Elden Ring Nightreign's huge steam launch is subject to “mix” user reviews for lack of duo collaboration, voice chat
Blog Andrew Joseph 30 May , 2025 0
Elden Ring Nightreg Winning a huge launch on Steam, but the “hybrid” user review ratings hurt that excitement.
Fromsoftware's partner spin-off saw an incredible peak of 313,593 concurrent users on Steam overnight, enough to make Elden Ring Nightreign one of the most gaming-rich games on the Valve platform.
But this also brought a lot of negative reviews (67% so far are positive), with most noting Elden Ring Nightreign lacking duo, co-op and voice chat.
Elden Ring Nightreg Place players on the ever-changing land of forest areas, explore and fight for survival, whether it’s solo or in threesomes. There is no way to play with the two-person cooperative.
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.”
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.”
This means that if you only play with your favorite duo partners, you must accept one-third of the game. The establishment of Elden Ring Nightreign is very important.
Obviously, some players are not satisfied with this situation. “Elden Ring Co-Op, but not really,” a negative steam review read. “You need three people, two are not allowed. Why? Because. How could such a thing happen? I was deeply disappointed and thought of a refund.”
Another negative comment read: “There is no duo, let random people join and run to do their own thing.” “Let me and my partner duo…”
Another negative comment says, “If you don't have two other friends to play in voice chat, don't waste time.” “The game is Elden ring, but 3p, the single queue is bad (line to play randomly). Without VC, it's hard to sit where, where the chest/consumables are, trying to throw items for teammates. The experience is not as hard as the “speedrun %” of “elden ring”.
“I think no matter how good you are in the game, your teamwork is not good, especially in an environment where communication is barely present (punishing the pins in a fast-paced PVE game are not, no, not lol).
Voice chat issues keep emerging. Here is another negative comment:
“It’s impossible to make progress without voice chat. If you have three friends who can talk to and play regularly, you’ll have a great time with smooth connections, maps full of events, and the game loop is very fun.
“But I’m a 41 year old man and I don’t have friends to play this regularly, let alone two other people (you need three people to come as a team and two people won’t work either).
“Even if they bring voice chats in the game (I’m not sure there isn’t one at the moment), you won’t enjoy this as much as you want to fight a friend because your responsiveness to randomness can affect how you feel about the game.
“It’s hard to play with a random solo queue, it’s hard to communicate, it’s hard to share projects, it’s hard to discuss strategies or decide the next area to farm.
“TL;DR, if you don’t have two friends, you can combine them regularly, that’s not fun.”
As Ishizaki suggested in our interview, Duos is something from FromSoftware might add to Elden Ring nightreign. Until then, you only faced solo or three-player games.
Before publishing Elden Ring NightregFromSoftware warns PC gamers that they may encounter frame rates if they use “latest graphics cards”.
In a fuzzy comment to included fans Elden Ring Nightreigh's Day-One Patch NotesFromSoftware says it is investigating the reasons and recommends that those affected graphics settings go from the default “high” to “medium” or “low” or “low” and reduce screen resolution and install the latest drivers for graphics cards.
Check out these keys Elden Ring Nightfine Tips and Tricks We put it together from network testing – and keep an eye on IGN NIGHTREIGN WIKI More guides for the game when it comes out.
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