Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game Digs Deeper With Three New Expansions on Kickstarter

Biome, gameplay and creature expansions flesh out the world of Hoxxes IV on tabletop and bring new challenges to players in a brand new Kickstarter, available for backing today

Check out the Kickstarter here, trailer here, and assets here

COPENHAGEN, Denmark, July 3, 2025 - Ghost Ship Games and MOOD Publishing have today revealed a Kickstarter featuring three new expansions for Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game. These expansions bring new danger and darkness to dwarves on tabletop, including a new Rival Incursion gameplay expansion, the Horrors of Hoxxes biome expansion, and the Shockwyrm creature expansion. The Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game expansion Kickstarter is available for backing from today until 1 August 2025.

Expanding the drilling operations on Hoxxes IV further than ever before, the Horrors of Hoxxes expansion brings four new biomes to explore and ransack of resources, including the vine-infested Hollow Bough, beautiful Crystalline Caverns, dry Sandblasted Corridors, and the Dense Biozone. New biomes mean new risks, and miners can expect to encounter plenty of environmental dangers, including deadly electrocrystals and projectile-spitting ejector cacti. This expansion also brings eight new enemies, including a Dreadnought Arbalest and a Dreadnought Lacerator, which come with their own set of action cards.

Making its board game debut, the Rival Incursion expansion brings the best of Deep Rock Galactic: Season 01 to tabletop. Taking on a competitor corporation's attempts to mine on Hoxxes IV through one of 12 Industrial Sabotage mission cards, players will work to locate this company’s Data Vault, dismantle the power stations protecting it, destroy the formidable Caretaker to secure the data rack and get back to safety. But it’s never that simple, as there’s plenty of new enemies lying in wait. This bundle includes Patrol Bots that blast out dangerous plasma, Burst Turrets that fire lasers towards anything in its line of sight, and the contemptible Nemesis machine which lures dwarves to their demise.

Rounding out these expansions is the addition of another dangerous creature, upping the ante of any mission with the Shockwyrm mini expansion. This new creature lurks beneath the surface, shooting out of the ground at range and up close with shock attacks to stun the most prepared of miners, and comes with its own set of custom action event cards.

Fans looking to back the Kickstarter can do so through a number of bundles, selecting different expansion tiers and add-ons. Early backing also unlocks Kickstarter exclusives, including a glyphid themed dice bag, barrel toss mini game, BET-C infected robot encounter, and glittery cave walls that are packed with Jadiz, upgrades and encounters.

Kasper Mouritzen, Head of Publishing at MOOD Publishing also added: “We have worked hard to expand the world of Deep Rock Galactic for tabletop players. With these expansions, we are continuing our goal of creating the definitive board game experience for Deep Rock Galactic, and we can’t wait for the community to get hands-on with the new biomes, enemies and missions.”

Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game players can back the new tiers for the expansions on Kickstarter here from July 3, and prepare to experience Hoxxes IV in all-new ways.

Deep Rock Galactic is available on Steam, Xbox and PlayStation.

Assets for the Deep Rock Galactic: The Board Game Expansion Kickstarter can be found here.

About Ghost Ship Games

Ghost Ship Games is a Danish game development studio, founded in the spring of 2016 by a group of veteran game developers after years of working together. Ghost Ship Games’ motto is simple: Co-op First. The goal is to take co-operative gameplay to the next level and to make great games, focused on the core gamer. For more information about Ghost Ship Games, please visit: http://www.ghostship.dk

About MOOD Publishing

MOOD Publishing was founded in 2018. The small studio with the big output has the humbled privilege of working with amazing IPs and world-class game designers. The vision is to deliver memorable high-quality board games. Every. Single. Time. For more information about MOOD Publishing, please visit: https://moodpublishing.com