According to July 17 reporting from MP1st, FromSoftware has an unannounced game in the works that will be playable “no later than next year.” FromSoftware is certainly a busy studio — in the past three years, it’s released Elden Ring, an Elden Ring expansion, an Elden Ring multiplayer spinoff, and Armored Core 6: Fires of Rubicon — so it wouldn’t be too surprising if it had some counter-programming in the works for 2026 next to the Nintendo Switch 2 exclusive The Duskbloods. I only hope the rumored 2026 game, or whatever FromSoftware is working on next, returns to the single-player focus of its best Soulslikes.

I’m by no means against the studio, or any studio, experimenting with what it wants to do. If anything, a multiplayer-only game in Elden Ring Nightreign feels like a natural experimental step for a studio that often includes some form of co-op in its Soulslikes. Nightreign was also directed by someone other than Hidetaka Miyazaki, Junya........

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