How to play Elden Ring Nightreign in multiplayer

Cross-play, how to find your friends and form a trio, and how to take on the horrors of Limveld together. Here’s everything you need to know about Nightreign multiplayer.

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UPDATE: We have updated this page with some additional information about crossplay in Nightreign.

While you can play Elden Ring Nightreign solo if you so wish, it’s definitely best enjoyed as part of a three-person team. If you and a couple of friends have ever found yourself idly wishing that Fortnite trios had more hard-as-nails boss fights to contend with, then Nightreign could well be the game for you.

Nightreign trios are formed via online matchmaking, where you can meet up with players you already know or find teammates if none of your friends are around right now. Partying up isn’t exactly difficult, but it’s also not something you can do as soon as you boot up the game, either. To learn all about how to join up with other Nightfarers, read on for how to play Elden Ring Nightreign in multiplayer .

How to play Elden Ring Nightreign multiplayer

You can begin playing Nightreign with friends just as soon as you’ve completed a short single-player tutorial and seen the opening story cinematics (all of which takes 20 minutes or so in total).

Once you’re free to move around the Roundtable Hold hub freely, you can approach the Roundtable itself and interact with it to Commence expedition .

Does Elden Ring Nightreign have crossplay?

Unfortunately, Elden Ring Nightreign does not support crossplay at the time of writing. While you can matchmake with different regions on a platform of your choice and have a relatively smooth time (even if, let’s say, one player is in Australia while another is in the UK), you won’t be able to matchmake with console players if you are playing on PC and vice versa.

It doesn’t look like crossplay will be coming to Nightreign anytime soon either, so if you want to play with your friends, make sure you purchase and install Nightreign on the same platform as them.

How to play Elden Ring Nightreign with friends

One way to party up with your friends in Elden Ring Nightreign is for one of you to invite the other(s) to play the game together via the friend list feature on whichever platform you’re playing on. Since Nightreign does not currently support crossplay, this is a reliable way of meeting up with any potential party members who you already know.

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You can also adjust your Matchmaking Settings under the Expeditions menu in Roundtable Hold to find your friends in-game, either by directly inviting them via the Team Session option, or by setting a Multiplayer Password that ensures you only match with others who have access to the same password.

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As your friends join you, you’ll be able to see your party members listed in the top right-hand corner of the screen. This will also tell you how many of your party has readied up to begin the next Expedition, which you can do by interacting with the table again.

Can you play Elden Ring Nightreign as a duo?

While you can play Elden Ring Nightreign after partying up with just one friend, but after both of you ready up, you will be placed into matchmaking until a third player joins you . As it currently stands, you can play a run of Nightreign with one or three players, but not two.

That said, FromSoftware has announced that a duos mode will be added to Elden Ring Nightreign in future. We’ve been given no inclination as to exactly when this will be added, but it’s coming!

How to play Elden Ring Nightreign single-player?

To play Nightreign solo, interact with the Roundtable and navigate to the second tab, where you’ll find ‘Matchmaking settings’. Scroll to the very bottom and change ‘Multiplayer’ to ‘Single player’.

You can now choose to ‘Commence expedition’ and will be put into a solo game. If you wish to begin matchmaking with other players, simply enter your matchmaking settings again and change ‘single player’ back to ‘multiplayer’.

Now that you know how to meet up with your friends, it’s time to turn your attention to some of the challenges you’ll face in Nightreign. Why not check out our Tricephalos (Gladius, Beast of Night) boss guide to begin preparing?

Elden Ring: Nightreign

PS5 , Xbox Series X/S , PC

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