The popular Shin Megami Tensei video game series is now a physical board game. A Japanese company called Icrea is helping with the effort and will launch a Kickstarter on November 12 to raise funds for the project.
“Shin Megami Tensei: The Board Game” (the company requests that it be written in all caps) is a “full-fledged board game project” that includes 72 “high-quality, detailed devil figures.” Since collecting demons and adding them to your party is an important part of the game, these figures help increase the immersion. Also useful for randomly getting lost devil figures on the couch.
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There’s a board with different locations from the series, and lots of series-specific cards. The company says the game will take three to four hours. The title has already generated quite a bit of excitement at both Gen Con and the recent Tokyo Game Show.
We don’t know exactly when this will be available for purchase. You know how the Kickstarter timeline works. However, a number of stretch goals will be set once the company reaches its initial financial benchmark. This is a Shin Megami Tensei board game with dozens of cool devil figures. There should be no problem finding financial backers.
For the uninitiated, Shin Megami Tensei was first released on the Super Famicom in Japan in 1992. Many sequels have been made over the years. Shin Megami Tensei V was released in 2021, but has since received a full-featured refresh called Shin Megami Tensei V: Vengeance.
The Persona series is also a spin-off of that franchise. This leads to very serious questions. When will the Persona board game be released? I want to walk around a fake high school and eat ramen with the colorful characters.
