An Elden Ring player has illustrated the minimum amount of the map you need to explore to beat the game.
Elden Ring is by far Software’s biggest game to date. You can literally spend hundreds of hours wandering the Lands Between, exploring dungeons, fighting enemies, completing quests for NPCs, or just taking in the scenery from atop your trusty Torrent steed.
Unlike Dark Souls, From Software has added a map this time around, and while it doesn’t provide much information, it certainly helps you find your way around the huge open world of the Elden Ring. But how much of this sprawling land do you need to explore if your only goal is to watch the end credits of the game? Well wonder no more as an Elden Ring player has answered that very question. So if you’re not one for spoilers, avoid your onlookers now.
As this image from Spicy_Slice, shared on the Elden Ring subreddit, demonstrates, you actually need to explore very little of the Lands Between to beat the game. Surprisingly, it’s little more than a straight walk through the middle of the map to the handful of bosses you need to defeat to get to the end of the story, and you can even use some teleportation shortcuts to shorten the journey even further.
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Not that we’d recommend this rushed approach, mind you, since following through to the end means you’d not only miss out on loot, memorable optional bosses, and basically most of one of the best games of the year, but you might find yourself pretty below par for the tough final stretch of the Elden Ring. However, it is interesting to see how small the game’s critical path really is.
Since the game’s release, Tarnished have flocked to the Lands Between in record numbers, making Elden Ring easily the best-selling game from From Software.
With Elden Ring doing so well, we wonder if any other 2022 releases will be as dominant as Elden Ring.
