FromSoft Fans, Clear Your Calendars: The Forsaken Hollows DLC Pulls Everyone Back to Nightreign on December 4

FromSoftware did the FromSoftware thing. Everyone figured the Elden Ring Nightreign DLC was slipping past its promised Q3 window, and then bam: a huge expansion shows up with a date, a trailer, and a whole lot to chew on.

The Forsaken Hollows lands December 4, 2025, and it is not some tiny add-on. This is a big swing for Nightreign, the co-op roguelike spin on Elden Ring’s world, with new characters, a new area, new bosses, and the kind of deep-cut callback that will make veteran Souls players do the double-take.

• Two new Nightfarers: The roster jumps to ten with The Scholar and The Undertaker. The Undertaker is a strength-and-faith bruiser who carries a heavy mace and calls down divine punishment. The Scholar is an arcane duelist running a rapier and enchanted grimoire combo, freezing enemies midair before carving them up. New animations, new synergies, and plenty of build tinkering for returning players.
• New Shifting Earth: The Great Hollow. Think: a vast cavity in the depths of Limveld, layered with ancient ruins, crystalline growth, and temples from long-gone civilizations. It is a Shifting Earth, which means layouts change, enemy variants rotate in, and the environment itself asks you to adapt, fail, adapt again.
• Bosses, both new and familiar. The expansion adds two brand-new Nightlords and brings back some very recognizable nightmares. The trailer flashes a formation of angelic soldiers in radiant plate with holy-speared polearms, and a colossal skeletal beast clawing out of bone piles, oozing scarlet rot. Returning faces include the Divine Beast Dancing Lion, Bayle the Dread, and yes, Artorias the Abysswalker. Bringing Artorias back is a bold, crowd-pleasing swing; file under: I cannot believe they actually did it, and also, of course they did.
• Darker lore thread for Limveld. The studio is framing this as a grimmer chapter: Limveld is still rotting under the Night’s toxic rain, and the hunt is nowhere near done. The official blurb sets the tone:

  In our war against the Night, every battle left a scar. These wounds were given will. A foul life, born of cast-away souls. Steel your resolve, Nightfarers. This hunt must be seen to its end.

  Expect fresh story beats, new relics, and maybe some answers about where the Nightlords actually come from.
• Release details and price. The Forsaken Hollows launches December 4, 2025 on PS5, PS4, Xbox Series X|S, Xbox One, and PC for $14.99.
• Who gets it free, and preorder extras. If you already own the Deluxe or Collector’s Edition of Elden Ring Nightreign, you get the expansion at no extra cost. Preorder by December 3 and you also snag a digital artbook and a mini soundtrack. The Deluxe Edition, now bundling Forsaken Hollows, is currently discounted if you have been waiting to jump in.

So, to recap the whiplash: we went from bracing for a delay to getting a densely packed add-on that checks basically every FromSoftware DLC box. New builds to learn, a nasty new map to conquer, bosses to suffer through, and a lore drop that might actually answer something. December 4 is closer than it feels.