The Demon's Hand
League's Balatro-flavored card roguelike — the darkin Atakhan sits at a stranger's table and you stack poker-style hands into game-breaking combos.
Play The Demon's Hand →Riot Mini Games: Every League of Legends Client Minigame
Play all 6 minigames Riot built into the League of Legends client — The Demon's Hand, Demacia Rising, Tournament of Souls and more — free in your browser.
Every one of these games is set in Runeterra or in a world Riot spun out of it, and each one was built to carry a piece of that world: the founding of Demacia, a Spirit Blossom festival in Ionia, a workshop in Zaun, a forge in the Freljord. They are the rare case of an event tie-in that is also canon, and they are the reason this section exists alongside the Archive of Runeterra rather than in an arcade of its own.
Over the years Riot Games has slipped full standalone minigames into the League of Legends client for its biggest seasonal events — a Balatro-style card roguelike, a turn-based city-builder, a Devil-May-Cry-flavored brawler, a first-person Arcane puzzle crawl, a cozy point-and-click adventure, and a 1v1 fighter. RuneGrove preserves these League client minigames and makes them free to play right in your browser, no client required.
All 6 Mini Games
Demacia Rising
Raise Demacia from a handful of magic-fearing refugees into a shining kingdom, one turn at a time, in Riot's surprisingly deep turn-based city-builder.
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The Battle of Koeshin
Swap between Xin Zhao and Yunara to slash demonkin off the screen in a stylish, combo-ranking Spirit Blossom brawler tucked inside the League client.
Play The Battle of Koeshin →
Jinx Fixes Everything
Step behind Jinx's goggles in a first-person Zaun workshop crawl where every busted contraption, claw machine, and lockpick is a puzzle — and a doorway into Arcane lore.
Play Jinx Fixes Everything →
The Spirit of Hearth-Home
A cozy point-and-click adventure: play as Aurora tidying Ornn's mountain forge to win the grumpy demigod-smith's help, wrapped in two hand-drawn comics.
Play The Spirit of Hearth-Home →
Tournament of Souls
Stack your Style meter to S-rank and unleash Samira's ultimate in a flashy 1v1 boss-rush through ten Soul Fighter legends — League's closest thing to its own Tekken.
Play Tournament of Souls →Every League Client Minigame, Event by Event
All six League of Legends client minigames, the seasonal event each one launched inside, what kind of game it is, what you play it with, and where in the world it is set.
| Mini game | Event | Year | Genre | Controls | Setting |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| The Demon's Hand | Welcome to Noxus | 2025 | Card Roguelike | Mouse | A card table out of time |
| Demacia Rising | For Demacia | 2026 | City-Builder | Mouse | The petricite forest west of Valoran |
| The Battle of Koeshin | Spirit Blossom | 2025 | Beat-'em-up | Keyboard | Ionia, during Spirit Blossom |
| Jinx Fixes Everything | Arcane Season 2 | 2024 | Puzzle Adventure | Mouse | Zaun, from behind Jinx's goggles |
| The Spirit of Hearth-Home | Aurora Launch | 2024 | Cozy Adventure | Mouse | Ornn's mountain forge |
| Tournament of Souls | Soul Fighter | 2023 | Fighter | Keyboard | A tournament bracket outside Runeterra |
Where These Games Sit in Runeterra
Four of the six are set in a region that has its own guide on RuneGrove. The other two are deliberately nowhere on the map.
- Demacia Rising — Demacia. The petricite forest west of Valoran, in the wake of the Rune Wars: empty fields where refugees who had lost their home to chaotic magic settled on the one ground magic could not touch. What you are playing is the founding of Demacia itself, from the Crownguard side.
- The Battle of Koeshin — Ionia. Ionia during the Spirit Blossom festival, across three stages — the Mountains, the Forest and the Port Town — with Xin Zhao, the loyal Demacian seneschal, returned at last to his Ionian homeland, and Yunara flung out of the spirit realm into the material one beside him.
- Jinx Fixes Everything — Zaun. Zaun in first person, seen from behind Jinx's goggles in a workshop whose three Acts slot into specific moments of Arcane Season 2 — mid-episode 2, after episode 4, and the start of episode 9.
- The Spirit of Hearth-Home — The Freljord. Ornn's soot-stained mountain forge, five rooms deep — Courtyard, Library, Main Hall, Smelter and Workshop — with a Freljordian nyckelharpa standing in the library and books belonging to Ornn, Volibear and Lissandra waiting to be shelved.
And the two that sit outside it:
- The Demon's Hand — A card table out of time. Freed by LeBlanc after more than a thousand years, Atakhan rampages across Runeterra before it reaches a strange and unknown land that feels out of time, and a lone man who feels somehow familiar. The whole game is played at that man's table, across League's 2025 Welcome to Noxus season.
- Tournament of Souls — A tournament bracket outside Runeterra. Not Runeterra proper but the Soul Fighter universe: a bracket of ten duels against Gwen, Lux, Naafiri, Jhin, Pyke, Evelynn, Sett and Shaco — Jhin twice, the rematch billed as an Encore — ending with the tournament's own host, Viego.
Mini Games FAQ
What are the League of Legends client minigames?
Riot has built six standalone games directly into the League of Legends client for its biggest seasonal events. They are not Summoner's Rift modes or ARAM variants: each one is a whole game in its own genre, with its own controls, cast and story, playable from the client for as long as its event ran. They are The Demon's Hand, a card roguelike from Welcome to Noxus (2025); Demacia Rising, a city-builder from For Demacia (2026); The Battle of Koeshin, a beat-'em-up from Spirit Blossom (2025); Jinx Fixes Everything, a puzzle adventure from Arcane Season 2 (2024); The Spirit of Hearth-Home, a cozy adventure from Aurora Launch (2024); and Tournament of Souls, a fighter from Soul Fighter (2023).
Can you still play the League client minigames?
Yes, though not in the League client. Each one shipped inside a seasonal event, and the client only carries it while that event is running. RuneGrove preserves the builds and runs them in the browser instead, so all six stay playable after their events close. The archive build of The Demon's Hand pushes its event end date out to 2099 and unlocks every one of its 73 Sigils, and Riot re-exported Demacia Rising in full, so both acts arrive with their complete music and voice acting.
Are the Riot mini games free to play?
Yes. All six are free to play here, in the browser, with nothing to download and no League client required. A Grove+ membership adds three cloud saves per mini-game, but you do not need it to play any of them from start to finish.
Do you need the League client to play them?
No. These are browser builds, so League does not have to be installed and there is nothing to install here either. The Demon's Hand, Demacia Rising, Jinx Fixes Everything and The Spirit of Hearth-Home are played entirely with the mouse. The Battle of Koeshin and Tournament of Souls want a keyboard, and Koeshin also supports a second controller for its local co-op Arcade Mode.
Which League event did each mini game come from?
The Demon's Hand came with Welcome to Noxus in 2025; Demacia Rising with For Demacia in 2026; The Battle of Koeshin with Spirit Blossom in 2025; Jinx Fixes Everything with Arcane Season 2 in 2024; The Spirit of Hearth-Home with Aurora Launch in 2024; and Tournament of Souls with Soul Fighter in 2023. The Demon's Hand is the one Riot billed as the first seasonal in-client minigame League ever had, added in Patch 25.06 in March 2025 — Tournament of Souls had already reached the client two years before that. The Battle of Koeshin launched alongside the champion Yunara, and The Spirit of Hearth-Home existed to launch Aurora and tell her canon first meeting with Ornn.
Are the League mini games canon?
Most of them are. The Spirit of Hearth-Home was built to tell Aurora's canon first meeting with Ornn. Demacia Rising is the kingdom's own origin story, played from the Crownguard side with a young Lux as the player character. Jinx Fixes Everything slots its three Acts into specific moments of Arcane Season 2, and the mechanical arm you build for Sevika in Act I pays off on screen in the show. Tournament of Souls is the exception: it plays out in the Soul Fighter universe rather than Runeterra proper.