Apex Legends board game Kickstarter begins in May

Apex Legends A board game is a good idea.

Respawn Entertainment’s battle royale, which launched in the winter of 2019, will be adapted for tabletops under a licensing agreement announced Tuesday by game-maker Glass Cannon Unplugged and Electronic Arts. The Kickstarter campaign will be open on May 17 and fans can pre-order the game through that link.

Glass Cannon Unplugged was recently done Frostpunk, The Board Game, another video-game-to-tabletop adaptation, which in 2020 drew more than $2.5 million in its Kickstarter funding campaign from almost 19,000 backers.

Apex Legends The Board Game is an “intensely tactical team vs. team miniatures game for 2-4 players,” according to a news release. It should take approximately an hour for the games to be completed. The action unfolds on a “fully immersive, three-dimensional environment taken straight from the screen.” A promotional image (below) shows four unpainted miniatures: Bangalore, Bloodhound, Wraith, and Gibraltar.

Image: Glass Cannon Unplugged

Glass Cannon Unplugged intends to release add-ons, and other extensions for its website. Apex Legends The Board GameThere are many more, which we will reveal once the Kickstarter kicks off in May. The board game has already been in development for two years, Tuesday’s statement said, and the studio said it is “plotting a long roadmap with a growing line of modular maps and interchangeable Legends.”

There are currently 23 Legends playable in the videogame. The class structure was rearranged with season 16, which launched on February 14th for Nintendo Switch, PlayStation 4 or PS5, Windows PC, Xbox One, Xbox Series X, and Xbox One.