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A “sequel” to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic ...
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Jun 23, 2022 · Return to Dark Tower, arguably the most ambitious product ever created by Restoration Games, is a board game with a legacy — in more ways than one.This high-concept, hybrid electronic board game ...
A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second ...
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Feb 1, 2022 · A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second ...
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- Cooperative
- Restoration Games
- 10 x 10 x 2 inches
- Return to Dark Tower makes its extravagant electronic centerpiece important and exciting.
- Early Look at Photos and Components of Return to Dark Tower
By Tom Marks
Updated: Jan 31, 2020 12:27 am
Posted: Jan 14, 2020 3:58 am
When a reboot of the hit 1981 board game Dark Tower (no relation to the books or movie) was announced in 2018, the big question was how developer Restoration Games would handle the iconic electronic tower that sat at the center of its game board. Well, that big question has a big answer.
Ahead of Return to Dark Tower’s Tuesday Kickstarter launch, designer Rob Daviau (who joined us previously for a look at Betrayal Legacy and has partnered with Gloomhaven creator Isaac Childres for this) came by to give us a look inside this spiritual successor’s box. That includes its massive, one-foot tall plastic tower with Bluetooth, spinning chambers, lights, and ominous sound effects galore.
Watch the video above to see me and Daviau show it off, and read on to hear my thoughts after playing Return to Dark Tower myself:
Starting with the basics, Return to Dark Tower is a cooperative board game for 1-4 players. You and your allies have to fight monsters, grab loot, and complete quests to eventually lure out and defeat a powerful adversary hiding in the looming tower at the center of the map.
And, boy, does that tower loom. This thing is truly enormous, almost entirely blocking the opposite half of the map opposite from your view – actually a net positive, as it encouraged me and my allies to talk more and prevented anyone player from effectively quarterbacking the whole experience.
The tower is a showpiece meant to wow and intimidate as it continuously threatens the success of your mission.
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This big hunk of plastic is, of course, important to actually playing the game, but it’s also just a presence in itself. A showpiece meant to wow and intimidate as it continuously threatens the success of your mission. Also, it’s got Bluetooth, so that’s neat.
You’ll move your hero minis around Return to Dark Tower’s lovely circular board while managing item cards, plastic skulls, and other physical pieces, but many other aspects of the game are handled by a mobile app. Quest tracking, turn counters, and combat to name a few, but the digital and physical sides are balanced in a way that never makes the other feel superfluous.
Jul 27, 2022 · Return to Dark Tower’s average rating on Boardgamegeek, based on user-submitted ratings, is 8.5 out of 10, good enough to put it in the top one percent of games on the site. The comments are as ...
