RuneScape Kingdoms board game coming to Kickstarter later this year

Steamforged revealed details about its RuneScape game. The game will be called RuneScape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg, and will take players through the kingdoms of Asgarnia and Misthalin, Steamforged announced on Wednesday. Kickstarter will release the game later in the year.

Shadow of Elvarg is a cooperative board game for one to five players, according to the announcement post. It will include a map that looks like an in-game map and the first RuneScape tabletop model.

Steamforged states that it hopes the game will appeal to both RuneScape and Old school RuneScape , players, as well as new players. That made Asgarnia and Misthalin the perfect regions for players to explore, since they were some of the first introduced in the video games.

RuneScape Kingdoms will focus on narrative and story, letting players dictate how they move through the game and what they explore and discover. Players can fight bosses they’ll recognize from the game’s world, slay monsters, craft gear, and level up their skills. The game doesn’t feature classes, which means every player can allocate their skill points however they want on the path toward the final quest.

Along with RuneScape Kingdoms: Shadow of Elvarg, Steamforged is also working on a new RuneScape tabletop RPG, which will skip Kickstarter and go straight to stores.

Steamforged is no stranger to adapting video game worlds into tabletop form. The developer has also created successful board games based on Monster Hunter: World, Horizon Zero Dawn, and Resident Evil 2. Steamforged recently published the first Dark Souls RPG copies. However, there were some issues that needed to be fixed.