Anastyr Chronicles

Anastyr Chronicles is a cooperative Hack’n Slash board game for 1 to 4 players. In this faithful adaptation of the beat ’em all classics of your childhood, take on the role of mighty heroes from across Alboraan in their quest for the World-Spear, the only weapon capable of defeating Anastyr, the Dragon Queen.

Play your cards to trigger powerful combos and charge your Fury to strike devastating blows against enemy hordes. As you progress, the board scrolls beneath your Heroes’ feet, inviting you to explore, gather loot, tame the wild beasts of Alboraan, and face fearsome Bosses.

Immerse yourself in an original universe created by Paolo Parente (Magic: The Gathering, Confrontation, AT-43, Dust).

Ready to BEAT THEM ALL?

Anastyr Chronicles is a grand epic in which our Heroes travel across many diverse regions, from the western plains and the frozen northern peaks to lush jungles, the bone swamp of the Firstborn, and the mysterious mist-shrouded hills, all in search of the scattered shards of the World Spear.

During this pre-order, you will find the first two adventures: Rise of the Blood Witch and The Necromancer's Plague. The other adventures of the Anastyr Chronicles will be proposed in the future, allowing you to fully experience the grand epic of our Heroes against the Dragon Queen.

Each new future release will bring additional Adventure Boxes, available step by step, so players can gradually explore the world of Alboraan and pursue the quest of the World Spear. Please note: every expansion requires the Core Box to play, but the Adventure Boxes are fully independent from one another, you will be able to experience them in any ordre you like.

During the original Gamefound campaign, we offered a German language as a stretch goal.

While we received great support from the German community, we did not quite reach the minimum number of pre-orders required to move forward with production. At the end of the pre-order period, all German backers were contacted by email regarding the status of the German edition.

Due to technical limitations on Gamefound, the German language option still appears during this reopening and cannot be removed. Please not that selecting German will not result in receiving a German copy of the game. All orders placed under this option will receive the English edition instead. We sincerely apologize for any confusion and thank you for your understanding and support.

To former backers: We fully understand there are many concerns and expectations. It is very important to us to support you as best we can. For each product in this pre-order, we’ve included a special gesture, shown next to the regular price with this symbol.

This gesture, in the form of a discount, is our attempt to make amends while ensuring that the development (game design, additional artwork, colorization, graphic design, new maps, sculpts and reworks), production, and delivery of Anastyr Chronicles move forward in the best possible way.

We also want to recognize those who backed the original All-in pledge or higher. These backers will continue to receive exclusive advantages for future Adventure boxes and add-ons (miniatures, STLs, and more) that we release.

We’ve worked closely with Gamefound to ensure that these discounts are automatically applied to all eligible accounts during the pre-order.

How to Get Your Discount as original backer? 

To automatically receive your discount pricing:

1. Log in to Gamefound using the same account you used for the Anastyr Pledge Manager, OR use the same email as your Kickstarter account if you’re creating a new Gamefound profile.

2. Your discounted prices will appear automatically — no action needed.

Important: Have you checked that your email matches the one used in the first campaign and still don't see the discounted prices? Please write to us at anastyr-chronicles@thisisagame.com and we'll be happy to help.

Regarding the digital files sold on MyMiniFactory and the print-on-demand miniatures on Only-Games, we will offer discounts to former backers through discount codes (more information in section Print On Demand and Digital Miniatures below).

This offer applies only to original backers who made a real pledge in the original campaign (not a symbolic €1 pledge).

The digital STL files for the Kizzhul enemies ( minions and specialists) from Rise of the Blood Witch are now available on MyMiniFactory. The Firstborn from The Necromancer’s Plague box are also available on MMF.

Each enemy warband is offered as a dedicated pack for easier organizing and printing.

Additional digital releases (including terrain pieces, enemy variants, and Bosses sculpts) will be added throughout 2026.

For collectors and miniature painters, you’ll be able to purchase the Kizzhul enemies (minions and specialists) from the Rise of the Blood Witch box, as well as the Firstborn from The Necromancer’s Plague box, as print-on-demand miniatures.

The preferential prices we arranged correspond to a 40% discount off the regular price of the STL files and a 25% discount on printed miniatures from Only Games. We were informed by MyMiniFactory and Only Games that these platforms may apply their own discounts, especially during Black Friday. We’ve confirmed with both MyMiniFactory and Only Games that the discount we’re offering remains higher than anything available directly on their websites. Please note that platform-specific discounts cannot be combined with our discount (only one code can be used at a time).

What about Anastyr?

Anastyr is my ideal fantasy world. Classic Barbaric fantasy it is.

You need to know that I grew up in a family where fantasy literature did not have a place in the bookshelves of our living room. My Dad being a doctor with a passion for history only put books about science and 16th century history of exploration on those shelves... My older brothers would read comic book magazines in the like of Heavy Metal (or Metal Hurlant in FR., L'Eternauta in Italy) and, as a teenager,I became acquainted with the fantasy worlds of the Spanish Segrelles and the American Richard Corben. But my real Fantasy imprinting happened at the cinema with the theatre release of Conan the Barbarian by John Milius in 1987 (I was 17). Since then, everytime I would think about a fantasy setting it would naturally become a "barbaric" setting.

Anastyr is a work of Love and Passion, I started creating images about it some 30 years ago when I was living in Paris working on the Keltois tribes for Confrontation at Rackham Miniatures under the Art Direction of Jean Bey who entrusted me with the designs of the barbarian range of minis. So in my spare time I started daydreaming about a world that would have existed in the basin of the Mediterranean sea ages before the Great Flood that would transform it into the sea we know now. Since then I would keep adding drawings to the Anastyr collection, and little by little the world started taking shape.

A few years later I was in China working on Dust1947 when we decided to develop our fantasy setting and together with my associate Olivier Zamfirescu, we started writing the lore and developing a few minis. Olivier Zamfirescu is not only a great game designer, he's also an exceptionally talented writer and lore developer. With his precious help we gave life to a beautiful fantasy setting full of mysteries and adventure, populated by legendary dragons and very unique barbaric tribes. A world where the forces of Nature would clash with powerful but very raw magic and the gods would be capricious and terrifying.

Then it was time to sell the I.P. to a bigger company and combine forces with a larger team of writers and artists. Daniel Zrom and Carlos Amaral, Richard Wright and Justin Gerard together with Fantasy art Grandmaster Wayne Raynolds and many more! A great team of extreme talents brough Anastyr to life. I had the honour to direct them and give shape to my Dream Project.

I hope you will enjoy it as much as we did.

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