Elden Ring too big? You only need 30 minutes to beat it
Elden Ring may be a mammoth open-world game, but it doesn’t need to be a massive time investment. As the speedrunning community has shown, FromSoftware’s latest action RPG can be beaten in a matter of minutes rather than hours if you know all the right tips and tricks, with one player even beating the game in only half an hour.
Prolific speedrunner Distortion2 has managed to complete Elden Ring in only 29 minutes in what’s thought to be the first sub-30 minute playthrough of the game. That achievement didn’t come out of the blue. In the days before, Distortion2 shared what looks to be the first sub-50 minute and sub-40 minute playthroughs of the game, before finally hitting the half-hour mark.
At press time, this latest speedrun looks to be the fastest recorded playthrough of Elden Ring shared online.
As an Any% speedrun, Distortion2 was only aiming to reach Elden Ring’s end credits as fast as possible, so wasn’t concerned with fighting all of the game’s bosses, reaching every area of its map, or collecting a set number of runes.
They were also able to exploit any bugs or glitches, such as deliberately dying to advance their progress in certain areas. If you watch the speedrun below, however, you’ll see that Distortion 2 races through the game by shrewdly navigating its map and bypassing most enemies.
Given the rate at which Distortion2 has beaten their own Elden Ring speedrun records over the past few days, we wouldn’t be surprised if they surpassed this 30-minute playthrough soon. The world’s first 20-minute speedrun may appear on their Twitch channel soon enough.
There are a lot of other impressive Elden Ring speedruns out there, including one player who managed to beat the game in less than three hours without dying. Even
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