2025Mateusz Albricht
- Videos
- 25
- Creators
- 14
Mainly reviews and unboxings
1 - 4 players60 - 120 minHeavy weight
Cryptborn
2025Samuel Steele
- Videos
- 5
- Creators
- 5
Mainly playthroughs. Cryptborn is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 1 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, and 1 other video.
1 players
15 - 30 min
From BoardGameGeek
Cryptborn is a solo roll-and-write dungeon crawler that is inspired by Darkest Dungeon and the souls-like genre. You awake from your eternal slumber in the crypt of the castle, something or someone has awoken you from death to purge the castle of the dark forces that have befallen it. In Cryptborn you'll design a dungeon by rolling a D6 and then populate it with encounters. Once that's done you'll run the dungeon and try to survive. Each dungeon will have a boss but the goal isn't always to kill the biggest, baddest thing in the dungeon but instead to simply survive to get through to the next stage. In this game 'winning' means staying alive. -description from the publisher
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Which Cryptborn video should I watch?
Cryptborn has 5 videos from 5 creators: 1 review, 1 how-to-play guide, 2 playthroughs and 1 other video. They date from March to November 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Cryptborn | Kickstarter Preview | A Solo Souls-Like Roll And Write" by Rolling Solo, which runs 39 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Best Board Games from Airecon 2025 - Event Review! Galactic Cruise Steals the Show" by Board Stupid. To see it played, watch "Solo Dungeon Crawling & TTRPG Mixology with Misfit Hobbies | AireCon 2025" by The Offline Gamer (TOGCast), one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try The Hunters A.D. 1492, Adventure Tactics: Domianne's Tower, Dungeons & Dragons: Castle Ravenloft Board Game or Dungeon Degenerates: Hand of Doom, which share several of its mechanics.
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About Cryptborn
From BoardGameGeek:
Cryptborn is a solo roll-and-write dungeon crawler that is inspired by Darkest Dungeon and the souls-like genre. You awake from your eternal slumber in the crypt of the castle, something or someone has awoken you from death to purge the castle of the dark forces that have befallen it. In Cryptborn you'll design a dungeon by rolling a D6 and then populate it with encounters. Once that's done you'll run the dungeon and try to survive. Each dungeon will have a boss but the goal isn't always to kill the biggest, baddest thing in the dungeon but instead to simply survive to get through to the next stage. In this game 'winning' means staying alive. -description from the publisher