Steamforged Take On The Monster Hunter: World Board Game
August 25, 2020 by brennon
Steamforged Games have revealed more details about their upcoming project, Monster Hunter: World - The Board Game. They've tackled Resident Evil, Dark Souls, Horizon: Zero Dawn and now they are venturing forth to try and make a game based on the highly tactical and replayable Monster Hunter video games.
Monster Hunter: World - The Board Game // Steamforged Games
In Monster Hunter: World - The Board Game you and your companions are going to take on the role of the hunters who head out into the wilderness to bring down some of the biggest and baddest creatures out there. Considering the exceptional size and scope of the video game, the board game is broken down into manageable chunks so that a group of players can undertake expeditions and hunts in a way that makes sense for the tabletop.
A group will have to agree to undertake a certain quest which could span over multiple sessions or one big one dependant on what exactly they are trying to hunt. Within this you'll have to decide how to spend your in-game time wisely, dividing it between preparing, hunting, exploring and more. All of this leads to a final tactical confrontation with one of the massive monsters in the set which is where the meat of the game is.
Monster Hunter: World Miniatures // Steamforged Games
When it comes to tackling those big monsters you'll have to master your weapon deck and work out the best way to watch the monster's behaviour and place yourself in advantageous positions to strike at it. As well as plenty of tactical decision making you'll also have juggle "aggro" like a proper video game which will focus the monster's attention onto specific heroes.
Being able to juggle all of these various elements is going to be very interesting and I am looking forward to seeing how gameplay looks in demos and previews. In terms of replay value, it seems like a lot of the focus is moving towards trying to tackle those different monsters and then seeing whether or not you can tackle them in a more efficient way. I'm sure expansions are also planned in order to send you to tackle different creatures in various biomes.
There isn't a plan yet as to how the game will be sold but according to the Polygon article, they are planning to keep the core game within the $100 price range.
Are you interested in this?
"As well as plenty of tactical decision making you'll also have juggle "aggro" like a proper video game which will focus the monster's attention onto specific heroes..."
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Nah.
Pass.
Nooooo, not Steamforged !!!
Whle thos eminiatures look good this is easy pass for me.
Have played the console game since it began but I’m not sold on the idea of this
I’d like to paint the monsters, but that’s about the only interest I have in this.
And this is all about licencing the IP. Capcom get to sell a licence to someone to make toys AND also a licence for a board game which is nothing more than plastic toys tacked on to a (possibly) half arsed game.
There are 2 main issues with this and why I wouldn’t pledge. 1) it’s steamforged games and they are way behind on a current Kickstarter and Dark Souls was a complete shambles by all accounts as well. 2) even if this was someone I trust on KS like Mythic or Mantic then I am not sure how they would capture the quick pace, random encounters and crazy scale of the game well enough to warrant a pledge. I may pick up some monsters if it actually funds because they are potentially epic sculpts. I hope I am wrong and they… Read more »
? Dark Souls was fine. Everything was delivered (at least the bits I picked).
The only thing ‘wrong’ with it was that it was a licensed product and they fell into the trap of doing too many stretchgoals.
As such I kind of fear the same will happen to this one as well.
The game it is based on is *ahem* monstruous …
i think we need a bigger fighter?
Nope not interested
I wanted a resident evil skirmish game to take on walking dead and well he got a board game with very dark tiles….
If you just want miniatures of monsters from this game, just go to Amazon and type in Monster Hunter Miniatures. Capcom does a line of pre painted miniatures for display purposes. Although they are blind box, which is annoying.
They look pretty decent, I picked up a few for a Jungle themed D&D session. Scale may not always be perfect, but who cares about that.
As for SteamForged games… I am not sure I would back another kickstarter of theirs. I backed Horizon Zero Dawn, and it has been an “interesting” campaign. Not the roughest I have ever backed, but definitely the oddest choices where made. Like releasing the core box this year, and all the expansions next year and stretch goals next year. This is after they said that everything was “basically” done and ready to go. Then they blamed covid and said that only the core comes out this year, and all the expansions/Stretch goals will be the middle of next year? That… Read more »
Dakka rumormill is that SF has been taken over by investors who, while they have a gaming background, are more interested in IP-based boardgames than supporting Guild Ball, which has been dropped. > I expect they will be going to Retail with the Core Set as soon as possible, perhaps they need the money. I get that, but not happy with what that says about their handling the KS money. That is just my guess though, no evidence. In the early days of KS, you indeed had companies who’d take all the KS money and use it for core product,… Read more »
@ced1106 What was wrong with Cryptozoic’s Walking Dead?
Some of the worst miniatures I’ve ever seen. Lack of details, and poorly assembled. Those defending the miniatures called them “boardgame miniatures”. Except, apparently, this is the *only* boardgame that has “boardgame miniatures”, since I’ve seen no other boardgames’ miniatures defended this way. I’m happy to part with my copy for whatever I paid for it, although I’d have to wait until after the pandemic to ship it. “The miniatures are not very good. They are not as terrible as some have said, but let’s be honest… they are not what was promised. Where arms have been joined (cause some… Read more »
Thanks @ced1106 – I backed the game but have been so busy (and backed so many other Kickstarters…) that I haven’t opened it yet.
I’ll try to keep an open mind!
Reaper thread on the the quality of SF’s Critical Role mini’s. Not good.
https://forum.reapermini.com/index.php?/topic/81537-critical-role-official-miniatures-from-steamforged-games/page/6/&tab=comments#comment-1965614
This looks interesting!