Sublime Dark: Fantasy Horror Board Game for 1-4 players
Created by Tristan Hall
A brutal experience in dark terror! Explore the town of Blackfell and uncover the sinister secrets of the eremites.
Latest Updates from Our Project:
Sublime Dark Update 9 - Return to Kilforth!
about 1 year ago
– Tue, Jul 15, 2025 at 04:00:48 AM
Hello there,
Sublime Dark is still scooting along nicely behind the scenes. Like everyone else, we're still waiting to see what tariff the US puts on goods from China next, so we're maintaining a holding pattern on printing until we know more. As always, I'll hit you all up as soon as we have the next milestone in place.
Return to Kilforth
In the meantime we're raising funds to ease the burden and make room in our US warehouses for Sublime Dark when it lands. To that end our latest beautiful Kickstarter is now live:
Return to Kilforth: US & Canada Vault Sale, Tariff Free!
After 10 successful Kickstarter campaigns, we’re doing something different. This time, it’s not a new game. It’s a celebration of the games that built Hall or Nothing — and a chance for US and Canadian backers to grab copies of our original Kickstarter editions at insane discounts.
✅ No customs, no tariffs ✅ Heavily discounted ✅ Still sealed, still beautiful
There are some truly excellent choices in this Top 20 Single Session Solo Games video from the mighty Colin Degnan of Meet Me At The Table. So it is a great privilege to see Kilforth coming in at number 6! :D
RPG Geek of the Week
about 1 year ago
– Thu, Jun 05, 2025 at 04:03:37 AM
Hello there,
Just a postscript to yesterday's update: Alexandre Correia AKA ZombieBoard has very kindly put me forward as RPG Geek of the Week, so if you are on www.boardgameegeek.com and/or www.rpggeek.com (and if you're not, where are you???) you can ask me almost anything here:
Sublime Dark Update 8 - UK Games Expo
about 1 year ago
– Wed, Jun 04, 2025 at 08:52:22 AM
Hello there,
There's not much I can share about development at this stage, other than it continues furiously. The first Delve is currently ever so slightly too winnable in my opinion, but play-testers have mentioned that other players might like to be able to survive long enough to play some more of the game too... :D
I will say that we had an amazing time at UK Games Expo this weekend. Thanks to everyone who came by our stand to say hello and to have a gawp at Rictus the Harlequin. Yeah, his name is a bit of a spoiler, but so what – fulfilment is still aiming for around October so we've got a lot of time to fill before shipping!
It was brilliant to meet so many of you cool, cool people, and lots of you are becoming regular familiar faces at events now, which makes us feel so welcome. Several of you came from miles away, some from other countries even, including the US; and wherever you came from, it was an absolute privilege to discover that you carved out the time to check out our little ole booth. Especially with the hall size being bigger than GenCon, that was insane.
I was delighted to be able to bring Francesca and Raphael along – it was like an especially geeky Hall family holiday. As always, I wish I'd taken more photos, but here are a couple of highlights.
Team Hall, excited at having just set up the stand
Legendary Game Designer Matt Leacock dropped by, he was showing off his new game Fate of the Fellowship, which is something to do with something called Lord of the Rings or something
The Great Sir Ian Livingstone and The Dark Room's John Robertson (who loved my Gunship T-shirt) were making us laugh with their brilliant chat in Hall 4, but for some reason Sir Ian never once mentioned my visiting his house – you'd think it would be a career highlight for him... :D
Ninjapup and I got to hang out with two of the coolest cats in gaming: Senet Magazine Editor Dan Jolin and Isle of Cats designer Frank West
I'll be back soon with more info about our upcoming sale, as well as our new solo-able storytelling game, Night of Wolves, which we previewed at the Expo. But that's all for now – my voice is gradually returning, the burning in my feet and back is easing up, and I think I'm just about ready for tonight's session of Burning Banners at our local game night. Have a glorious rest of the week, and stay awesome you beauties!
Cheers,
Tristan
Sublime Dark Update 7 – US Tariffs
over 1 year ago
– Wed, Apr 30, 2025 at 05:51:17 AM
Hello there,
Sublime Dark is still in the development phase and not yet ready for printing, so we are continuing to monitor the US tariff situation. Far be it from me to speculate, but the China tariffs in particular don't seem sustainable in the long term, so hopefully we'll see changes soon. But either way, we're keeping all available printing and shipping options on the table until we are ready to print. And as always, we'll keep you posted as we go.
In the meantime, some good news: our most recent reprint stock of Hall or Nothing games arrived into the US before the tariffs, and we'll be announcing a tariff-free sale on those games soon, so stay tuned!
Cheers,
Tristan
Sublime Dark Update 6 – Development Continues
over 1 year ago
– Fri, Mar 28, 2025 at 05:30:25 AM
Hello there,
No game spoilers this time, just a super quick note that development continues: the first pass of the rulebook is done, most of the card decks are finished, and much of the artwork is complete.
Those of you who've been following my lengthy, rambling updates since Gloom of Kilforth will understand how hard it is for me to stay schtum throughout this process, but it's also kind of fun too. I can tell you that the backstories document for the NPCs is insanely huge, but the vast majority of that will not even make it into the game! Still, the world building for this game is unlike anything I've undertaken before, and even if you guys only see the tip of the iceberg I'm excited to see what you'll all make of it when Sublime Dark lands.
In the meantime, for an alternative Hall or Nothing fix, you can follow the continuing adventures of Agent Solo Runthroughs in the darkened depths of our awesome Dungeon Crawl Card Game Kreel Manor here:
Anyway, that's all for now, have a brilliant weekend, I hope you get to play lots of games, and let me know what you thought of the Warhammer episode of Secret Level! :D
