Back for another Back or Brick on this Wednesday. We’re looking at a big Kickstarter, in terms of content that just launched yesterday. It’s going to fund (already has), but is it one for me? Let’s dive into the pros and cons.

Pros

• RPG Like Game
• Campaign Game
• Character Leveling
• Deck Building

Cons

• Haven’t Fulfilled First Game
• 300+ Hours of Campaign
• Board looks muddied, contrast isn’t high enough
• Doubt their timeline

Thoughts on the Campaign

They’ve done a really good job of laying it out, but there are some things that concern me. I’m not actually all that concerned about it being fulfilled, even with them not having fulfilled their first because they are in contact and giving good updates there. But, because they haven’t delivered the first, I doubt that their 2021 timeline is going to be right, I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s pushed back by 6-12 months. Then wave two, push that back for itself another 6 to 12 months, so you could be getting the last stuff in 2023/2024.

With that, though, let’s look at the actual game. I like campaign games, I like character leveling that gives you choices, and I think that deck building is an interesting way to level up a character, so I like that aspect of it. However, the campaign is 300+ hours, now that might be the full campaign with every expansion and add-on, but that’s way to much. Gloomhaven has taken me 200 hours, could have been less, Frosthaven is coming out, I have Oathsworn, Tainted Grail, Etherfields, and more games that I want to play as well, I’m fine with a few games having long play times to get through all of it, but 300 hours is too much. If it’s split into shorter chapters, so like Midarra or Tainted Grail where you have multiple separate stories, that’s better, but it isn’t clearly laid out on the page. Tainted Grail is 3 50 hour campaigns. Midarra is three acts, each probably 60-100 hours. So Midarra might be the same length, but there are clear stopping spots. I don’t know if that’s going to be the case with Stormsunder.

Back or Brick?

This is a brick for me. I love campaign games, but this is too much. Like I said, I have too many campaign style games, and more on the way. Stormsunder looks interesting and I really like the idea of a deck building, dungeon crawling, campaign game, but not with 300 hours. If I could get a core box with 50 hours of play for $75, where I get an intro story, I’d be interested in it, but with this, it’s just too much. Plus, I don’t know how delayed this might be, because their first one hasn’t even come out yet.

Would you back this?

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