A tabletop adaptation of Skyrim coming soon. Modiphius Entertainment announced they were making The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim The Board Game, with plans to launch a crowdfunding campaign on GameFound later this year. Few details about the game were given other than the basic description that it would be “an epic board game of adventure in Skyrim for 1-4 players”. Modiphius is also the creator of The Elder Scrolls: Call to Arms, a skirmish miniature game featuring a variety of cooperative and competitive modes that use characters from the popular fantasy video game franchise.
The main news of the announcement is that Modiphius is opting to fundraise for the game through GameFound rather than Kickstarter. While Kickstarter is the default crowdfunding publisher for board game publishers, GameFound is a website founded by Marcin Świerkot, the CEO of board game publisher Awaken Realms. Board game campaigns represent about a third of Kickstarter’s annual revenue, and a major competitor in that area could be huge news in the tabletop industry.
Originally released in 2011, Skyrim has sold over 30 million copies and has been released on two generations of consoles. The open-world game is set in the Scandinavian-inspired land of Skyrim, where the player has choices from multiple storylines that range from determining the fate of a contentious civil war to dealing with a dragon predicted to destroy the world. destroy. Fans have been waiting ten years for the next installment of the hit Elder Scrolls franchise, and although Bethesda confirmed they are working on the next installment, it could be years before the game is released. We still don’t know much about the new game, although fans seem to think it is set in Hammerfall.
More details about The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim The Board Game will be released later this year.