Gloomhaven might be the biggest board game you’ve been hoping a friend drops a Benjamin on so you don’t have to. But soon, you won’t need to. The massive board game/RPG is getting its expansive story transformed into a turn-based tactical RPG, and Asmodee Digital has started giving some details about what a Gloomhaven video game looks like.
The Isaac Childres board game was a massive success on Kickstarter because, well, it’s massive. A new copy of the game weighs nearly 22 pounds and routinely sells for more than $100. And it works because it’s a highly detailed RPG world filled with 95 different scenarios and dozens of stickers, map pieces, traps and other necessities of RPG worlds all in one box.
Gamers loved the story and randomness that comes in a more traditional board game package, even if it is a big one. And later this summer, much of the same Gloomhaven stories will come to PC. Asmodee revelaed the game will ahve 17 playable characters, and earlier in the week it shared details about the first four: a stealthy Human Scoundrel, a versatile Savvas Cragheart, a tank (Inox Brute) and the “powerful but fragile” Orchid Spellweaver.
Check out some of the early art from the board game that promises to appear in the video game later this summer.
Asmodee promises more than 1,000 unique abilities and the ability to set out on unique paths for each character as they battle more than 50 unique enemies. It also says all 95 scenarios from the board game are coming to its digital counterpart. But the early access version of the game will feature an adventure mode, with “rogue-like mechanics” that will slowly gain new content as the full release grows near.
There’s little in the way of details as to how this will actually work, but it’s certainly intriguing, as is the concept of multiplayer for those who now game away from the ones they used to pen and paper RPG with.
