'Elden Ring' Player Breaks The Game After Reaching Obscene Max Playtime

An incredibly dedicated Elden Ring player has taken down the game's final hidden boss: time itself.

FromSoftware's open-world RPG is a stupidly massive experience that will wring dozens of hours from the lives of even the most casual players. According to How Long To Beat, even simply forging ahead with the main story and ignoring everything else in Elden Ring takes, on average, 51 hours. Double that number if you insist on exploring the open world properly and finding its many, many secrets.

Hardcore Elden Ring players would look at a 100-hour playtime and scoff, of course. Considering there are plenty of builds and weapons to play around with across multiple playthroughs, not to mention co-op and PVP, players are happily continuing to put hundreds of hours into the adventure.

One player by the name of JayzRebellion15 has put so much time into Elden Ring that they've actually managed to murder the in-game clock. It turns out that if you play for a certain length of time, the game stops tracking it. To be fair, I don't FromSoftware ever expected to put 1,000 hours into one character.

As you can see above, our hero's level 648 character - named Richter Belmont in a lovely reference to Castlevania - now has a maxed out playtime of 999:59:59.

How many runs through the game must they have put in to achieve this ungodly feat? I shudder to think. I can only assume that our hero strides across The Lands Between killing anything that crosses his path just by looking at it. Malenia is probably cowering in fear underneath the Haglitree, just praying she doesn't get another visit from Belmont.

On the complete opposite end of the Elden Ring player spectrum, one unlucky streamer recently discovered after 361 attempts at Lord Radagon that the final boss actually has a second phase. They did not do so well with this information.