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The best Elden Ring mods

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Bandai Namco Entertainment

It was thanks to modders that the original PC port of Dark Souls reached a stable and respectable state. Once the technical wrinkles were ironed out, modders turned to expanding and improving the game in numerous ways to keep the game feeling fresh. Years later, those same talented modders have moved on to the latest and largest FromSoftware title, Elden Ring. After having had plenty of time to learn the game, there are tons of mods out there that can not only fix nagging issues in the game,but add entirely new ways to play. Here are some of the best mods out there for Elden Ring.

How to mod Elden Ring

Since Elden Ring is available on PC, that’s where modding scene is most popular. However, if this is your first time modding a game, it might sound a little confusing. Thankfully, the process is very simple, and even this tutorial video can show you the basics of modding your game in under three minutes.

Seamless Co-op

Multiple players look out over a landscape with the Elden Ring co-op mod.
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Elden Ring uses a more advanced form of the summoning systems from the Dark Souls series, but still has limitations, most notably being partners being forced out of your game after every boss or death. The Seamless Co-op mod aims to make the entire game playable with a partner without any interruptions when players die, bosses are beaten, and no fog walls. It is still being worked on, but already works very well.

Elden Ring Ultimate Cheat Engine Table

A list of Elden Ring cheats.
FromSoftware

Once you’ve beaten Elden Ring for your second, third, or eighth time, you may just want to see what you can do to break the game. The Elden Ring Ultimate Cheat Engine Table gives you the keys to the castle and lets you basically mod the game yourself to do things like create your own spells, spawn bosses, edit stats, use freecam, and tons more.

Elden Ring Item and Enemy Randomizer

Elden Ring charatcer screen with random items from mod.
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Randomizers are one of the most popular mod types for any game. Simply switching up what enemies, items, and bosses you encounter at any given time can breathe new life into even the most familiar games. Naturally, the Elden Ring Item and Enemy Randomizer will make all items found in the world, from enemies, bosses, and in shops, plus what enemies and bosses you find completely random each time you play.

The Convergence

A knight with a glowing yellow axe in Elden Ring.
FromSoftware

This is the most popular complete overhaul of the entire Elden Ring experience that goes beyond what most traditional reworks attempt. You can expect new weapons, spells, and maybe some enemies in a normal rework, but The Convergence takes things to the next level. It includes 27 new classes with their own starting location, the ability to craft talismans, a new fast travel system, new bosses, and even new areas.

Easy Mode for Elden Ring

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Get your “git good” remarks out of the way now and just accept the fact that, for some people, Elden Ring would be more fun if it wasn’t as punishing. This Easy Mode for Elden Ring mod gives you three options to tweak the difficulty to suit your tastes: Damage Edit Only, which reduces incoming damage and buffs how much damage you do, Damage Tweak + 10x Rune (and 2x Flask Heal) which does everything from the first, plus gives you double the healing flasks and reduces weapon upgrade costs. The final option is Personal Edit, which includes everything prior, plus a ton of other benefits like removing weight limits and making nothing cost any FP.

Unlock The Framerate

A frame counter mod for Elden Ring.
FromSoftware

Elden Ring was released on current and last-generation consoles, so one would think that a beefy PC could dominate this title. Unfortunately, FromSoftware locked the game’s frames per second (fps) regardless of how far your rig could theoretically push it. Unlock The Framerate cracks this lock and lets you set whatever fps you want to play at. The default setting is 300, but you can raise or lower it based on your performance and how much power you have.

Elden Reshade

A female knight below a castle in Elden Ring.
FromSoftware

Most people would say Elden Ring is a beautiful game, but not good-looking. The world, design, landscapes, and craftsmanship are all impeccable, but on a technical level, it is clearly behind even its contemporaries. Elden Reshade adds in HDR lighting effects to the base game that instantly bring it up to modern standards without killing your performance. It’s a simple mod that just lets you toggle effects and depth of field, but that’s all you really need.

Berserker Armor and Dragon Slayer

Berserker Armor in Elden Ring.
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Berserk has been referenced throughout the entire FromSoftware library of games and is one of the clearest inspirations. Rather than keeping it as a heavy homage, the Berserker Armor and Dragon Slayer mod simply lets you cosplay as the Black Swordsman Guts himself with his iconic weapon and armor.

Pause the game

A unique pause screen for Elden Ring.
FromSoftware

Really, what else needs to be said about this mod? Everyone will have a moment at some point, like it or not, where they will need to pause the game, and that’s exactly what the Pause the game mod gives you.

NPCs and Bosses Spirit Summons

Summoned spirit with player in Elden Ring using mod.
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Spirit Summons are a new feature to Elden Ring, and there are dozens of awesome ghostly companions you can bring with you into battle. However, the NPCs and Bosses Spirit Summons mod brings in a ton of NPCs and bosses, including Malenia and Radagon, as summonable allies.

Elden Ring Ascended Mod

A knight standing on a hill at knight in Elden Ring.
FromSoftware

If you’ve mastered the game and need a fresh challenge, the Elden Ring Ascended Mod will make you think twice. This mod alters enemy physics and AI, gives armor, talismans, and weapons new effects, and adds three difficulty options: Normal, where enemies deal 50% more damage than the base game, Nightmare, where there are more enemies and bosses, plus you start with permanent debuffs, and Age of Stars. This final mode bundles everything from the prior two difficulties, plus keeps the world in perpetual night so elite enemies will always spawn.

Elden Ring Unalloyed

The elden beast in redahn's arena in Elden Ring
FromSoftware

As a kind of one-stop shop for an Elden Ring rework, you can’t do better than Elden Ring Unalloyed. This mod doesn’t include any mods itself ,but works to let you use the best mods with ease, including seamless co-op, Randomizer, Reforged, and more. It will automatically extract, merge, and configure your mods for you so you spend less time tweaking and troubleshooting and more time slaying monsters.

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