Anime fans, get ready to draft some dinner. Monster Eater: A Delicious in Dungeon Board Game gets its official English release from Yen Press on 26 May 2026 at $40 (around £30). After three years of fan-translated rules and Japanese imports, anyone who watched the Netflix anime can finally play the licensed thing without squinting at PDF translations.
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Set up your group for freeIf you've somehow missed the source material, Delicious in Dungeon (Dungeon Meshi in Japanese) is Ryoko Kui's manga about an adventuring party so skint they have to cook and eat the monsters they kill on the way to the dungeon's bottom. It exploded into Western consciousness with the 2024 Netflix anime, which won at the inaugural American Manga Awards and turned every chimera into a meal-prep video.
The board game leans straight into that. Two to five players take on the show's cast (Laios, Marcille, Chilchuck and Senshi) and race to the bottom of the dungeon while battling monsters, gathering ingredients and cooking up dishes worth victory points. Combat exhausts your party members. Recovery means defeating something nasty and turning it into dinner. It's a lightweight card-driven dungeon crawler that mirrors the comic's whole point: you don't make it through without lunch.
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Find events near youThe design pedigree is worth knowing. The original 2022 Japanese release came from Arclight Games, with art by Seiji Kanai and Ginichiro Suzuki, and uses a system descended from Suzuki's 1988 cult hit Monster Maker, a Japanese card game that spawned a dozen sequels. Suzuki passed away in 2021, but his Monster Maker DNA lives on here under the Delicious in Dungeon licence.
UK availability has not been confirmed yet, but Yen Press distributes widely through UK book and hobby shops, so expect it on Amazon UK and Forbidden Planet near launch. Time to rally the group, then. Find an anime-friendly game night and bring snacks.
Sources: Yen Press | Anime News Network | Wargamer
