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Elden Ring

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Elden Ring is a masterpiece – a surprisingly accessible, massive iteration on the Dark Souls formula. Suffering has never been so much fun.
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Elden Ring is a masterpiece - a surprisingly accessible, massive iteration on the Dark Souls formula. Suffering has never been so much fun.

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Critic Reviews for Elden Ring

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49% of scored reviews gave this game a perfect 100 / 100

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Tamoor Hussain (GameSpot)

Elden Ring takes the shards of what came before and forges them into something that will go down in history as one of the all-time greats: a triumph in design and creativity, and an open-world game that distinguishes itself for what it doesn’t do as much as what it does.

February 23, 2022 |

Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path.

February 23, 2022 |
10/10
Mitchell Saltzman (IGN)
Recommended
Aoife Wilson (Eurogamer)

Grandiose, mysterious, but now a touch more welcoming, Elden Ring tweaks the FromSoft formula to open up its world.

February 23, 2022 |

Tamoor Hussain (GameSpot)

10/10 - (Read Review)

Elden Ring takes the shards of what came before and forges them into something that will go down in history as one of the all-time greats: a triumph in design and creativity, and an open-world game that distinguishes itself for what it doesn’t do as much as what it does.

Mitchell Saltzman (IGN)

10/10 - (Read Review)

Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path.

Aoife Wilson (Eurogamer)

Recommended - (Read Review)

Grandiose, mysterious, but now a touch more welcoming, Elden Ring tweaks the FromSoft formula to open up its world.

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Elden Ring, developed by FromSoftware and BANDAI NAMCO Entertainment Inc, is a fantasy action-RPG adventure set within a world created by Hidetaka Miyazaki -creator of the influential DARK SOULS video game series, and George R R Martin – author of The New York Times best-selling fantasy series, A Song of Ice and Fire. Danger and discovery lurk around every corner in FromSoftware’s largest game to-date.

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