The mum or dad firm of Elden Ring developer FromSoftware is releasing a novel based mostly on the beloved fantasy role-playing recreation, however its topic is not essentially what you’d anticipate.
As reported by Siliconera, Kadokawa Company is releasing See You At That Grace After Work in Japan, a novel telling the story of two co-workers who get to know one another by taking part in Elden Ring. The title references the Websites of Grace places all through Elden Ring’s world of The Lands Between.
The novel follows a Japanese workplace employee and gamer who enjoys Elden Ring however has solely performed solo. After spending his workbreaks taking a look at information web sites, a senior colleague notices and, as a fan of Elden Ring themselves, speaks to the employee about it. The 2 work together increasingly more each at work and on-line as they play Elden Ring collectively.
The novel arrives on March 29, 2024 in Japanese solely, with no phrase on a world launch. Keiichi Hikami, the creator of a number of Monster Hunter novels, is scripting this one too.
It is not the first time a considerably weird e-book on Elden Ring has been launched, as Kadokawa beforehand launched a manga. As an alternative of being a darkish and dramatic fantastical story, nevertheless, as is instructed in the recreation, it adopted a unadorned Tarnished referred to as Asea as a comedy.
Whereas it has been greater than two years since Elden Ring launched and a wave of wild and wacky content material and creations round the recreation emerged, an identical state of affairs could unfold quickly as FromSoftware has introduced a June 21 launch date for its growth, Shadow of the Erdtree.
Elden Ring proved considerably of a cultural phenomenon upon its launch, with gamers discovering a ton of other ways to work together with the recreation. Followers performed it utilizing a Fisher Value toy, the Nintendo Change Ring Match controller, and somebody even made a working VR model of the recreation.
In our 10/10 evaluation, IGN stated: “Elden Ring is an enormous iteration on what FromSoftware started with the Souls collection, bringing its relentlessly difficult fight to an unimaginable open world that offers us the freedom to decide on our personal path.”
Ryan Dinsdale is an IGN freelance reporter. He’ll speak about The Witcher all day.