What This Thing Actually Does
It's a companion application that sits beside Elden Ring and logs boss encounters in real time. You launch the tracker, open a save file, and it reads the game's memory to determine which bosses you've defeated, which are still alive, and tracks your progress through the Lands Between. There are other tools that claim to do this. Most of them are garbage. This one works reasonably well if you know what you're doing. You can find it on GitHub under the name "Elden Ring Boss Tracker" by the developer known as Krah1. Grab the latest release from the releases tab, not the source code. The source code will just confuse you and won't run without compilation. The compiled .exe is what you actually want. Before opening the tracker, close any overlay software you have running. MSI Afterburner, RivaTuner, Discord overlay, GeForce Experience — all of them hook into the game's process and the tracker will either crash immediately or silently fail to read memory. This tripped me up for about twenty minutes on my first attempt. I literally thought the tool was broken. Turned out it was RivaTuner fighting with the tracker for access to the same memory address.
Run the exe as administrator. Not strictly required, but without admin privileges the memory reading function gets blocked on newer versions of Windows. You'll get an error that doesn't actually tell you it's a permission issue, so just run it as admin and move on.
How It Works Under the Hood
The tracker uses a combination of signature scanning and pattern matching against the game's processes. When Elden Ring loads a boss encounter, the game writes specific data structures to memory — things like boss health values, state flags, and encounter IDs. The tracker hunts for these patterns each frame and maintains a local database of what it finds. The boss database ships with every major boss in the game. It also tracks whether you're currently in combat, which gives you a quick status overlay. Some people use this for streaming. I used it because I keep losing track of which shardbearers I've killed and which I haven't. The mental load of trying to remember while also not dying to Malenia is not something I recommend. One thing most guides don't mention: the tracker does not persist data across sessions unless you enable the export feature. Close the game, lose the data. If you care about long-term tracking, make sure to hit the save button before you exit. I learned this the hard way after a power outage wiped about six hours of boss progress from my session log.
Known Issues and Workarounds
There are a few edge cases worth knowing about. First, the tracker sometimes misreads boss encounters that involve multiple phases or summonable helpers. If a boss has a second form that uses a different memory signature, the tracker might list the boss as alive even after you kill it, then flip to dead once the second phase triggers. This isn't a major problem but it can be misleading if you're using it to check completion percentage. Second, co-op play breaks the tracking entirely. The memory addresses shift when another player joins, and the tracker starts reading garbage data. I actually flagged this as a bug and reported it. The developer acknowledged it and said it's a fundamental limitation of how the tool reads memory, not something they plan to fix. So if you play cooperatively, just accept that the tracker goes dark. Third, and this one is important — the tracker has no anti-cheat bypass. If you're playing on a platform with any kind of anti-cheat active, using this tool could result in a ban. Elden Ring itself doesn't have traditional anti-cheat, but games like FromSoftware titles can trigger flags through third-party memory access tools. Keep this in mind if you care about your account status.
Who Should Use This
If you're just playing through the game once and don't care about completion percentages, this isn't for you. The vanilla experience is fine without it. But if you're doing a completionist run, planning for New Game Plus, or just want a quick reference for which bosses are still out there, the Tracker For Elden Ring Boss Modern saves you from checking a wiki after every encounter. That alone makes it worth the thirty seconds it takes to set up. The alternative is opening a browser and looking up boss lists mid-session, which breaks immersion and slows down actual gameplay. This tool keeps everything on screen. It's not elegant but it's functional, and in my experience that's all you need.
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