By Ted Litchfield

Copyright pcgamer

Skip to main content

Close main menu

THE GLOBAL AUTHORITY ON PC GAMES

View Profile

Search PC Gamer

PC Gaming Show

Movies & TV

Affiliate links

Meet the team

Community guidelines

About PC Gamer

PC Gamer Magazine Subscription

Why subscribe?

Subscribe to the world’s #1 PC gaming mag
Try a single issue or save on a subscription
Issues delivered straight to your door or device

From£35.99Subscribe now

Borderlands 4
Essential Hardware

Battlefield 6

Don’t miss these

An absolute Elden Ring madlad just soloed Nightreign’s most-hated boss at level 1 with the power of Sekiro parries

After 170 hours of Elden Ring Nightreign its new, increasingly evil Deep of Night mode has managed to hook me in again

Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a new ‘high difficulty mode’ in September, including an ‘endless battle for those seeking even greater thrills’

15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign’s Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who’s harder to beat in co-op than solo

Elden Ring Nightreign dataminers have uncovered plans for a new endless mode with Armored Core 6’s rank system and skill-based matchmaking

FromSoftware to make the most brutal boss in Elden Ring Nightreign even harder, as Fulghor gets picked to be the next Everdark Sovereign

Dark Souls 2 player beats its hardest boss on NG+7 by wearing his clothes and committing seppuku 47 times

You can accidentally doom your Elden Ring Nightreign team by attacking its newest enhanced boss at the wrong time

Elden Ring Nightreign’s latest patch has made it impossible for greedy teammates to farm extra runes after the second-day boss, which is music to my ears

FromSoftware scrambles for content to keep Elden Ring Nightreign players interested as it announces the return of the first three Everdark Nightlords

Elden Ring Nightreign player hits 63,375 damage and keeps going until they’re punished for their hubris: ‘I was suddenly unable to deal any damage at all’

How to beat Everdark Augur in Elden Ring Nightreign

Elden Ring Nightreign’s newest Everdark Sovereign Augur, manages to break the fourth wall by sending me to sleep in the game and in real life

Sorry haters, Elden Ring Nightreign’s much maligned new Everdark boss is its best yet

It only took a week for the ultimate Silksong sicko to beat every boss in the game without getting hit

Elden Ring: Nightreign

A hardcore Souls player already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign’s max-difficulty Depth 5, but he doesn’t recommend it

Ted Litchfield

18 September 2025

I’m having trouble in a three-stack at Depth Two.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

(Image credit: Bandai Namco)

Soulsborne challenge runner Ongbal, whose exploits include no hitting Malenia, Promised Consort Radahn, and every single boss in Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice, has uploaded a video showing a solo completion of Elden Ring Nightreign’s maximum-difficulty Depth Five. But he doesn’t really recommend it.

Depth Five was introduced as part of Nightreign’s recent Deep of Night update, and requires slowly leveling up through the earlier depths first. The lower depths introduce more challenging enemies and random Nightlords, but balance this difficulty with powerful new weapon and relic effects that seriously open up the game’s buildcrafting.

Deep of Night Depth 5 Wylder Solo Run – Elden Ring Nightreign – YouTube

“I grinded up to depth five this past week,” Ongbal wrote in the video description. “And well… honestly it’s not enjoyable at higher depths.”

Related Articles

An absolute Elden Ring madlad just soloed Nightreign’s most-hated boss at level 1 with the power of Sekiro parries

After 170 hours of Elden Ring Nightreign its new, increasingly evil Deep of Night mode has managed to hook me in again

Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a new ‘high difficulty mode’ in September, including an ‘endless battle for those seeking even greater thrills’

Ongbal accomplished this solo run as John Darksouls himself, Wylder. Despite the YouTuber’s predilection for katanas and Sekiro, Ongbal only favored the Sekiro-parrying samurai character, Executor, early on, with his videos quickly transitioning to focus on Wylder gameplay. It makes sense: Wylder’s mobility and surprisingly high skill ceiling has made him a favorite among the hardcore Souls kiddies.

Perhaps the most notable thing about Ongbal’s Depth Five run is how unremarkable it was: No god drops, shifting earth, surprise invasions, or nail-biter moments, just a meat and potatoes run where the enemies were super tanky and could pretty much kill in one hit.
Build-wise, Ongbal had the extra Wylder grapple and blood loss upgrade from relics, as well as bleed on the starter greatsword, which he kept and upgraded through the entire run. Ongbal paired it with an offhand Flamberge for bonus bleed-inflicting jump attacks, and that’s about it. Otherwise Ongbal just executed everything at a very high level, and for the Nightlord, he squared off with a non-Everdark Fulghur.
That last bit really chafed my hams: On my second Depth Two run, my team wiped to a surprise Everdark Libra whose summons glitched out and turned invisible⁠—we didn’t stand a chance. It’s a shame that Ongbal’s run was so tame, because the real fun in Deep of Night is the new weapon effects you can build around. My favorites have been bows that have powerful effects when you aim with the trigger instead of locking on, like casting the Swarm of Flies spell or inflicting Scarlet Rot.

The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals
Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team.
Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over.

Elden Ring Nightreign tips – Start your run right
Nightreign tier list – The best nightfarers
Best Nightreign rune farm route – Level up fast
Best Nightreign team comps – Squad goals
Nightreign best relics – The rite stuff
Nightreign bosses list – Every Nightlord
Nightreign Remembrances – All character quests

FromSoftware

Ted Litchfield

Social Links Navigation
Associate Editor

Ted has been thinking about PC games and bothering anyone who would listen with his thoughts on them ever since he booted up his sister’s copy of Neverwinter Nights on the family computer. He is obsessed with all things CRPG and CRPG-adjacent, but has also covered esports, modding, and rare game collecting. When he’s not playing or writing about games, you can find Ted lifting weights on his back porch. You can follow Ted on Bluesky.

You must confirm your public display name before commenting

Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name.

An absolute Elden Ring madlad just soloed Nightreign’s most-hated boss at level 1 with the power of Sekiro parries

After 170 hours of Elden Ring Nightreign its new, increasingly evil Deep of Night mode has managed to hook me in again

Elden Ring: Nightreign is getting a new ‘high difficulty mode’ in September, including an ‘endless battle for those seeking even greater thrills’

15 attempts in, I actually love that Elden Ring Nightreign’s Everdark Libra is the first FromSoftware boss who’s harder to beat in co-op than solo

Elden Ring Nightreign dataminers have uncovered plans for a new endless mode with Armored Core 6’s rank system and skill-based matchmaking

FromSoftware to make the most brutal boss in Elden Ring Nightreign even harder, as Fulghor gets picked to be the next Everdark Sovereign

Latest in Action

This metroidvania based on an old Atari 2600 classic had the audacity to release on the same day as Silksong, but it’s a nice break from Hornet’s hell

In yet another victory lap for Hazelight Studios, Split Fiction just became the first videogame to get a design award from Swedish royalty

Team Cherry explains Silksong is more lethal because players are too: ‘Hornet is inherently faster and more skillful than the Knight … the base level enemy had to be more complicated, more intelligent’

How to find and use the Twisted Bud in Silksong

Hades gets its ‘biggest sale ever’ at 75% off as it celebrates 5 years since 1.0, ahead of Hades 2’s launch later this month

How to unlock Steel Soul Mode in Silksong

Latest in News

Weapons director says his Resident Evil movie will leave everything ‘intact’ from the games: ‘I’m not gonna steal Leon and put him in an original story’

Nintendo reportedly gets even more obnoxious about patent law by taking a ‘mods aren’t real games’ stance against a Dark Souls 3 mod that could invalidate its Palworld lawsuit

US agents are investigating the Charlie Kirk murder suspect’s Steam account, but I’m not sure what 2,000 hours in Sea of Thieves is supposed to tell us

A hardcore Souls player already soloed Elden Ring Nightreign’s max-difficulty Depth 5, but he doesn’t recommend it

If you use inverted camera controls, you might rotate shapes in your mind more slowly—but more accurately!—according to a recent neuroscience study

Borderlands 4 performance patch out now with PC ‘our top priority’

HARDWARE BUYING GUIDES
LATEST GAME REVIEWS

Best SSD for gaming in 2025: the fastest and the best value solid state drives to perk up your PC

Best gaming laptop in 2025: I’ve tested a ton of notebooks this generation and these are the best in every category

Best Hall effect keyboards in 2025: the fastest, most customizable keyboards for competitive gaming

Best PCIe 5.0 SSD for gaming in 2025: the only Gen 5 drives I will allow in my PC

Best graphics cards in 2025: I’ve tested pretty much every AMD and Nvidia GPU of the past 20 years and these are today’s top cards

Dying Light: The Beast review – A step down from zombie-stomping greatness

OcUK Gaming Mach 5R review

Razer Kraken Kitty V3 Pro headset review

Borderlands 4 review: A slice of looter-shooter heaven trapped in UI hell

Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor review – Vampire Survivors is no longer the king of the genre

PC Gamer is part of Future plc, an international media group and leading digital publisher. Visit our corporate site.

Contact Future’s experts

Terms and conditions

Privacy policy

Cookies policy

Advertise with us

Accessibility Statement

Future Publishing Limited Quay House, The Ambury,

BA1 1UA. All rights reserved. England and Wales company registration number 2008885.

Please login or signup to comment

Please wait…