The First Official Berserk Board Game Is Taking Off on Gamefound With Massive Funding

With astir 5,900 backers and pulling successful conscionable implicit €2 cardinal astatine clip of writing, this tabletop adaptation of Kentaro Miura’s Berserk manga/anime has chopped done its backing extremity similar Guts cleaving done a demon with his signature Dragon Slayer. Berserk: The Board Game lets 1-5 players instrumentality up the weapons of characters, including Serpico, Farnese, Isidro, Shierke, and of course, Guts to dispatch and destruct demonic foes. All of Guts' unit travel successful elaborate miniatures conscionable begging to beryllium painted. These integrative avatars of the Grunbeld and its Grunbeld Apostle, Slan, and Makara are sights to behold, and much than 120 miniatures is simply a treasure trove for fans that bask painting.

Fans of the Berserk manga volition beryllium treated to a ton of artwork pulled from the archetypal communicative to enjoy. All of the enactment cards that constitute each character’s platform diagnostic iconic moments from the series, on with the imposing force cards and more. The halfway crippled container gives you an 11 Act run that takes spot during the Millennium Falcon arc, but the further Black Swordsman enlargement that is besides disposable during the run allows you to physique your ain adventures with tons of imaginable combinations and options to prime from – including the characters successful your enactment and the enemies you are going to face.

While committee crippled adaptations, particularly these grandiose boxes, aren’t uncommon these days, astir of the clip it seems arsenic though video games are the root material, and seeing an anime with specified bequest and property arsenic Berserk is exciting. Monolith Board Games has a pedigree for adapting properties for the tabletop that fto players squad up and bash immoderate heads in, having antecedently designed games based connected Conan the Barbarian and Batman. Berserk, with its premix of dice rolling, paper draw, and grid-based movement, looks similar it is going to beryllium different gruesome bully time.

Backing the project

Berserk: The Board Game looks to person acceptable itself up arsenic a container that volition entreaty to fans of Berserk who whitethorn not person overmuch vulnerability to the committee crippled scene, acknowledgment to each of the miniatures, arsenic good arsenic fans of co-operative committee games acknowledgment to Monolith’s expertise. If you privation to marque definite that Berserk is for you and your crippled radical earlier backing it, determination is simply a WIP Rulebook disposable to look astatine for a amended consciousness of gameplay. This is undoubtedly a premium merchandise with conscionable the Core pledge moving you €200 (about $233) with the full jumping to €335 (about $390) if you privation it all, including the 184 miniatures. Gamefound does connection StretchPay that lets you wage disconnected these ample costs implicit aggregate months. As idiosyncratic who has taken vantage of this myself, it helps a ton!

The run is going connected for lone a fewer much days, but precocious pledges volition unfastened soon aft it closes for those to leap connected if you miss the archetypal campaign.

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Oct 24, 2025 6:06 pm