Register for a closed network trial at Elden Ring Nightreign tomorrow, publisher Announced by Bandai Namco today. It’s time to sign-up for the co-op Elden ring The spinoff officially premiered on January 10th at 9AM ET and will run through January 20th at 9AM ET. You can add your name to the list now on the Bandai Namco website.

The close network test will be spread over five different sessions on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X | S, from February 14 to February 15. You can log in each of those days from 6AM ET to 9AM ET or 10PM ET to 1AM ET the next day to take the game through its paces.

Select players will be able to play “a portion of the game before the full game launch,” according to Bandai Namco’s sign-up page, with the goal of learning how to handle it. on the company’s servers and online systems many fans play simultaneously. As for what “portion” is the actual content, Bandai Namco says that players will get “to try out the co-op experience of the game,” working with two other players to face three daily cycle full of “increasingly challenging enemies and bosses.”

Rain at night appear to use many mechanics, armor, weapons and abilities to Elden ringbut drops it in a modified setting, “Limveld,” that’s the design that changes every time you play. Per Bandai Namco, you start each cycle of the game in the familiar Roundtable Hold, where you can choose one of eight characters with unique abilities and “Ultimates.” The Limveld map you’re playing on shrinks every night, and introduces a new boss that when beaten, lets you progress to the next day. The process continues until the last, third night when you face a “Nightlord.” And if you fail at any point in the process and have to start a new run (as many do) you get a relic that allows you to “customize and upgrade” your character.

Elden Ring Nightreign is one unexpectedly announced on The Game Awards in 2024and a great surprise, not only because Shadow of the Erdtree came out that same year, but because the structure of the game seems to be very different than anything that the developer FromSoftware has done before. Anyone lucky enough to be part of the network test will already see how different it feels.