PC · Xbox One · PlayStation 4 · Xbox Series S/X · PlayStation 5
Overall player feedback for Elden Ring is overwhelmingly positive, with players praising its immersive world design, challenging gameplay, and replayability. However, some criticism exists regarding performance issues and certain gameplay mechanics. Despite a few negatives, the majority of reviews highlight the game's exceptional quality and recommend it highly.
FromSoftware's first open-world game takes the studio's punishing combat and scatters it across the Lands Between, a dark fantasy realm built to be explored without direction. Bosses guard its ruins and catacombs, magic and weapon builds reshape every run, and discovery, not a waypoint, sets the pace. It is a role-playing game first and an open world second, unforgiving by design and content to let the curious find their own way.
Reception is about as strong as reception gets: it swept Game of the Year in 2022 and sat near the top of the year's review charts, with critics converging on its world design and combat. The recurring friction runs the other direction, cryptic questlines that all but require an external guide and late-game bosses whose difficulty spikes hard. For players who want a medieval world that respects their curiosity and little else, nothing on this list matches it; for anyone who needs a map marker, it will grate.
Overall player feedback for Elden Ring is overwhelmingly positive, with players praising its immersive world design, challenging gameplay, and replayability. However, some criticism exists regarding performance issues and certain gameplay mechanics. Despite a few negatives, the majority of reviews highlight the game's exceptional quality and recommend it highly.
Based on 105 reviews from playstation, steam
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