Deadly Premonition Board Game Quickly Exceeds Kickstarter Goal
Jonathan Barkan
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Last week, we posted a story about the video game Deadly Premonition being adapted into a board game. In that post, there was a link to a website that featured a countdown. Since then, the countdown has expired and the board game launched a Kickstarter campaign seeking $50,000. Unsurprisingly, the Deadly Premonition fanbase went nuts and it was funded in just eight hours. As of now, it’s almost doubled its goal and it doesn’t show signs of slowing down anytime soon.
Per the Kickstarter:
In Deadly Premonition: The Board Game you and your fellow detectives must take on the task of protecting the innocent, incriminating the guilty and work out who might not be who they say they are. With a hidden killer amongst the detectives, the race is on to identify a suspect as an accomplice in order track down the true killer.
The mechanics found in Deadly Premonition are unique and original concepts formed around our vision for the game. Embark on competitive battles to manipulate your own board toward a victory condition, while simultaneously sabotaging your co-detectives. There is also a hidden identity element to shake things up and reward observation and intuition.
You have each been assigned a line-up of six townsfolk to investigate. Your suspects begin in the “incriminated” row until you provide evidence that they should be presumed innocent. Once all your suspects have been cleared of guilt and you have proven yourself to be a trusted detective, you can begin to go on the offence to identify which player is the hidden killer by extracting information from incriminated suspects on their board. Correctly identifying an accomplice of the hidden killer wins you the game!
The cool thing about the Kickstarter tiers is that once you get to a level where you’ve purchased a copy of the board game (which starts at $30), you also get a Steam key for Deadly Premonition: The Director’s Cut. Basically, you’re getting two games for the price of one.
More information can be found at the link above.
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