The incredibly deep deck role-playing game It kills the needle you’ll get the desktop treatment, recently announced by board game makers, Contention Games, that will allow people to explore together the game’s inventive card battles in real life.
According to the Contention website, the It kills the needle the board game will allow up to four players, with rounds that will take about 45 minutes each (a little less than overcoming an entire race through the existing video game).
There is still not much other information about the desktop version, but according to the description it seems that the basic premise of fighting through a series of dungeons using cards to attack and cast spells will remain intact.
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Containment, which has also turned the card-based 4X strategy game Imperium: restraint, has an official Kickstarter for the It kills the needle board game some time this spring. (Imperium it was also financed in this way, with sets just sent to sponsors.)
Many video games have recently been adapted to the table. Last September, CMON announced that it would make an official board game based on the film shooter The last of us. It kills the needle, being a video game that is practically already played as a desktop, should be a more direct adaptation.