Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game | Kickstarter Preview | Setup

Rollers! Join me as I kick-off a Kickstarter Preview series for Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game from Mythic Games. In this video we'll cover the setup of the game and in a future video, a solo playthrough. Hope this helps you make an informed decision on the Kickstarter landing today October 20th, 2020. Enjoy my friends! ;D

Intro 0:00
Overview 0:59
Hero / Campaign Sheet 1:58
1st Imminent Threat 2:27
Game Tokens 3:36
Choose Heroes 4:16
Selecting a Quest 8:07
Stance Track11:20
Monster Initiative Board 13:09
Remaining Card Decks 14:08
Remaining Dice 14:20
Rolling Solo Producers 14:59

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"In this adaptation of Red Hook’s acclaimed Darkest Dungeon video game, you strive to cleanse a manor and its surroundings of all manner of evil: hordes of the undead, foul beasts and eldritch abominations... And, finally, either at death’s door or at your wit’s end, you will have to uproot evil itself from the darkest dungeon.

Darkest Dungeon is a fully cooperative dungeon crawl game in which players take on the role of adventurers. Although brave and determined, adventurers are only human! They are prone to the madness and pain the twisted dwellers of the dungeons will inflict upon them. Death can occur, but is not the worst fate: heroes can be driven mad and beyond help!

The game is played in campaigns of 11 missions. To reach the Darkest Dungeon itself, players will undertake 3 missions per threat level and vanquish the boss. Then, they will be strong enough and face the horrors of the Darkest Dungeon! They may emerge victorious... if they dispatch the source of evil that plagues the land.

For each hero, select 3 skills out of 7 before heading into your mission (and level the heroes up to gain access to more skills). In each room, pick the most suitable stance to best resolve the conflict! Then, on each turn, a player chooses two of the available actions of moving, interacting with the environment, changing their stance or using a skill (if eligible for their current stance). Triumph over encounters, resist rampant madness and emerge victorious before throwing yourself into another battle. Between missions, spend your time in the hamlet, visiting various buildings to find relief from the physical and mental trauma you’ve just endured. Restore the hamlet to its former glory and it will reward you and help you to fulfill the ultimate goal."

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Intro 0:00 | Overview 0:59 | Hero / Campaign Sheet 1:58 | 1st Imminent Threat 2:27 | Game Tokens 3:36 | Choose Heroes 4:16 | Selecting a Quest 8:07 | Stance Track 11:20 | Monster Initiative Board 13:09 | Remaining Card Decks 14:08 | Remaining Dice 14:20 | Rolling Solo Producers 14:59
Rollers! Join me as I kick-off a Kickstarter Preview series for Darkest Dungeon: The Board Game from Mythic Games. In this video we'll cover the setup of the game and in a future video, a solo playthrough. Hope this helps you make an informed decision on the Kickstarter landing today October 20th, 2020. Enjoy my friends! ;D




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[vilhjalmrjrgenson]

This pretty much looks like a “less than stellar” version of an already pretty perfect game. But I can see what the draw is for people.

[laughingman]

Welp gotta tell the dungeon master about this, me and my friends play DND on discord and our dungeon master is very into darkest dungeon that he made our homebrew campaign pretty much like DDs mechanics with stress and all that, he played the battle music from DD during every combat and the icing on top of the experience is that he has a soundboard complete with all of the narrators quotes.

[JPFalcononor]

It is the complexity of managing four characters for solo play that concerns me. So much of the under the hood mechanics that the computer handles, will now need to be managed by the player. It seems that this potential fiddling will make the game chore laden....if the video game did not exist, this would not be a concern, but as a solo gamer, I am not sure the physical game would be preferable to the already challenging and immersive video game....

[duzzzy]

Hard to imagine beating the video game with its narration, music, and animation. But I guess if you love DD, more is always good!

[Zhoomz]

Do you know if they're aware of the typo at 3:20? "summoning" is spelled "summonig". Hopefully gets fixed. <3

[horrido]

Wish they would have done side scroller, instead of top down graphics.

[zifnabdr]

Thanks for doing this. The only thing holding me back is the miniatures. I think they look fantastic. But im never going to paint them. I've noticed with mini games, i tend to stay away. I just dont have the time or patience to do that stuff.

[saroman_valar]

thats quite a setup. about 20minutes in real time? also, about 5 types of dice? Thank you for good introduction to the game!

[RafaAkd]

Looks too fiddly. Always a challenge with video games adaptations

[johnh]

Definitely true to the video game mechanics with nice components, but setup sure seems really fiddly.

[Tacocheese]

ive noticed that the grave robber is here, but is not mentioned in the kickstarter as being included (yet - stretch goal i bet)

[NorthOfGaming]

Great looking game, but the cost and shipping our just to much, October is such a great month for KS, and my wallet can only feel so much pain.

[PGCole]

Thomas is right, it's hard to beat the narration of the video game, but I can handle that 😉
But I love DD and playing it with friends....man, if the neat grinding factor is ported well I'm close to be all in.

[CheddahSlammer]

This going to drain all my money, I am expecting all areas in the game to be expansion content. This can easily go up to 300$ or more because of all the mini's. Also what is your opinion on having standees instead of mini's for this game? I have seen many that are complaining that its not Standees because they want to see DD character art as Standees.

[Jihell]

I got a question for the experts here. Where do we get leeper and abomination as playable character? Are they included in the Core box?

[crimsonsun]

Great looking forwards to these videos... I'm backing this and townsfolk tussel today... Decided already its just a case of how deep I go with this one, crimson court is certain but all in is a possibility.

[gasa]

looks great, i really like how they have made this 3D ...

[julielane]

I am looking for a game that plays well solo, coop and vs all 3. Any suggestions?

[MarquisDeSang]

The secret is that games with minis are mechanically uninteresting. The best game ever made only has standee : Machina Arcana.