It's taken the genius behind Elden Ring's seamless co-op mod less than 24 hours to get a working prototype going for Nightreign, allowing 2-person matches

FromSoftware, I love thee dearly—but I think we can all agree that your multiplayer elements are always a little goofy. In the Dark Souls games and Elden Ring, the laborious process of summoning phantoms to your world is kinda part of the charm: a diegetic way to invite spirits beyond the rift into your RPG.

Elden Ring Nightreign, on the other hand, has straight-up matchmaking. And even then, FromSoftware found a way to make it more complex than it needs to be, with two-player games completely overlooked because of reasons, I guess.