2012Joanna Kijanka, Ignacy Trzewiczek
- Videos
- 71
- Creators
- 52
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight

2024Joanna Kijanka, Jan Maurycy Święcicki, Rafał Szyma
Mainly reviews and how-to-play. Thorgal: The Board Game is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 13 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 6 recorded sessions, 9 unboxings, and 4 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Thorgal: The Board Game is a cooperative storybook adventure game. Players take on the roles of Thorgal, his wife Aaricia, their son Jolan, and Kriss -a deadly female warrior-, and go on a series of adventures. The game consists of 7 stand-alone scenarios, each taking roughly 90-120 minutes of play. Scenarios do not form a campaign nor have any legacy features, so they can be played by different playgroups and over an extended period of time. Thorgal: The Board Game comes with a book of maps. Each scenario is played on a different map that players explore while fulfilling scenario goals and promises completely different adventures, hidden opportunities, side quests, and vivid characters. Players are free to choose whether they travel in one group or split to cover more areas at the same time. Each character gains experience during the game and advances their abilities. Characters gather resources and craft objects to help them survive in the dangerous world. There is a storybook containing narrative descriptions of the encounters that Characters make in each scenario. The adventures described in the book are specific to each scenario and Character, with randomized elements offering higher replayability and allowing for repeated play. There are also Side Plots players can pursue to gain benefits and reveal additional pieces of the story. Thorgal: The Board Game also has a unique action selection mechanism. In this new mechanism, actions have varying power depending on which other actions have already been taken. Players must carefully plan their strategy and sequence of actions taken, as this directly impacts the strength of the effect of each action. -description from the publisher The Gamefound edition has more content.
Thorgal: The Board Game has 43 videos from 32 creators: 13 reviews, 11 how-to-play guides, 6 playthroughs, 9 unboxings and 4 other videos. They date from 2023 to February 2026.
To learn the rules, start with "Thorgal: The Board Game - Gamefound How To Play" by Before You Play, which runs 18 min. For a quicker teach, "Thorgal: The Board Game (Pegasus Spiele) / Spielwarenmesse 2024" by cliquenabend runs 6 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Thorgal ►►►Some of the coolest mechansims in an adventure game ever!" by Rahdo Runs Through. 13 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Thorgal playthrough | One Stop Co-Op Shop" by One Stop Co-op Shop, one of 6 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island – Collector's Edition (Gamefound Edition) and Imperial Settlers: Empires of the North – Wrath of the Lighthouse, also by Joanna Kijanka, or Imperial Miners: Aztecs vs Weirdlings, also by Jan Maurycy Święcicki.
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2012Joanna Kijanka, Ignacy Trzewiczek
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
2024Joanna Kijanka, Ignacy Trzewiczek
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
2022Joanna Kijanka
1 players45 - 90 minHeavy weight
2024Tim Armstrong (II), Jan Maurycy Święcicki
1 - 5 players20 - 60 minLight weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Thorgal: The Board Game is a cooperative storybook adventure game. Players take on the roles of Thorgal, his wife Aaricia, their son Jolan, and Kriss -a deadly female warrior-, and go on a series of adventures. The game consists of 7 stand-alone scenarios, each taking roughly 90-120 minutes of play. Scenarios do not form a campaign nor have any legacy features, so they can be played by different playgroups and over an extended period of time. Thorgal: The Board Game comes with a book of maps. Each scenario is played on a different map that players explore while fulfilling scenario goals and promises completely different adventures, hidden opportunities, side quests, and vivid characters. Players are free to choose whether they travel in one group or split to cover more areas at the same time. Each character gains experience during the game and advances their abilities. Characters gather resources and craft objects to help them survive in the dangerous world. There is a storybook containing narrative descriptions of the encounters that Characters make in each scenario. The adventures described in the book are specific to each scenario and Character, with randomized elements offering higher replayability and allowing for repeated play. There are also Side Plots players can pursue to gain benefits and reveal additional pieces of the story. Thorgal: The Board Game also has a unique action selection mechanism. In this new mechanism, actions have varying power depending on which other actions have already been taken. Players must carefully plan their strategy and sequence of actions taken, as this directly impacts the strength of the effect of each action. -description from the publisher The Gamefound edition has more content.
Designers
Joanna Kijanka, Jan Maurycy Święcicki, Rafał Szyma
Artists
Grzegorz Rosiński, Maciej Simiński, Frédéric Vignaux
Publisher
Portal Games
Categories
Mechanics