Champions of Midgard Coming “Soon” to Steam

Just a quick post to tide you over until I get my Terminal City Tabletop Convention post done (there was a lot of gaming!)

I didn’t have time to post this last week, but I received an email from Grey Fox Games announcing that the old 2015 classic Champions of Midgard is going to be coming to Steam “soon”.

This is a worker placement, dice-driven combat game that I have really wanted to play for quite a while.

It’s apparently just really big on the table and the friends who have it haven’t been sure that it will fit on the table for our Sunday game days.

But now I may not need to play it on the table!

Here’s the blurb from Boardgame Geek:

“Champions of Midgard is a middleweight, Viking-themed, worker placement game with dice rolling in which players are leaders of Viking clans who have traveled to an embattled Viking harbor town to help defend it against the threat of trolls, draugr, and other mythological Norse beasts. By defeating these epic creatures, players gain glory and the favor of the gods. When the game ends, the player who has earned the most glory earns the title of Jarl and is recognized as a champion of Midgard!

Placing workers allows for the collection of resources and warriors, which players may then send on journeys to neighboring villages or across the sea to defeat monsters and gain the glory they need for victory. Resources are used to carve runes, build ships, and feed your followers. Viking warriors (custom dice) do battle with the myriad enemies the town faces.”

A Steam edition of this game would be very cool, and hopefully it will come to mobile soon after that.

No word in the Grey Fox email about that, but one can hope!

The publisher is Shufflestone Games, which I admit I’ve never heard of.

This appears to be their first Steam game, if Steam is to be believed.

They seem to be a brand new publisher, as their web site has a “Coming Soon” notice on it!

I’m both excited and a little leery.

Excited because I’ve wanted to play this game for quite a while now.

Leery because this publisher is brand new and who knows what to expect in terms of quality?

Still, the fact that it’s coming out is a great sign, and let’s hope it’s really good.

First-time publishers have hit it out of the park before.

You can wishlist it here.

Have you played the game? Favourite? Good? Bad?

Are you excited about this coming to digital?

Let me know in the comments.