Elden Ring was a huge game, so after two years in the oven, it’s understandable that you’d expect Shadow of the Erdtree to be huge and expansive. To find out how Elden Ring’s first and only expansion stacks up against the base game, read on.
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After spending roughly 50 hours exploring every nook and cranny of the Land of Shadow, the new map introduced in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree, I can confirm that it’s roughly the size of two regions from the base game. Imagine Limgrave and Caelid combined to get an idea of its rough size.
But there’s so much more to the Land of Shadow than meets the eye. There’s an incredibly diverse range of biomes and multiple layers. It’s impressive how much verticality is built into Shadow of the Erdtree’s design, and you’ll spend a good portion of your playthrough figuring out how to get up or down to a location you’ve identified on the map.
The Lands Between is about 30 square miles in size and had about six zones: five above ground and another underground zone that we can count as one. If the Land of Shadow is about the size of two regions from the base game, it is about a third the size of the Lands Between, or about 10 square miles.
