Elden Ring preloading is live
It’s time to prepare yourself for FromSoftware’s newest, possibly greatest, epic action-RPG.
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Elden Ring reviewsare out, and they are astoundingly good. We scored it 90% in our own review, calling it a “brilliant” open-world action-RPG whose only real failing is that it falls back on the familiar a little too often. The aggregate critical review score onMetacriticis even higher.
There’s a good chance you already had your mind made up about diving into Elden Ring on launch day, but if you had any doubt, that likely settles it. And with that resolved, you are now officially clear to begin preloading the game onSteam.
Pre-loading for #ELDENRING is available now on all release platforms.February 23, 2022
Elden Ring won’t actually go live until either Thursday or Friday, depending on your time zone—the PC version will unlock at 3 pm PT/6 pm ET on February 24, and you can find unlock times for other regions inElden Ring’s release timing schedule.
The Elden Ring preload requires 49GB of storage space, which isn’t very much as these things go, but the overallsystem requirementsare actually fairly beefy: You’ll need a minimum of a Core i5-8400 CPU, 12GB RAM, and a GTX 1060, and considerably more if you aim to hit the recommended spec.
While you wait for the magic moment to arrive, you can prepare yourself for a strong start with some of our handy guides: Thebest keepsaketo choose, a rundown of thedifferent classes, and everything you need to know tocreate a characterin Elden Ring.
Elden Ring guide:Conquer the Lands BetweenElden Ring bosses:How to beat themElden Ring dungeons:How to defeat themElden Ring paintings:Solutions and locationsElden Ring map fragments:Reveal the worldElden Ring co-op:How to squad up online
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