Sunderfolk Hands-On: A Cozy Co-Op RPG Streaming Tabletop Magic Into Everyone's Home

My party of adventurers walks into a spider-infested cave, and my friends and I start chatting strategy about the plan of attack for each of our heroes -- then we leap into the fray by controlling the action through our phones. This is Sunderfolk, a new roleplaying game and the debut title from studio Secret Door. Made by veterans from Blizzard, Riot Games and fantasy tabletop hits like Descent: Legends of the Dark, Sunderfolk brings board game nights to modern video games. It's available for PC, PS5, Xbox Series X/S and Nintendo Switch for $50. The game looks conventional enough, with up to four players choosing between six animal adventurers packing varying skills to protect their town. The game's combat and action play out on a shared screen, but the novelty lies in each person pulling up their phone to move their character and look up battle info. "[Sunderfolk] is built for folks who are already genre-lovers in this space who want to bring in folks who are not genre lovers," sai ... Read full article.