Year: 2025
Players: 1–4
Play time: 120min
Min age: 12+
Weight: 3.70
BGG rating: 8.05
BGG rank: #505
Best with: 3

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Local copies

Michael Redlich

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The Old King's Crown is available as a public board game page on MeepleMates for group planning and collection tracking.
Best with 3 player according to player poll data.
BoardGameGeek average rating 8.05 and BGG rank #505.
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Recommended player counts include 1, 2, 4.

The Old King's Crown is a game of card-driven conquest, where you play as heirs to a vacant throne, vying for control of an ancient, overgrown kingdom. Wield unique abilities and leverage your followers' traits to best outwit your opponents across a map that stretches from the teetering heights of the castle to the dappled light of the necropolis. As leader of your faction you will be staking claims with Heralds openly as well as positioning your forces in secret, hoping to claim the locations that fit your designs. However, keep an eye on your rivals, as they too have agents and agendas, poised to undo your best laid plans. Royalty, rebels or ruses. What crown will you wear? In The Old King's Crown, players move their Herald to locations, hoping to claim them. Then simultaneously players play cards from their hand, facedown to regions of the board. These are then revealed and resolved. Winning these clashes will result in different rewards that further their position and grant them the game's primary goal, influence. The player with the most influence by the end of a set number of rounds will be declared the winner.

Mechanics

Hand ManagementSimultaneous Action SelectionVariable Player PowersDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingBetting and BluffingCard Play Conflict ResolutionSelection Order Bid

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Community votes from BoardGameGeek

Language dependence

Extensive use of text(4 of 5 votes)

Sub-rankings

Strategy Game Rank#282

Videos

Video language

YouTube5

Instructional5

BoardGameGeek12

Review3

Session4

Instructional2

Interview1

Gen Con 2026 Old King's Crown by Eerie Idol Games
BoardGameGeek · paco2099
English · Curated source

Unboxing2

External data

Wikidata enrichment: 1 links · 1 facts · latest game data 07/26/2026.

Latest Wikidata run: ok · 09/12/2026.

Facts

Publication date: 2025