Elden Ring's director basically told IGN: enough multiplayer, I want to go back to solo

Hidetaka Miyazaki says FromSoftware's back-to-back multiplayer games were never the plan — and single-player is still the heart of the studio. Aliteq Diego Santos · Gaming Editor

FromSoftware president Hidetaka Miyazaki said on August 21, 2026 that back-to-back multiplayer releases — Elden Ring Nightreign and The Duskbloods — were not a deliberate strategic shift away from…

He said mechanics inspired by tabletop RPGs and board games 'didn't really fit the context of a single-player game,' which is why they shaped two multiplayer projects instead.

Elden Ring Nightreign sold more than 5 million copies within two months of its May 2025 launch, with Steam taking 58% of sales.

The Duskbloods, a Nintendo Switch 2-exclusive PvEvP game, began public network testing on August 21, 2026, with a launch still expected in 2026.

Two commercially successful multiplayer games in two years, a studio president publicly missing single-player, and zero pressure to change course either way. That's a genuinely good position to be…

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The more you work on something multiplayer for a long time, it scratches that itch, only to want to make something single-player again.

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