Play your favorite board games with friends in the comfort of virtual reality in All On Board!

Getting everyone together for a board game night can be tricky, especially if you don’t all live in the same area. However, as seen at Gamescom’s Future Games Show hosted by Sid Meier’s Civilization® VII, All On Board! offers a solution to this problem by allowing you to get together and play games in VR.

It’s much more personal than just playing together online, as you can see each other’s mouth movements, read their body language and gestures, and even make eye contact as if you were in the same room. With the augmented reality feature of compatible VR headsets, you can also bring the action into your own living room for an even more immersive experience.

In addition to the convenience of having everything set up for you and automatically tracking your progress, you can use the game’s tutorials to learn how the particular game you’re playing works, as well as refer to contextual tips during your turn to quickly refer to the rules without having to look them up each time. When you’re done for the night, simply save the session and you can easily pick up where you left off on your next game night.

A dozen officially licensed board games have already been announced for All On Board!, including Rallyman GT, The Binding of Isaac: Four Souls, and Istanbul, with many more to come. With a wealth of included modding tools, you can also create new games and share them with other users. No subscription is required for the service, and just like in real life, only one player needs to own a particular board game for everyone to play together. There’s even a free guest mode app so friends who don’t have VR can still join your gaming sessions.

All On Board! will launch later in 2024 for Steam VR, Meta Quest 2, and Meta Quest 3, but you can wishlist it now on Steam and follow @AllOnBoardVR for the latest developer updates.

If you’re looking for more great games from today’s Future Games Show, check out our official steam page.