By far, Elden Ring Nightreign's toughest challenge? Find friends to play

Now it's Elden Ring Nightregbut so far, players have faced their toughest challenges. No, this is not the classic fromsoftware boss, but the effort of finding friends to play with.

Elden Ring Nightreign puts players on Limveld's ever-changing land, exploring and fighting for Solo or a group of threes. There is no way to play with the two-person cooperative. We've reported it Elden Ring Nightreign's “Mixed” Steam User Review Ratingmost complaints revolve around the lack of duo options and the absence of voice chat.

Playing Elden Ring Nightreign Solo proved to be a particularly difficult experience. As explained in IGN Elden Ring Nightreg Review: “Let's first let the most important warning avoid solving: If you want to solve the monotony of the whole being alone, rather than a lesser thing than a stubborn Elden ring player, that's actively seeking ways to make this already difficult game more challenging and challenging, then Nightreneign isn't for you. Yes, technically it's a single option, not in both being able to open, then it won't work for me, which is impossible. This comes from people who live and breathe games like this.”

Solo players face a showdown with random players, as there is a problem in itself because of the lack of coordination required to beat the boss of Elden Ring Nightreign.

As a result, players are seeking help from the Elden Ring community. For example, Elden Ring Subreddit contains requests for the duet and is looking for a third player (yes, the community is interesting in this case).

“It's possible that I'm finding another guy with two less chances,” Redditor Trickponies said. “Is the game even worth playing solo?”

Players point out that Elden Ring Nightreign does have a matchmaking party, so if you don't have friends to play, you can play Trios. But, as others have argued, playing games with random is not always the best experience.

“I've watched so many videos that I can trust random things besides the newspapers.” “I love all of you. But from a distance. My blood pressure can only bring that much.”

Players are turning to Discords and other online platforms as they look for like-minded fans to work with. Elden Ring Nightreign hasn't even had 24 hours yet, but it turns out to be a huge obstacle for the community as they work hard on the game.

Nightreign Solo Cuz My friends have 9 to 5 pic.twitter.com/t47uryodsv

– Raph (@raphdeee) May 29, 2025

Some Elden Ring fans even said they won't buy the game because they don't have any friends to play.

Twinkie454 said: “Yes, Imma is going to pass on this game despite that, purely because I don't have any friends to play and I can't play solo.”

Others have called for rebalancing the solo experience from software, so it is easier to manage. One person said: “We're going to see Fromsoft rebalance its role, so maybe have some patience.”

And, as you'd expect, some fans are helping others. “…we are we just the best friends?!” said an Elden ring player. “Friends who have obtained the game, I will meet you when I get off work tomorrow!”

Despite these issues, Elden Ring Nightreign made a huge launch on Steam, reaching 313,593 peak concurrent users on Steam overnight. This is enough to make Elden Ring Nightreign one of the most played games on the Valve platform.

It sounds like FromSoftware may add duo options at some point in the future. exist IGG's interview with Elden Ring Nightrine director Junya IshizakiNightreign chief developer discusses the choice of solo and trio as core experience options. When asked why there was no match for the third player and no pair could fall together, Ishizaki said it was ignored.

“A simple answer is that it's just one of the two-person options that are ignored during the development process, so we're very sorry for that,” Ishizaki said. “As we said before, we set out to make this game a multiplayer collaborative game for three players, which is a balance of three players, so that's the main focus, it's at the heart of Nightreign.

“Of course, I know that as a player myself, and usually I need to be just playing myself, so that's what we thought about from the beginning.”

“So we did put a lot of effort into creating this experience, which is available to soloists who can play both in the rules and in the new system. So when putting all our efforts on this side, we overlooked and ignored the duo aspect, but that's something we're looking for and thinking about post-release support.”

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