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The Elden Ring DLC has been added to Steam’s backend

FromSoftware is getting ready to move

Marco Wutz

The Elden Ring DLC has been added to Steam’s backend
The Elden Ring DLC has been added to Steam’s backend /

It’s been rather quiet around the upcoming Elden Ring DLC, Shadow of the Erdtree, ever since the expansion was announced on the open-world RPG’s first anniversary. Things seem to be on the move now, however: Spotted by eagle-eyed ResetEra user zeta50 via SteamDB, it looks like developer FromSoftware has added a new piece of content to the DLC section for Elden Ring in Steam’s backend.

While changes in the backend happen all the time, this is the first new item that was assigned to the DLC section, which features all paid content for the game, such as pre-order items. The free content expansions for the game, such as the big Colosseum Update, are not found there. This is a pretty hefty hint at the item in question being Shadow of the Erdtree.

Elden Ring expansion artwork.
It looks like we'll get more info on Shadow of the Erdtree soon / FromSoftware

If you need another one, then we’ve got it: SteamDB also shows a new item with the “CD Key” billing type having been added, listed with the regular edition of Elden Ring as well as the Deluxe Edition, marking it out to be a purchasable piece of content with its own product key.

Late last year, producer Yasuhiro Kitano said that “there is still quite a bit of work to be done” on the DLC, “but it's going well,” during an awards ceremony in Japan.

Everything we know about the DLC still comes from the artwork FromSoftware initially used to announce the expansion, showing a bleeding Erdtree on the horizon. In the foreground, a long-haired blonde human can be seen riding a horse and observing the spectacle from afar. An array of ghostly shades surround the mysterious rider. Foggy ruins dot the landscape between the two points of interest.

Naturally, fans have interpreted this piece of art in a myriad of ways in the meantime, since there is little else to do while we’re waiting for any official news. That waiting time, it seems, might not continue for all too much longer. With the Elden Ring DLC being added to Steam’s backend, we may be looking at an announcement of pre-orders and a release date in the near future – it may all center on the game’s second anniversary on February 25, 2024.

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Marco Wutz
MARCO WUTZ

Marco Wutz is a writer from Parkstetten, Germany. He has a degree in Ancient History and a particular love for real-time and turn-based strategy games like StarCraft, Age of Empires, Total War, Age of Wonders, Crusader Kings, and Civilization as well as a soft spot for Genshin Impact and Honkai: Star Rail. He began covering StarCraft 2 as a writer in 2011 for the largest German community around the game and hosted a live tournament on a stage at gamescom 2014 before he went on to work for Bonjwa, one of the country's biggest Twitch channels. He branched out to write in English in 2015 by joining tl.net, the global center of the StarCraft scene run by Team Liquid, which was nominated as the Best Coverage Website of the Year at the Esports Industry Awards in 2017. He worked as a translator on The Crusader Stands Watch, a biography in memory of Dennis "INTERNETHULK" Hawelka, and provided live coverage of many StarCraft 2 events on the social channels of tl.net as well as DreamHack, the world's largest gaming festival. From there, he transitioned into writing about the games industry in general after his graduation, joining GLHF, a content agency specializing in video games coverage for media partners across the globe, in 2021. He has also written for NGL.ONE, kicker, ComputerBild, USA Today's ForTheWin, The Sun, Men's Journal, and Parade. Email: marco.wutz@glhf.gg

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