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Elden Ring: Playing Time and Scope

How much playing time does Elden Ring have? E3 2021 and information on the game’s homepage already give us a more precise idea of ​​the duration and scope of the game. Director Hidetaka Miyazaki has also made initial statements in this regard. We summarize all previous information for you.

Playing time of Elden Ring

In an interview with the Japanese game magazine Famitsu As part of E3 2021, “Dark Souls” creator Hidetaka Miyazaki himself made a first statement about the playing time of Elden Ring. According to this, the average player should need around 30 hours of game time to see the credits.

Miyazaki notes, however, that he was talking about a Play through without major detours goes out. So if you explore the game world away from the main path or tackle optional bosses, then you can add a lot of game time. Exact information on this is not yet available.

ELDEN RING [PlayStation 5]

ELDEN RING [PlayStation 5]

As the “Dark Souls” games, Bloodborne and Sekiro have shown in the past, the main story could be ended relatively quickly and offered a lot of optional content. Since Elden Ring even has an open game world, which you can also explore from the back of a horse, we count on it here a lot of exploration potential apart from the story.

You can also get an impression of the size of the game world in the following video:

All previous information about the scope of Elden Ring

Thanks to the previous trailer (see above), one extensive IGN interview with Miyazaki and also the information from the official homepage of Elden Ring, can already draw a first picture of the scope of the game. We summarize the most important information for you below:

  • In Zwischenland, the game world of Elden Ring, it becomes 6 areas that are more or less freely accessible from the start.
  • The areas should be green plains, swamps, mountain regions, castles and other backdrops, that are bigger than ever before.
  • There is a demigod in each area who carries a fragment of the Elden Ring. You have to defeat these bosses and take the fragments.
  • You have to defeat less than half of the bosses to advance in the story. So there is probably tons of bosses in optional areas.
  • As in Dark Souls, all areas are about one Hub area connected similarly to the fireband shrine.
  • There are also so-called in every area “Legacy Dungeons”. These are, for example, fortresses, catacombs and cave systems.
  • It becomes a kind Fast travel system in Elden Ring give, which also speaks for a certain scope of the game.
  • According to Miyazaki, it will approx. 100 different combat maneuvers of which you can only connect one to a weapon at a time.
  • There will be multiple endings in the gamewhich can increase the replayability of Elden Ring
  • Players will be back too a lot of time in the character editor be allowed to spend and in Co-op with up to four players face the dangers of the world together.

As soon as we have more information about the season and the scope of Elden Ring, you will find out here. What are your impressions of the information so far? Write it to us in the Comments!

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