Return to Dark Tower: Battle Essentials Pledge (Kickstarter Pre-Order Special)

Preorder: Expected Delivery 2026-10-31
Board Game Geek Rating: 7.31
Board Game Geek Avg Player Rating: 8.21
Players: 1 to 4
Published: 2026
Content Notes: Kickstarter Exclusive Return to Dark Tower Board Game Battle Essentials Pledge by Restoration Games. Includes core game, Alliances Expansion, Covenant Expansion, Expeditions Expansion, Exclusive Creeping Darkness Corruption Deck, and all applicable unlocked stretch goals. Please note: unless otherwise stated paid add ons from the Kickstarter Campaign are not included.

For an age, the tower lay in ruins. Unbeknownst to the people of the realm, a great evil stirred in its bowels. It started with strange sightings: a flock of crows flying in circles until they dropped from the sky, the lake frozen solid in the height of summer. In time, they could not deny that which they most feared.

Expeditions is a full expansion offering an exciting new challenge as you gather supplies to send explorers to exotic, distant lands. Each play you'll use a single expedition board adding variability between games. This expansion can be played with the base game or any previous expansion.

In addition to expeditions, there are other new rules that can be added, in whole or in part (such as alternate virtues), with just the base game or in combination with any other expansion content.

Venture into the new realms. Each leg of the journey comes at a cost. Work with your fellow heroes to explore as far as possible. 

Endure the Expedition and reap the rewards! Major and minor rewards can save your party, bolster your arsenal, and arm you to take down the Tower.

The Tower knows you've got new plans and opportunities and is burdening you with Torments. Expedition rewards can spare you... if you gather them. 

Stretch goals bring energy and excitement to the campaign. For Expeditions we have regular stretch goals planned that enhance the Creeping Darkness deck (backers get that FREE) and add more Torments and Virtues to the expansion box. Plus - we have a few special milestone goals along the way we’re excited to hit. 

The evil had not been vanquished. The darkness would soon fall again. The tower will rise.

A "sequel" to the 1981 grail game, Return to Dark Tower is a game for 1-4 players who take the role of heroes. Together, they gather resources, cleanse buildings, defeat monsters, and undertake quests to build up their strength and discern what foe ultimately awaits them. When the heroes face the tower, the game shifts into its dramatic second act, where the players have one chance to defeat the enemy once and for all.

The game features both cooperative and competitive modes of play.

The game features traditional game mechanisms, such as engine building and resource management, paired with a technological interface unlike any seen before in games, including the titular tower, which holds more than a few secrets.

--from the publisher

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