Elden Ring Nightreign will not feature poisonous swamps

Elden Ring Nightreign, the upcoming cooperative action game, will notably omit the poisonous swamps characteristic of FromSoftware titles. This was confirmed by product manager Yasuhiro Kitao during a recent press interview. While a swamp-like area was featured in the trailer, Kitao clarified it's a distinct location. He attributed the absence of traditional poisonous swamps to the lack of involvement from Hidetaka Miyazaki, FromSoftware's head and a known enthusiast of swamp environments in games like Elden Ring and the Dark Souls series. Miyazaki's absence from Nightreign's development accounts for this omission.

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Interestingly, a two-player mode remains a possibility. Currently, only one-player and three-player modes have been announced, with the exclusion of a two-player mode initially cited as a content balancing challenge. FromSoftware is actively considering adding this mode, but a final decision is pending.

Elden Ring Nightreign is slated for release on May 30, 2025, for PC and current and next-generation consoles.