Learning about a new Elden Ring spin-off was my highlight of The Game Awards. Over the last few years, my partner and I have spent a great deal of time playing Elden Ring and its Shadow of the Erdtree DLC alongside each other, occasionally teaming up to explore the lands between or fight a particularly tricky boss. Still, summoning other players is still quite fiddly Elden Ring: Nightreign seemed like the perfect solution.
Elden Ring: Nightreign is a multiplayer spin-off in which teams of players can work together to fight new and old FromSoft bosses while exploring a different version of Limgrave (Elden Ring's starting area) in short sessions of about 30 minutes each. There'll be randomised encounters and placements to discover, but before each run, you'll always have to choose one of eight final bosses to fight. It seemed ideal for my partner and I to dive into it until we found out you can only play solo or in a team of three, no couples allowed.
