We all love superheroes. We love them so much that some people have begun to find it excessive. Some people, but nowhere near everyone, or they'd be gone by now.

What is it that attracts us so strongly to these characters? Probably, it's their power, and the fact that we want to be them. We've all fantasized about what we'd do with the power and anonymity of a superhero, if we had it. We've been pretending to be superheroes for as long as the concept of them has existed. This list is about games that facilitate that, allowing you to play the role of a superhero fighting the good fight against all manner of evils.

Marvel Board Games

Legendary is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an amazing deck building game🎃 that casts players as a group of Marvel superheroes, and tasks them with stopping the sinister scheme of one of many villains, likewise taken from the Marvel universe.

Each villain has their own unique scheme and underlings, corresponding to a different deck for you and your team ღto play against. Of course, your deck is also unique, being determined by what heroes you select at the beginning of the game. T🉐his is an extremely well-crafted game. Gameplay is exciting and satisfying, and it does a good job really making you feel like a superhero. Its large amount of content ensures it has loads of replay value even without its numerous expansions.

Legendary has a lot going for it, but one of its flaws is that, despite casting the players as a team of superheroes, it doesn't really allow individual players to be specific, individual heroes. Every player draws from the same deck, with cards for each of the heroes all mixed together. Champions fixes that issue, by having each player design their own deck themed after a specific hero.

And yes, you do design the decks. There are pre-built lists available in case you don't want to bother, but if you want to get the most out of this game, and succeed against some of the more challenging villains, you'll need to take advantage of how it allows you to customize things to create an optimal deck.

Few would've predicted that a game like Splendor would end up with a Marvel-themed adaptation, but, looking at the game that ultimately resulted, it's easy to see the brilliance of it. The original Splendor is 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an absolutely beautiful, beginner-�🌠�friendly game about jewelry-making, and, well, we all know what the most important gems in the world of Marvel are.

This game casts you as a team of superheroes, and charges you with stopping Thanos from collecting the infinity stones and ending the world, which you must do by recruiting your own heroes and collecting the stones for yourself. It's just as quick, simple, and satisfying as the game it's based on, and a great way to introduce a comic book fan to tabletop gaming.

The premise of this game is the best one on this list. Marvel Zombies is an existing element of the Marvel universe, following a world where most or all superheroes have been turned into ravenous zombies and begun devouring the human population. Zombicide is a 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:zombie survival board game that casts players as survivors and gives them a variety of cooperative missions to complete. Mixing the two together gives us a scenario where the few remaining superheroes are fighting their zombified former colleaguꦺes.

This game delivers on its amazing premise. It does a great job integrating the heroes' powers into gameplay, allowing you to feel like a real superhero as you travel around killing zombies and rescuing bystanders. It has a huge number of different playable scenarios, just like the original Zombicide, giving it tons of replay value.

Marvel: Crisis Protocol is a miniatures wargame in the tradition of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Warhammer 40,000, complete with the customizable armies, terrain, the measured movement around that terrain, and the miniatures which you have to paint yourself. It's not as expansive and complicated as Warhammer, but it still has quite a bit of material corresponding to it. This product is just a starter set.

This game does a good job delivering on its premise and making you feel like a superhero. Games integrate various scenarios to give you a more complicated objective than just wiping out the opposing army, and these scenarios i꧅ntroduce an interesting roleplay element.

DC Board Games

A superficial look at DC's deck building game might lead one to assume that it's their answer to one of the Marvel deck building games above, but the games are actually quite distinct. Unlike both Legendary and Champions, this is a competitive game. Players fight the same pool of supervillains, but they're competing with each other to do so, consciously inhibiting each other as they go, sometimes using villain-flavored cards.

Some will find th𒉰is disappointing, but those that give this game a chance will find well-crafted and satisfying mechanics that do a great job allowing you to gradually build up your own deck, making each draw-through a cool evolution on the 💧last. There are also an enormous number of expansions to this game, allowing you to incorporate tons of aspects of the DC universe into it.

One of the most highly acclaimed episodes of Batman: The Animated Series is called "Almost Got 'Im," and features a group of supervillains sitting down together and sharing stories. This game, inspired by that episode, simulates the experience of being a supervillain hanging out with your fellow baddies. However, like in that episode, one of the villains is secretly no villain at all, but rather, Batman in disguise.

The result plays similarly to a lot of 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:other social deduction games, which makes it really fun. The use of poker cards, and the requirement to build a specific hand to activate your abilities, adds an interesting dimension to the game, though this comes at the cost of a significant luck component that some players won't like. Even so, this is a nice game to play, and an interesting change of pace compared to some of the more combat-oriented games on this list.

Other Superhero Board Games

This tower defense game casts the players as superheroes and tasks them with fighꦆting off a force of minions, and, optionally, supervillains, as those villains try to move down the board to reach the area the heroes are protecting.

Villains are associated with a number, and they are defeated by rolling dice and trying to perform mathematical operations on the result to get them to equal the villain's number. This involves performing basic arithmetic, a fact which, of course, hides the real purpose of this educational game. It's not for every audience, but it serves its purpose well, and is worth acquiring if you're looking for a fun teaching aid in a superhero package.

FAQ

Is there a Marvel board game?

We've covered several on this list, and we've only scratched the surface of the total number that exist. Elsewhere, we've made 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:an entire list of them. That list contains some of the games covered h☂ere, but alsoᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ⁤⁤⁤⁤ᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚ includes quite a few more.

Why are children attracted to superhero play?

For the same reasons, adults are attracted to games like the ones featured here. We like to fantasize 💎about living a life full of power and rich with purpose. Those things♏ are both incredibly hard to build in the real world, and most people never have as much of them as they would like, so we escape into fantasies where we have those things. Children can do this by simply playing pretend, but adults are prompted by both social norms and our more sophisticated minds to invent games and other pretenses for doing so.