EVE: War for New Eden is a strategy board game adaptation based on EVE Online made by Titan Forge Games under a deal with CCP. The game’s Kickstarter launched yesterday with a €50,000 goal (roughly $54,377), hitting over $195,000 as of this writing, and unlocking nearly all the current stretch goals .
This is not really surprising, given that it’s engaging a dedicated community for a two-decade MMORPG that is still going strong. Last year, at Fanfest, attendees got to preview a prototype of the game. The team also previewed it at the world’s largest board game show, and both got positive feedback.
Titan Forge Games puts it simply: “The table is set for the grand game of cosmic chess”.
War for New Eden itself is expected later this year, in Q4, and the team describes it this way:“Players will find themselves shaking up the delicate balance of power among the four in-game factions: the Caldari State, the Gallente Federation, the Amarr Empire, and the Minmatar Republic. As a large-scale 4X strategy board game, EVE: War for New Eden rewards players for exploring mysterious celestial bodies, expanding their empire’s territory and technology, exploiting the economy to amass resources, and spending them all to deploy formidable fleets of diverse spaceships capable of exterminating the opposition.”
The combat system is also highlighted, with the task of working to capture something that feels like the complexity players are familiar with, involving different ship sizes, playstyles, and strategies.
With most of the original stretch goals met, it would be no surprise to see more. At €100k, they add 20 component miniatures. At €150k, a linen finish on the game box. At €200k, they’ll add three new system tiles, one in each tier. At €250k, expect five new event cards. The total currently sits at over €179k / $195k USD.
Head to the Kickstarter campaign page to find out more on the story, mechanics, and much more.
