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If you love sinister Disney villains, perplexing strategy games, and showing your friends and family who really is the baddest of them all, Disney Villainous by Ravensburger is for you!

When you play Villainous, you play as the character of the most notorious baddies from Disney movies. Your objective is to defeat the forces of good to carry out your evil bidding.

Villainous brings a novel complexity to its gameplay that adds a fun, yet competitive element to family activity time and social events with friends. Each player selects a unique antagonist from a classic Disney film and must work to defeat the forces of good and carry out their vile objective.

This review will show you what the Disney Villainous board game is all about and will help you decide if you want to play as some of the world’s most iconic Disney villains.

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Table of Contents:

• What is Included in Disney Villainous?
• How to Play Disney Villainous?
• Should I Purchase Disney Villainous?

Start Here: Basic Info about Disney Villainous

Disney’s Villainous is a strategy board game created by Ravensburger.

Ages: 10 and up
Players: 2-6
Awards:
– Game of the Year Winner, TOTY 2019
– Finalist, Origins Best Card Game of the Year 2019
Ratings:
– Amazon (4.4 out of 5)
– Target (4.5 out of 5)
– Walmart (4.5 out of 5)
– Board Game Geek (7.1 out of 10)

What is Included in Disney Villainous?

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Disney Villainous comes with six unique villains from quintessential Disney movies that players can play as:

• Maleficent (Sleeping Beauty)
• The Queen of Hearts (Alice in Wonderland)
• Captain Hook (Peter Pan)
• Ursula (The Little Mermaid)
• Jafar (Aladdin)
• Prince John (Robin Hood)

Each of these wrongdoers has a distinctive objective that they are working to accomplish throughout the course of the game.

For example: 

• Jafar must unlock the cave of wonders, get the magic lamp, and hypnotize the Genie in order to win. 
• Prince John must get his greedy hands on a certain number of power tokens
• Ursula must obtain the trident and King Triton’s crown to become the wicked queen of the sea.

To help players accomplish these goals, every villain comes with a Villain Guide to give each baddie tips and tricks that will help them win the game.

Villainous Cards

Villain Cards are cards that give each villain certain powers, allies, or items that advance their dastardly schemes. 

Fate Cards are cards that other players may use on a villain in order to slow down or halt the progress of their goal for a time. 

Each of these cards features beautifully made artwork based on characters, events, and things in the movies, but with their own unique twist.

The Character Game Pieces

Each villain has a themed mover piece that indicates where they are on their game board and which actions they can take there. All of the movers are stunningly intricate and capture the essence of the character being depicted.

The game revolves around gaining and spending “power tokens”. Disney Villainous comes with over 80 of these tokens so players never have to worry about running dry of maniacal potential. There is a very medieval-looking cauldron holder for these power tokens that comes with the game and adds a little bit of dark age flair to your playing area.

How to Play Disney Villainous?

Disney Villainous pits each of these scoundrels against each other in a game of wit and strategy. 

As few as 2 players and as many as 6 players may play the game together. 

Players take turns enacting their plans to accomplish their objectives as fast as possible and stop the other players at the same time.

There are different action icons on each location on the board that do unique things. One may allow a villain to play a card, while another might cause some detrimental effect to happen to a competing player. Each action is useful in its own way, and skill is required by players to successfully navigate their board and do everything they need to do.

If a player feels like another one of the crooks in the game is getting dangerously close to victory, they can use a Fate action, which allows that villain to draw two Fate Cards from that character’s Fate Deck and choose one to play. This adds an element of strategy because there are many evil ways to inhibit the progress of other players.

If a hero is placed on a villain’s board because another player used fate on them, it blocks certain actions from being used and may cause other harmful effects for that player. Allies must be used to defeat heroes and rid them of the villain’s board.

To win, the objectives being pursued must be completed exactly as stated. Each villain is very well balanced, adding variety to the game as players switch up their characters and try out different strategies to conquer and win.

Should I Purchase Disney Villainous?

The short answer: absolutely! It has become one of our family’s favorites.

The long answer: Disney Villainous is a great game for anyone who loves strategy and a good dose of nostalgia to go along with it.

The quality of the game components is very good. The cards, boards, movers, and tokens are all well-made with beautiful artwork that fits nicely with the theme of the game.

There is a lot of replayability for players because of the diversity of the villains to play, and how unique every single game is.

If you find yourself tiring of the same six villains after some time playing the game, no need to worry! Disney Villainous has not one, but two expansions that add more characters with more unique objectives and powers from everyone’s favorite Disney movies.

Overall, this game is a lot of fun and a great way to get a taste of life on the dark side.