Following the full launch of FromSoftware's ambitious new co-op roguelike offshoot Elden Ring Nightreign last week, Digital Foundry — a team of widely respected tech analysts for video games and gaming hardware that routinely reviews new games — has now completed its analysis of the spinoff's performance on its console platforms, including Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, PS5 Pro, PS5, and PS4. You can read the article on Eurogamer or watch the video version on its YouTube channel (also embedded below).
While there's plenty of positive things to say about Nightreign's gameplay (read my review for my thoughts on it), Digital Foundry's Thomas Morgan notes that from a technical perspective, the new game is overall quite disappointing and is afflicted with several of the same issues that impact the mainline Elden Ring experience from 2022. It's also worth noting that Nightreign doesn't have the option for ray-traced shadows and ambient occlusion that eventually came to the original title.
