The expansion dropped last Friday to tremendous critical acclaim, earning the highest review scores of any video game DLC in recorded history. With a Metacritic score of.
What just happened? FromSoftware’s hit action RPG is seeing an absolutely colossal resurgence in popularity, with Steam numbers spiking to levels not seen since its launch. And it’s all thanks to the game’s first major expansion – Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree.
The expansion dropped last Friday to tremendous critical acclaim, earning the highest review scores of any video game DLC in recorded history. With a Metacritic score of 93, expectations were understandably sky-high. And it seems the fans have matched that hype, sending Elden Ring’s concurrent player count on Steam skyrocketing.
Over this past weekend, the game hit a peak of 766,158 simultaneous players on Valve’s platform.
