Rise, Tarnished. The Elden Ring has been shattered. The Golden Order has crumbled. And the Lands Between — a world of breathtaking beauty, ancient mystery, and unfathomable darkness — awaits the one brave enough, desperate enough, or foolish enough to seek the shards of the Elden Ring and become the Elden Lord. Elden Ring is FromSoftware’s magnum opus — an open-world action RPG of staggering ambition, extraordinary depth, and almost mythical difficulty that has redefined what the genre is capable of and earned its place as one of the greatest games ever created.

Born from a legendary creative collaboration between FromSoftware’s visionary director Hidetaka Miyazaki and acclaimed fantasy author George R.R. Martin, Elden Ring’s world and lore represent the most richly imagined and deeply constructed mythological framework in FromSoftware’s history. Martin’s contribution to the game’s foundational mythology gives the Lands Between a weight, a history, and a tragic grandeur that permeates every corner of the world — from the lore embedded in item descriptions and environmental details to the broken, haunted stories of the demigods whose war shattered the Elden Ring and set everything in motion.

The Lands Between is a world of extraordinary scale and variety — six major regions of dramatically different character and visual identity, each ruled by a demigod bearing a shard of the shattered Elden Ring and each harbouring secrets, dungeons, hidden questlines, and optional boss encounters of staggering challenge and reward. Limgrave’s golden fields and crumbling castles give way to the rot-choked swamps of Caelid, the towering legacy of the Altus Plateau, the eternal night of Nokron, the frozen peaks of the Mountaintops of the Giants, and the haunting, alien beauty of Farum Azula — a city suspended in time above a storm of collapsing ages. Every region is a world unto itself, and the freedom to explore them in almost any order is one of Elden Ring’s most empowering and exhilarating design decisions.

Character building in Elden Ring is a deep, creative, and endlessly expressive system that allows players to craft a Tarnished unlike anyone else’s. Choose from ten starting classes that define your early approach to combat and gradually evolve your build through hundreds of weapons, armour sets, spells, incantations, ashes of war, and talismans that can be combined in near-limitless configurations. Become a heavy armoured tank who trades blows with the game’s most fearsome bosses, a nimble dexterity build who dances around enemy attacks with surgical precision, a sorcerer who rains destruction from a safe distance, a faith-based warrior who calls upon the power of the gods, or something entirely unique that defies easy categorisation. The freedom to experiment, to fail, and to discover a playstyle that is entirely your own is one of Elden Ring’s greatest and most enduring pleasures.

Combat in Elden Ring builds on FromSoftware’s legendary combat design to deliver the most varied, most expressive, and most satisfying action in the studio’s history. Every weapon class feels distinct and deeply considered — the heft of a colossal greatsword, the speed of a curved sword, the reach of a halberd, the explosive power of a colossal hammer — and the addition of ashes of war, which grant unique special abilities to any compatible weapon, adds an extra layer of creativity and personalisation to every build. Dodge, parry, guard counter, jump attack, and use the environment to gain every possible advantage in encounters that demand observation, adaptability, and the willingness to learn from every death.

The boss encounters of Elden Ring are the stuff of legend — some of the most spectacular, most challenging, and most memorable fights in gaming history. From the towering, multi-phase horrors of the Legacy Dungeons to the optional field bosses scattered across the open world, every major encounter in Elden Ring is a carefully crafted test of everything the game has taught you — and a triumph that feels genuinely earned in a way that few games can match. Margit. Godrick. Radahn. Malenia. These are names that mean something to anyone who has faced them — monuments to FromSoftware’s unparalleled mastery of boss design.

Shadow of the Erdtree — the massive and critically acclaimed expansion — extends the Elden Ring experience into the Shadow Realm, an entirely new and hauntingly beautiful region of enormous scale filled with new legacy dungeons, new bosses of extraordinary challenge and spectacle, new weapons and spells, new story content that enriches the lore of the base game, and some of the finest content FromSoftware has ever produced. It is not just an expansion — it is a second game’s worth of extraordinary content attached to an already extraordinary game.

The game’s multiplayer systems allow players to leave messages for each other in the world, summon cooperators for help with difficult bosses and areas, and invade other players’ worlds as a hostile phantom in one of gaming’s most unique and thrilling asymmetric multiplayer experiences. The shared world of Elden Ring — where the discoveries, struggles, and triumphs of millions of players are woven together through messages, bloodstains, and spectral echoes — creates a sense of community and shared experience that is unlike anything else in gaming.

On PC, Elden Ring supports 4K resolution, ray tracing, ultra-wide monitors, and a comprehensive range of graphical options. The Shadow of the Erdtree expansion is available separately or as part of the Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree Edition.

Game Features

• FromSoftware’s landmark open-world action RPG crafted with George R.R. Martin
• Vast open world — the Lands Between — spanning six dramatically varied major regions
• Deep character building with hundreds of weapons, spells, armour sets & talismans
• Legendary soulslike combat evolved to its most expressive and satisfying form
• Iconic and unforgettable boss encounters that define the genre
• Seamless exploration with near-total freedom to tackle regions in any order
• Ashes of War system for deep weapon customisation and unique special abilities
• Cooperative and PvP multiplayer woven naturally into the open world
• Shadow of the Erdtree expansion — a massive new region of extraordinary content
• Full 4K, ray tracing & ultra-wide support on PC — available now on Steam