A Berserk board game is in the works

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Hakusensha has licensed the rights to a board game based on Berserk.

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It will be produced and sold by Monolith Board Games, a French company best known for a Batman board game called "Gotham City Chronicles" as well as a Conan game. The deal was negociated by Digital Catapult, a broker for overseas copyrights.

The game is scheduled to be released worldwide, starting with Europe and North America. There will be both a French version and an English one.

No release date has been set at this point, and future updates will be announced via Monolith Board Games' official newsletter.

Here is Monolith's announcement on Facebook (from June 20, flew under the radar it seems):

https://www.facebook.com/photo/?fbid=1113444893542668 said:
In partnership with Hakusensha, we have the great honor of announcing that we are working on the development of Berserk, the miniature board game based on the works of Kentarō Miura!

This privilege pushes our team to offer you the best and most beautiful gaming experience possible. So we've decided to offer you a brand-new game system dedicated to this classic manga series--accessible, rich and intuitive! We can't wait to tell you more.

What would you like to see in this game?
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It seems like most, if not all, of their projects are fan-financed via Kickstarter. I'm a bit skeptical about how a TTRPG can be made using Berserk as a setting, but I'm interested.
 
Such board games are completely outside of my experience, so I can’t really say that I’m excited. I think it’s interesting historically that it’s a notable overseas usage of the Berserk license post-Miura. But I don’t see myself investing in paintable figures. Still, as anything with Berserk’s name on it officially, I wish it success.
 
What I'm most curious about is the game system they'll cook up for it, because Berserk generally doesn't lend itself well to games.
 
It seems like most, if not all, of their projects are fan-financed via Kickstarter. I'm a bit skeptical about how a TTRPG can be made using Berserk as a setting, but I'm interested.
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They did a very good job with the Dark Souls Board and card games, so I'm not too worried about it being theoretically possible to make an oustanding Berserk board game. I'm just worried that they can't pull it off.
 
TheItCrOw said:
They did a very good job with the Dark Souls Board and card games, so I'm not too worried about it being theoretically possible to make an oustanding Berserk board game. I'm just worried that they can't pull it off.
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Another company made the Dark Souls board game (Steamforged Games), and adapting a video game and a manga are very different things. Berserk is strongly character-driven and follows a complex interwoven narrative. That's why it's inherently hard to make into a game without taking too many liberties with the setting and characters.
 
This board game get released? I just started to look into the TCG cards and hard to find. Also, any suggestions or good places to find the original Japanese TCG cards?
 
Walter said:
Nope. No date was announced, and there’s been no update on their site. I’d expect it will get more news in a few months.
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Thank you for info!!! Been collecting berserk merch since 2009 and just now starting to like the cards.. and of course made years ago and super expensive now. Hahaha. Look forward to he updates!!! Thanks again.
 
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