Elden Ring: Nightreign Releasing May 30th, Pre-Orders Available

Our trust in Insider Gaming has grown, now that their secret source’s claim about Nightreign news coming today has proven correct. The official pre-order trailer has dropped, along with the news that the game will be available for $39.99 USD on May 30th (Steam says May 29th, but presumably that really means 11:59pm given the official announcement states May 30). We also got some info on the Deluxe Edition, including the unfortunate news that some content may be fully locked unless you shell out an extra 15 bucks.

Much of the footage is stuff they’ve already shown us. There are a few new tidbits that hint at some of the class abilities, however. A mage characters showed us a bit more of their moveset, and an assassin-style character appeared to damage a foe a second time by summoning a ghostly version of the enemy that took the same damage that the foe was just dealt — seems like a really fancy way to just do double damage, but hey.

Editions & Pre-Order Bonuses

There are only two tiers of pre-order, the base game and the Deluxe Edition. The trailer lists things slightly differently from the Steam page, so it isn’t 100% clear what’s going on with the editions.

• Base Game — $39.99 USD
• The Deluxe Edition offers additional DLC, additional playable characters and bosses, and a Digital Artbook & Mini Soundtrack — $54.99 USD
• The Seeker’s Edition has all of what the Deluxe Edition has, plus the base game in a Steelbook — price unknown
• The Collector’s Edition is the Seeker’s Edition, plus a 25cm statue of Wylder, a 40 page hard-cover artbook, and 8 nightfarers cards — $199.99 USD

The only pre-order bonus appears to be a gesture — “It’s raining” — that you can get anyway just by playing the game, a strange choice by the publisher, but not an unwelcome one. There’s also a Helmet of Wylder you can buy if you need another way to give Bandai almost 200 bucks.

Hopefully, the “additional playable characters and bosses” is actually part of the “additional DLC” — not that having DLC characters is a great thing, but it would mean there is only one thing for base game owners to buy later, rather than two. In any case, the day of getting an entire finished game at one price on release is long gone, so start saving up now if you want to experience everything Nightreign has to offer.