Elden Ring Nightreign was a brave experiment, but not a wholly successful one. It's a swing, and while it's not a miss, it's also not exactly a home run. It's such a significant twist on a formula so well-defined and so beloved that it was always going to struggle to find its core audience, an attempt to fit the niche into the mass-appeal.
But while that might make Nightreign a strange victor on our best multiplayer games of 2025 list, the very fact that FromSoftware was prepared to give a project like this a chance will see it stand as one of this year’s most important titles — and I don’t think this is the last time we see an experiment like it.
