Game Info
Year
2024
Players
2-4
Playtime
180 min
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Description
A cooperative role-playing board game with a moving board set in a dark-humoured Nordic mythology across four campaign chapters
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positive
Pros
- High production quality and components
- Strong replayability due to dynamic board and content variety
- Rich narrative world and quests
- Clear, ambitious scope for a single-box experience
Cons
- Potentially long play sessions could deter casual players
- Complex rule set may have a learning curve
Thematic elements
- mythic gods, fate, cooperative exploration
- Ancient Nord world
- rich, scenario-driven with world lore and player-driven outcomes
Comparison games
- Dungeon Crawler (solo Mission add-on)
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- chapter-based structure — Each chapter is a contained session, contributing to an ongoing narrative.
- Cooperative Game — Players work together to overcome scenarios and threats.
- cooperative play — Players work together to overcome scenarios and threats.
- Destiny handicaps — A handicap system controlled by rune ruins affecting player abilities.
- Dynamic obstacle system — The board changes during play, ensuring a different board experience each game.
- Hero boards and progression — Each player controls one hero with personalized talents and world-item progression.
- Mini-Games — Individual quests with setup, mission, and win/lose conditions.
- Mini-quests — Individual quests with setup, mission, and win/lose conditions.
- Narrative-driven campaigns — A rich world with gods and lore guiding scenarios.
- Trade and combat options — Players can win, fight, or trade during play.
- Trading — Players can win, fight, or trade during play.
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- Dark Aran is a Cooperative roleplaying game taking place in the ancient Nord.
- During the game play the board actually changes and every single time that you play Dark Omen you will have a completely different experience.
- over 60 70 hours of gaming experience
- 75% board game and 25% RPG
- launch it in Q1 next year
- the game is fully developed
- not prefunding our development
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