"Enormously disappointing" - Darkest Dungeon's boardgame port is dead, but Red Hook are giving away game files to backers

Digital models salvaged aft Mythic Games' liquidation

Darkest Dungeon developers Red Hook person announced that crippled files for Mythic's troubled boardgame adaptation volition beryllium fixed distant to task backers, aft grimly concluding that Mythic are nary longer capable to manufacture oregon present the thing.

The Darkest Dungeon boardgame was Kickstarted successful 2020, soaking up $5.7 cardinal successful funding. Based successful Luxembourg, Mythic Games person done good retired of crowd-funding, raising implicit $19 cardinal successful 5 years, but they person been struggling financially nonetheless. They asked DD boardgame backers to spot successful much wealth successful 2022, aft worldly and shipping costs spiked amid the Covid pandemic and the opening stages of Russia’s full-scale penetration of Ukraine.

Mythic yet went into liquidation this December, reportedly pursuing a transgression probe into fraudulent behaviour and misappropriation of funds, which was terminated for deficiency of evidence. The company’s closure has near respective projects worthy millions of Kickstarter dollars successful purgatory. There are galore Ancestor quotes we could invoke here, I guess. I'm going with "more dust, much ashes... much disappointment."

Prior to biting the dust, Mythic managed to vessel the archetypal of 2 “waves” of Darkest Dungeon boardgame materials to backers. Amid the liquidation proceedings, a typical of the institution besides told Board Game Wire that they would supply backers with the STLs – aka, integer 3D models that you tin usage to people crippled pieces - for some waves.

This was really intolerable astatine the time, however, due to the fact that Mythic don’t ain the copyright connected Darkest Dungeon's designs, but a erstwhile Mythic staffer has present secured support from Red Hook to stock the files.

“As galore of you know, the fiscal concern astatine Mythic Games has been strained for the past respective years,” Red Hook constitute connected their authoritative site. “We person been keeping an oculus connected the situation, hoping for the best. Unfortunately, astatine this point, Mythic Games is nary longer capable to manufacture oregon present the Darkest Dungeon committee game.

“We enactment our spot successful Mythic Games to present connected their promises and uphold the Darkest Dungeon name,” the station continues. “We won’t mince words, their illness and inability to fulfill Wave 2 orders is an enormously disappointing improvement and we cognize it profoundly affects galore Darkest Dungeon fans.

“Recently, we were contacted by an ex-Mythic worker who asked for our blessing to administer the task files to each backers. While we astatine Red Hook don't ain oregon power the committee crippled files themselves, we were blessed to springiness our support for our copyrighted worldly wrong those files to beryllium distributed to backers for non-commercial use.”

If you backed the Darkest Dungeon boardgame, you should present person an email from the Kickstarter run with a nexus to “all crippled files, including files of the rules, 3D models and more”. If you haven’t received the email, springiness [email protected] a shout.

It’s bully that immoderate of the task has been salvaged, but email attachments aren’t a spot connected getting a chunky caller Crusader figurine successful the post. “Unfortunately, Red Hook has neither the committee crippled manufacturing expertise nor person we had the quality to divert funds of the standard required to region immoderate obstacles Mythic has faced without endangering our ain operations,” the videogame's creators reason connected their site. “We lone anticipation that this last motion tin beryllium a metallic lining successful an different disappointing situation.”