From Screen to Table with Far Cry: Beyond, Deep Rock Galactic, and Under Night In-Birth

From Screen to Table with Far Cry: Beyond, Deep Rock Galactic, and Under Night In-Birth
• In July 2021, French publisher Funforge teased a collaboration with Ubisoft on "a major project coming end of 2021". In September 2021, Funforge revealed the name of the project — Far Cry: Beyond — but revealed nothing more than a logo...and the rest of 2021 passed with no further information.

Now Funforge has revealed a smidge more info: a Kickstarter launch date of March 7, 2022, the briefest of descriptions — "In this spinoff series based on the Far Cry universe, Funforge takes you back to the 1980s for an explosive co-op tabletop adventure!" — and this promotional image:

Board Game: Far Cry: Beyond

Oh, wait — we do have this pic of a promo game being played at SPIEL '21 courtesy of BGG's Beth Heile, who snapped it while rushing from one booth to another:

Board Game: Far Cry: Beyond

• Another video game making the jump to tabletop is Deep Rock Galactic, this being a first-person shooter from Danish studio Ghost Ship Games. The adaptation of this design — Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game — is being produced in country thanks to Danish designer Ole Steiness and Danish designer MOOD Publishing.

Board Game: Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game

Here's an overview of this 1-4 player game:
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In Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game, players take the roles of up to four dwarf miners in space: the Scout, the Engineer, the Gunner, and the Driller. Players must work together to mine precious minerals deep below the surface of a hostile planet where indigenous insectoid predators — the Glyphids — await, aggressively defending their caves against the intruders. Will your team be able to meet the mineral quota set by the company, or will you all end up as dinner for the Glyphids?

Players move around the board while throwing dice to fight monsters and mine rare minerals in order to escape in time with the required amount of minerals needed to win the current mission.
It seems to me that the Glyphids have a right to defend themselves and their homes from intruders and that the miners should perhaps search for minerals somewhere else, but I might be overthinking this.

Video Game Publisher: Level 99 Games
• Yet another video-to-tabletop adaptation comes courtesy of U.S. publisher Level 99 Games, which has announced that the next license tie-in for its Exceed Fighting System game line will be Under Night In-Birth, a title that might appear to be a random association of words, but which is in fact a fighting game.

To quote the Level 99 press release:
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Under Night In-Birth is a series of fighting games created by Soft Circle French Bread and published by Arc System Works. In the game, players take on the role of humans with unique powers who gather to battle monsters and others like them in a monthly event called the "Hollow Night".

In the card game, players will be able to choose from a roster of Under Night In-Birth's nineteen original fighters, each with their own complete deck of cards, special abilities, and fighting style based upon the video games. Players duel on a linear stage, trading attacks in a fast-paced battle until only one remains standing.

Board Game: Exceed Fighting System

The Under Night In-Birth card game is part of Level 99 Games's Exceed Fighting System, which allows fighters from various video game universes to battle one another. Other entries in the series introduce fighters from BlazBlue, Street Fighter, Shovel Knight, and Dead Cells. All of the games are cross-compatible.

"The Under Night In-Birth card game is a fun new way to experience the series for fans of both video and tabletop games," said D. Brad Talton Jr, the designer behind the fighters. "We've built this latest Exceed season to be accessible for new duelists and novel for veterans. As fans of Under Night ourselves, we've paid great attention to detail, and we know other fans will find a lot to love in these games."

The line will consist of 5 core products, one featuring 2 fighters, and four more featuring 4 fighters each, all starter sets which new players can use to jump right into the game. An additional single-fighter expansion box features Londrekia, the last fighter added to the video game with the release of Under Night In-Birth Exe:Late[cl-r].
Level 99 Games plans to open a pre-order for this series on February 1, 2022 with release scheduled for early Q4 2022.

Board Game: Exceed Fighting System

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