Today, a Kickstarter campaign for a Dark Souls Board Game began asking for backers. And got them. That’s right, it took all of 3 minutes for the project to reach its funding goal of £50,000 ($72,000 US). With the base goal out of the way, it’s now got the rest of the month to rack up more money – over £300,000 as of this writing.
Steamforged Games Ltd., the company behind the project, is understandably thrilled with the overwhelming and fast response. “Nearly £200k! Bloody hell! We are over the moon!”
Dark Souls The Board Game is a tabletop game for 1 – 4 players and is based on the universe of the Dark Souls video games. Steamforged is working in partnership with Bandai Namco, publishers of the video game version.
Funding partners so far will get the following in the Kickstarter core packages:
- 5 new player characters (Pyromancer, Cleric, Sorceror, Thief, Mercenary)
- Enhanced boss behaviour cards or the Dancer and the Executioner
- 5 legendary weapon treasure cards
- 5 brand new Lothric encounters plus a mega-Boss add-on: the Gaping
- Dragon boss mode…can’t wait to show you the model tomorrow morning!!
Those rewards may very well increase as the campaign continues, with over three weeks to go and lots more potential funding pledges. As is stated on the Kickstarter page:
“Just in case you worried, the breakdown of stretch goals is as follows: 1x every £20k until we hit £500k then every £25k after that until £1m…we have lots and lots of stretch goals planned, including a full expansion to be included in the core KS pledge! Stay with us people 🙂”
Dark Souls III, the video game, launched April 12th for PC, Xbox One, and PS4., and it has already become a huge hit.