Fight crime and manage your finances (it’s more fun than it sounds) in Debtzilla

If you’ve ever found yourself watching buildings being smashed to smithereens in the latest blockbuster superhero movie and thinking, “Clearing up this mess must cost a packet”, there’s finally a board game made just for you.

Debtzilla is a classic tale – heroes fight villains – but with a financial twist. That’s right: as well as kicking evil’s butt, you’ll be needing to budget for said butt-kicking and making sure you don’t max out your credit cards in pursuit of justice and all that.

Players’ heroes are everyday humans without the Scrooge McDuck-style money pit of Batman, so they have to still pay their daily expenses alongside trying to scrape together a few quid for crime-fighting tech.

Fittingly, the villains are criminals attempting to steal the hard-earned dosh of citizens, with the final boss Debtzilla itself – who is fuelled by the very expenditures of the heroes during the rest of the game.

Gameplay consists of a mix of deckbuilding and dice rolling, as the heroes take down the baddies before debt catches up with them. It might end up being a little too real for anyone still paying off their university fees.

Debtzilla will smash its way into your bank account when it comes to Kickstarter in September.