DC Deck Building Game: Arkham Asylum Goes Live on Kickstarter

Cryptozoic is beefing up its DC Deck Building Game by letting the asylum loose. The new Arkham Asylum deck has been announced for 2025 and the crowdfunding campaign is active as of today.

“The DC Deck-Building Game community is at the center of what we do, and we can’t wait to spend another 30 days sharing our love of the DC universe and the series of games,” says Shahriar Fouladi, Cryptozoic’s VP of Product Development & Marketing. “We chose Arkham Asylum as the theme of the latest base set because, like most fans, we love Batman’s Rogues Gallery and we wanted to design a game that puts them front and center. We are also very excited about the new Travel Box, which may be the single coolest game accessory we’ve ever created, and the introduction of 2DZ acrylic standees. We have lots of incredible stretch goals and surprises planned for fans!”

Here’s what you get: The Arkham Asylum expansion adds 200 standard cards themed around Batman’s enemies, nine oversized character cards, and 40+ tokens. The box also includes a rulebook and two “multiverse dividers” so you don’t get your universes mixed up.

But the campaign is about more than just the expansion itself. You can get one of two new themed travel boxes through it, which house 500 cards and a play mat, in Batman or The Joker styles (Joker is exclusive to the campaign). Cryptozoic is also using it to introduce their new line of 2DZ acrylic standees, plastic pop-ups of DC superheroes that can be used in the game. The line will launch with four packs, each containing three or four standees, and the available characters will include Batman, Wonder Woman, Zatanna, Green Arrow and Darkseid.

That’s not all…Cryptozoic is introducing no less than FIVE expansion packs to other areas of the DC Deck-Building Game. They include Crisis Expansion Pack 5: Death Metal, Crossover Pack 11: Dark Knights Rising, Rebirth One-Shot Pack 3, and Super Friends. The fifth expansion will be revealed later in the campaign.

The pledge tiers are various jumbles of all these items, the cheapest coming in at $75 with Arkham Asylum and Dark Knights Rising. With each higher tier, you get more –the heaviest tier is $260 and seemingly the only one that includes the 2DZ standees. But there’s clearly a demand — the campaign has been open just hours, but it’s already blown past its initial goal. You have until October 10 to invite the Asylum into your home.