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Rules assistance for Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed
Plain-language explanations of turns, card effects and disputed situations, with official source references and saved question history.
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Rules assistant for Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed
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Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed is an expansion for Shifting Realms released in 2020 for 2–4 players, 60 minutes per game, and ages 10 and up. It was designed by Craig Van Ness and Jeff Van Ness and its main mechanics are Area Majority / Influence, Variable Set-up, and Grid Movement.
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About the game
Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed is an expansion to Shifting Realms. A copy of Shifting Realms is necessary to play Darkness Revealed. The base game includes 5 realms which are played 3 at a time offering 10 realm combinations and 60 unique board layouts. Shifting Realms:Darkness Revealed comes with 2 additional realms bringing the number of realm combinations to 35 with 210 board layouts. The two new realms in Darkness Revealed are Knossos and Gehenna. Each realm comes with a board, structures, story cards, and task cards. The new realms introduce new synergies, mechanisms, and components to the base game. Knossos, the undiscovered land of the minotaurs, introduces Search tiles and Labyrinth walls. Players need to search areas of the board to recover treasure before structures can be built in the realm. Players can place Labyrinth walls to block movement and building adjacency. Players also start the game drafting story cards which ramps up the first few turns of the game. Gehenna, the dark land of the demons, offers players ways to directly interfere with the other players. Building Demon Towers enables players to capture opposing players units for victory points. Many of the story cards in this realm enable players to move opponents’ units within the realms. —description from the designer
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Questions and answers
Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed supports 2–4 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 Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed is 60 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 Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed for ages 10 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.
Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed belongs to these categories: Fantasy and Expansion for Base-game. Its main mechanics are Area Majority / Influence, Variable Set-up, and Grid Movement. 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 Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed are: Craig Van Ness and Jeff Van Ness. 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 Shifting Realms: Darkness Revealed as an expansion for Shifting Realms. Expansions add new content, rules or scenarios to the base game and usually cannot be played on their own, so you need Shifting Realms to use it. Check that your edition of Shifting Realms is compatible, as some expansions were revised between editions.