ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN
Fair · Roguelike · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $39.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 28.2h
- Value
- $1.42/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 3GB / AMD Radeon RX 580 4GB, 30 GB of storage. Windows only.
ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN is a standalone adventure within the ELDEN RING universe, crafted to offer players a new gaming experience by reimagining the game’s core design.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
December 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $29.99. It has been discounted 3 times in the 2 years tracked here, typically at 25 percent off, with about 14 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 14 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 30 percent on value. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, ELDEN RING ($59.99, scores 84) beats it on value, while it beats Meta Ghost: Breaking Show ($17.99, scores 30).
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2026 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 36 percent of the 5,633 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 4 percent of everything written about it.
HowLongToBeat players log 28.2 hours as a typical playtime, and completionists log 68, 2.4 times as much.
190,988 people have reviewed it, which is a big enough crowd to settle the number.
The drop-off
97% start to 18% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
Players
164K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
Elden Ring with friends! Minus the sweaty invaders if you're not into that. What more could you ask for from a game? It ticks every damn box. Of course there are thing's I'd change but overall, this game pays for itself within the first 30 hours. I'm at 1000 hours and counting. 10/10 would buy Nightreign 2, 3... 100!
love when my teammates run on solo missons and die and then leave, ummm its so nice
A game with a huge potential, untapped, and forgotten six months after the DLC release. We supposedly know how FromSoftware works - they don't perform well in any PvP/coop formats. But it's simply sad that such a good game, which could have been pushed forward with new content, was forgotten in favor of a switch exclusive, which, by the way will end up the same way as nightreign. Just disappointed.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
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ELDEN RING NIGHTREIGN scores 63/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2622380/elden-ring-nightreignThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 13, price as of Sep 23.
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