HeroQuest Returning To Tabletops For A Dungeon Crawl In 2022
November 17, 2021 by brennon
HeroQuest was brought back to life using the Hasbro Pulse system for lucky backers and pledgers and now it is set for a full resurrection as a retail product. It has recently arrived on their webstore for pre-order with a release at the start of 2022.
HeroQuest // Avalon Hill
As pointed out in our forums by @darthcheese, this marks the rebranding and changes to the previously funded Ludofilia game which never truly saw the light of day. That game has now been rebranded as TseuQuesT (interesting choice of name) and whilst it is still available from the Gamezone Miniatures webstore, it is still in somewhat of a state of flux.
Those who did back the original Ludofilla campaign have been given a choice. They can decide to instead pick up the Avalon Hill/Hasbro version of the game that you see here.
HeroQuest Components // Avalon Hill
The now rebranded TseuQuesT is still planning to deliver at the end of the first quarter of 2022 but this Hasbro version is slated for shipping in early 2022 and has obviously garnered a lot of praise. The mechanics and style of the game remain the same albeit with a little bit of a glow up in terms of components and art. Plus, the miniatures look quite nice too.
HeroQuest Miniatures // Avalon Hill
So, if you are over here in Europe and you didn't manage to get your hands on HeroQuest during the initial crowdfunding period then you can now do so. It looks like it is going to be available to all folks over on this side of the pond if they missed out. I still have my classic version of HeroQuest so I'm going to stick with that I think!
HeroQuest Terrain // Avalon Hill
Whilst the nostalgia is strong, I could see this also being a neat game to pick up for those who missed out the first time. Whilst it might mechanically be an old "veteran", it might give you just the right classic dungeon-crawling hit you've been after. Well, if you would prefer this over the likes of Gloomhaven, Jaws Of The Lion or perhaps the new Descent: Legends Of The Dark.
- IMMERSIVE ADVENTURE GAME: The Avalon Hill HeroQuest board game is fantasy dungeon crawler in which players must work together to battle terrifying monsters and complete epic quests
- MYTHICAL HEROES: The Realm is in need of champions to challenge the evil forces of the Dread sorcerer Zargon. Four heroes --Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, and Wizard--have answered the call
- STUNNING ARTWORK: The HeroQuest cards and booklets feature incredible artwork that helps takes players' imaginations into a fantastical world filled with hideous monsters, deadly traps, and more
- 65+ DETAILED MINIATURES: This semi-cooperative board game includes highly detailed miniature figures on 25mm bases, and detailed furniture models for an immersive gaming experience
- LIMITLESS REPLAYABILITY: This HeroQuest tabletop board game is for 2-5 players, ages 14 and up. The game comes with 14 quests, and players can also create their own stories and build their own quests
This certainly seems like a more surefire way to get your HeroQuest hit if you feel like you missed out on this moment in history. Hasbro clearly hit on something with this. It made Warren build his own version of the game board!
Epic HeroQuest Gaming Board Build Using Dungeons & Lasers Kickstarter Terrain!
So, it will be interesting to see if they continue to look at expansions and such for retail that were available during the initial crowdfunding period.
Are you going to be pre-ordering this?
"Hasbro clearly hit on something with this. It made Warren build his own version of the game board!"
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Hell no. It’s 130€ at my FRGS and the distributor has weird listings.
Order deadline: 01.12.2021
Release Date: February 2022 (was December 2021)
https://www.blackfire.eu/product.php?id=72273
I’ll keep looking for the last missing bits of my classic box and Hasbro can .
EBay is your friend?
it is indeed. I’m only missing a few small details (rats and skulls) so no rush there 😉
GW not have them covered especially skulls???Lol.
https://www.games-workshop.com/en-GB/Citadel-Skulls-2017
No they where on small white sprues to stick on… it was the before times and also Hasbro might had some say.
Ooh the peg on ones?
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Good luck finding them man.
Well this is good news.
I wonder how the Bard feels about this!?!
He hasn’t posted a video since his last HeroQuest one and that was a year ago!
Maybe he’s filming right now… would be interesting to hear his thoughts
It felt like a huge missed opportunity for him to get back into the YT gaming scene when he didn’t pipe up during the crowdfunding campaign a year ago. Everyone was like, “Where’s The Bard?!?!” Oh well, maybe he has better things to do.
To be fair, this is a copypasta of the original Hero Quest with some improved components.
I personally would have been all over this if it had been given an updated rulebook, but there are plenty of fans who preferred just the original without any alterations.
they could have done both if they really had wanted to please both the old and new fans …
but it’s a business and they’re shoveling boardgames out the door by the bucket load.
least amount of effort for maximum profit is to be expected
Avalon Hill … a name that used to mean something ages ago, now degraded to a mere shell of its former self.
I don’t know that I agree that doing both would have been a good idea. It is just that a lot of games with wildly different ways to play ultimately fail in whichever version wasn’t the focus. If you wanted to turn Hero Quest into a contender in the current marketplace, you’d need to add in skill trees, more gear, rules nuances, enemy AI and some better tactical decision points, and at least have a reversible board if not a modular one. I think you’d need to redesign the whole thing from the ground up. But it is not such… Read more »
they kind of did that already decades ago … and it was called “Advanced Heroquest” 😉
I do think that with a bit more effort they could have found a way to make it ‘more fun’ for the modern crowd without sacrificing the simplicity of the original.
We may have plenty of dungeon crawlers, but the majority lack the simplicity due to the fact that they are (too) obsessed with skill trees and nuance.
Sometimes you just want to crash through doors, smash some faces and steal some treasure.
Advanced Heroquest was a really good d12 based system. Much better than Warhammer Quest was.
While a lot of games are more complex now, but what you really need is more balance than the original Hero Quest or maybe a way to play it cooperatively.
But there are plenty of fans that just wanted a reprint, and there are plenty of other dungeon crawlers for someone like me to play.
Ooh yeah Lets do the time warp again, Or is that warped time.
https://www.game.co.uk/en/heroquest-2870740
£100 release 15/01/2022
Nope, no interest. I loved Heroquest back in the day, it got me started in miniatures and wargaming and roleplay. This is not My Heroquest. Where is Morcar and who is this Zargon? I want Fimir (and all of the problems on how to pronounce them), and I want chaos warriors.
Also I would never play the old Heroquest rules now. They were fine as my first war game but now I want something a little more modern.
To be fair, the new minis are really cool, but I agree that they should have updated the rules set into something more current.
To be fair he was always called Zargon in the States, Morcar is the UK name. And based on that like me you probably only ever played the UK rule set. The American rulebook was a bit more involved and challenging.
But I agree, randomised movement and incredibly basic enemy control does make for a very dated game. I have my original heroquest and space crusade games in the cupboard, I’ll break them out occasionally to satisfy my nostalgia hunger and keep my pennies for a modern dungeon crawler.
For those that played the UK version of HeroQuest it seems that this is a remake of the USA version with the USA version rulebook. I think the different first quest in the USA version is the worst HeroQuest quest that i’ve seen, but i found the USA version of the rules to be better and better presented. Here it is: http://north-american.yeoldeinn.com/downloads/system/system-instruction-booklet.pdf .