Darkest Dungeon’s long-awaited board game adaptation has hit Kickstarter with an exclusive campaign. And it has miniatures. Like, a lot of miniatures.
Kickstarter campaigns stuffed to the brim with plastic figures are no stranger to the board game world, of course. But Darkest Dungeon appears to be on a different scale.
Fast Facts about Darkest Dungeon
- Players accommodated: 1-4
- Stated play time: 90 minutes
- Lower age limit: 14
- Minimum pledge level: $100 + $34 shipping
- All-in pledge level: $250 + $34 shipping
- Estimated arrival: Nov. 2021
- Campaign ends: Nov. 6, 2020
To be specific, almost every monster, hero, or other figure from the video game has been represented at least once in miniature form.
The core box boasts 72 miniatures, eight heroes and 64 monsters. But that’s not including the stretch goals, which add another five hero miniatures and 41 monsters or bosses.
Also, you might want the $150 Crimson pledge, which includes miniatures from the Darkest Dungeon video game’s best expansion, the Crimson Court. That adds an additional 26 monster miniatures.
Oh, and the expansion has stretch goals too: seven additional monster or boss miniatures.
The campaign also has two optional expansions ($50 each) based on the Warrens and Cove locations from the video game. The Warren expansion adds two hero miniatures and 26 monsters. The Cove adds another two heroes and 29 monsters.
Do those expansions have stretch goals? Of course they do! The campaign adds an additional boss miniature to the Cove and a large monster in the Warrens.
If for some reason you weren’t tallying those as we went along, going all in on this Kickstarter will get you 212 miniatures (70 unique models) by my count—at time of publishing. Mythic Games appears to be adding additional figures as stretch goals nearly every day.
If you’re a painter, this one will definitely keep you busy. The campaign page taunts visitors with photos of masterfully painted miniatures, but makes clear that all of them come unpainted.
Alright fine, not every figure is represented. We don’t have the fungal monsters from the Weald location or the eldritch farmstead monsters from the Color of Madness DLC. Also, by my count the following heroes and monsters are still missing (will update when they are added as stretch goals).
- Houndmaster
- Shieldbreaker
- Bone Rabble
- Fanatic & Pyre
- Shrieker & Nest
RattlerUpdate: Added on October 30
What a slap-dash job.
There’s also gameplay attached to all of this but that’s not what you’re paying for. If you’d like to see how the game actually plays, Mythic Games has a video for you. If you’ve made it this far but are unfamiliar with the video game series, you should probably check it out.
The Darkest Dungeon Kickstarter ends on Friday, Nov. 6, at 3:00 pm EST.