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Elden Ring

Elden Ring is a challenging open-world action RPG where you explore a vast, strange land, slaying monsters and demigods.

Why it matters
Elden Ring is the culmination of FromSoftware’s genre-defining Souls series, giving players a deep set of tools to overcome incredible and rewarding challenges, and a massive open world full of secrets and mysteries to discover.
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Elden Ring is a challenging open-world action RPG where you explore a vast, strange land, slaying monsters and demigods.

GenreFantasy, Open-world, RPG, Soulslike
PublisherBandai Namco
DeveloperFromSoftware
PlatformPC, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox, Xbox One
Why it matters
Elden Ring is the culmination of FromSoftware’s genre-defining Souls series, giving players a deep set of tools to overcome incredible and rewarding challenges, and a massive open world full of secrets and mysteries to discover.
Michael McWhertor
Michael McWhertor
Correspondent
Buy:
Best BuyAmazonXbox

If you buy something from a Polygon link, Vox Media may earn a commission. See our ethics statement.

GenreFantasy, Open-world, RPG, Soulslike
PublisherBandai Namco
DeveloperFromSoftware
PlatformPC, PlayStation, PlayStation 4, Windows, Xbox, Xbox One

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How much storytelling can you do with a few yards of cloth? If you’re FromSoftware, a whole freaking lot! In Elden Ring and FromSoftware’s ever-growing catalog of solemn sword adventures, there’s an astounding amount of attention paid to cloth. The shape, the texture, the movement. But why? Polygon’s resident man of the cloth Patrick is here to break it all down.

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