THQ Nordic Reveals More Details About Darksiders Board Game

Written by Brandon Hofer on August 02, 2019

News: You can get the Darksider Board Game with Darksiders Genesis with the special Nephilim Edition.

THQ Nordic recently revealed an upcoming Darksiders board game. Darksiders: The Forbidden Land is a co-operative dungeon crawler board game for 1-5 players. You will take on the role of your favorite Horseman and battle alongside your fellow Riders through an entirely new storyline set in the Darksiders universe. You will have to fight your way through to the hordes of monsters to defeat The Jailer and vanquish evil forever.

With asymmetric player abilities, you can play as War, Death, Fury or Strife and experience the game completely differently each time. Beside 61 detailed and pre-painted minis, the game includes customizable decks of cards for each Rider. That means that even multiple games with the same rider will be different. Manage your cards well, as you will be using them to move, attack enemies and upgrade your rider using Darksiders: The Forbidden Land’s unique new card economy mechanic. But don't blow through them too quickly though, because once your deck runs out you've lost the battle.

The included Campaign Book has a story spread over 19 different levels - grouped into multiple scenarios – to play through. These can be tackled in sequence for an entire campaign play-through, players may choose to focus on a single scenario for a shorter gaming session, or even just play through a single level. With a variety of enemies as well as numerous modular hex-tile game boards included in the game, there will also be fan-created custom levels and scenarios.

Earlier THQ Nordic mentioned this game is playable with up to five people, but there are only Four Horsemen. One of you will assume the role of gamemaster. Without the game master, there are rules determining how the enemies of the Four Horsemen will behave, but with a game master controlling the monsters an extra level of challenge is added as suddenly they can move tactically.

Darksiders: The Forbidden Land Includes The Following:

61 pre-painted Miniatures – including War, Death, Fury, Strife, and the massive End-Boss the Jailer as high-quality pre-painted miniatures.

124 Tokens

36 Multi-Hex-Space Modular Boards

423 Cards

4 Player Boards

Custom Dice

Rulebook

Campaign Book

The Darksiders: The Forbidden Land board game will only be available through the Darksiders Genesis Nephilim Edition. To get more details on that, click here.