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Reply To: Could Heroquest be finally coming back again?

August 5, 2020 at 4:23 pm #1556092

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– I disagree that there are no entry level Dungeon Crawlers. The Jerry Hawthorn games- Stuffed Fables, Mice and Mystics and Aftermath are all good for this, a lot of others are just fine from an accessibility standpoint.

– As has been pointed out, we have loads of dungeon crawlers and similar games that echo HeroQuest in some way or another. Super Dungeon, Descent, Widower’s Wood, Sword and Sorcery, Shadows of Brimstone, Siege of the Citadel, Folklore, Conan, Batman, TMNT, Hellboy, Cthulhu Death May Die, Imperial Assault, Zombicide, Undercity, Gloomhaven, Comanauts, Darklight, Dark Souls, Kingdom Death, Massive Darkness, Mansions of Madness, Warhammer Quest, Altar Quest, etc.

Dungeon Crawlers and similar games are probably the genre that has jumped the most since the Age of Kickstarter began. You’d think the genre was bloated, but I keep seeing new dungeon crawler projects pick up plenty of steam and tons of excitement over the ones that haven’t yet delivered (right now we’re waiting impatiently for Oathsworn, Etherfields, Aeon Trespass and many others).

I suppose the question is whether HeroQuest is too generic to appeal to current gamers, but I think the name brand alone is enough to bring the game into the spotlight of success.