Tomb Raider is a very popular video game series started back in 1996, made by developer Core Design and published by Eidos Interactive, and since that first game, where you play as intrepid adventurer Lara Croft, ducking running and fighting her way through increasingly concerning who built these things temples, looking for dreams, treasures fortune hunters could only dream of throughout ten main series games, and even earning enough fame to qualify for the release of a movie. Heck! There was even a second one on the way! However, that was canceled. You know how movies from games tend to go. The point of all that being.. If all of that is more than fair.. Why not a board game?
Indeed. Why Not a Board Game?
One Iconiq Studios had the very same question and did not find a suitable reason why ever not, and they have crafted a solution to the void in the Tomb Raider market in the form of Tomb Raider: The Crypt of Chronos, a Kickstarter project with the intended release date of May 27th of this year. This ambitious game aims for people to have the full Tomb Raider experience, even in this kind of media, the combat, the race against the clock, the bears, and most importantly, your artifact, which holds the reins of time.
How Does One Play?
It’s not as bad as it might sound at first. You will have tools that you can craft to help you with things like combat, as long as you craft them. Since this Tomb Raider game may not have audio, your enemies sure do. Each weapon will create noise that will alert the bad guys to where you are, so be wise when using them. You will also have six Lora dice that govern how Lora explores the temple. Each dice you select will get a boost in power, but you may only use one per turn. How will you manage your time? You are not the only person in this temple. An old friend wishes to “help” you.
It Sounds Like It’s Fun!
Tabletop games are a fun way to pass the time with the family or even just as a way to get your brain off screens, and reset our little digital brains with some good fashion reality. Tomb Raider isn’t the first video game to have made a board game out of itself. The Fallout series has a popular board game, made back in 2017, that is doing reasonably well, and everyone knows just how popular Dungeons and Dragons is as a series. There’s definitely a market out there, and even if there wasn’t, that’s no reason not to pitch in a little just for the sake of creativity. It’s certainly something to keep an eye on, at any rate.
