Elden Ring Nightreign gets a dedicated and customisable boss arena mode thanks to a modder

You there, fumbling around in the dark darkness of Elden Ring Nightreign’s Deep of the Night. A new mod offers you the chance to channel your inner gladiator and test your strength in a dedicated boss arena.

I know, I know, you’ve spent at least 80% of your time with Nightreign thus far battering and being battered by bosses. But come on, you know you need to roll around more big blokes, with the chance to customise each bout of rolling exactly to your liking.

“A standalone game mode focused entirely on fighting bosses” is the promise of modder PositronCannon with their Nightreign boss arena, which has popular siblings for base Elden Ring and Dark Souls 3. It adds a boss selection menu to the Roundtable Hold featuring “almost every boss in the game, from Nightlords to minibosses”.

Before hopping into a fight, a bunch of options let you tune both your character and aspects of the fight exactly how you fancy. Loadout-wise, there’s “full access to the sparring grounds weapon selection menu, the ability to apply/remove passive buffs, set your character’s level, set the amount of healing flasks, equip talismans, buy relics and other items for free”, as well as cheats if you fancy.

Meanwhile, the stats and characteristics of each boss can be tweaked, with the chance to specify if you want to take on a foe of a specific depth, a certain variant, or one of Deep of Night’s mutated enemies. All ideal if the goal’s getting in some lower-stakes practice for a certain expedition scenario or simply messing around with Nightreign’s roster of would-be night-ruiners. The likes of Free Reign also let you warp straight to certain boss battles from Roundtable Hold, but to my eye PositronCannon’s creation goes a lot more in-depth in terms of options to set up the exact fight you want.

The modder also has some ambitious expansion plans for it, in the form of an “Expedition Boss Rush” mode that’ll see players “progress through a series of semi-random boss fights, obtaining items, buffs and runes as you go, culminating in a Nightlord fight.” Sounds cool, if you’re after a trip out in the evening that’s a bit more heavy on slap-fests with serious supervisors.

All of that said, PositronCannon makes clear that their work’s aimed solely at solo players, meaning it’s not designed for seamless co-op enjoyers and likely won’t work with that. So, if you’re aiming to fight with friends, you’re best off sticking with another boss battle mod or just the base game with seamless.

If you fancy giving this boss arena a whirl, you’ll first need to grab Mod Engine 3.