The epic interstellar board game’s reputation for similarly epic setup and cleanup will be a thing of the past in its new video game form.
Twilight Imperium has had a rep for endurance almost since it was first introduced. A dense tabletop experience of spacebound strategy, it’s become the face of marathon-length board gaming as players spend hours after hours dictating their space operatic maneuvers through the medium of many, many, many little tokens and cards being shuffled and passed around the board. So, good news for people who’ve always been interested but daunted by those occasionally tall tales of just what an effort it even is to get the ball rolling on a session, let alone finish a game: the whole process is about to get a lot easier, with some caveats.
This week, Asmodee and Red Square Games announced that they would be working together on the first-ever official digital edition of Twilight Imperium, based off the fourth edition of the game introduced in 2017. Although community-created ways to play Twilight Imperium online have existed for many years through platforms like Tabletop Simulator, Twilight Imperium Digital will adapt the board game experience as faithfully as possible, fully implementing the fourth-edition ruleset and its expansions as players vie for control of the galaxy, giving the experience some gamified snazz while not sacrificing the depth of strategy the tabletop game is known for.
