I’m certainly not towards the studio, or any studio, experimenting with what it desires to do. If something, a multiplayer-only recreation in ELDEN RING NIGHTREG seems like a pure experimental step for a studio that always contains some type of co-op in its Soulslikes. Nightreign was additionally directed by somebody apart from Hidetaka Miyazaki, Junya Ishizaki, and extra administrators getting to steer tasks is an general good factor for a studio.
It’s simply that recreation improvement takes a lengthy time, and for those who’re not enthusiastic about your favourite studio’s subsequent releases (as I wasn’t with Nightreign), you could be ready some time for no matter it has subsequent. I believed the legally-distinct-Bloodborne, The Duskbloodswas initially going to be the salve to my ails. (I’m a type of dorks who gained’t shut up in regards to the ten-year-old Bloodborne.) The concept of FromSoft growing an unique for a Nintendo platform was tantalizing, however that pleasure was zapped when it grew to become obvious The Duskbloods wouldn’t be the single-player journey I needed, however moderately one other multiplayer-focused title.
Additional in that MP1st report is the hypothesis that the rumored 2026 FromSoftware recreation could be a remaster of 2016’s Darkish Souls 3. (Poylgon has reached out to representatives for Bandai Namco, longtime writer of FromSoftware’s video games, for remark.)
I’ve fond reminiscences of Darkish Souls 3my first foray into the sequence. It got here out proper once I was graduating faculty, and I keep in mind hooking my PlayStation 4 as much as a lodge TV to play it, as my dad and mom had been between closing on one home and ready to maneuver into one other. I had enjoyable with co-op, dunking my character’s head in wax alongside my previous faculty roommate. Was it a good suggestion? Was it going to kill us? We had been gonna discover out!
That’s the kind of multiplayer I take pleasure in in a FromSoftware Soulslike — non-compulsory and additive, and never your entire conceit of the sport. I most popular enjoying these video games Han-style again then, and nonetheless desire a single-player expertise now, with the occasional name for help throughout a troublesome boss battle. Darkish Souls 3 nailed that, however a remastered model gained’t essentially scratch my itch for single-player FromSoft; I nonetheless have my PS4 disc of the sport and will pop that in at any time when I would like. I’ve already explored most of what Darkish Souls 3 needed to supply, and now I need to dive into one thing contemporary.
There’s nothing fairly like exploring a FromSoftware labyrinthine stage. They’re dense, chaotic, atmospheric, interconnected, and wholly unique, permitting you to journey at your individual tempo (with out a burning ring of fireplace closing in.) Different Soulslikes have tried it, however not even my favorites like Lies of P or newcomers like Wuchang: Fallen Feathers can fairly match the large layouts of a FromSoftware stage. There’s a purpose the style is known as after FromSoftware’s video games; the studio is King of the Soulslike.
After reducing its tooth on a large number of titles and sequence through the years, FromSoftware discovered mainstream success with its dense, troublesome, and moody Soulslikes. It has pushed that style into new territory with multiplayer-focused titles, however I’m hoping the time is close to that we get a brand new single-player FromSoft joint. Perhaps FromSoftware has a 3rd unannounced 2026 undertaking within the works? A tarnished can dream.
