CD Projekt Red, one of Europe’s largest video game developers, is teaming up with board game makers Go On Board to produce a deck-building game based on The Witcher. It’s called The Witcher: Old Worldand will use the Kickstarter crowdfunding platform to do that.
According for BoardGameGeek News, the game takes place before Geralt de Rivia’s story and will revolve around five different wizarding schools, with players battling monsters and each other, using decks in a race to see who can build the notoriety of their wizarding school first. Here is a short explanation of the game description:
The game allows players to build their own decks of cards, choosing from a wide range of skills: attacks, dodges and wizard combat magic – known as “signs”. Through the synergy of cards, players aim to achieve powerful combos as they utilize the wizarding school’s outstanding abilities to their full potential. Missions, battles and even dice poker allow each player to earn money, obtain new items and train their skills.
Throughout their journey, players will win more cards, unlock combos and, occasionally, duel each other in between completing contracts to kill monsters. Looks cool!
G / O Media can receive a commission
The strangest thing is that the project will apparently be launched through a Kickstarter campaign that will go on air in May. This is the Go On Board platform used to crowdfund your previous table games, the Valhalla, dice card game and the Titans miniature game, and has become the destination of many other board game manufacturers. Many of them, however, have no partnership with large companies. Recently a year ago, CD Projekt Red has been valued at over $ 6 billion.
That number has certainly fallen since Cyberpunk 2077the confused launch of last December, and again after large ranges of proprietary and internal data were allegedly stolen in a ransomware attack. Somehow, I think the company could still afford to manufacture a new board game.