All On Board! is a VR platform powered by user-generated content where players will be able to create, share and play board games with friends. Getting together to play board games with your friends is great, and when that’s not possible All On Board! makes it easy. All On Board! offers a new way to experience board games, recreating online the experience of being in the same room with your friends, around the playing table, and interacting with each other. The platform defines a new way to create, share and play board games in a natural and intuitive way. All On Board! is coming for Meta Quest (no PC required), and SteamVR-compatible headsets in 2023. An exclusive beta for backers will be coming this Holiday season.
Create, share and Play
All On Board! will give you access to a wide library of board games, including officially licensed board games. Players will only need to purchase one copy of a licensed game to play with their friends. The platform also aims to help budding board game creators design and share their own board games using a set of free modding tools that will be available for PC (Windows). The modding tool is designed to allow anyone to create games without writing a single line of code in an easy and accessible way.
Your Favorite Board Games
The Game Kitchen has partnered with acclaimed board game creators and publishers to bring their catalog of games into the platform, as officially licensed board games add-ons will be available for purchase once All On Board! launches in 2023.
Titles will include a variety of well-known franchises, including different gameplay styles. Each game will take advantage of All On Board! features to offer an interactive and engaging experience to the players.
These are the licensed games that have been already announced:
Black Rose Wars, by Ludus Magnus
Rallyman GT, by Holygrail-Games
Escape the Dark Castle, by Themeborne
Sword and Sorcery, by Ares
Infinity: Defiance, by Corvus Belli
Istanbul, by Pegasus Spiele
Steam Watchers, by Mythic Games
Hamlet, by Mighty Boards
The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, by Maestro Media
Wild Assent, by Lazy Squire Games
The Breach, by Ludus Magnus
The Hunger, by Ori Games
Where to Play All On Board!
All On Board! will be compatible at launch with the following platforms:
Meta Quest 2
Steam VR
The Game Kitchen will remain committed to supporting future technologies, features, and devices in All On Board!, as they become relevant in the VR ecosystem.
All On Board! Features
An ever-expanding collection of board games: Free mods created by users, as well as officially licensed board games created by developers, will be released frequently, offering a virtually endless library of experiences to enjoy with your friends.
An extensive library of officially licensed board games including Black Rose Wars, Escape the Dark Castle, Rallyman GT, Sword & Sorcery, Infinity Defiance, and Istanbul. No need to buy multiple copies of a game. Have one member of the party get one, and share the experience with the rest.
Interact with board games in the same way you would in real life: With All On Board! comes the end to unfulfilling chats or voice calls. It’s time to hang out with your friend like in real life, all around the playing table. Touch, grab, spin and drag with natural gestures. Just like the real deal!
More Playtime: Play board games without all the hassle: don’t waste time counting, setting up, or storing games. With the “save and restore” function, you can save your game and pick up from there any time so that you can enjoy longer play sessions all over again! Playing board games with your friends was never so convenient!
The most immersive board game experience ever: Customize everything! Choose the appropriate environment, dress with your favorite accessories and create the perfect mood for your game session!
Personalize your games: Use the All On Board! editing tool to create your own version of popular board games. Modify existing games or create new ones from scratch. Add new tables, playing environments and of course, avatar accessories!
KickStarter Campaign and Early Access
The first beta version of All On Board! is coming this Holiday season, exclusively for Kickstarter backers. VR enthusiasts who back the game in the ongoing Kickstarter campaign will also receive regular beta updates during 2023.
Supporting the Kickstarter campaign is the only way to try the platform before its public release by the end of 2023. Backers will also get a bunch of freebies, including exclusive gear for their avatars and a “Backers Pass” with a curated selection of officially licensed board games.
The Game Kitchen is an indie video game studio based in Sevilla, Spain. Their motto is “We make meaningful indie games”. The studio was Funded in 2010. They are well known for both their terror point-and-click adventure The Last Door (2013) and more recently for the best-selling indie game Blasphemous (2019). Both titles were successfully funded through Kickstarter campaigns. The Game Kitchen is currently working on a sequel to Blasphemous that will be available in 2023, as well as several undisclosed projects that will be revealed soon. The studio also has a VR department funded in early 2022 that’s been working on the recently announced All On Board! whose crowdfunding campaign is now live on Kickstarter.
The Last Door (2013) is a point-and-click adventure inspired by psychological terror literature in the style of H.P. Lovecraft and Edgar Allan Poe.
Blasphemous (2019) is an action platformer based on the culture and the folklore of southern Spain. It’s recognized as one of the top 10 Metroidvania of all times by gaming media sites and has been awarded the “Best Indie Game” award at GameLab 2020 and “Game Of the Year” at the Fun & Serious Festival in 2019.