Ravensburger Disney Villainous - Introduction to Evil Strategy Board Game - Compatible with Other Villainous Games - Includes Lorcana Promo Card - Ages 10+

For the price, it is well worth it if you are a Disney lover. Regardless if you are a villian or not, this game is fun for all ages in the family. If you don’t know Disney, it’s okay, you can still have fun and win.

Easy for all experience levels to pick up and play. My family enjoyed the game play and quality of pieces. Ravensburger is always a great choice

Fun game! Once you play this you will want to buy more of them. Fun to think outside the box! Great game!

One of our favorite games. Easy to play, unique game experience can mix and match with other boards and villains. Great starter pack.

Great game. My teens loved playing this with their friends

The Villainous series of games is extremely fun to play and very well-designed! This expansion is one of my favorites so far and adds tons of new flavor, strategy, and characters to the game as well as lots of card varieties to spice up your gameplay. It comes with durable, well-made figures for the different villains, as well as a special Promotional card for the Disney Lorcana trading card game!

I was excited to see this game become available. I had seen Villainous before of course, but not being a huge Disney fan, I wasn't sure if I was ready to jump into one of the game's big boxes. (I am a Star Wars and Marvel fan, but am already oversaturated with great games in those worlds.) What Ravensburger has done here is taken "Villainous: The worst takes it all" and reduced it in size, price, and content. Whereas the original had six characters to play, this one has four (keeping Captain Hook, Maleficent, Ursula, and Prince John and losing Jafar and The Queen of Hearts). And to entice Lorcana players, the initial printing of the game comes with an exclusive Lorcana card. This makes it perfect for me. I only need four characters to find out if I like the game, and to play with the four members of my family. And as it turns out, I do like the game! There are countless summaries of how the game operates, but briefly, you choose a Disney villain and set in front of you a playing board with four locations from that villain's world/movie. I was mostly familiar with the ones in this set, but the family did re-watch Disney's Robin Hood, and I'm glad we did. You have two decks of cards, which can be described as helpful ones (the villain deck) and harmful/annoying ones (the fate deck). The location board and these cards brilliantly evoke the characters and events of the movies. Coded to each of the locations in front of you are a series of actions. Each turn you get to choose one of these locations to move to, using a very artistic playing piece, enabling you to take each of the actions visible there. Reminiscent of the board game Scythe, you cannot remain in your current location and take the same actions two turns in a row, you must move to a new space. The actions allow you to do different things, including playing cards. Villain cards will often have a cost in power tokens - you start the game with two and will accumulate more over the course of time. Power tokens are kept in a neat plastic cauldron, adding to the overall Disney flavor. You may also play a Fate card, against an opponent. Fate cards mostly represent the heroes of the opponent's story. They can remove some of the available actions for each location (literally, by sitting on top of them) and menace villains by having ongoing effects and being difficult to remove. Villain cards often represent henchmen and tools that are also played to the board, and can remove those pesky heroes. Most importantly, each villain (player) has a unique goal to achieve to win the game - this can involve moving cards to certain locations or gathering power tokens, for example. Once a player achieves that goal, the game is over and they have won. This makes the game highly asymmetrical; although the actions on the playing boards are the same for all players, they are in different locations (and some are on villain cards), all the cards are unique, and also of course, is the art and theme. The designer's goal in all asymmetrical games is to make sure there is balance - that there is a level playing field for each player. I am sure a lot of time was spent to assure this was the case, and as far as I can tell, each player is equally likely to win. One can only imagine how much play testing there must have been for the Villainous system, given all the compatible expansions for the game. So is it fun? Yes. The overall feeling I get is that I am trying to complete a puzzle, with constant roadblocks being placed in my way by other players. I feel removed from the other players in that we all exist in our own universe, and even when a player "attacks" me with a fate card, it is confined to my play area. This "take that!" element of interactivity may not be for everyone. But overcoming the impediments and making it to the end feels extremely satisfying. And the brilliant way the game recreates a Disney movie world for each player is brilliant. This makes it a MUST for any Disney fan who enjoys tabletop gaming. Maybe I'll try one of those Marvel sets after all!

Great game, fun theme. This version is a good intro for people entering into the Villainous game world. It’s a game with a weird mechanic but fun and easy to learn with this complement of characters. Other characters in other sets are fun but can be confusing for those playing for the first time.