Elden Ring

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7.0

Mixed or average reviews- based on 5812 Ratings

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  2. Mixed: 414 out of 5812
  3. Negative: 1,536 out of 5812

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  1. satanicpuppy
    Jun 24, 2022
    10
    I'm not a huge fan of souls-like games, but this one was extraordinary. If you like role playing games, you owe it to yourself to try this one.
  2. Ordnik
    Mar 12, 2022
    7
    A really great game. But even a great game like this has lots of issues, and these issues ruin your whole experience.
  3. evgenijblja
    Apr 1, 2022
    8
    Overhyped! But still a good game. It’s just a little bit monotonous. The only thing you are doing is fighting. Need better weapons? Fight! Want to explore the area? Fight! Want do something beside fighting? Buy a new game!
    The other point which I don’t like is the introduction. They do not explain so much things.
  4. derdrm
    Jun 16, 2022
    10
    It's the only game I played that has actually meaningful, not copypasted, open-world where you can find interesting things to do.
    Yes, the game isn't without flaws, but they are irrelevant when you see how much passion was put into the design of the world.
  5. junjun101324
    Apr 17, 2022
    10
    Really good game the only thing wrong with it on pc is the occasional frame stuttering.
  6. rafaeal
    Mar 4, 2022
    7
    Começou bem bugado mas está melhorando com as atualizações, é um optimo game mesmo assim.
  7. moirons
    Jul 2, 2022
    5
    This is how little you can trust online reviews: Publications who get paid by these game companies to gush over these games ranked it a 94. Users give it a 6.9 (probably a much more accurate evaluation). I stopped reading game reviews years ago because of this. Another example: WOW Shadowlands grabbed an 84. That game was a literal waltz into hell. It's one of the worst "big name games"This is how little you can trust online reviews: Publications who get paid by these game companies to gush over these games ranked it a 94. Users give it a 6.9 (probably a much more accurate evaluation). I stopped reading game reviews years ago because of this. Another example: WOW Shadowlands grabbed an 84. That game was a literal waltz into hell. It's one of the worst "big name games" I've ever played. Users correctly panned it at a 3.0, a much more accurate portrait.

    The internet is corporate. When you read online gaming publication reviews for something like Elden Ring, you're basically reading what the makers of Elden Ring thought of Elden Ring. Even some of the user reviews were paid, and you can tell this is so. So here is a real review:

    The graphics on this game are beautiful. The music is beautiful. You'll have some fantastic moments. Overall, though, the Gameplay is wooden, and it's a World of Warcraft fever dream where someone imagined what a 2022 Warcraft would look like. Some of the backgrounds are "2006 WOW scene re-imagined in 2022." This doesn't make it a bad game. Lots of people will like this. And just as many people will flip it off and not be able to finish it because it's a flashback. And some people get bored with those.

    If you want to read accurate reviews of any game, ignore 0. Ignore 10. And read every review listing it as something in-between. Some of the most classic games in history aren't a 10. And even some of the worst games in history still have some value to them, ranking above a 0. Just keep the golden rule in mind: Zeros are competitors. Tens are paid reviewers.

    - Sincerely, someone who gets offers for positive or negative reviews all the time and never, ever takes companies up on their offers    … Expand
  8. Ali_Teleb
    Jun 15, 2022
    10
    What a masterpiece. It's been a long time since I've played such a beautiful game.
  9. onurkaya
    Mar 16, 2022
    10
    Good game, they have little performance problems but not create big problem.I'm playing with very good 1660 ti mobile .I would recommend it to everyone
  10. xXxClarksonxXx
    Jun 15, 2022
    10
    10/10 Game of The Year. This is What you should Get in a Video Game with a 60$ price Tag.

    Massive Open World

    Countless Boss Fights

    Multiple Different Playstyles & Classes

    Great Story & Lore

    Great Replay-ability

    Great Sense of Achievement when you Play & Defeat Bosses that give you Trouble.

    [Long Live From Software]
  11. AluDono
    Jun 11, 2022
    10
    There is one word that can describe this game in all the glory: “Masterpiece”
  12. rotTheim
    Apr 2, 2022
    9
    The culmination of years of perfection by FromSoftware. Brutal, challenging & punishing. Yet also fair & easier than what came before, thanks to more options made available that the layer has to find & actively use. PC version's only real marring quality is it's stability, requiring waiting for the game to warm up before you stop seeing hitches in the frame rate or brief pauses. But evenThe culmination of years of perfection by FromSoftware. Brutal, challenging & punishing. Yet also fair & easier than what came before, thanks to more options made available that the layer has to find & actively use. PC version's only real marring quality is it's stability, requiring waiting for the game to warm up before you stop seeing hitches in the frame rate or brief pauses. But even then they don't go away.… Expand
  13. DAYABDAYA
    Apr 6, 2022
    10
    Not the best optimisation , but god damn what a game , best in its genre for sure ! If you've played any souls-rogue-like games i can definitely recommend this one .
  14. M0narch_Q
    Apr 12, 2022
    10
    A love letter to fans of classic game difficulty, a masterpiece in subtle story telling and world building. Secrets around every corner. Excellent Boss design.
  15. sonicfan69
    Apr 8, 2022
    5
    Let's focus on the positives first:
    - Awesome world design, absolutely incredible open world
    - Soundtrack is great as always - Character and boss designs are great visually speaking - So many builds and customization options So how does a game with this much good in it fall so flat? Laziness, really. The game is lazily put together in so many aspects. It feels like they just threw    Let's focus on the positives first:
    - Awesome world design, absolutely incredible open world
    - Soundtrack is great as always
    - Character and boss designs are great visually speaking
    - So many builds and customization options

    So how does a game with this much good in it fall so flat?
    Laziness, really. The game is lazily put together in so many aspects. It feels like they just threw proper level scaling and actually difficulty out of the window for the late game. Featuring bosses with undodgeable kill combos, ridiculous damage, bad hitboxes, and unfair design all around. For every amazing moment there is in the early game, there is like 5 bad moments in the late game. So many late game bosses would be so cool if they weren't infuriatingly unfair and badly designed.

    Beyond that, the difficulty at large, which in the early game felt carefully and expertly crafted, becomes unfair as well in the late game. The same reasons as highlighted above but apply it to basically every enemy that they introduce in the late game.

    In all honesty, if you want to play this game, you should really only play all of the earlygame and some of the midgame, as the rest will just make you hate it.

    Luckily, the issues as to why the late game is bad are all fixable, the ideas behind the enemies themselves do not get worse, they are just horribly unbalanced and unfair. A few balance patches can really save this game.

    So for now, it is a 5 out of 10, it is still a really good game, but it truly feels like it only lives up to half of its potential due to the laziness in balancing the late game. Hopeful to see that fixed soon.    … Expand
  16. ArthurYakovlev
    Apr 3, 2022
    5
    Dark Souls 3:Ctrl+C Ctrl+V edition. Extra textures pack. Plz buy our deluxe edition for 1 useless emote
  17. TaylanOzgurVura
    Jul 10, 2022
    10
    It is one of the best games I've ever played great combat great bosses and great graphics.Don't mind the noobs who can't kill bosses this game is so good.
  18. BruhIDontHate
    May 11, 2022
    10
    Not your average open world assasins creed/Horizon-esque type of game. This is basically Dark Souls but huge. It's not for everyone, and it doensn't have to be. It's a unique type of experience, even for a Dark Souls aficionado like me.
  19. sodaka
    Apr 4, 2022
    8
    It's ok but not so good enough. Performance, story, mission design still needs improvement.
  20. UmberLink
    Mar 22, 2022
    6
    It's fine if you like the current path FromSoft is going down. Otherwise not really

    Horrible PC port, locked to 60 fps, horrible performance issues, horrible graphical settings. Unacceptable for a supposed "10/10". These reviewers are embarassing themselves with these reviews and showing a complete lack of substance and credibility when they write these inane, pandering reviews. The    It's fine if you like the current path FromSoft is going down. Otherwise not really

    Horrible PC port, locked to 60 fps, horrible performance issues, horrible graphical settings. Unacceptable for a supposed "10/10". These reviewers are embarassing themselves with these reviews and showing a complete lack of substance and credibility when they write these inane, pandering reviews.

    The combat is what it is, the now well established degeneration of the souls de facto series. Roll and poke. The most major addition is the lazy abundance of delayed attacks, the only thing FS could think of to spice things up for veterans. No mechanical diversity, virtual all bosses are a variation on the same theme, with just a slight different attack skin on top.

    A far cry from an amazing game, let alone the perfect masterpiece people are deluding themselves into thinking it is.

    A solid 6    … Expand
  21. dantheman0809
    Mar 1, 2022
    10
    Very good game. Essentially dark souls mechanics / items / quests stuffed inside of a BOTW style open world. It's fun to alternate grinding/exploring/dungeons. A lot to do in every single region, lots of interesting minibosses, sidequests, and general fun exploring. The open world does not feel copy and pasted like other open world games i've played.

    A lot of people are complaining    Very good game. Essentially dark souls mechanics / items / quests stuffed inside of a BOTW style open world. It's fun to alternate grinding/exploring/dungeons. A lot to do in every single region, lots of interesting minibosses, sidequests, and general fun exploring. The open world does not feel copy and pasted like other open world games i've played.

    A lot of people are complaining about the graphics, but i completely disagree and think this game looks fine. Would much rather sacrifice graphics for good gameplay eitherway.

    I think with the PC performance issues this deserves a 9/10, but giving 10/10 to combat the ridiculous 0 score bombs.    … Expand
  22. Vzinan
    Mar 21, 2022
    5
    Fantastic bosses and skillls, but poor interaction and disgusting monsters ruin the expolration. Luckily, side quests become integrity.
  23. JoeFilms
    Mar 22, 2022
    10
    Absolutely fantastic. The game looks beautiful, plays the best out of the FromSoft games I've played, and has a captivating world.
  24. madlading
    Mar 23, 2022
    10
    I never liked fantasy RPG games as they seemed like too much trouble and while I admit that a lot of streamers and youtubers did compel me to try Elden Ring but eventually the game won me over . The world is so vast yet so engrossing I've spent tens of hours at once in Elden Ring without noticing the time. There are a lot of issues on the pc side like the target lock malfunctioningI never liked fantasy RPG games as they seemed like too much trouble and while I admit that a lot of streamers and youtubers did compel me to try Elden Ring but eventually the game won me over . The world is so vast yet so engrossing I've spent tens of hours at once in Elden Ring without noticing the time. There are a lot of issues on the pc side like the target lock malfunctioning stuttering and overall game balance related issues but nonetheless I love this game to bits.… Expand
  25. jinisgamer
    Mar 24, 2022
    6
    After 140 hours of gameplay, this is clearly rushed and unfinished game. Dont even get me start with reuse enemy and boss.
  26. hachemancour
    Mar 24, 2022
    5
    It's a very empty game. If you're interested exclusively in challenging hack and slash gameplay then you may enjoy it.

    If you're looking for a plot or narrative, or any sort of actual substance, you will not find it in Elden Ring. The open world feels devoid of life. You'll find yourself doing the same thing over and over again, but in different areas. You have to hunt for content    It's a very empty game. If you're interested exclusively in challenging hack and slash gameplay then you may enjoy it.

    If you're looking for a plot or narrative, or any sort of actual substance, you will not find it in Elden Ring. The open world feels devoid of life. You'll find yourself doing the same thing over and over again, but in different areas. You have to hunt for content outside of combat in a bad way. I just don't know what else to say, the game feels cadaverous. It's got no soul.    … Expand
  27. exitstage1eft
    Mar 24, 2022
    0
    I was so excited for this game but it's unplayable due to motion sickness. No options available that help like FOV. It's a huge problem that hasn't even been addressed publicly but has been brought up by many in news articles and Reddit. I hope they fix this game. Also the lack of ultrawide monitor support is surprising.
  28. Unswqung
    Mar 25, 2022
    5
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. Just for perspective I completed the game and got 100% in the steam achievements.

    Started stellar and ended like a bloated mess. Halfway through the game the new additions and general pacing started to feel worse and worse (physicks were cool though), crafting turned into a waste of time which in turn negated the open world items to an extent. So many repeated bosses which discouraged me to even check dungeons anymore, so many fights felt like they were designed around ashes (which I would prefer to be treated more like DS summons), issues from previous games that weren't addressed, bosses that felt more at home in DBZ (one literally has an instant transmission).

    No triumph overcoming a challenge. And I felt that way the entire game. Everything was either a total romp or just felt ridiculous. Again the open world nature ruins the pacing and trivializes bosses or makes them impossible. Radahn? Dodge OHKO's. Rennala? I walked at her and hit r1 a bunch and she died. The final boss was primarily me running at them just to land one hit, then running 20 seconds again to do the same.

    Front loaded and I wonder if everyone giving it a 10 hasn't hit the capital yet. I felt it got significantly worse after Caelid and the Liurnia (sp?) area was where the warts started to show.

    The open world only cheapened the game, the boss design was substandard for the series, the previous problems in DS games were still apparent, new additions lost their luster the longer the game went, and it felt bloated the longer you played. 6/10 -1 for rough optimization but that will change eventually I am sure. I guess I got my money's worth but I would rather play DS1, DS3 or Sekiro. I felt nostalgic for DS2. At the end of the day a large portion of From games are about the challenge of overcoming a boss and the structure of this one completely undermined it. It never felt right the entire way through. Too many walkover bosses, too many flippy OHKO and AoE attacks (that still paradoxically didn't feel challenging?).

    Might be my least favourite From game. Pay attention if the glowing praise is coming from someone who has yet to finish, or only has ~30 hours. Because their 10/10 is probably accurate... but only for the portion they have played.    … Expand
  29. BRSM
    Mar 25, 2022
    0
    This review contains spoilers, click expand to view. I think Elden Ring is going to be a good game, as long as it comes out of the Alpha in which it is, it is still very green, and should have been released when it was finished,

    Flooding of bugs
    Crashes
    Jumps / meaningless deaths.

    It's a pity that this game was released before it was finished, let's hope that next year it will be fixed.    … Expand
  30. Xenoblade42
    Apr 1, 2022
    0
    Game does not stop crashing for some reason, PC can run every other games except this one. Searched up everything to fix it. And on top of that the support of Bandai did not even reply. Really disappointed.
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Universal acclaim - based on 60 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  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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