In recent years the trend to adapt video games into boardgames is just increasing.
Games like Stardew Valley, Civ, This war of mine and many more coming like Terraria or Call of Duty.
Some of these games like Civ are extremely complex games and I always wondered how well these translate into a boardgame. The production value of these games is often high, but I have my reservation that Stardew Valley the boardgame really captures the same “magic” as the video game did.
What are your thoughts on them? Any really good ones out there worthy checking out (lets exclude Dorfromantik here)?
Neutral, I look at them on their own merits for both gameplay and art. Don’t care for overproduced stuff, no huge boxes of plastic for me.
One that I enjoy is Super Motherload. Never played the video game, the boardgame is a neat and fairly unique deckbuilder with a spatial puzzle elment and a sensible production. My understanding is that it’s a fairly loose translation of the theme which is totally fine with me if it makes for a better boardgame.
Curious, why? Seems like a good example that’s on people’s minds.
I think Dorfromantik is the exception. The video game already looks a lot like a boardgame so it could carry over the aesthetics. I think its a rare positive example and I was more curious about other positive ones.