All On Board! Is An Upcoming Board Game Simulator Built Exclusively for VR

ign.com:

Blasphemous developer The Game Kitchen has announced a virtual reality board game platform called All on Board!, alongside a Kickstarter campaign to help fund it.

All On Board! is similar in approach to the popular Tabletop Simulator, offering licensed board games as mods, but with a suite of creation tools to allow players to create and test their own games. Unlike Tabletop Simulator, All On Board! has been built specifically for VR, and is aiming to offer a more true-to-life virtual version of playing board games with friends.

The platform is focused on creating authentic social interactions in a virtual space, with users actually seeing their friends’ avatars and hand movements as they reach out to move their pieces, roll dice, and so on. All On Board! is also built to remove the tedium that comes with some board games, with features such as saving and loading game states and the automated counting of dice rolls.

It’s expected to launch for Meta Quest 2 and Steam VR compatible headsets in 2023, though contributors to the Kickstarter campaign will gain access to a beta this holiday season. The Game Kitchen explained in an IGN-exclusive video (below) that, as with Blasphemous, the Kickstarter campaign would help build a community around All On Board! that would be invaluable in giving feedback, suggesting new features, and creating a better experience overall.

All On Board! will include a library of board games at launch - with several licensed IPs including Black Rose Wars, Rallyman GT, Sword & Sorcery, Infinity Defiance, Istanbul, and Escape The Dark Castle - alongside extensive creation tools for users to create their own games.

Users still need to purchase the licensed games in order to play them but, just as in real