Get ready to throw down some coin on the follow-up edition to the smash hit Boss Monster Game
Boss Monster took the Living Card/ Board Game genre by storm just a few years ago, and now they are back! Combining slick 8bit graphics with familiar designs from the golden age of video gaming, Boss Monster is one game you shouldn’t pass up on!
Boss Monster II is now on Kickstarter with just THREE big days left. Be sure to check it out, I can not reccomend a game that was more fun to play in recent memory folks!
Via The Boss Monster II Kickstarter
Boss Monster is coming back to the tabletop, and this time we’re taking it to The Next Level!
Boss Monster 2: The Next Level is a full-sized, 160 card set that returns you to the world of Arcadia where the bad are good and the good are dinner. Just like the original Boss Monster, you’ll take the role of the boss at the end of a retro-style video game dungeon, competing against other bosses to build a dungeon that will lure in questing heroes and destroy them. You can play Boss Monster 2 on its own, or combine the set with the original Boss Monster cards for a truly epic experience!
The original Boss Monster was a Kickstarter hit, before going on to become a bestseller in hobby and game stores worldwide. The retail pre-orders for Boss Monster 2 are already rolling in, but this Kickstarter gives the community that made Boss Monster happen a chance to get in on the action early, and get some special extras before anyone else.
What’s New?
Boss Monster 2 is an all-new set with more Bosses, more card variety, and more ways to crush puny Heroes! Here are just a few of the things that make it our favorite Boss Monster experience yet:
- Dark Heroes — the Hitman, Barbarian, Witch, and Vampire — can be “paid” to deal more damage to an opponent.
- Hybrid Heroes — the Swordmage, Druid, Archer and Necromancer — are drawn to two treasure types and feature powerful abilities.
- Epic Spells — like Lightning Bolt! and It’s On! — give you the option to unlock more powerful effects if you meet a prerequisite.
- More cross-table effects, like “cycling” Rooms let you discard cards to affect an opponent’s dungeon.
- More access to Spells, through Cleric Rooms as well as Mage Rooms.
- …and more! Boss Monster 2 features more overall variety and fewer duplicate cards, to keep the game fresh after dozens of plays.
If you’re an experienced dungeon-builder, Boss Monster gives you all-new tools and more ways to interact with your opponents. But if this is your first time playing Boss Monster, it retains the accessibility and ease of play that made the original a hit.
The Rewards
THE GAME: For $25 you get the full retail copy of Boss Monster: The Next Level, featuring 160 cards (with 12 all new bosses!) and hours of fun for 2-4 players. Boss Monster is a standalone expansion, which means you can play it on its own, shuffle the Room and Spell cards together with your original set, or mix and match to create your ideal Boss Monster experience!
The game includes everything you see here, printed by Cartamundi USA. If you live in the United States, shipping is included in the price! International shipping is $8 extra to Canada and $15 extra for the rest of the world.
THE LIMITED EDITION: Pledge $32 and you get the Limited Edition version of the game. You’ll get everything in the base game plus a box sleeve with art by game industry artist Darren Calvert. You’ll also get holofoil cards of the 12 bosses. We are only doing one printing of these extras! Any Limited Edition versions that aren’t bought up here will be made available later this year to your friendly local game store, but we can’t promise how many will be left. If you live in the U.S., shipping is included in the price. International shipping is $8 extra to Canada and $15 extra for the rest of the world.
THE COLLECTOR BOX: At $55 you’ll get everything available in the Limited Edition pledge level plus our new Collector Box, a deluxe carrying case that’s big enough to hold over 400 sleeved cards! The Collector Box is styled like a retro lunchbox, with durable corrugate construction by Legion Supplies. It also comes with the Portable Pack, a set of 5 all-new cards that take Boss Monster into the world of retro portable gaming! Portable cards can be “moved” every turn, giving your dungeon unprecedented flexibility.
While Boss Monster 2 and the Limited Edition version will ship in May; the rest of the rewards from this level won’t ship until later in the year. Free shipping in the U.S. International shipping is $16 extra to Canada and $30 extra for the rest of the world.
Checkout all the details over on the Kickstarter page HERE!
About the Author: Rob Baer
Rob Baer
Job Title: Founder, Publisher, & Managing Editor
Founded Spikey Bits in 2009
Socials: Rob Baer on Facebook and @catdaddymbg on X
Bio: Virginia restless, miniature painter & cat dad. He blames LEGOs for all this, as there was something about those little-colored blocks that started it all. Spikey Bits sprung from Rob staying motivated to hobby on his backlog of projects, while sharing his knowledge with others during the early blogging era.
LEGO maniac and scale model hobbyist in the 80s turned miniature wargamer and trading card player ever since. He’s played every edition of Warhammer 40k and Warhammer Fantasy (since 5th Edition), but Titans of all sizes will always be his favorite! It’s even rumored that his hobby vault rivals the Solemnance Galleries, containing rulebooks filled with lore from editions long past, ancient packs of black-bordered Magic Cards, and minatures made of pewter and resin.
