Sea of Thieves is the latest in a long line of games to get a board game adaptation, with Steamforged’s tabletop spin-off Sea of Thieves: Voyage of Legends now available for pre-order.
If you can’t get enough of Sea of Thieves, you might be happy to know there’s a tabletop adaptation on the way, courtesy of Steamforged Games. Order is now Rare’s board game twist on the popular pirate playground, steamforged site It will be priced at $59.95 / £59.99 / €59.95 and will start shipping this summer.
Sea of Thieves: Voyage of Legends Now Available for Pre-Order
Steamforged’s Sherwin Matthews described the upcoming voyage board game as “open-world 4X-lite”, pitting two to four brave pirates against each other (as well as many dangers on the high seas) and embracing pirate legends. Aim for the seat of “Everything about Sea of Thieves has a very special flavor, from the NPCs and enemies, to the areas you explore and the items you find, to the tone of the game itself,” he explained. increase. “And once we had that answer, we realized that we had to dig in there to make the tabletop experience feel like a video game. The jargon can accidentally get lost, but the simplification is that even if you’re doing something new mechanically, you should always keep that flavor evoking.
Steamforged has had great success with other tabletop adaptations of popular video games in the past, faithfully adapting franchises such as Monster Hunter, Dark Souls, Gears of War and Resident Evil into board, card and role-playing games. . Monster Hunter World: The Board Game was a huge success on Kickstarter, garnering around £3.5m in pledges (mine is shipping now and I very Excitement), a new version based on the Iceborne expansion set is set to hit Kickstarter next month.
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