Sometimes your favourite video games meet the world of the best board games and beautiful things happen. We love to see it. In some great news for explorers of the Lands Between, Elden Ring is making its move to tabletop at the end of March with Elden Ring: The Board Game.
Given that the digital experience of Elden Ring is so vast and expansive, its board game brother is just as massive and unfortunately, that’s obviously going to translate to a higher price tag. That said, you can score yourself a saving if you know where to go to get the best pre-order deal.
Right now, you can pre-order Elden Ring: The Board Game’s core box for $169.99 at Miniature Market, where it would usually set you back $199.99. If you’re a UK-based Elden Ring enjoyer, you can enjoy an even more generous 24% discount with it being £151.89 at Zatu.
Should you buy Elden Ring: The Board Game?
The BoardGameGeek reputation of Elden Ring: The Board Game has been tarnished (ha) by a less than complementary score of 4.2. However, further investigation shows that negative user reviews on the site really don’t have much to say at all about the game itself. I suppose it makes sense they wouldn’t, given the game itself isn’t shipping until the end of the month.
In fact, the vast majority of these criticisms are of the game’s high price point and the publisher’s blink-and-you’ll-miss-it Kickstarter campaign. Now that it’s hitting retail and seeing a 15% discount, those takes are a whole lot less relevant. While our review is still in progress, our Elden Ring: The Board Game preview called it a “labour of love” that offered “brutal quests and satisfying loot-farming”.
While there’s always an element of caveat emptor to picking up a board game on pre-order, you are guaranteed to get 51 incredible Elden Ring miniatures and 30-40 hours of campaign content from the designers that brought us Resident Evil: The Board Game and Monster Hunter World: The Board Game (both of which we at GamesRadar+ were massive fans of).
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