Elden Ring’s Game Director Junya Ishizaki has revealed that Elden Ring Nightreign can only be played as a trio or solo.
The news came from a new interview with IGN, where Ishizaki revealed that the game is designed to be played as a three-person team, but you can play solo if you wish. Ishizaki flat-out said that you cannot play Elden Ring Nightreign as a duo.
Junya Ishizaki: The game is designed to be played as a three-person team, but you can play it as a solo player.
IGN: Oh, great. Or in a pair?
Junya Ishizaki: No, it’s either one-player or three-player.
Ishizaki later continued, “The reason that we went with a three-player focus was that we wanted to retain that sense of accomplishment you get from battling a boss together or from conquering a map together and that sense of enjoyment, but we wanted to recreate that in a fresh way. And we felt like focusing on a three-player co-op experience would provide a brand new sense of accomplishment with it.”
You can read the rest of the interview at IGN here.
Elden Ring Nightreign is scheduled to release sometime in 2025, with players being able to sign up and register to test the game starting January 10.
“The network test is a preliminary verification test in which the selected testers play a portion of the game prior to the full game launch,” FromSoftware and Bandai Namco said. “Various technical verifications of online systems will be examined by conducting large-scale network load tests,” the test description reads. Players can sign up for the test here.
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