Elden Ring Tarnished Edition Lands on Switch 2

The Lands Between just got portable. Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition launched on Nintendo Switch 2 today, August 28, 2026, and it is the full package — base game plus Shadow of the Erdtree — with a handful of new goodies thrown in for everyone. Four years after FromSoftware's open-world giant took over everybody's calendar, you can now lose an evening to it on a train.

• Elden Ring: Tarnished Edition launched August 28, 2026 on Nintendo Switch 2 at $79.99
• Bundles the complete base game with the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion, 41GB download
• Adds two new starting classes, new armour sets, alternate looks for Torrent, plus new weapons and skills
• Runs at 1080p targeting 30fps in both handheld and docked modes, without DLSS upscaling

What Is in Elden Ring Tarnished Edition?

Everything, basically. The complete base game and the Shadow of the Erdtree expansion ship together, so you get the Lands Between and the Realm of Shadow in one 41GB download. On top of that, Tarnished Edition adds genuinely new content rather than just a bundle sticker:

• Two new starting classes, including the high-dexterity Idus Knight
• Four new armour sets
• Three alternate appearances for Torrent, your spectral steed, with Tree Sentinel and Silver of Caria among the designs
• New weapons and skills

Digital pre-orders on Switch 2 also came with two bonus in-game gestures at launch, which is exactly the kind of small flex this community will absolutely use.

Do You Need a Switch 2 to Get the New Content?

No — and this is the genuinely generous part. The same additions are available separately as the Tarnished Pack DLC on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X and S, and PC via Steam, also as of today. If you have already put 200 hours into Elden Ring on another platform, you are not locked out of the new classes and cosmetics just because you did not buy Nintendo hardware.

How Does Elden Ring Run on Switch 2?

Early hands-on coverage reports 1080p in both handheld and docked mode, targeting 30fps, without DLSS upscaling — and holding close to that target with only minor dips. Given this is a game that shipped in 2022 asking a lot of much larger boxes, a stable 30 on a handheld is a solid result rather than a compromise you have to talk yourself into.

That tracks with the pattern we have seen from other big ports this year, including the Oblivion Remastered Switch 2 launch — the platform is proving it can take heavyweight open-world games without the frame-rate horror stories that dogged the original Switch's late years.

Is It Worth $79.99?

The list price is $79.99 on the Nintendo eShop, with a physical edition available too. For a newcomer, that is the base game and its very well-reviewed expansion plus the new content in a single purchase, on hardware you can take with you — which is a lot of game per dollar by any measure.

For a returning player the calculus is different: you are paying for portability and a fresh save. Plenty of people will happily make that trade for a game built around exploration, and the new classes give a replay an actual hook. Either way, it lands high on the list of reasons to own the console, right alongside the picks in our best Nintendo Switch 2 games roundup and the rest of our gaming coverage.

Sources: Nintendo — August 28, 2026; Notebookcheck — August 28, 2026; Nintendo Life — August 2026.