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Subscribe to the world's #1 PC gaming mag Try a single issue or save on a subscription Issues delivered straight to your door or device From£35.99View Essential Hardware PC Gaming Show Dune: Awakening Recommended reading The Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last Warhammer 40,000's space dwarfs will make their videogame debut in turn-based tactics sequel Mechanicus 2 this year One of the world's biggest board game companies has just done the equivalent of Sega selling Sonic to Nintendo And just like that, this fungal 'friend group' FPS channeling Deep Rock and Helldivers is at the top of my 2025 wishlist Dwarf Fortress sells 1 million copies on Steam, so now Bay 12 Games can afford that 'little party' it planned 'Why did this stupid jam game sell more': Climbing game Peak has sold 1 million copies in under a week, outperforming its developer's most popular game Star-trekking sandbox roguelike Approaching Infinity launches after more than 12 years in development Deep Rock Galactic Deep Rock Galactic board game Kickstarter pulls in nearly $1 million in 1 day for a trio of new expansions Justin Wagner 4 July 2025 Leaf lovers despair. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game - Rival Incursion and Horrors of Hoxxes - Trailer - YouTube There's a term in tabletop gaming: "beer and pretzels." It's an epithet you'll find tacked on to any game best played with unserious intentions and inebriants aplenty. I've described Deep Rock Galactic to friends as a "beer and pretzels" sort of horde shooter, so I don't know why it never occurred to me that one of the best co-op games on Steam would also make a great party-friendly board game. It absolutely did from the looks of it, and three expansions are now inbound after publisher MOOD's Kickstarter for the addons secured full funding in all of five minutes. You can follow the board game expansions' Kickstarter here, where at the time of writing it's amassed over $900,000 in crowdfunding—well past the target of $23,540. The first update blog confirms that a legion of 3,732 backers carried the campaign to 3788% funding in the first 24 hours. The expansions—Rival Incursion, Horrors of Hoxxes, and the Shockwyrm mini-expansion—each come with their own glut of new environments, miniatures, and cards to flesh out the existing game's mineral-hoarding, bug-blasting action. There are a lot of familiar treats for fans, like snazzy new miniatures for the Glyphid Dreadnought twins and a "flick the barrel" minigame recognizable to anyone who's gotten bored in DRG's in-game lobby. Related Articles The Tomb Raider board game will let you shoot dogs while sitting around the kitchen table at last Warhammer 40,000's space dwarfs will make their videogame debut in turn-based tactics sequel Mechanicus 2 this year One of the world's biggest board game companies has just done the equivalent of Sega selling Sonic to Nintendo If you weren't aware that Steam's favorite space dwarves even had a board game, it's a passion project that started germinating within Ghost Ship back in 2020. It's a dice-rolling dungeon crawler where you pick a dwarf, your equipment, and a premade scenario, praying you make it out with your riches before giant alien bugs slurp your brain out. It's been remarkably well-received, currently sitting at a comfortably high 8.1 average rating on BoardGameGeek. On top of sounding like an all-around good time, it's another victory lap for the breakout hit spelunk 'em up. In case you've been living under a yet-to-be-mined rock, Deep Rock spinoffs include an upcoming roguelike, a Vampire Survivors-style auto-shooter, and a heavy metal crossover song by a band that, admittedly, already had dwarves as their whole thing. Given that it's one of the only games I can play without randoms teaching me the latest innovations in profanity, it's hard not to cheer on the game's continued success. There are 27 days left to support the Kickstarter, which runs until August 1. If you only play games if a keyboard and mouse is involved, the videogame version of Deep Rock Galactic is going for $9.89 on Steam through July 10. 2025 games: This year's upcoming releases Best PC games: Our all-time favorites Free PC games: Freebie fest Best FPS games: Finest gunplay Best RPGs: Grand adventures Best co-op games: Better together The biggest gaming news, reviews and hardware deals Keep up to date with the most important stories and the best deals, as picked by the PC Gamer team. Contact me with news and offers from other Future brandsReceive email from us on behalf of our trusted partners or sponsorsBy submitting your information you agree to the Terms & Conditions and Privacy Policy and are aged 16 or over. Justin Wagner Justin first became enamored with PC gaming when World of Warcraft and Neverwinter Nights 2 rewired his brain as a wide-eyed kid. As time has passed, he's amassed a hefty backlog of retro shooters, CRPGs, and janky '90s esoterica. Whether he's extolling the virtues of Shenmue or troubleshooting some fiddly old MMO, it's hard to get his mind off games with more ambition than scruples. When he's not at his keyboard, he's probably birdwatching or daydreaming about a glorious comeback for real-time with pause combat. Any day now... You must confirm your public display name before commenting Please logout and then login again, you will then be prompted to enter your display name. 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