Hacker Trends › “elden ring” trend
“Elden ring” was mentioned 1,045 times on Hacker News between 2019 and 2026, peaking in Feb 2022 with 161 that month.
Every month from 2007 to 2026, counting how often “elden ring” appears in Hacker News stories and comments. Each point is a live date-histogram over ~45M items, computed with Upstash Redis Search.
Elden Ring first appears in 2019 around its announcement, and mentions peak in February 2022 with 161, the month the game released. The lifetime total is a modest 1,045 mentions, concentrated almost entirely in that launch window.
Discussion was design- and craft-focused for a games topic: pieces on how it ignored two decades of open-world convention, a technical “Behind the Pretty Frames” breakdown, and a note on its anti-piracy SEO tactics. Mentions faded quickly after early 2022.
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