Hi. There’s an expansion coming out this week. It’s called Elden Ring Shadow of the Erdtree and you probably haven’t heard much about it. Anyway, within a day of the reviews of it coming out ahead of its arrival on June 21, it’s casually become the highest rated game of 2024 and the highest rated DLC ever among critics on Metacritic.
Yup, Miyazaki and co have basically succeded in making us hold their beer as they casually make an expansion that’s a good bet to get plenty of Game of the Year votes from folks who’re determined to argue that getting more of a thing pretty much everyone already gave one GOTY award to warrants us all dispensing another one. Seriously though, given the very high expectations folks had for it, From’s done a pretty amazing thing here.
If you head over to Metacritic, the place you go when you’ve run out of ways to say a game’s good during an argument with your mates, you’ll see that Shadow of the Erdtree’s currently sitting at a critic rating of 95, with our own review being a part of the sample of 56 which’ve led to that number being a thing.
