2024Luke Laurie, Maximus Laurie
- Videos
- 131
- Creators
- 99
2 - 4 players80 - 160 minHeavy weight

2020Luke Laurie
Mainly reviews. Dwellings of Eldervale is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 38 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 16 recorded sessions, 12 unboxings, and 11 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Dwellings of Eldervale is an epic worker placement game set in a once lost magical world. Giant elemental monsters roam while dragons, wizards and warriors battle for dominance over 8 elemental powers. Players control unique factions seeking to adventure, battle, grow in power and ultimately dwell Eldervale, shaping it to their vision. Dwellings of Eldervale blends worker placement, area control, engine building and unique worker units. Players take turns placing a worker in Eldervale or regrouping and activating their tableau of adventure cards. Action spaces include realms key to power: a summoning portal, an ancient mill, the lost fortress, deep dungeons, and a crumbling mage tower and the elemental lands of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Light, Dark, Order and Chaos! Magic cards grant spells, quests and prophecies to players. In the end, the players with the most elemental dominance among the multiple paths to victory will reign over Eldervale. -description from the publisher Link to Unofficial FAQ
Dwellings of Eldervale has 85 videos from 64 creators: 38 reviews, 8 how-to-play guides, 16 playthroughs, 12 unboxings and 11 other videos. They date from 2019 to November 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Dwellings of Eldervale Tutorial Playthrough - JonGetsGames" by Getting Games, which runs 42 min. For a quicker teach, "Dwellings of Eldervale Intro Series Part 1" by Cardboard Alchemy runs 8 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "The 4 Squares Review: Dwellings of Eldervale" by The Dice Tower. 35 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Dice Tower crew plays Dwellings of Eldervale (Breaking Games)" by The Dice Tower, one of 16 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Andromeda's Edge, The Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, Whistle Mountain and Manhattan Project: Energy Empire, also by Luke Laurie. It appears in convention videos from GAMA Expo 2020 and Gen Con 2019.
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2024Luke Laurie, Maximus Laurie
2 - 4 players80 - 160 minHeavy weight
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1 - 5 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
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2 - 4 players60 - 90 minHeavy weight
2025Tom Jolly, Luke Laurie
1 - 5 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Dwellings of Eldervale is an epic worker placement game set in a once lost magical world. Giant elemental monsters roam while dragons, wizards and warriors battle for dominance over 8 elemental powers. Players control unique factions seeking to adventure, battle, grow in power and ultimately dwell Eldervale, shaping it to their vision. Dwellings of Eldervale blends worker placement, area control, engine building and unique worker units. Players take turns placing a worker in Eldervale or regrouping and activating their tableau of adventure cards. Action spaces include realms key to power: a summoning portal, an ancient mill, the lost fortress, deep dungeons, and a crumbling mage tower and the elemental lands of Earth, Air, Fire, Water, Light, Dark, Order and Chaos! Magic cards grant spells, quests and prophecies to players. In the end, the players with the most elemental dominance among the multiple paths to victory will reign over Eldervale. -description from the publisher Link to Unofficial FAQ
Designer
Luke Laurie
Artists
Merilliza Chan, Sergio Chaves, Anton Fadeev, Leesha Hannigan, Irina Kuzmina, Nathanael Mortensen, Sasha Radivojevic, Sam Turner and 2 more
Publisher
Breaking Games
Mechanics