This study was to explore the impacts of participating in "ACP board game for life" on death preparation, death anxiety, end-of-life care preferences, and intervention perception in stage 4-5 CKD patients with advanced chronic kidney diseases in a medical center. A nonrandomized two-arm pretest and posttest quasi-experimental design was used. Patients in the control group received routine care while patients in the experimental group received routine care and ACP board game for life. The ACP board game, death preparation subscale, Chinese Likert death anxiety scale, self-created questionnaires and brief interview were used for data collection.