Travel through the world of Arydia, fight monsters, complete quests, and level up in this open world cooperative campaign and open world game from Far Off Games.

Pros

• RPG Like
• Campaign
• Solo
• The Miniatures
• Aesthetic
• Shipping

Cons

• Price

The Page

This is an awesome page. I often complain about pages where they don’t give you that much information. And some of that comes from having a lot of miniatures and wanting to show them off. This does have really cool minis, in fact I want even more minis like this in games. But this page tells so much about the game and I feel like I have a good idea on how it’ll play. I wish that more could see more pages that looked like this.

Also I will say that I am a bit worried for them with shipping. Granted it might be better, but off-settting the shipping for $20 for several thousand backers is a lot. Now, I suspect that some of the cost might have been rolled into the price of game itself. I’m sure that they figured it out but it is a bit risky and if shipping was $40 for everything that you got in the game, I wouldn’t feel like that wasn’t fair. However, the total price point with that would be very high.

The Game

The game has a ton of things that I’m interested. I like campaign, I like RPG like games, and solo games work well for me. And it has a fantasy theme, which fantasy isn’t as much of a draw when it looks more straightforward fantasy, but it isn’t a negative. It is just part of the game.

Let’s talk about the classes, characters, and minis. I think that the class system looks cool, not only that, you get to pick your own character. And with that you get a painted mini but not only that you can swap the heads on the minis. Why is that cool, now I can make any character look like me. Granted, I’m what a lot of the characters generally look like, but more in general anyone can. They have come up with a great way to make diversity in their characters while not tying that to a specific character.

And I really like the equipment system. You have a board where you are placing different pieces of equipment that you find onto your characters. Not only that, but the monsters will attack specific parts of the body. So a rat bites your hand, you’ll take more damage than a rat trying to bit your chest when you have a breast plate.

Finally, this exploration system looks very unique and interesting. You go from a tile map to that’s just a hex on the board. That might have a point of interest so you pull out another tile that is for that point of interest. That might have more for you to interact with, so you go to those spots and you could flip a building so that you walk into it. Honestly, that might be the coolest part of the system.

Back or Brick

So is this a Back or a Brick for me? As I was writing this out I almost talked myself into buying it. I’m going to have to consider between Chronicles of Drunagor and this. Maybe I’ll do a new article next today on the debate between the two. But this one is right now a Brick for me. I think had this come in March, I might have backed it, but I have a number of these bigger campaign style games coming. Still, if you think that Arydia: The Paths We Dare Tread looks good, I’d highly recommend it. There is a great pedigree for this company with Xia, so I can’t imagine you’ll be disappointed.

Is this one a Back or a Brick for you?

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