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“Prepare to die” in Dark Souls: The Board Game

Welcome to Ars Cardboard, our weekend look at tabletop games! Check out our complete board gaming coverage at cardboard.arstechnica.com—and let us know what you think.

It’s been surpassed now, but, for a while last year, Dark Souls had the honor of being the most lavishly funded board game ever on Kickstarter.

The base game comes in a hefty enough package; imagine how much shelf space the full Kickstarter set of expansions will take.

The campaign raked in £3.77 million ($ 4.8 million) for Steamforged Games, a small and largely unknown British company, which had the luck to land the license for one of the most revered video game series of the last decade.

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