Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree Reviews
Shadow of the Erdtree shines as a fitting conclusion to ELDEN RING, encapsulating every element that has characterized FromSoftware. You'll encounter swampy sections, sweat-inducing combat, beautiful and melancholic locations, and challenging platform segments featuring leaps of faith, scaffolding, and chapel rooftops. Striving to deliver all the classic elements of the Souls saga, Shadow of the Erdtree stands as a love letter to everything the series represents and serves as a worthy farewell to an already legendary game.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Shadow of the Erdtree is undoubtedly one of the best and largest expansions ever, one that excels its base game in every aspect, and that base game is already one-of-a-kind masterpiece. FromSoftware, as always, are setting new standards here, ones that only them can exceed.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Shadow of the Erdtree is a successful attempt to recapture the emotions and surprises you had already experienced in Elden Ring. This is a game that in terms of both exploration and difficulty, aims at hardcore audiences and wants you to have a more intense experience than the base game. The more complex structure of the map and the way the bosses are designed are proof that FromSoftware expects you to spend time on their gigantic expansion. However, in the way of surpassing the base game and enhancing its strengths, some bad habits inherent in the base game are also repeated with greater intensity, which cannot be ignored. Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree portrays FromSoftware a bit fiery, hot-tempered, out-of-control in aspects like boss design and scale. Still, this is an essential experience for fans of the base game that gives more meaning to the main game.
Review in Persian | Read full review
Shadow of the Erdtree is more than just a DLC and it feels like a great standalone game that even exceeds the main Elden Ring game in some aspects.
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Shadow of the Erdtree is the perfect swan song to Elden Ring. It gives you all the challenge, the loot, and the lore of the base game in a smaller chunk. Prepare to lose yourself to its siren call yet again.
Expansion as complex as Shadow of the Erdtree has no real right to be labeled as a traditional DLC. Two-year long development cycle has spawned another story rich soulslike adventure across the Lands Between, or rather its shadowy counterpart. It is a world truly deprived of grace that alas suffers from a few technical issues too, but it never fails to just simply awe. Prepare to face the hardest From Software bosses to date, explore the most vertically varied biodiverse world and get ready to feel through the sounds and designs of the Shadow Realm.
Review in Slovak | Read full review
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is the biggest and most ambitious expansion ever developed by FromSoftware. However, it could have been flawless if it weren't for the over-the-top recycling of enemies. Even so, the challenging boss fights and the great sense of exploration with the addition of new layouts on the maps make Shadow of the Erdtree an excellent conclusion to the Elden Ring journey.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is everything one could want from an Elden Ring DLC: a huge new area to explore, new bosses to fight, new weapons to try, and new lore to unravel. It is a genuine joy to play and easily one of my favorite DLCs of all time. Its quality is high enough to even justify the $40 price tag. If you like Elden Ring, then Shadow of the Erdtree will give you everything you could want. If you're a newcomer, it's probably best to play through the game first before taking on the DLC. After all, Mohg, Lord of Blood is only the beginning.
Shadow of the Erdtree represents what we liked with the original content but with more meticulous designs to the map and a great variety of new weapons. A befitting comeback to this masterpiece.
Review in Arabic | Read full review
Even with its slight shortcomings, ELDEN RING Shadow of the Erdtree is the best expansion that I've ever played thanks to its unique-feeling world that behaves more like a 1.5 sequel than a mere extension of what players have come to expect. 💍
Elden Ring is already a huge game both in terms of content and fame, and its DLC contributes in both senses. Shadow of the Erdtree is a dense expansion with a lot of content that is a good way to revisit the game, even if you haven't touched it in years.
Review in Portuguese | Read full review
Elden Ring: SOTE is a majestic expansion, showcasing both quality and scale, and stands as one of the best examples in the medium's history. Despite some questionable balance choices and confusing level design, it highlights the full maturity of Elden Ring as a milestone in the genre, satisfying the high expectations of fans and critics alike.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Shadow of the Erdtree is the perfect closure of the circle. Elden Ring with Shadow of the Erdtree definitely becomes FromSoftware's glorious work. The rating you see here has been assigned also, or rather especially, for what Elden Ring was, is, and will be. Are we romantics to see that kind of message in it? Maybe yes, maybe no, but there is no question that there is a before and an after Elden Ring.
Review in Italian | Read full review
Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree is a content-rich expansion, aesthetically beautiful and surprising in terms of the new features it offers in terms of settings, lore, NPCs, enemies, builds and equipment. Almost nothing is mandatory, as per tradition, yet it's a shame to leave anything behind. The level of challenge is obvious, designed for those gamers who enjoyed the base game, yet nothing is unfair or impossible if you use the tools available. There is no shame, no ‘cheat’ in exploiting one build rather than another: the important thing is to have fun and push your limits, in an adventure that is once again different for each Lightless, yet unites everyone. Travelling under the dark, dripping gold branches of the Tree of Shadow is a thrill not to be missed.
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Elden Ring: Shadow of The Erdtree is a groundbreaking experience for gamers worldwide, exemplifying what a DLC should be while continuing the legacy of the base game brilliantly. The Land of Shadow is filled with adversity and danger, but you have everything you need to overcome the challenges and emerge as a true Elden Lord.
This 60+ hour adventure to conquer its lands is certainly worth your time and money. Several of the game’s new encounters are among the title’s best, offering battles that will test you in ways most players wanted from the base experience. Shadow of the Erdtree joins the list of being one of the best expansions ever made, an adventure so epic and vast that you’ll continue to write your story in ways that feel as if this adventure is something you are the first to discover.
More than an expansion, Shadow of the Erdtree is a completely new adventure that puts an end to a cycle, inviting us to review a memorable saga. It is difficult to determine what the future holds for the studio or even for the genre that made it so popular. Be that as it may, we will always have The Lands Between.
Review in Spanish | Read full review
Shadow of the Erdtree is an expansion that perfectly complements Elden Ring, adding new things, but at the same time sticking to the good old developed recipe. For fans of the genre, there is a great reason to return to the game, just to explore the beautifully created world and face the biggest challenge yet.