Marvel Heroes

Lead a Marvel hero team across the map, collect allies and power-ups, and dodge the villains your friends control.

Designers: Salvatore Pierucci, Marco Maggi, Francesco Nepitello, Roberto Di Meglio
Published by: Fantasy Flight Games
Editions by: asmodee, Devir, Kaissa Chess & Games, Heidelberger Spieleverlag, Nexus Editrice

Pick a team of Marvel heroes (X-Men, Fantastic Four, Marvel Knights or Avengers) and then find out that another player has been handed your nemesis: Magneto, Doctor Doom, Kingpin or Red Skull. Everyone moves along a point-to-point map, collecting allies, power-ups and trouble, and rolling dice whenever heroes and villains collide. The box is stuffed with chunky 40 mm plastic figures, each with a character card spelling out its special powers, so you get to push Spider-Man around the table with your own hands. This is a long, dice-flavored brawl made for people who already love the comics, and it works best with four at the table. Plan on about two hours, ages twelve and up. The Marvel Heroes in question is the 2006 board game.

Four hero teams, four nemesis villainsChunky 40 mm plastic figures with power cardsPlayers control each other's enemies

Who it's for

You and three friends love Marvel and want a two-hour dice-and-miniatures brawl where the heroes are the point.

Not for you if…

You want a lean, balanced strategy game. Luck swings a lot, and the length rewards fans more than curious bystanders.

Vibe's take

Brawly, chatty and a bit sprawling. Action points keep your turn full, dice keep every fight uncertain, and the fun lives in the comic-book moments more than in tight optimization.