Horizon: Zero Dawn received more merchandise than a top-flight football team prior to its release, so you can bet your bottom dollar that now it’s a bonafide megahit, Sony’s doubling down on all sorts of token tat. To be fair, this new board game from Steamforged Games – created in collaboration with Guerrilla Games – sounds like the antithesis of throwaway junk, and it’s coming to Kickstarter soon.
These are the same people that made the well-liked Dark Souls and Resident Evil tabletop adaptations by the way, so they know what they’re doing. “We take immense pride in working with amazing game properties to create dynamic and powerful board and card experiences in the physical game space,” the company said.
Creative director Mat Hart added: “Many of the staff at Steamforged have been in love with Horizon: Zero Dawn since it was first released, and so have an intimate understanding of what makes it so appealing and enthralling. With this game we’re going to give players a compelling new way to play and experience this amazing video game.”
The Kickstarter will launch soon, though there’s no word on how much it’ll need to raise. We’ll obviously try to report on the crowd-funding campaign as soon as we learn more about it.
[source steamforged.com]
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i haven't played a tabletop game in centuries
I want more action-figures, lol.
@Areus a pity, there are a number of great ones out there!
Steamforged really put the effort in when it comes to nailing game play. The detail on the miniature there looks incredible, will be amazed if it looks that good in the final product.
You know what I like playing, spades, hearts, rook. Why is there not a online game/app where we can play these on ps4? I know I can do it on my smartphone, but would be cool to play on my TV. If there is something like this let me know!
"Bored" games are a large part of the reason I started playing video games as a kid.
@NintendoFan4Lyf Because, as a Nintendo fan, you're used to amiibo
Oh, sweet! Finally my partner will understand at least some of what I've been extolling the virtues of for months!
Really enjoy a good board game, but wouldn't back this project for a couple of reasons. The primary one being that they haven't really put up a good showing on their Dark Souls campaign with multiple delays and some misleading information (this post is worth a read if you are considering backing: http://forums.steamforged.com/topic/42350-update-171/).
My second problem would be that the Dark Souls board game was not all that spectacular, basically consisting of some interesting boss fights, but a lot of dull grinding to get there. Given you'd be looking at £80-£120 for a base pledge, I'd rather not gamble on what amounts to a pre-order when I could get 3-4 games that are out now and I know are excellent.
They might have learnt a lot from their still not fully delivered Dark Souls campaign and their not yet finished/released Resident Evil 2 campaign, but, if you go in on this, don't go blindly in on the hype from the name alone would be my advice.
@Dichotomy
Yep, still waiting on the rest of Dark Souls and Resident Evil 2, myself. The Dark Souls situation is pretty frustrating, no idea when the rest will actually be delivered.
@LieutenantFatman How is the Resi 2 campaign going? I know it was due to deliver around now when it first launched, but it is rare a Kickstarter date is remotely accurate. I also always fear that anything developed under a popular IP will always be more style over substance. Having said that, I really enjoyed the board game adaptation of Bethesda's Doom, so it isn't all doom and gloom from me
@Dichotomy
They have been very good at giving interesting updates re. the game play. Sounds like a lot of thought has gone into it. But of course the proof is in the playing.
Two month delay, they're saying November now so I'm thinking hopefully I have it ready to play by Xmas. Or perhaps bang on when the Remake arrives?
@LieutenantFatman Two months late isn't bad (it's actually pretty good for a kickstarter). Hope the game turns out to be really good and they deliver on everything pretty swiftly, I'll definitely have a look once it is released.
@Dichotomy
Yeah, not too bad, nothing compared to the Dark souls delays. There's no true exclusives in the Resi 2 kickstarter, just costume unlocks and a bigger variety of zombie models, so you'll essentially get the same game content at retail.
@Areus Hmm, just how old are you?
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