A Stalker board game is coming and of course I want miniatures of the little zone men
Board game studio Awaken Realms has contracted with GSC Game World to create a board game based on the Stalker universe. The creators are promising to bring the same atmospheric richness to the board game that fans of the videogame expect. It'll launch as a crowdfunding campaign on Gamefound(opens in new tab), a standard for the board game industry, sometime this spring.
A trailer accompanying the announcement is overlaid with the fanatical voice of a man proclaiming his love for The Zone. Composed mostly of small animatic scenes of the Zone itself, the trailer shows a spooky swamp, field of bloody poppies, a bridge being destroyed in an anomaly detonation, a glowing artifact in a tree, and a strange muddy half-collapsed house.
«I serve her, I care for her, I receive her gifts,» says the narrator of the Zone—so, you know, classic zone fanatic cultist stuff. Probably not the good guys.
The board game is described by Awaken as a «cooperative 'zone-crawling' story-driven experience based on stories from the Chornobyl Exclusion Zone. Each story will consist of 2-4 scenarios to play through, and players should expect to spend approx 2 hours per scenario.» The description sounds a lot like other modern miniatures-heavy dungeon crawling board games, especially those of the kind that Awaken Realms is already known for.
The campaign page and images released by Awaken Realms show off pre-renders of game components like miniatures, cards, and tokens. The miniatures revealed so far include several Stalkers, a soldier, a gas-masked Snork, a tentacle-faced Bloodsucker, and a hulking Pseudogiant. The miniature renders are pretty detailed, so my guess is that the finals will be a resin of some kind.
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