Elden Ring

Moved souls design into an open world, making optional discovery the difficulty valve.

Released 2022 Developer FromSoftware Publisher Bandai Namco Entertainment Platform PlayStation 5 Genre Action RPG Era Live service & the long tail

Mechanics it built on

Ideas Elden Ring inherited rather than invented — each traceable back through the ontology to a root.

Day/Night Cycle ~~1983~~Seamless Streaming Open World ~~2001~~Stamina Action Economy ~~2009~~Asynchronous Invasion & Messages ~~2009~~Poise and Stagger Break ~~2009~~Bonfire Checkpoint & Currency Risk ~~2011~~

Descends from

Dark Souls ~~2011~~

The Elden Ring series in this dataset

2022

Elden Ring ~~this page~~

2024

Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree ~~2024~~

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~~Next in series →~~Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree