Elden Ring is our game of 2022!
Blood on moss, tattered horrors taking to the sky: Elden Ring is Eurogamer's Game of 2022. And it feels odd to say that, even if it was never really in doubt. Perhaps it feels odd to say that because it was never really in doubt. Elden Ring got roughly double the votes of the closest runner-up when we polled staff and freelancers. Over the last few weeks, games site after games site has announced that Elden Ring is the game they loved most this year. In 2022 Elden Ring is inevitable.
And yet. And yet, isn't that the surprise? And isn't that the thing worth celebrating? Let's step back so we don't accidentally frame Elden Ring's success through the lens of editorial decisions. Right.
These people who were in at the start - they did win other people over. Dark Souls was quietly big: decent sales but absolutely barnstorming success in terms of how it made other designers, other developers and publishers take note. The sequels were bigger. Bloodborne was bigger. Sekiro was massive, and now Elden Ring was the kind of game that other games got out of the way of. Elden Ring was a blockbuster. A tentpole. The daddy, to use the term beloved of former Eurogamer editor Oli Welsh.
And this is the final point. Elden Ring isn't just the biggest Soulsy game yet. It also feels like it's going to be the last one for a while. From has already announced that its next game is something very different, and there's also a sense that as good as follow-ups will be, they will be missing the magic of the early games purely because what was once hidden and obscure is now thoroughly visible, thoroughly understood.
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