Elden Ring has a hotly anticipated expansion arriving at some point and though it’s presumably been in development for a while already it’s seemingly no closer to coming out. There’s still no release date for Shadow of the Erdtree and the likelihood of such an announcement only increases with each passing day, but in the meantime there’s a lot to speculate about what it could look like and what it could contribute to Elden Ring as a whole. Theorycrafting has already been underway for Shadow of the Erdtree concerning the singular image shared for it thus far, but gameplay is another aspect entirely.