It’s 2022 and we don’t consider in media being self-contained to a selected medium. Enter The Final of Us: Escape The Darkish, an upcoming board sport from UK-based tabletop sport studio Themeborn. It’s at the moment on Kickstarter (as most pre-release board video games are nowadays) and has now cleared its purpose (and remains to be climbing).
The Final of Us: Escape the Darkish was revealed final week, forward of the Kickstarter which went dwell right now. The sport takes TLoU’s world and lore and molds it into the type of Themeborn’s Escape the Darkish board video games, beforehand seen in Escape the Darkish: Darkish Sector (no, that’s not primarily based on the 2008 Digital Extremes sport of the identical title) and Escape the Darkish Fortress. TLoU’s board-game therapy consists of solo and co-op play set on an “open world map” illustrated with some moody black-and-white artwork types. Primarily based on what’s previewed by way of the Kickstarter, the sport will function board sport staples: playing cards, cube, tokens. The collector’s version comprises 3D tokens of Joel and Ellie, in addition to many others anticipated to be revealed as the sport clears its stretch objectives.
Within the Kickstarter video, Themeborn describes the TLoU board sport adaptation as a “new evolution of the Escape the Darkish engine.” The premise appears becoming for the franchise: You’ll tackle the function of some survivors seeking to, um, survive within the franchise’s harmful, post-apocalyptic setting. The board sport simulates an open world by cube and what appears like playing cards that point out places, gadgets, and extra.
The cordyceps an infection appears to be a continuing presence within the sport as properly, claiming numerous places and complicating the trail ahead for gamers. “Puzzles, traps, and challenges” in addition to crafting all appear to play a serious function within the sport. However that’s not all. The sport can also be simulating what they name “hang-ups,” numerous emotional types of misery completely suited to the terrible emotional states of the sport’s characters.
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The estimated supply of the sport is slated for the top of 2023. So we’ll hopefully be by this pandemic in time to play faux in one other one.
