Elden Ring is officially the United States’ best-selling game of 2022 so far, with a huge launch according to the latest NPD data.
FromSoftware’s latest is the second best launch of the last twelve months, falling short of only Call of Duty: Vanguard. That means its sales in February performed better than Forza Horizon 5, Halo Infinite, and the other best games of 2021.
Elden Ring is also already the fifth best selling game of the past twelve months, despite only being released two weeks ago on February 25.
PlayStation players still favoured their latest exclusive, Horizon: Forbidden West, as Elden Ring placed second on Sony consoles.
It still secured the top spot on Xbox, however, and on Steam, where it grew in popularity day by day on its first weekend before becoming the sixth most played game of all time on the platform.
Elden Ring has proven somewhat of a cultural phenomenon, with crazy adverts, a streamer’s Twitch chat playing while he swept, someone using the Nintendo Switch’s Ring Fit Controller to beat a boss, and it’s even got its own candy.
In our 10/10 review, IGN said: “Elden Ring is a massive iteration on what FromSoftware began with the Souls series, bringing its relentlessly challenging combat to an incredible open world that gives us the freedom to choose our own path.”
To make those choices with the best available information, check out our guide that features everything you could ever hope to know about Elden Ring, including collectible locations, boss strategies, and more.
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelancer who occasionally remembers to tweet @thelastdinsdale.
