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Digital Tabletop Fest is Back with Roll of the Dice 🎲

Tabletop-focussed Steam festival returns today.

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March 7, 2024

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Auroch Digital :

🚨 Embargoed until 6pm GMT on 7th March 2024 🚨
 

 

Bristol, UK – 7 March 2024. The Steam festival which celebrates all-things related to tabletop games is back with Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice. The festival will take place from the 7th of March through the 11th of March and will celebrate board, card, and tabletop-inspired games. Visitors can experience a variety of discounts, view festival-exclusive streams featuring incredible titles and guests, as well as gain insight into what’s next for the genre.

Presented by the Bristol-based UK studio, Auroch Digital, Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice will highlight a variety of titles in the digital tabletop space, with a special focus on games which have a central theme of chance.

 

With over 100 games participating, a wide variety of tabletop-inspired titles will be celebrated including established hits such as: Baldur’s Gate 3, V Rising, Warhammer 40,000: Rogue Trader, and Disco Elysium. These will be joined by notable upcoming games such as Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector, Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2, Breachway, and Umbratica Tactics.

Five roundtable panels will be streamed throughout the duration of the festival, covering a variety of topics of tabletop gaming, and featuring notable figures from the community. Panel talks such as an Interview with the European Space Agency, Warhammer 40,000 - How to Get Complex Lore Across in Your Games, Roll+2 to Bite, Why are Bad Rolls Good, and Roll 3+ to Fight!

 

Guests on these panels include Gareth Damian Martin,  Founder of Jump Over the Age (Citizen Sleeper & Citizen Sleeper 2: Starward Vector), Marty Zych, Community Manager for The World of Darkness, Sarah Longthorne, Senior Narrative Designer and Writer from The Chinese Room (Vampire: The Masquerade® - Bloodlines™ 2), representatives from the European Space Agency, and many other esteemed panellists.

The festival will also play host to a variety of original content created exclusively for Digital Tabletop Fest 4, which has been provided by participating titles, including Wingspan, Breachway, Sulfur, and Mori Carta. A complete schedule for the event is listed in the graphic below:

 

Digital Tabletop Fest 4: Roll of the Dice will take place on Steam, from 6pm GMT/10am PT on Thursday the 7th of March. The promotion will conclude at 6pm GMT/10am PT on Monday the 11th of March. For more information, follow @SteamFestivals and @AurochDigital.

· Once the festival is live, you can visit this link to be part of it: https://store.steampowered.com/sale/tabletopfest

· Assets for Digital Tabletop Fest: Blood & Dice can be accessed here: https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/u19917qj7knpz4kb9i9ud/h?rlkey=fv8quug3hcab7mb7lvrvaj55y&dl=0

  About Auroch Digital

Auroch Digital is part of the Sumo PLC Group. They are a small game development studio based in Bristol, UK and founded in 2010. The studio works on original titles, partnerships, and work-for-hire projects, specialising in strategy and digital tabletop games, working with the likes of Games Workshop and Ndemic Creations. Auroch also has an interest in making games that relate to and deal with real-world issues.  

Auroch Digital's titles include boomer shooter style Warhammer 40,000: Boltgun, the authentic beer brewing simulator Brewmaster, action-strategy hybrid Dark Future: Blood Red States, the console versions of fishy theme park management game Megaquarium and cute robot city builder The Colonists, Mars Horizon and its sequel, Mars Horizon 2: The Search for Life, which was made in collaboration with the European Space Agency. The studio is currently working on several titles, both original IPs and ports. 

Auroch Digital continues to grow and is recognised as a leading studio within the gamedev community for its talent in connecting the real with the digital. It is also recognised for its craft in porting games from one platform to another, be that physical tabletop to digital, or between PC and console. 

For more information visit: www.aurochdigital.com 

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Enquiries: [email protected] 

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