The Elden Ring expansion will arrive on consoles and PC on June 21 of this year. The highly anticipated DLC is called Shadow of the Erdtree and promises to be a huge content expansion with new areas, weapons, powers and many final bosses. Elden Ring was for many the best video game of 2022 and this expansion could also become one of the great releases of 2024.
Shadow of the Erdtree was officially announced about a year ago with a short teaser. Since then, the Japanese studio From Software, led by Hidetaka Miyazaki, has remained silent while fans wondered what this long-awaited expansion would be about.
The trailer doesn’t make it very clear either. Clues and some names are given. A certain Messmer sounds. But it is difficult to know what path the expansion will follow, as is generally the case with all From Software works. So surely there are already legions of fans analyzing every frame and every sentence of the trailer with the aim of getting something clear.
Additionally, along with this expansion, From Software has also announced a collector’s edition of Elden Ring with an art book and a 46-centimeter figure of Messmer the Impaler. It will have a price of 259.99 euros.
In our analysis of Elden Ring we noted the following: “To say that Elden Ring is the consecration of his studio would be to discredit its predecessors, since these were also major works. The Japanese studio has been on a roll for years now. He has nothing to prove and this places this new game in a situation of tense comfort. Luckily, the result is once again a magnificent and robust game. Due to its great breadth, you could say that Elden Ring is a From Software theme park, a title that brings together almost two decades of ideas, mechanics and aesthetics in the same world.”
Perhaps it is not the consecration of From Software, but it is the consolidation of its formula as a mass phenomenon. In its almost two years on sale, Elden Ring has accumulated more than 20 million units sold and now some more will surely drop thanks to this trailer and the imminent expansion.
Shadow of the Erdtree will arrive on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S and PC on June 21 and will cost 40 euros.
