And yes, it’s being handled by the same company that previously put together a Dark Souls tabletop release.

Elden Ring Nightreign has significantly shaken up the formula FromSoftware built across multiple Dark Souls games, Bloodborne, Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, and Elden Ring. Even if each entry has its own identity, Nightreign’s multiplayer focus and battle royale-inspired structure push it into genuinely different territory. And despite being less of an RPG than the studio’s earlier work, it’s now set to receive a pen-and-paper adaptation of its own.

The adaptation was announced on January 26, and it will be published by Group SNE – the same name behind Sword World RPG, Record of Lodoss War, and Japanese tabletop adaptations of Dark Souls and Elden Ring. These are Japanese releases, and they shouldn’t be confused with the English-language Dark Souls RPG or the Elden Ring board game published by Steamforged Games.

Dark Souls and Elden Ring are easy enough to picture in tabletop form. If our mental image of FromSoftware’s RPGs still holds, it’s a party of grim knights and wizards rolling through encounters, cutting down monsters and beasts steeped in poetic tragedy – and that kind of thing reads well on paper.

Nightreign, though, stands out more because of its structure than its setting. Will a shrinking storm pressure the group in this version too? Will character creation box players into heroic night wanderers? We don’t really know anything concrete yet, so it’s hard to say – but if turning into a giant werewolf is on the table, that alone sounds pretty convincing… if only we could read Japanese.

The announcement points to a spring release, presumably in Japan, and there’s still no indication of any localization plans – meaning that, without the language, even importing it could be a dead end. Until then, there’s always the Elden Ring Nightreign DLC, Forsaken Hollows, to kill time with. That DLC has done well, too, hitting 2 million sales in under a week.

Forrás: PCGamer, Polygon