Elden Ring Nightreign's Steam page lets slip it'll have DLC bosses and player characters

Nightreign, 's upcoming boss rush-slash-roguelike multiplayer title, alongside the chance for some hands-on [[link]] previews. PCG's Morgan Park reckons that it feels like some sort of huge mod project, , but is "damn fun" if you can put some of the usual expectations of this gaming lineage aside.

It ain't Elden Ring 2, that's for sure, but a much simpler and more streamlined experience: And as a spinoff, the asking price is an unexpectedly reasonable $40 (you know Bandai Namco could've charged whatever it wanted for this). But that may not be the only price you end up paying. Elden Ring Neightreign's release date came with , which initially contained the following at the bottom of the game's description:

"Additional DLC—Additional playable characters and bosses."

That line has now been removed, but seems a fairly straightforward slip-up and confirmation that there will be more Elden Ring Neightreign to come.

I'm probably going to sound a bit fanboy here, but this can only be good news. FromSoftware's track record with DLC and expansions is frankly outstanding, and over time the studio has only become [[link]] more ambitious: My personal favourite remains Bloodborne's The Old Hunters, but there's no denying that Elden Ring's own Shadow of the Erdtree was truly epic in scope and a fitting capstone on a magnificent game.

Admittedly this description makes Nightreign's future DLC sound much smaller in scope than that, and no doubt it will be, but in a game constructed around character builds and boss fights, don't expect FromSoftware to just be content knocking [[link]] out the usual, but using the DLC to invert and change-up the vanilla experience.

Elden Ring Nightreign arrives on May 30, and we already . "Nightreign will be an interesting litmus test of why people come to Souls games," reckons Morgan. "If it's all about swinging big swords and dodge-rolling away from impossibly hard bosses, Nightreign is gonna be a feast. But if it's From's quieter moments that stick with you—exchanges with weird NPCs, taking careful steps deeper into a vast fortress, contemplating The Lands Between's cryptic questlines—well, Nightreign ain't got time for any of that."