

The events of Nightreign will unfold parallel to the story of Elden Ring in an alternate version of the Grave. Players alone or in a team of three will have to survive three days (15 minutes each) and defeat the Lord of the Night.

Instead of a character editor, Nightreign will have eight pre-made heroes with their own stories, and procedural generation will be responsible for the landscape and enemies in locations, which will make each run unique.

Like a battle royale, the playable area in Elden Ring Nightreign gradually narrows

They promise changed mechanics from Elden Ring (running speed is increased, fall damage is disabled), bosses from Dark Souls (the Nameless King from DS3 appeared in the trailer), no PvP, microtransactions or battle passes. There will be no crossplay either.

Nightreign is expected in 2025. The project is a spin-off from Elden Ring. The main game debuted in February 2022 and by September 2024 had sold over 28.6 million copies worldwide.