Elden Ring cheats offer unlimited runes and your pick of gear in offline play

Be careful when accessing Elden Ring cheats—you’ll want to keep them to offline play

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Elden Ring and all its Souls-style predecessors are notoriously difficult, and Shadow of the Erdtree has reached a fever pitch: we won’t judge if you want to turn to Elden Ring cheats to smooth things over.

An industrious NexusMods user going by the handle Marcus101RR produced the firsttable for Elden Ringusing the popular Cheat Engine utility, and things have only expanded from there in the intervening two years.

If this sounds like just the thing for you, read on, but note that this tool isonly designed for use in offline mode(with very good reason), and you’ll want to carefully quarantine your modified saves for if you ever do go back online.

July 2024:The first reputable Elden Ring cheat table that’s been updated for Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree comes from The Grand Archives, a community that’s done similar Cheat Engine tables for Dark Souls 3 and Armored Core 6. You can access The Grand Archives' Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree cheat table onGitHub.

How to get past EasyAntiCheat

To use these tools, you’ll have to downloadThe Grand Archives' Elden Ring cheat table, as well asCheat Engine from from it’s official websiteorGitHub.

A word of caution: Cheat Engine’s installer is known tocontain third-party adwareseparate from the utility itself, with even experienced users accidentally consenting to the download through a confusing EULA. Download with caution.

Using an Elden Ring cheat table will require running the game in offline mode and disabling EasyAntiCheat.  Here’s The Grand Archives' recommended method for running their cheat table:

You can alternately use Seamless Co-op creator Luke Yui’s alternativeOffline Launcher, a route The Grand Archives characterize as the “compatibility” option.

This third method was suggested by Shamadruu in Nexus' forum thread on an older Elden Ring cheat table, and is referred to as the “legacy” method for disabling EasyAntiCheat by The Grand Archives:

If you log into a cheated character while online there’s a chanceFromSoftware’s detection system will flag you and ban you on a temporary or permanent basis, which is how it handled things in Dark Souls 3.

How to load the Elden Ring cheat table

With EasyAntiCheat out of the way, The Grand Archives' instructions for running their cheat table in Windows are as follows:

On Linux and Steam Deck, the process is more complicated:

What about reversing cheats?

To re-enable Easy Anti-Cheat if you need to play online again, all you have to do is undo the steps in reverse.

Again, you do this at the risk of messing up your saves or getting banned from online play. I’ve several commenters brainstorming ways to edit a save in offline mode and then bring your game back online, with some even stating that they did so successfully.

However, for past games FromSoftware has performed weekly account checks that have caught even innocuous changes made to saves while offline. The ultimate opsec would be to move a modded save to another folder entirely before going back online, but even that may not be enough to evade FromSoftware’s detection.

And really, that hypervigilance on FromSoft’s part is for the best. The Souls games have seen some truly egregious online cheaters in the past, with ne’er do wellsdropping save-corrupting hacked itemsbeing some of the worst of the lot. We also had a bit of a scare in January 2022 when the extent ofDark Souls 3’s online security vulnerabilities were revealed, but thankfully that issue seems to have been fully resolved. Still, if you wish to enter the world of Elden Ring cheats in offline mode and the privacy of your own home, the left-hand path is open to you.

Erdtree map fragments: Uncover the Land of ShadowScadutree fragments: How to level up in ErdtreeErdtree bosses: A full hit list for the DLCLeda quest: Track the Erdtree main questSir Ansbach quest: Help the former servant of MohgHornsent quest: Complete the quest for vengeance

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Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch.

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