Is the Planet Apocalypse Board Game Still in Stock?
No, not right now. The Planet Apocalypse core box is sold out across every listing on petersengames.com, including the standard edition and the VF (French) and DE (German) printings. If you're shopping for someone who doesn't own the game yet, check the Planet Apocalypse collection page for restock timing before you plan around it.
That leaves a real question for anyone shopping for a collector who already has the box on their shelf. Plenty of accessories, expansions, and standalone add-ons in the same collection are in stock today, and every price and status below comes straight from the live product pages.
What Can You Actually Buy for a Planet Apocalypse Fan Right Now?
Quite a bit. Even with the core box unavailable, the Planet Apocalypse line still has individual Demon Lord packs, a miniature upgrade set, art pieces, a graphic novel, big campaign expansions, and a discounted digital RPG sourcebook, all confirmed in stock at the time of writing.
The trick with this game is that it's built as an ecosystem. The core box holds the base rules and heroes, and everything else layers new Demon Lords, new maps, or better components on top of it. That makes it a genuinely useful gift category for someone who's already playing, since none of these items require a fresh copy of the base game to arrive.
What's the Best Individual Demon Lord Gift?
A single Demon Lord pack is the classic Planet Apocalypse gift: a self-contained new boss for the next campaign night, priced $24.99 to $29.99. Each Lord ships as its own expansion with new strategic options and components, so a gift-giver can pick one that matches the recipient's favorite kind of monster.
Lord 1 - Jabootu ($24.99) is the demon lord of terrible movies and television. Lady 2 - Scylla ($24.99) fields six heads that have to be destroyed separately. Lord 3 - Asmod ($24.99) takes over and controls individual heroes mid-fight. Lord 4 - Procrustes ($24.99) and Lord 5 - Pulgasaur ($24.99) round out the $24.99 tier, with Pulgasaur growing in stages as the fight goes on. At $29.99, Lord 6 - Great Cthulhu comes with 20 sanity tokens and forces heroes to weigh madness against retreat, and Lord 7 - Spider Mastermind bills itself as the largest, most dangerous Demon Lord in the line, right down to a wink at Sandy Petersen's Doom pedigree with the phrase "except the CyberDemon?" on its own product page.
What's a Good Gift Under $30 That Upgrades the Game Itself?
Component and display upgrades run $19.99 to $29.99, which makes this tier the easiest stocking-stuffer range in the whole lineup. None of them add a new campaign. They make the table look and play better.
The Demon Gate ($29.99) replaces the cardboard portal tile from the core box with a sculpted piece. The Demonology Art Print ($29.99) shows Keith Thompson's original concept art for every miniature in the Planet Apocalypse line, drawn to scale against each other, which is a genuinely nice framed piece for a game room. The Alternate Combat Dice Pack ($14.99) adds 30 extra combat dice in red to match the demons' color scheme. And the Planet Apocalypse Graphic Novel ($24.99) tells the story behind the game in full color, for someone who wants the lore as much as the box.
What's the Best Mid-Range Gift for a Serious Collector?
Step up to the Relic Pack ($49.99) if the recipient is the type who cares how the table looks as much as how the game plays. It swaps out punchboard tiles and tokens for 28 plastic miniatures, which is the single biggest visual upgrade available for the game short of a full expansion.
Collectors who already spent $100+ on the core box tend to keep spending in this range, since it's the same instinct that got them into a premium miniature game in the first place: more detail, more weight on the table, fewer flat cardboard pieces standing in for something that could be sculpted.
What's the Best Big Gift for a Dedicated Player?
Three campaign expansions sit at $79.99 each, and all three are in stock: Pack of the Pit, Power Pack, and Void Pack (currently listed as the French-language VF edition). Each one adds new Fourth Circle demons, Lords, heroes, and troopers on top of the base game, so they're built for someone who's already cleared what's in the box and wants more fight.
Pack of the Pit continues the campaign through Rome and the US capital. Power Pack pushes into Purgatory and the Inferno for what the product page calls the deadliest maps in the line. Void Pack takes the fight into space. Any one of these is a legitimate "big gift" for a Planet Apocalypse owner who's logged serious hours, at a price point comparable to a second mid-tier game.
Is There a Digital Gift Option for Fans Who Also Play D&D?
Yes. Planet Apocalypse crosses over into 5e fantasy through its own RPG sourcebook, and right now the digital version is discounted. The Planet Apocalypse (5e RPG) Digital Version is $24.99, marked down from its regular $59.99, and delivers instantly, so it's a workable last-minute pick. The 350+ page sourcebook adds new subclasses, feats, spells, magic items, three adventures, 15 Arch Lords, and a bestiary of more than 70 monster stat blocks for turning any fantasy campaign into its own apocalypse.
Prefer a physical book on the shelf? The printed edition is $59.99 at full price, and the companion DM Screen ($19.99) is a three-panel reference screen built for the same rules. Both work for a D&D-playing Planet Apocalypse fan even if they never touch the board game version.
Where Can You Check if the Core Box Comes Back?
Bookmark the collection, not a single product page. Stock on the Planet Apocalypse core box moves between print runs, and the fastest way to know when it's back is the full Planet Apocalypse collection on petersengames.com, which lists every current listing, including the core game, side by side with its live availability.
If you do land an in-stock order from any of the gifts above, Petersen Games processes in-stock orders within 48 hours (2 business days, Monday through Friday). US orders ship USPS Ground Advantage, typically 2 to 5 business days in transit; Canada ships DHL Ground, typically 3 to 7 business days. Shipping rates are calculated at checkout based on destination, weight, and size.
Frequently Asked Questions
Is the Planet Apocalypse core board game in stock right now?
No. As of this writing, the Planet Apocalypse core box is sold out on petersengames.com across the standard English listing and the VF (French) and DE (German) language editions. Check the Planet Apocalypse collection page for restock updates before assuming it's unavailable.
Who designed Planet Apocalypse?
Sandy Petersen, the designer behind Cthulhu Wars, designed Planet Apocalypse (Wikipedia: Sandy Petersen). He was also a key designer on the 1993 video game Doom (Wikipedia: Doom (1993 video game)), and the art and style for Planet Apocalypse comes from Keith Thompson.
What's the cheapest gift for a Planet Apocalypse collector?
The Alternate Combat Dice Pack at $14.99 is the lowest-priced in-stock item in the lineup right now: 30 extra combat dice in a red set to match the demons' shades.
Do the Demon Lord packs and other expansions work without the core game?
No. Every item covered here, from the individual Demon Lord packs to the Relic Pack and Demon Gate, is built as an add-on to the existing Planet Apocalypse game system, which lines up with how cooperative games in general tend to be structured: a base rule set the expansions plug into, rather than a standalone experience (Wikipedia: cooperative board game). They're for people who already own the base game.
Is there a Planet Apocalypse gift that ships digitally?
Yes. The Planet Apocalypse 5e RPG Digital Version is currently $24.99, marked down from its usual $59.99, and it delivers instantly instead of waiting on shipping.
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