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Naughty Dog Announces The Last of Us Tabletop Game

The Last of Us is the next video game to get its own board game adaptation. naughty dog announced a partnership with Escape the Dark series creator Themeborne to create a tabletop game titled The Last of Us: Escape the Dark.

Escape the Dark is a series of cooperative board games featuring black and white chapter cards that players work together to solve. In Themeborne’s The Last of Us, one to five players take control of her Ellie, Joel, Tess, Bill, Tommy, or Marlene as they try to stay safe while exploring an open-world map .

Gameplay includes familiar locations from the original Last of Us, such as suburbs, sewers, and colleges, as well as a mix of humans and infected enemies. You can take a first look at the board game below. This flaunts an illustrated card.

The Last of Us: Escape the Dark (Courtesy Naughty Dog/Themeborne)

board game kick starter The campaign will start on November 8th. Naughty Dog said fans will have a chance to get a closer look at the game when the campaign launches and secure his edition for collectors.

The Last of Us: Escape the Dark is the latest in a series of releases for Last of Us fans. Naughty Dog will be releasing a remake of the original game this year in the form of The Last of Us Part I, and The Last of Us HBO series appears to be coming his January. Then there’s The Last of Us multiplayer project, which got a small teaser last summer.

For more video game board and card game adaptations, check out the newly revealed Lightning Cards for the Final Fantasy TCG. Or learn about the upcoming Elden Ring: The Board Game from Bandai Namco and Steamforged Games.

Logan Plant is a freelance writer for IGN covering video game and entertainment news. He has over 6 years of experience in the games industry and has bylines for IGN, Nintendo Wire, Switch Player Magazine and Lifewire. Find him on Twitter @LoganJPlant.

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