1. Operation Spider-Man Edition Board Game (Marvel Board Games Rating: 6/10)
The game is all about curing Spider-Man’s 11 ailments before it’s too late. These include Palmed Foot, Spider Cents, a radioactive spider bite, and many others. With each successful trade, you earn a certain amount of money. The doctor with the most money by the time Spider-Man is better wins the game.
2. Chutes and Ladders Superhero Squad (Rating 8/10)
Use your favorite Marvel superhero to race to the top just like you would in the popular traditional board game of slides and ladders. As always, the stairs will take you forward and the slides will take you down. The first player to reach the finish line wins the game.
3. Marvel Matching Game (Rated 6/10)
This is another classic matching game, but it features your favorite Marvel superheroes (and villains) on the cards.
4. Marvel Heroes (8/10)
This 2006 Marvel board game is played by 2 to 4 players (four players are best) ages 12 and up. Players control a team of superheroes (i.e. the X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Marvel Knights) and the respective team’s archenemy (Magneto, Red Skull, Dr. Doom, and Kingpin). Individual players gain collaborators, opponents, and power-ups and fight villains controlled by the other players.
This set includes plastic figures of the various heroes and villains (nemeses) from the Marvel board games. Each character is represented by these figures and character cards (cards that describe the characters’ special abilities). Each character has a different incarnation and they are all included in the game.
5. A Marvel deck-building game (Rated 8/10)
This game is a 2012 board game played by one to five players (best with three players) ages 14 and up. Players choose a villain-instigator (eg, Loki, Magneto, Dr. Doom, etc.), stack the villain (attack) cards, and then modify the deck based on the villain’s schematic. Players will then choose superhero decks (eg Thor, Cyclops, Spider-Man, etc.) and shuffle them. Throughout the game, the hero deck varies because players only use a handful of hero cards.
A player will want to build a stronger hero deck, so they will select as powerful a collection of hero cards as they can. In order to recruit more heroes, a player will need to increase their recruiting powers. In order to fight the villains and achieve success, the player will need to increase their fighting ability.
There are five cards from which a player can recruit their heroes. The player reveals a villain (adding him to the villain row). This continues with all players until the limited villain slots are filled. When they are full, the villain who has been in line the longest escapes, making room for the next player’s villain.
When a villain first appears, he can perform an action (harming the innocent). The villain deck includes “master attack” cards that allow the instigating villain (mastermind) to perform an additional action.
By defeating villains, players accumulate points, which are then counted at the end of the game.