Elden Ring

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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5812 Ratings

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  1. DaniloNovakovic
    Feb 27, 2022
    9
    Really good game with a bad PC launch. Let's hope FromSoftware can fix these performance issues soon because aside from that the game is really good.

    I miss the posture gauge and parry mechanic from Sekiro tho :(
  2. jpeter38
    Feb 27, 2022
    9
    Almost every single bad review is complaining about performance. That can be fixed. Most of these reviewers that are giving negative reviews are expecting the game to run on their potato machines. The game definitely needs optimization but it's definitely playable. Game is amazing. If you want more accurate reviews check steam reviews where people have to own the game to be able to review.
  3. Espher
    Feb 28, 2022
    10
    Absolute Peak of From Software games. The sheer amount of content available for the player to explore is absurd.
  4. Skyllersy
    Mar 1, 2022
    10
    Yeah, that's it. We ate at the peak of gaming.

    This is it. It's all downhill from now.

    Elden ring is, with the lack of a better word, a masterpiece.

    Don't play it if you like skyrim, button mash and hack-and-slash games. This game is harder than you can probably handle.

    The game also does not hold your hand, at all.
    It's your adventure and your own path into becoming an Elden lord.
  5. RodryAlan
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    Es un juego excelente y hermoso con todas letras. GOTY seguro. Tiene fallas como cualquier juego de mundo abierto cuando recién se lanza. Pero a pesar de ello, es muy disfrutable. Un muy buen trabajo hicieron. Hacía bastante que no disfrutaba un juego así. Mis felicitaciones a Miyazaki y todo el equipo de From Software.
  6. Bennh
    Mar 3, 2022
    10
    (I see that the game has some notable negative reviews. Some are mad and refunding the game. I have three responses:

    (1) I rage quit Dark Souls back in 2012 after 3 hours of frustrating play. But after putting down the game for a week, clearing my head, and watching guides, I went back to playing what I discovered to be my favorite game series for years. For those initially disappointed,    (I see that the game has some notable negative reviews. Some are mad and refunding the game. I have three responses:

    (1) I rage quit Dark Souls back in 2012 after 3 hours of frustrating play. But after putting down the game for a week, clearing my head, and watching guides, I went back to playing what I discovered to be my favorite game series for years. For those initially disappointed, I encourage you to take a break, watch some guides, and try again!

    (2) If it’s really not for you, that’s perfectly fine! There are great games that I would absolutely refuse to play (Ninja Gaiden series, Nioh etc.) after trying it out a bit, solely because it’s not my type of game. I respect those games nonetheless and would never hate on them just because I don’t like them.

    (3) If you’re somehow angry at the game for the high critic reviews, I’m glad that From angered the right people: not their long-time fans. As a long-time Souls player, I’m not angry in it in the slightest. Some people overhyped this game to be something it’s not, but it’s what I wanted as a long-time fan of Fromsoftware: an excellent game that pushes the genre to another level while keeping its core identity.

    It’s not a perfect game by any means. The bugs for many people are horrible, and I hope they’re fixed soon.

    And though I’m very happy with it, it’s not 100% what I expected from the game. I was hoping for a more majestic open world, and not another decaying, post-fall-of-the-Gods kind of story. The world could be less drab and foggy.

    But for a guy who impulsively bought Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition 10 years ago and ended up loving the series, I can see that this game was made with a lot of love.

    More room for improvement means more games. I will eagerly await the next Fromsoftware game. Until then, I’ll happily get lost in The Lands Between for the next few years. It’s a 10/10 for me.    … Expand
  7. Teleman
    Mar 1, 2022
    10
    No ultrawide support? Performance problems?

    Are you guys f.ing out of your minds? The only true excuse would be the fps lock otherwise game runs silky smooth on most hardwares, if you are complaining about performance problems, hope you get stuck on rtx hell where noone could play it properly. I have a gtx 1070 and the game runs much much better than it should tbh. First off, game    No ultrawide support? Performance problems?

    Are you guys f.ing out of your minds? The only true excuse would be the fps lock otherwise game runs silky smooth on most hardwares, if you are complaining about performance problems, hope you get stuck on rtx hell where noone could play it properly. I have a gtx 1070 and the game runs much much better than it should tbh.

    First off, game has no denuvo. Port as it may be but developers are actually showing respect to the players. Sekiro had many many mods and community support beyond launch and this is no different. Game itself is amazing beyond what these whiners deserve. 10/10.    … Expand
  8. REdview
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    Don't trust the reviews of disgruntled users who can't kill Magrit, try it, it's a real masterpiece!
  9. SupraMOD99
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    Hilarious to see people complain about the difficulty, missing quest logs or the combat system when Souls-like clearly isn't their genre. It's like attending a Rammstein concert and complaining about the lack of techno. Put these foolish ambitions to rest. Elden Ring is everything Soulsborne fans love & even better and bigger.
    L + maidenless + plumb out of luck + fully divorced from the    Hilarious to see people complain about the difficulty, missing quest logs or the combat system when Souls-like clearly isn't their genre. It's like attending a Rammstein concert and complaining about the lack of techno. Put these foolish ambitions to rest. Elden Ring is everything Soulsborne fans love & even better and bigger.
    L + maidenless + plumb out of luck + fully divorced from the strength of runes.    … Expand
  10. alejdark
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    Excelente videojuego, from software tomo todo lo que aprendio todos estos años y lo puso en elden ring, sin sera un juego del cual se hablara por muchos años.
  11. Apophy
    Feb 27, 2022
    10
    This game is a 9,9 game which will be a 10,0 when the next patches to fix more performance come out. For me it runs smoothly and I think wide screen support would give unfair advantages in pvp due to the fov.
    This game is definitely phenomenal below the surface of issues many other users were pointing out like missing wide screen support and performance issues.
    I don't think it's fair    This game is a 9,9 game which will be a 10,0 when the next patches to fix more performance come out. For me it runs smoothly and I think wide screen support would give unfair advantages in pvp due to the fov.
    This game is definitely phenomenal below the surface of issues many other users were pointing out like missing wide screen support and performance issues.

    I don't think it's fair to rate a game as poor as 0/10 for just one or two issues, even if it's unplayable for a certain amount of time, it'll soon be and you will definitely enjoy it.

    It's not fair to rate a game poorly for only one or two issues.    … Expand
  12. Lohs
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    The game would be perfect without the freezing. Rn its a 7/10. If the fix the issues ill updste these. Also the steam stats and consistancy speak for them self.
  13. PlatyPuz
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    its amazing. This game is basically open world with the dark souls/bloodborne formula. For souls fans this is amazing. For new players, not so much. There isnt a lot of innovative design etc as other people are saying, but why innovate when it aint needed? The PC port itself is bad, the game is amazing. If you can, play it on console, but if you have a high end PC like myself you will haveits amazing. This game is basically open world with the dark souls/bloodborne formula. For souls fans this is amazing. For new players, not so much. There isnt a lot of innovative design etc as other people are saying, but why innovate when it aint needed? The PC port itself is bad, the game is amazing. If you can, play it on console, but if you have a high end PC like myself you will have a blast. Im talking 3090 high end PC, the framrate is locked, but thats easy to circumvent with a mod, same with EAC. I honestly dont care about the technical challenges as they are easy to solve, annoying, but easy to solve.

    The game itself is 10/10    … Expand
  14. bwh31
    Mar 1, 2022
    10
    This game is the best game I have ever played...and to be quite frank, the review bombs are unfounded in my opinion. Everyone I have talked too who properly updates their PC has had 0 issues, or only very minor ones, with the game.

    If you are on PC.....UPDATE TO THE LATEST DRIVERS. Nvidia released a new driver specifically optimized for Elden Ring last week. You need it. It helps. Do    This game is the best game I have ever played...and to be quite frank, the review bombs are unfounded in my opinion. Everyone I have talked too who properly updates their PC has had 0 issues, or only very minor ones, with the game.

    If you are on PC.....UPDATE TO THE LATEST DRIVERS. Nvidia released a new driver specifically optimized for Elden Ring last week. You need it. It helps. Do not ignore it.
    2nd.....TURN OFF THE STEAM OVERLAY. Steam overlay causes issues with all kinds of games, not just Elden Ring. Just turn the dang thing off and watch your performance improve. I did both of these things and have had 0 issues with frame rate, stuttering, or anything else that everyone is griping about. It is amazing to me how many PC Gamers don't do the basic maintenance of updating drivers to help their game and PC performance.

    The game itself is fantastic. It is the classic Dark Souls combat, mixed with an incredible open world with secrets and items to find EVERYWHERE. Literally their seems to be secrets and things to find on every inch of the massive map. Oh, and Boss fights galore. If you like Fromsoft games, then it is the perfect mesh of all their past games. The lore is great, and while there is a clear cut overarching "quest", most of the in-depth lore is still very cryptic and can be discovered through reading item descriptions in true Dark Souls fashion.

    I haven't been this into a video games in a lot of years. It ticks all the right boxes, is super addicting, and I find myself thinking about the items, worlds, bosses, and lore even when I am not playing it. It will forever be one of my top 5 gaming experiences, hands down.

    So to conclude, ignore the review bombers, update your PC, and enjoy one of the greatest games in recent memory. You will not regret it.    … Expand
  15. DarkAuron90
    Mar 2, 2022
    10
    Thanks Metacritic! Today you just taught me to not trust users review! I will tell my honest opinion about the game:

    this game could be easly a 10 game but is a 9/10, because is true, it has some little thechnical problems and very minor defects (BTW without compromise the playability of the game), and JUST because that. In fact, this game is still SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!! I give 10 in    Thanks Metacritic! Today you just taught me to not trust users review! I will tell my honest opinion about the game:

    this game could be easly a 10 game but is a 9/10, because is true, it has some little thechnical problems and very minor defects (BTW without compromise the playability of the game), and JUST because that. In fact, this game is still SO FREAKING AWESOME!!!! I give 10 in order to compense the other sensless users bombing reviews, and it's really sad because look more like an outburst of frustration than an honest review and these are the same people who tells that this game lacks of content!!! Are you kidding me?? Guys trust me, i played all FromSoftware games. I missing only bloodborne cause i am a PC gamer and if you like the Dark Souls Saga and also to be more generic if you like Fantasy/Dark Fantasy, you need this game!! You cannot image the quantities of stuff to do in this game and how huge it is!! The open world its at least more than double of how much i expected to be. Can be compared to Zelda BOTW or to The Witcher 3(plus with an huge vertical extension). The start could seems a little bit quite, but after few hours of gaming Elden Ring start to have great Rhythm. There are so many different paths to take and things to do. You never get bored and some of the places are really astonishing and everything with the dark souls style(i see also a lot of LOTR, Berserk and of course GOT vibes in the game but not just a copy rather a new marvelous masterpiece)! This game is Epic in every single aspect: gameplay, art style, level design, lore and in my opinion the author has just outdone himself with this fantasy MASTERPIECE! Its true has some little defect but i think they will solve it soon so just give it a change! This is the game we was waiting. Thanks again Miyazaki. i love you and i hate you, just as always!    … Expand
  16. BUReauKRATOS
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    The game is cool. I don't talk about optimization because of old PC. I like it and can't stop playing it, because the world is big and this is similar to dark souls and i like dark souls
  17. Rlatlgus
    Mar 20, 2022
    9
    10/10, everything bangs in the game
    -1 for performance issues still after updates.
    9/10. will update to 10/10 if they fix performance issues. date - 20/03
  18. bra1nscore
    Feb 26, 2022
    10
    Please play the game before writing a review.

    Best souls game by far. Fromsoft exceeded my expectations
  19. SuperWorm
    Jan 23, 2023
    10
    Awesome game that has a lot to offer for both people coming from previous fromsoft games and people new to them.
  20. tonytoo
    Jan 25, 2023
    9
    a very very very good game.
    Gaming:10/10(a very freedom open world game although its traveling is not as fun as Zelda. its levels decide are very well just like other soulbrone game )
    story:9/10(
  21. girjo10
    Jun 21, 2023
    10
    Un juego inolvidable y unico en su especie, tiene algunos problemas de rendimiento pero el juego sigue siendo una obra de arte
  22. saksukasermet
    Aug 12, 2023
    10
    best game ever best voice over best art design best combat diversity best re playability best game in the world
  23. MaverickMc
    Sep 10, 2023
    10
    Una joya en todos los aspectos, no les hagan caso a los llorones que se quejan de la dificultad, que ellos sean malos jugando videojuegos no hace que los juegos que requieran un mínimo de empeño sean malos (al contrario, son los mejores)
    Sobre los problemas técnicos, los solucionaron poco después de la fecha de salida, así que no tiene sentido hacerle caso a esas reseñas
  24. Pmstz
    Jan 25, 2023
    8
    Very nice game, nice experience.
    A From Software in open-world.
    It's a success.
  25. Tanikaze
    Mar 9, 2022
    10
    Great Game, great Soulslike. One of the best open world structure on the market and an amazing exemple of storytelling. The feeling of combat is crude, fast and visceral. The color palette is finally brighter and landscape is cleaner, dotted with a multitude of places of interest.

    I still have to reach the End of All...but the travel, after about 80hrs, is already memorable.
  26. sursaa
    Mar 3, 2022
    10
    Никаких проблем с производительностью и падением фпс.
  27. chrissnyman
    Mar 10, 2022
    10
    Best game i have played in a very very very long time.

    Sure, performance isn't perfect, but plays better than most new games on my system
    Considering the size of the game, it has the least amount of bugs i have seen in an new game in years.
  28. GerdiHell
    Mar 8, 2022
    10
    I have no issues on pc. Everything’s works smoothly.

    Not gonna lie. This is one of my most favourite games ever. The dark souls mechanics were meant to go open world.

    Thanks From Software.
  29. tarkin98
    Mar 9, 2022
    10
    This is the best game of the word.Only have a little problems but i have 100 hours in game and i can't stop gaming.
  30. Fai6944
    Mar 3, 2022
    8
    En sierras ocasiones hay un bajón de FPS un mundo abierto muy entretenido siempre hay algo que hacer uno de los mejores juegos que e jugado últimamente
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  1. Positive: 57 out of 60
  2. Mixed: 3 out of 60
  3. Negative: 0 out of 60
  1. Cubed3
    Aug 29, 2022
    70
    Elden Ring is an experience that will not be forgotten in a hurry. It's a tremendous, hulking, massive achievement but because it is tremendous, hulking and massive, it is one that comes with many caveats. The shelves in CeX and conversations with people who stopped playing at Stormveil castle can certainly attest to some of those caveats. Much like any FromSoftware title, it's not going to be for everybody, but paradoxically it is one of their hardest and one of their most accessible to date. It offers huge value in one package, and perhaps is a little too much value, only becoming clearer when nearing the endgame. Don't be mistaken by the criticism, though. This is a phenomenal achievement with a moment-to-moment that is incredibly engaging and immersive. No doubt it will be deserving of the end-of-year accolades it will inevitably receive. One pushes through Elden Ring as one pushes through life, with all the highs and the lows that it brings.
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  2. Riot Pixels
    Apr 28, 2022
    82
    Elden Ring is massive, sometimes to its detriment. A thorough walkthrough might take up more than 100 hours to complete, and at some point it becomes clear that From Software did not have enough manpower to produce that much unique content. Still, it remains incredibly addictive even after those 100 hours pass…
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  3. RPGamer
    Apr 14, 2022
    90
    It’s hard to review Elden Ring without being comparative; that’s because Elden Ring is an evolutionary step, not a revolutionary one, and one can’t help but see how it’s built on what came before. Here is a massive undertaking of a game, not for the sake of chasing trends but as the natural progression of the style the company has been fostering for over a decade. It’s amazing how smoothly the transition to open world was and how much of the Souls identity is still present. In the short time since its release, it has already left a cultural mark, no doubt a result of the game’s increased approachability. Even after sifting past all the hype and grandiosity, there’s still an excellent game left and Elden Ring is a clear showcase of FromSoftware’s outstanding expertise in the field. Elden Ring really is just that good.
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