Vesuvius Media, a Halifax-based game development company, will launch its new board game Centauri Saga: Season 1 Legacy Game on Kickstarter this Saturday.

The new game is a sequel to the original Centauri Saga game, which Vesuvius Media launched last year in a Kickstarter campaign that raised $68,761 from 825 backers.

Centauri Saga is a cooperative, sci-fi, 4X board game for 1 to 4 players, and Season 1: Legacy Game will be an expansion to the core game, not a stand-alone game that players need to buy from scratch.

“We promised our players that Centauri Saga was just the beginning,” Konstantinos Manos, Vesuvius Media's CEO and lead game designer, said in a statement. “It has been just over a year since the success of our first Kickstarter campaign. We gathered tons of feedback, really listened to our community of players, and now we're excited to be back with a Legacy Expansion.”

With each new Centauri Saga Season, players will expand the components of the core game with new miniatures, cards, and game scenarios, but they can also play a Legacy Campaign. The Legacy Campaign will include opening secret packages, working through an exciting adventure, and playing several sessions where the choices made in one session affect the following sessions.

“We're gamers ourselves and we love Legacy games,” said Manos. “The thing we don't like about Legacy games is the high price. That's why we designed a Legacy expansion for Centauri Saga instead of the standard one-time use Legacy board game.”

The company said the Legacy game will follow the same unique combination of characteristics of the core game – 4X, cooperative and playable with 1 to 4 players. The core game includes 47 highly detailed plastic miniatures with the potential to unlock more during the new Kickstarter campaign.

“We 3D printed the Ravager Boss and it is awesome,” said Manos, referring to a key feature of the Centauri Saga. “If we manage to unlock the Ravager miniature during this Kickstarter, the molds will make four pieces that create one very impressive Boss!”

The Kickstarter campaign will also offer upgrades to the core game such as thicker player mats, a more comprehensive rulebook and more.

In November, Vesuvius Media's third Kickstarter campaign for the board game Dwar7s Fall surpassed its crowdfunding goal with 1622 backers worldwide pledging US$82,479. Production of Dwar7s Fall finished and the games started reaching backers last month, one month earlier than promised.