2022’s best game is at its lowest price ever on Steam right now

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Elden Ring is the best game of 2022 by almost any way you slice it. Not only was it PCGamesN’s pick for game of the year by our widest-ever margin, it claimed the accolade almost universally across game industry outlets. It scooped the top prize at The Game Award 2022, and has the highest metascore of the year for any new release on aggregation site Metacritic. Now, ahead of upcoming DLC Shadow of the Erdtree, you can find out why FromSoftware’s fantasy epic is so beloved as it hits its lowest price yet on Steam.

So much has been said about Elden Ring that it’s tough to add much – indeed, the numbers speak for themselves. But developer FromSoftware, hot off making some of the best RPG games including Dark Souls, Bloodborne, and Sekiro, manages to translate its formula into the open-world format, bringing its best-in-class world and narrative design to a grand-scale adventure unlike anything it had tried before, and this Steam sale lets you try it at a deep discount.

In going so broad in scope, it’d have been easy to lose the tight, intricate level design that made FromSoftware’s name so revered. However, Elden Ring resolves this by crafting entire enclosed locations that make up its various points of interest across the Elden Ring map, each of them essentially a vast, sprawling, interconnected Dark Souls level of their own.

The story of Elden Ring, penned in conjunction with Game of Thrones author George R.R. Martin, is filled with secrets to uncover, mysterious figures with unclear intentions, and terrifying foes that seem an impossible task in your future. Yet despite how scary those Elden Ring bosses might seem, it manages to be FromSoftware’s most approachable RPG yet, thanks to just how many options you have at