In recent years the trend to adapt video games into boardgames is just increasing.
Games like Stardew Valley, Civ, This war of mine and many more coming like Terraria or Call of Duty.
Some of these games like Civ are extremely complex games and I always wondered how well these translate into a boardgame. The production value of these games is often high, but I have my reservation that Stardew Valley the boardgame really captures the same “magic” as the video game did.
What are your thoughts on them? Any really good ones out there worthy checking out (lets exclude Dorfromantik here)?
Mixed. Deep Rock Galactic the board game is STELLAR and I love it. Slay the Spire did not translate well, too clunky. The monster hunter, resident evil, and Dark Souls games are absolutely awful, but that’s Steamforged Games’ fault, they are totally shit at making fun mechanics. I tried the Dead Cells game on TTS and its meh. We LOVE the Stardew Valley board game despite it drawing criticism. The new Call of Duty game on KS looks fucking awful- hidden movement in an FPS style game? What? And same with the Apex game, just no. So pretty hit or miss but I am always down to see if they are any good.
Hmm deep rock galactic, is this coop?
Yes! It’s pretty easy easy to learn and play too with enough missions and variability. The minis are super awesome too, working on painting them