Is Elden Ring Nightreign on Game Pass? Answered

Wondering if you’ll be able to fire up Elden Ring Nightreign on Microsoft’s gaming buffet subscription service? Side-stepping what we’d usually expect from FromSoftware, Nightreign is more akin to a co-op roguelike than the challenging action-RPG formula usually synonymous with the developer. Threeplayers will dive into a re-imagined Limgrave to fight mobs, loot, and confront towering bosses as the map shrinks battle royale-style over the course of three days.

We’ll get to the point here: the answer is no, the multiplayer spin-off of FromSoftware’s acclaimed Elden Ring isn’t coming to Game Pass at launch or that’s likely to be the case in the future. With Game Pass not an option, you’ll have to fork out for a full paid copy if you plan on playing Elden Ring Nightreign.

It shouldn’t come as much of a surprise because no FromSoftware games from Dark Souls through to Sekiro by way of Elden Ring and Armored Core has ever made an appearance, briefly or otherwise, on the service. In this guide, we’ll walk you through everything we know about Elden Ring Nightreign and Game Pass, though as you can imagine, details are scarce and it’s all pretty cut and dry.

Is Elden Ring Nighreign coming to Game Pass?

No, there are currently no plans for Elden Ring Nightreign to come to Game Pass. That applies both to launch day, May 30th, 2025, and the foreseeable future. There’s been no official confirmation from either Bandai Namco or FromSoftware confirming or refuting a Game Pass launch but that’s par for the course for the respected Japanese developers output.

Typically, publishers make a big song and dance about Game Pass availability with Xbox chiming in to shout the news from the rooftops months ahead of release. None of that has happened for Elden Ring Nightreign, which means it’s highly unlikely that Bandai and Xbox are brewing up a surprise last-minute announcement.

All this doesn’t mean that Elden Ring Nightreign couldn’t make its way to Game Pass, but the writing is on the wall for anyone familiar with the release cycle around FromSoftware games. Never say never but we’d be very surprised if it did happen.