Steamforged Games Ltd. will produce a miniatures-based board game based on the video game property Resident Evil, the company announced at Gen Con.  The first Steamforged product will be based on Resident Evil 2, and will be a “100% co-op game” in which the goal is survival, Steamforged Commercial Director Charles Agel told ICv2.  A Kickstarter for the new game will launch in September.

The price point for the Steamforged game based on Resident Evil 2 will be lower than the price for its Dark Souls game, with the goal being to sell the board game for less than a video game.

The Dark Souls Kickstarter by Steamforged is the #3 Kickstarter of all time for tabletop games, with over $5.4 million raised (see “Top 10 Tabletop Game Kickstarters-June 2017”).

As was the case with Dark Souls, Steamforged will use BackerKit to support a retailer level for the Kickstarter, with retailer backers shipped before the product goes into distribution.  But the window between backer shipments and distribution will be relatively short, with a one to three month gap planned for Resident Evil, according to Agel. 

Steamforged is generally considered to be among the more retailer-friendly of publishers using Kickstarter (see “Pro-Kickstarters Get Better and Worse for Retailers”). 

The Steamforged license for Resident Evil is “very open,” according to Agel, so games featuring other parts of the property may follow. 

Click the Gallery below for images of miniatures and other game elements from Gen Con 2017.