I hope you're not squeamish, because Elden Ring Nightreign lets you find and loot your own corpse to steal back your best gear on your next run: "I couldn't have even imagined that was possible"

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Elden Ring Nightreign Wylder running alongside spectral hawk at the start of an expedition
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FromSoftware has never shied from what's grotesque and morally complicated, so why shouldn't Elden Ring Nightreign allow you to loot your own accursed corpse, as some of the roguelike's players have recently experienced?

It seems that, if you're unlucky and get brutalized to death in Nightreign, there's a possibility you'll get lucky on your next run and stumble upon your own lifeless body. While confronting your mortality may not immediately stand out to you as a pleasant way to pass the afternoon, in Nightreign, your dead body can actually be a sight as welcome as a big, thick pile of $100 bills – as long as it was saddled with a bunch of helpful loot.

"This happened to me!" shouts another commenter. "Had the poison Rotted Greataxe on run one, went down and died in the Night before the end of Day 2 (managed to get back and grab my souls after beating the boss). We beat the Nightlord, started the next run, and just found the body. Went, 'Hey, this guy had some awesome stuff,' [pause], 'HEY THIS GUY IS ME.'" You know what they say – you can be your worst enemy, or your favorite hunk of rotting meat.

Ashley Bardhan
Ashley Bardhan
Senior Writer

Ashley is a Senior Writer at GamesRadar+. She's been a staff writer at Kotaku and Inverse, too, and she's written freelance pieces about horror and women in games for sites like Rolling Stone, Vulture, IGN, and Polygon. When she's not covering gaming news, she's usually working on expanding her doll collection while watching Saw movies one through 11.

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