The Final Of Us Is Getting A Board Sport And It Seems Fairly Cool

It’s 2022 and we don’t imagine 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 presently on Kickstarter (as most pre-release board video games are nowadays) and has now cleared its aim (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 based mostly on the 2008 Digital Extremes sport of the identical title) and Escape the Darkish Citadel. 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 kinds. Primarily based on what’s previewed through the Kickstarter, the sport will characteristic board sport staples: playing cards, cube, tokens. The collector’s version accommodates 3D tokens of Joel and Ellie, in addition to many others anticipated to be revealed as the sport clears its stretch targets.

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 position of some survivors seeking to, um, survive within the franchise’s harmful, post-apocalyptic setting. The board sport simulates an open world via cube and what seems to be like playing cards that point out areas, gadgets, and extra.

The cordyceps an infection appears to be a relentless presence within the sport as effectively, claiming numerous areas and complicating the trail ahead for gamers. “Puzzles, traps, and challenges” in addition to crafting all appear to play a significant position 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.

The estimated supply of the sport is slated for the top of 2023. So we’ll hopefully be via this pandemic in time to play fake in one other one.