Heroquest remake by Hasbro - The BIG discussion thread

[Blayze]

UK's retail page is live on Zavvi, release date 15/02/22.

https://www.zavvi.com/toys-games/avalon ... 70284.html

Amazon too, 15/01/22.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HeroQuest-Fant ... 1929052189

[Cael Darkhollow]

link to the app? I can't seem to find it

[elvyler]

link to the app? I can't seem to find it

Not sure of an iOS link, here's the Android version:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/deta ... .HeroQuest

[Kurgan]

Big news day for HQ!

Bummer if you don't have a smart phone, unless they are releasing a desktop version...

At least it appears to be free...

[Kurgan]

UK's retail page is live on Zavvi, release date 15/02/22.

https://www.zavvi.com/toys-games/avalon ... 70284.html

Amazon too, 15/01/22.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/HeroQuest-Fant ... 1929052189

Valentine's Day gift to the UK??

99.99 pounds (?) calling it a "pre-order"

Release Date: 15 February 2022
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In the HeroQuest dungeon crawl board game, heroes work together to complete epic quests, find treasures and defeat the forces of evil. This semi-cooperative board game has one player taking on the role of Zargon, the Game Master, while 4 mythical heroes--Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, and Wizard--team up in their quest for adventure in a maze of monsters and eerie dark dungeons. Players can immerse themselves in the fantasy with the stunning artwork, and 65+ detailed miniatures. The game comes with 14 quests, and has limitless replayability because players can also build their own quests and create their own stories. Gather friends together for an exciting night of tabletop gameplay in an epic battle of good and evil. The game is for 2-5 players, ages 14 and up.

Features

Immersive Adventure Game: The Avalon Hill HeroQuest board game is fantasy dungeon crawler in which players must work together to battle terrifying monsters and complete epic quests

Mythical Heroes: The Realm is in need of champions to challenge the evil forces of the Dread sorcerer Zargon. Four heroes --Barbarian, Dwarf, Elf, and Wizard--have answered the call

Stunning Artwork: The HeroQuest cards and booklets feature incredible artwork that helps takes players' imaginations into a fantastical world filled with hideous monsters, deadly traps, and more

65+ Detailed Miniatures: This semi-cooperative board game includes highly detailed miniature figures on 25mm bases, and detailed furniture models for an immersive gaming experience

Limitless Replayability: This HeroQuest tabletop board game is for 2-5 players, ages 14 and up. The game comes with 14 quests, and players can also create their own stories and build their own quests

Avalon Hill and all related trademarks and logos are trademarks of Hasbro, Inc.

What's Included:

Gameboard
31 Monster Miniatures
4 Hero Miniatures
15 Furniture Pieces
10 Skull Pieces
4 Plastic Rat Pieces
21 Dungeon Doors
93 Game Cards
4 Turn-order Cards
Cardboard Tiles
Quest Book
4 Character Cards
Game Master's Screen
Pad Of Character Sheets
6 White Combat Dice
2 Red Dice
Rulebook

Ages 14 and up
2 to 5 Players

I see they don't just have the stock images (from before with the slight imperfections like the wrong pip colors on the red dice or the weird corners on the boxes) but some nice pics of the miniatures included and some posed "action shots."

[Blayze]

On the subject of the retail release, it looks like Cosmic Games have been waiting for this day after posting about the Italian version before Hasbro wanted them to:

https://pages.facebook.com/CosmicGames/

[Kurgan]

Nice reporting everyone!!
SIR MANFRED IS CALLING! (even if he's played by a Dread Sorcerer in heroic box). <--- I hope they don't change his name, that will be a big shock to Italian players.

Yeah, these game shops getting info before anyone else and maybe not releasing it at the right time. My local game shop basically said wait until the big guy is back during the week and he might know.

I see the app has some new art that might be right at home on cards...

I guess I could try running the app off the (super slow) bluestacks emulator on my desktop.

Forgot to post the full story on the Cosmic Italian group thing, oops:

Cosmic Games

When our friends at Hasbro gave us the opportunity to distribute a fully translated version of the legendary HeroQuest, the writer, an old gamer who grew up on bread and dungeons and toy soldiers, couldn't stop himself from making a post to announce the wonderful news.

Then came the pull of ears from Hasbro marketing which, more than rightly, reminded us that, great enthusiasm huh? But things must be done in a modino way, and the announcement for the localization of the adventures of the Barbarian, the Dwarf, the Magician and the Elf, in various European languages, should have been done in a global way first by them, and then by the distributors. of the various nations.

For this reason, we have obscured the first post and we have more or less patiently waited for the green light to announce the good news.

This thing has unleashed all hell, a mass of conjectures has been unleashed by those who, like us in the first person, adore this game.

We were inundated with emails, phone calls, messages on social media, carrier pigeons and all kinds of letters with a single question: "Will HeroQuest be in Italian?".

We bit our knuckles, unable to respond by contract, while in the meantime some rosicone spread poison for speculative purposes.

But finally here we are, we can scream at the top of our lungs.

Yes, HEROQUEST ARRIVES IN ITALIAN !!!.
Completely in Italian, from the manual to the papers, all printed in the Italian language.

Pre-orders are open from today, tell your trusted dealer to rush to pre-order it from Cosmic Group.

And it doesn't stop there, we are preparing a range of support activities, from an organized play circuit to insights into the history of the world's hottest dungeon crawler. From painting courses to make your miniatures even more spectacular to a massive presence at fairs. Going through limited edition miniatures and giveaways.

In short, 2022 will be the year of HeroQuest, now sit back and take a deep breath, the game arrives in January.

Of course, from Cosmic Group!

Good to hear it will appear in other languages!

[Kurgan]

The hits just keep on coming... a new trailer on Hasbro Pulse youtube (amended to the previous preview trailer , so new stuff at that end).

Basically the voice-over is the same, it's just close-ups of the minis and cards are no longer the CGI mock-ups but the real thing and they show the board as well.

Here

I see a pattern of knocking over the dead monsters (checkmate style). The trailer is cool, showing the finial versions of things, but sadly it still shows a CGI rounded corner die (as a screen transition, thankfully they do show the final square cornered dice a few seconds later). Too bad we didn't get those preview dice!

[elvyler]

Here's another video narrated by Stephen Baker on Avalon Hill's Twitter page. It's embeded in their announcement for the Commander of the Guardian Knights:
https://twitter.com/AvalonHill/status/1 ... 1701071873

[Kurgan]

Here's another video narrated by Stephen Baker on Avalon Hill's Twitter page. It's embeded in their announcement for the Commander of the Guardian Knights:
https://twitter.com/AvalonHill/status/1 ... 1701071873

Nice little story of one particular Guardian Knight. So they're not all just noble guardians, some of them are out for vengeance (Golden Axe style) for the slaughter of their families by "Dread" forces. Artwork shows many of them, shows one taking her place by three heroes (still 4 heroes per game implied).

Though if that's the Commander, I wonder what she's doing with the Heroes wandering around dungeons on missions... shouldn't she be at the front leading her men? Unless she got kicked out or re-assigned for this quest(s).

Flurry of updates. Email came in saying Retail is official for pre-order and advertising the Companion App.