The Binding of Isaac is a hugely successful videogame, and thanks to two extremely lucrative crowdfunding efforts that netted around $8 million, you could argue that its a highly successful card game as well. The videogame fits almost too perfectly into begin turned into cardboard, with its roguelike genetics being suited to the randomness of dungeon crawler, variable bonuses and and player powers sitting well within the tabletop realm. There's around eighty thousand people who have some kind of variation of the tabletop game. So surely its extremely good because well funded games are always amazing, aren't they. I'm approaching this as someone who is away from the hype canoe sailing down the river rapids of marketing and excitement and so this is probably going to be dull in comparison. I'm also someone who is a fan of the game, and has spent many an hour running around randomly generated dungeons of blood and filth. For those unfamiliar with the videogame, you play
For me, adventure books are something that are part of my gaming deoxyribonucleic acid. Whether it be starting with the Fighting Fantasy range of books and their huge array of page flicking wonders, to chuckling with the off page comedy of the Grail Quest series to the Asterix and Obelix full dice and equipment joyousness. The action of making a choice and flicking to a page was always something that to me was a couple of hours well spent and it took me down the path of where I am today. It turns out for the last forty years, I've always been an adventurer and it's always involved pressed and printed trees of various thickness. This takes us on to the Lone Wolf series of games by Joe Dever, who for many was standing side by side with Steve Jackson when it came to creating a real a believable world. His passing left behind a body of work with a huge established world. When he passed away from cancer it was his final wish that his series of books be continued by his son Ben an