Elden Ring is packed with enough content to keep players coming back for well upwards of 50 hours. It may then surprise players to know that, in the grand scheme of things, the open world isn't all that big. At 30.5 square miles, or 79 square kilometers, it is bigger than the map of some classic open-world games like Skyrim, but it still falls short of plenty of others. The advantage Elden Ring has over many of those games is how densely packed with stuff it is. Players can explore a single area of Elden Ring's map and find a cornucopia of new things even after tens of hours of wandering around.