A board game based on Dead Cells is doing very well in crowdfunding, successfully raising $500,000 in the first five days. kickstarter campaign. Dead Cells: The Rogue-Lite board game has been officially signed on by the developer’s Motion Twin and Evil Empire studios.
“You can tell the designers had played Dead Cells before and weren’t interested in just doing a carbon copy,” said studio’s Motion Twin. Dead Cells was his first release in 2017 and has been a perennial favorite of roguelites ever since, also attracting high-profile crossovers such as Castlevania.
The board game was designed by an all-star cast from French studio Kaedama, consisting of the design quartet Antoine Bauza (7 Wonders), Corentin Lebrat (Draftosaurus), Ludovic Maublanc (Cyclades) and Théo Rivière (The Loop). increase. They are all people I trust to design together, let alone design alone. The book will be published by Le Scorpion Masqué, who is also the publisher of the hugely popular Decrpypto and his 2022 Turing Machine.
Perhaps the most promising is language and marketing on the subject. It’s not a stack of off-the-shelf fancy miniatures and expansions like many board game adaptations. Clearly designed to get the most value out of your wallet. This is just a clean base game, the deluxe version includes a miniature token and 1 fancy token, all card driven and ready to play.
Everyone has action cards to use, upgrades and mutations to purchase. That’s all. Also, we do not promise to reproduce Dead Cells on your tabletop, but rather to faithfully adapt it based on what Dead Cells contains.at least it is sound Kind of like the functional, understated core design I expect from this team.
Board game sessions last approximately 45 minutes and can be played by 1-4 players. In fact, it’s free to play right now, including solo mode. Listed on the board game site Tabletopia.
in short? At least on the surface, it looks like an all-star cast of designers are pushing forward with a promising, gimmick-free board game adaptation.discoverable Dead Cells: Rogue-Lite Board Game Arrives On Kickstarteryou can demo it for free at tabletopia.
