Bandai Namco, the publisher of "Eldenring," has released a bunch of statistics to celebrate the game's first anniversary and perhaps to mock how bad we suck at it. The number of deaths from the game's myriad hazards is more than the number of humans currently alive on the planet, which doesn't sound like a very good record. It also took nearly 6 billion attempts to defeat the various bosses, most of which failed miserably.

Of the 9 billion deaths that have occurred in Lands Between, a whopping 69% have been caused by enemies or NPCs, 15% by unchecked status effects like poison, blood loss, and insanity, and 14% (about 1.2 billion) by falls.

One of the more surprising things is that apparently we are all a bunch of pacifists. Of the one billion summonses that have occurred in the Elden Ring, 88% have been due to cooperative play, meaning that only 12% were due to invasion. No wonder 2% of player deaths are caused by other players: everyone is too nice.

See below for more detailed statistics, but don't be surprised to find that Marenia is comfortably in first place in the "boss attempts" category. Of the nearly 6 billion boss fights initiated by players since the game was released last year, 329 million of them have been with Marenia, easily edging out second-place Margit with 281 million... If not for the noble achievement of Let Me Solo Her (open in new tab), she would have been even higher up the list.

Elden Ring is, of course, the 2022 Game of the Year (open in new tab) and is frenzied with anticipation for its expansion, Shadow of the Elder Tree (open in new tab), which was finally announced last month. Until that is announced, we will have to endure the entertainment of watching the aforementioned "Let Me Solo Her" play out in a version that replaces all of its enemies with Marenia (opens in new tab). These stats may need to be updated in the not-too-distant future.