Steamforged Announce Dark Souls: The Board Game - The Sunless City
Now available to pre-order from Steamforged.com, the latest DARK SOULS tabletop release is a cooperative, dungeon crawl board game for one to three players*
Manchester, UK - November 29, 2023 - Tabletop game creator and publisher, Steamforged Games has today announced the upcoming launch of the latest release in the DARK SOULS tabletop universe: DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City.
Six years on from its first release, this new core game reimagines the original DARK SOULS: The Board Game experience with refreshed rules driven by community feedback, including a new campaign and encounter system. Whereas the original board game included a selection of bosses and locations from the DARK SOULS universe, The Sunless City focuses on content from the very first DARK SOULS video game to deliver an immersive tabletop experience.
Designed and published by Steamforged Games, DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City is set in Lordran, where a cooperative journey of survival and heroism will unfold. After successfully navigating the haunted ruins and facing the city's doomed denizens, learning enemy attack patterns and weaknesses in order to move ahead, players will undertake the ultimate challenge: a brutal battle against the formidable Dragon Slayer Ornstein and the fearsome Executioner Smough.
This brand new addition to the DARK SOULS tabletop collection also allows players to bring bosses from the previous edition of the board game into their Sunless City campaigns with backwards-compatible rules.
Inside the beautifully-designed box, players will find: 15 miniatures, including three large bosses, four double-sided game tiles, three character boards, 200+ tokens, 190+ cards, 15 bespoke dice, two health dials, a campaign dashboard and of course, the rulebook.
DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City marks Steamforged's fourth time bringing DARK SOULS to the tabletop, following DARK SOULS: The Board Game, DARK SOULS: The Card Game and DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game. To date, Steamforged's DARK SOULS tabletop range has sold over 600,000 units with a combined retail value of more than $44 million.
Mat Hart, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Steamforged Games, said:
“DARK SOULS has been a key IP for Steamforged, so to finally bring DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City to the community is genuinely thrilling for the entire team. We thoroughly enjoy creating games in this universe and it's really been a part of our history for many years now.
“As always, our goal as creators is to capture the magic of the original video game. Players must be cautious with resources, willing to learn from mistakes, and, of course, prepared to die. Having played the game ourselves countless times during design and playtesting, we can't wait to see how fans embrace this new edition.”
DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City is now available to pre-order from Steamforged Games. For the latest updates, sign up to the Steamforged newsletter.
Dark Souls™& ©Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. / ©FromSoftware, Inc.
Manchester, UK - November 29, 2023 - Tabletop game creator and publisher, Steamforged Games has today announced the upcoming launch of the latest release in the DARK SOULS tabletop universe: DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City.
Six years on from its first release, this new core game reimagines the original DARK SOULS: The Board Game experience with refreshed rules driven by community feedback, including a new campaign and encounter system. Whereas the original board game included a selection of bosses and locations from the DARK SOULS universe, The Sunless City focuses on content from the very first DARK SOULS video game to deliver an immersive tabletop experience.
Designed and published by Steamforged Games, DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City is set in Lordran, where a cooperative journey of survival and heroism will unfold. After successfully navigating the haunted ruins and facing the city's doomed denizens, learning enemy attack patterns and weaknesses in order to move ahead, players will undertake the ultimate challenge: a brutal battle against the formidable Dragon Slayer Ornstein and the fearsome Executioner Smough.
This brand new addition to the DARK SOULS tabletop collection also allows players to bring bosses from the previous edition of the board game into their Sunless City campaigns with backwards-compatible rules.
Inside the beautifully-designed box, players will find: 15 miniatures, including three large bosses, four double-sided game tiles, three character boards, 200+ tokens, 190+ cards, 15 bespoke dice, two health dials, a campaign dashboard and of course, the rulebook.
DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City marks Steamforged's fourth time bringing DARK SOULS to the tabletop, following DARK SOULS: The Board Game, DARK SOULS: The Card Game and DARK SOULS: The Roleplaying Game. To date, Steamforged's DARK SOULS tabletop range has sold over 600,000 units with a combined retail value of more than $44 million.
Mat Hart, co-founder and Chief Creative Officer at Steamforged Games, said:
“DARK SOULS has been a key IP for Steamforged, so to finally bring DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City to the community is genuinely thrilling for the entire team. We thoroughly enjoy creating games in this universe and it's really been a part of our history for many years now.
“As always, our goal as creators is to capture the magic of the original video game. Players must be cautious with resources, willing to learn from mistakes, and, of course, prepared to die. Having played the game ourselves countless times during design and playtesting, we can't wait to see how fans embrace this new edition.”
DARK SOULS: The Board Game - The Sunless City is now available to pre-order from Steamforged Games. For the latest updates, sign up to the Steamforged newsletter.
Dark Souls™& ©Bandai Namco Entertainment Inc. / ©FromSoftware, Inc.
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