Steamforged Games announced a new project which they are going to be working on via Kickstarter in the not-to-distant future. Bardsung is going to be a cooperative Fantasy RPG board game for one-to-five players.

Bardsung // Steamforged Games

Bardsung will see you playing as a variety of different characters who can choose their path and build into a career that feels unique and bespoke to the player. As they mentioned in their press release about the game, you could play a Fighter who has access to powerful magical spells or a Cleric who also happens to be a cunning Thief. They are looking to try and make this feel as open-ended as possible it seems.

The Nightfeather // Steamforged Games

This degree of choice then feeds into the actual gameplay on the tabletop. During your game, you'll find yourself faced with a lot of choices to pick from and thanks to an element of procedural generation there will often be multiple ways to navigate a dungeon and your adventure in general.

The Dawnguard // Steamforged Games

This then feeds into a few different ways of playing when you sit down at the tabletop. They have talked about introducing roguelike elements from video games and the option to either play Bardsung as a full campaign or as single one-shots which work in one evening. However your approach to tabletop gaming, they have something for you it seems.

The Lightweaver // Steamforged Games

The team at Steamforged Games seem to have really begun leaning into this Fantasy RPG world with their Epic Encounters sets and so something like Bardsung seems like a natural progression. Not only could what they produce for Bardsung be used for this game but also in Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition as player characters and monsters too. I must admit, it's also good to see Steamforged doing something original rather than simply relying on all of the licenced games they've been doing recently.

Bardsung also seems like it has attracted a pretty fascinating team too...

"Alongside our amazing team, we’re also collaborating with some seriously exciting talent from around the world, from tabletop gaming through roleplaying specialists to video game developers. I’m personally thrilled to be working with such exciting people, and I really can’t wait to share more on this as we get closer to the Kickstarter."

It will be interesting to learn more about the game over the next few weeks as Steamforged have their sights set on November for the launch of the Kickstarter. Is this something that you could be interested in as an alternative to the likes of Gloomhaven or the tighter Jaws Of The Lion?

Let me know your thoughts below...