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 plenty of methods, and it’s clear gamers confirmed up for it, no matter how uncommon of a recreation it’s from that crew.
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 essentially the most performed video games listing relies on. Nightreign peaked at 313,593 concurrent gamers in a short time after it went reside (through SteamDB), and it has over 150,000 gamers in-game on the time of this writing.
This can be 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 probability extra gamers will leap in on the weekend, pushing these figures even increased.
Clearly, we’ve little perception into how properly it could be doing on consoles, however it’s very possible as profitable there, too. As large 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 holding in thoughts nonetheless.
Even setting apart the sport that spawned it, Nightreign’s Steam peak concurrent is already amongst FromSoftware’s highest, properly 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, nonetheless, participant sentiment can also be divided on the sport. As issues stand, 67% of seven,481 Steam consumer critiques are constructive, which is why it’s presently sitting at a Mixed total ranking.
Consider it or not, Elden Ring itself started out pretty wobbly on the Steam review scale at its respective launch, too. Mockingly, lots of the identical complaints about efficiency points and stuttering that have been widespread then have reemerged now. That mentioned, Nightreign’s distinctive state of affairs as a co-op-only recreation has created its personal set of grievances, a few of which should do with the studio’s choices surrounding the sport and never essentially its technical state.
Opinions will possible settle as the times go by and transfer that ranking to Constructive. Till then, in the event you’re one of many thousands and thousands leaping into the not-Lands Between, our Elden Ring Nightreign guide is reside and ever-growing. We just lately up to date it with new builds for Ironeye and Raider.