- BGG rating
- 8.2
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King – Erdtree Avatar
- 1–4 players
- 90–120 min
- 2025
- BGG rank
- BGG #27,375
- BGG rating
- 6.0
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King
2025
Rules assistance for Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
- 1–4 players
- 90–120 min
- 14+
- Complexity 2.5/5
Rules assistant for Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King
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Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King is a board game released in 2025 for 1–4 players, 90–120 minutes per game, and ages 14 and up. It was designed by Mat Hart, Sherwin Matthews, and Fraser McFetridge and its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Cooperative Game, and Solo / Solitaire Game.
Expansions
- BGG rating
- 8.0
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King – Flying Dragon Agheel
- 1–4 players
- 90–120 min
- 2025
- BGG rating
- 7.7
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King – Iron Fist Alexander
- 1–4 players
- 90–120 min
- 2025
- BGG rating
- 7.6
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King – Limgrave Depths
- 1–4 players
- 90–120 min
- Complexity 2.0/5
- 2025
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About the game
Welcome to Limgrave, a mysterious and otherworldly realm where the landscape is rich and varied. As you explore, you’ll build out a hex-based map of your surroundings, with unique locations to visit, resources to gather, NPC’s to interact with, and enemies to fight. Your progress is tracked by a narrative story that provides objectives as well as guidance on how to achieve them – and, depending on your decisions, alternative side-quests and emergent narrative to experience, too. Elden Ring is a big box cooperative fantasy campaign game, where each session is playable in 90-120 minutes and core box campaigns will span 30-40 hours, increasing to 90 hours with the expansions. Diceless and with strong elements of deck-building, combat is both deadly and personal. As your Tarnished character levels up, you must carefully build your attack and effect decks to best optimize with your equipment. Although exploration takes place on the zoomed-out hex map, each player has their own dedicated quest book on which combat encounters will take place face-to-face. Because combat takes place in your individual quest book, your encounters also won’t disrupt play for everyone else. After making the three actions in your turn — and enduring any enemy attacks — your combat will pause while the other Tarnished continue exploring the overworld, with combat resuming once your turn comes back around. When your party locates a dungeon, your quest books will be joined together, allowing you to take on bosses together on a much larger stage while still being up close and personal. But boss encounters aren’t the only time you’ll fight side by side. If one of your fellow Tarnished is in trouble, there are also ways to join their personal combat book and lend a hand — or a sword.
Mechanics
Publishers
- Steamforged Games Ltd.
Questions and answers
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King supports 1–4 players according to the catalogue. This range comes from the publisher’s listed player count, so the game can be set up for any group size within it. Some setups, rules and scoring details may still vary by player count, so check your edition’s rulebook for the exact configuration.
The listed playing time for Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King is 90–120 minutes. This is the publisher’s estimate for a full game. The actual duration depends on the group, the player count and familiarity with the rules: first sessions usually run longer, while experienced groups often finish faster. Setup and teaching time are not included in this estimate.
The catalogue lists Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King for ages 14 and up. This is the publisher’s recommendation and reflects reading demands, rule complexity and small components rather than theme alone. Younger players can often join with help from an adult, so check the age guidance on your edition and consider your group’s experience with board games.
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King has a complexity rating of 2.5 out of 5 from BoardGameGeek players, which makes it a medium-light game. The rating reflects how much rules knowledge, planning and decision-making a typical game demands. Expect a longer first teach for heavier games, and use a preparation guide before game night.
Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King belongs to these categories: Fantasy, Fighting, and Video Game Theme. Its main mechanics are Tile Placement, Cooperative Game, and Solo / Solitaire Game. Categories describe the theme and setting of a game, while mechanics describe what players actually do on their turns. Each mechanic links to a catalogue hub with similar games, which helps when you want something comparable.
The credited designers of Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King are: Mat Hart, Sherwin Matthews, and Fraser McFetridge. These credits come from the published game data and name the people responsible for the game’s design, not its illustrators or publishers. Designer pages on MeepleRules collect other titles by the same designers, which helps when you enjoy a game and want to find similar ones.
The catalogue lists Elden Ring: Realm of the Grafted King as a base game. It can be played on its own with the components in the box and does not require any other title. Expansions, if any exist, add new content or rules on top of it and are listed separately in the catalogue with a link back to this base game.