A gorgeous, violent and crude cooperative action adventure game where friendship makes you stronger, and villain slaying makes you richer. Based on the New York Times bestselling Image Comic Series, Rat Queens, written and illustrated by its creators!
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Social Dynamics - Win Prizes, Control the Story!
A New Quest and Old Oaths
Many current followers of our upcoming campaign, Rat Queens - Vengeance on Villains, are veterans from a previous campaign that was abandoned by the parent company and left for dead. This new campaign by Rat Queens co-creator, Kurtis Wiebe, and his company, Talespinner Games, seeks to honour the pledges of those backers, while also drawing in a whole new audience that might've missed the first, or never even heard about it.
To honour those pledges, we need this upcoming campaign to fund, which includes the cost of making things right by our original backers from 2021.
This relies on word of mouth. Since we have a strong army (1650 followers!) already mustered, we hope to turn to the aid of everyone signed up to earn more followers (and hopeful backers) so that we have a good chance at a success story for all, and finally put a bow on this long, drawn out saga.
Yes, we need your help, but we're going to make it a bit of fun while we're at it, and toss out some prizes in the process.
At the bottom of the Launch Party comic scroll, we mention Social Dynamics. Here's how it works:
Friendship Tokens - What are They Good For?
Starting today, and moving forward, we will begin tracking Friendship Tokens through three main categories: Recruiting, Competitions and Playtest/Q&A over at our collaborative Miro board. There, you can find the details about how each of these categories works.
The winning team with the most Friendship Tokens at the end of the campaign will determine which of the four Rat Queens will decide the fate of Gus the Good in the upcoming, original comic book story that progresses alongside the Backerkit Campaign. Not only that, but the deciding Queen will unlock UNIQUE rewards that will be added to the final game components, fitting her personality and story resolution.
This is our bizarre, over-the-top answer to stretch goals meets choose your own adventure!
Recruiting - How Does it Work?
Did you recommend a friend and they followed the campaign? Here's the process your recruit needs to follow to claim your Friendship Token (1 per recruit) for this incredible deed.
We want this to be a fun and exciting campaign, of not only having some real say in the comic story and in-game unlockables, but in everyone coming together to redeem this son of a bitch. For our best recruiters, we are giving away some prizes on top of the whole Social Dynamics community competition.
Our Top Three Recruiters will win some prizes for their efforts.
Let the Games Begin!
Social Dynamics is now live! You can visit the Miro, check in every Friday for updates to the Friendship Token Count and drop something onto your team's collage space for a bit of fun.
Let's kick this quest off in style, right the hell now!
Official Full Press Release from Talespinner Games
Rat Queens – Vengeance on Villains!
Series creators, Kurtis Wiebe and Roc Upchurch return to take over and redeem an unfulfilled Rat Queens Kickstarter by their own blood, sweat and tears. A new campaign, blending crowdfund as narrative, wrapped in a whole new Rat Queens comic.
A total creative reimagining of the original game design in the hands of the series’ creators, telling the story of conquering villains to bust the Queens out of prison while freeing the project from development hell.
The Game - A Bawdy Co-Op, Villain Killin’, Action Brawler
You and up to three friends choose one of the four Rat Queens from the Image/Shadowline Comics bestselling comic book series of the same name, each with asymmetric and unique playstyles, in order to save Palisade from total destruction. Power up your Queen (Betty, Hannah, Violet or Dee) with ass kicking new abilities as you take on hordes of evil, despicable villains.
Friendship and teamwork are critical to gaining strength and momentum as you slaughter and stack up the bodies of your enemies. Rat Queens utilizes a fun and intuitive Friendship System, where leaving a Queen Token on the board for other Queens allows them to directly improve their skills and unlock special abilities. Work together, massacre evil, and score as much loot as you can before the big bad boss arrives to flatten Palisade and erase it from history.
Sharpen your blades, pack your gear, and imbibe an intoxicant of your choice.
It's time to take Vengeance on Villains.
The Story – A Redemption Arc in a Revenge Plot
On August 4th, 2021, Rat Queens – To the Slaughter was successfully funded on Kickstarter. By 2024, there had been endless delays and it was clear that the game would never be shipped.
In that time, Talespinner Games, owned and founded by Rat Queens writer and co-creator, Kurtis Wiebe, stepped in and made the decision to take back the rights and deliver the game that was promised.
“I’ve learned, in the intervening years, to never let what I create far from my hands or heart.”
- Kurtis Wiebe
The new campaign is the redemption arc. It is telling an original Rat Queens story in comic form alongside the crowdfund that parodies mustache twirling villains who say one thing but do the exact opposite. It’s a direct commentary about the way the backers were treated, and how so often these stories come out and there is little to no recourse. We’re being told to just accept it. The infuriating modern dismissal of bad behaviour with ‘buyer beware!”, as though we’re the idiots for placing trust in what one promises.
In that light, the campaign is called Vengeance on Villains. A classic, comedic Rat Queens take on the corrupt outcome we all endured.
The Good Stuff – A True Rat Queens Vision
With an incredible base design by award winning game designers Sen-Foong Lim and Erica Bouyouris, the project desperately needed a whole new take on the creative direction. Together, with Rat Queens co-creator Roc Upchurch, they built the game as it was always meant to be. Now, featuring wholly original art and characters exclusive to the game, and properly infused with its bawdy humour, it is the definitive board game adaptation that the fans always deserved.
The Campaign – Fulfill What Was Promised
The Pre-Launch page is live now, featuring the first chapter of a choose your own adventure-style comic that will go public when the campaign launches on August 4th, 2026. Backers will have the opportunity to not only vote on big choice points which will lead to customized items landing inside the game box on delivery, but also how the story ends and which of the four Queens will end it.
In this new campaign, Talespinner Games will be fulfilling all backers from the original campaign a free copy to honour their support and contribution to the game, whom without, none of this would be possible.
With that, finally, this fiasco will have a finale.
If the game and the redemption arc adventure have captured your interest, sign up on Backerkit today at: https://www.backerkit.com/c/projects/talespinner-games/rat-queens/launch_party
