“We’re going to have a continuing narrative going throughout the entire thing. “We’re going to try to emulate with the backers, and with us at Steamforged, exploring the mansion together as part of what we’re going,” Matthews said. Additional stretch goals will also unlock based on community feedback, through what Steamforged is calling a “choice-driven” campaign. There will also be two gameplay expansions revealed when the campaign launches, each one with much larger boss miniatures to contend with - not unlike those seen in expansions to Dark Souls: The Board Game and Horizon Zero Dawn - The Board Game. The crowdfunding campaign will include an optional retro pack, which will replace components in the base game with art and assets inspired by the original 1996 classic. “There’s this constant idea that the camera is on you,” Matthews said, “but that doesn’t mean stuff isn’t happening elsewhere in the mansion.” Image: Steamforged Games They might go out on missions of their own, scavenge for supplies, or try to secure an alternate escape route for the larger team. Instead, Steamforged has fully automated their behaviors. So you really never know exactly what’s waiting around the corner, in terms of both enemies and also exploring out the map.”Īdditionally, as players rescue various STARS members, those characters won’t just stand idly in the main hallway like they do in the video game. When you get there, you draw an exploration card, and then that populates the next few tiles you may have found.

“In Resident Evil, you kind of have a very small starting area, and you have doors that lead off of that,” designer Sherwin Matthews told Polygon. But, instead of prescribed scenarios, players will be exploring a randomized version of the video game’s iconic mansion - sort of like a more thematic, more tactical version of the Avalon Hill classic Betrayal at House on the Hill. The Resident Evil board game will use the same sort of activation and combat mechanics as Resident Evil 2 and Resident Evil 3. The cooperative game will include both combat and exploration. Just as in the video game, in Resident Evil: The Board Game players will take on the role of members of the Special Tactics and Rescue Service (STARS) who wind up stranded in a mysterious mansion filled with deadly monsters.

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