Physical copies will be available at individual retailers' discretion. The Elden Ring Twitter account has provided a helpful map with individual PC release times. This all fails to take into account those who preordered a physical copy of the game or one of Elden Ring's special editions with bonus content. Unfortunately, release times for PC are a mixed bag dependent on time zone. The only exception is North American timezones, which are all getting the game at midnight Eastern Time (11pm Central/10pm Mountain/9pm Pacific). This means those who purchase Elden Ring on console in Japan and Australia, for instance, will be playing it before those in North America. Related: Elden Ring Will Have Very Difficult Optional Bosses, Producer Promisesįor those with a PlayStation or Xbox who are planning on playing Elden Ring on release day, the game will be playable as soon as the calendar turns to February 25, nearly regardless of time zone. Elden Ring's minimum and recommended PC specs were recently revealed, but the console versions of the game will likely have varying performance as well, though details on that will have to wait for post-release analyses. Elden Ring is dropping on the Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PlayStation 4, PS5, and PC.

For the dedicated fans of FromSoftware's games, Elden Ring is something of a major milestone in the developer's catalogue, bringing its first attempt at a truly open-world game.

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