Boss Monster: The Next Level

Boss Monster is a fun little game, but it's a bit light on variety. Boss Monster 2 improves on this a little with some much-needed additions (and rulebook clarifications), but overall it's the same game. I think this one comes down to how much fun your friends are, and your own personal tweaks on the rules. For example instead of the usual "all players draw a room" phase, we use a draft format -- the player whose turn it is draws several room cards (equal to the player count +1), then chooses one to keep. Then, he/she passes the leftovers around. This helps add a bit more strategy to the game while simultaneously reducing the reliance on luck. We start with the boss with the highest XP, then rotate the turn around the table each new draw phase.We also do a mini-draft with the bosses. Instead of assigning each player a random boss, we instead draw two bosses per person and let the player choose which to keep. Again, just softening randomness and making the game feel more deliberate.Anyway -- if you haven't played Boss Monster and you're trying to figure out where to start, BM2 is the better core set. If you have BM1 and are looking to expand, BM2 will give you far too many cards to use. Best plan for us (we stole this from Reddit) was to combine all of the expansions and then remove ALL duplicate spells and rooms. This makes every dungeon unique and still keeps the game balanced on treasure types.Oh, worth noting: You can only use heroes and epic heroes from ONE set at a time, as the game is balanced around a certain number of regular heroes before you hit the epic heroes. We chose to keep the ones from this set, as they're a bit more interesting than the ones included in BM1.

This really helped elevated the base game from being a runaway from the start!And ca be played stand alone.A fun game good art style and interesting mechanicsGood for two players I never felt cheated or that the other person was being rude like some board games can do. Instead I had fun even while losing!

This new version is a great addition to the original Boss Monster with new bosses, card effects and spells.Even though I have been playing it as a stand alone game since July, I still feel that a lot of the cards plays as an expansion that builds on the original. This makes Boss Monster 2 hard to get started with, and for those who have not played Boss Monster before, definitely consider buying the original Boss Monster instead.Overall, it is a very fun and challenging version of Boss Monster. All my friends are intrigued by the game after being introduced, and still rave about it! :D

This expansion pack remedies many of the criticisms of the first Boss Monster, namely the one big criticism that, if you have crappy cards at the start of the game, you'll fall behind everyone else and never catch up. This is also a pretty decent standalone game, meaning that this might make a better overall game than the first Boss Monster. I own both Boss Monster 1 and 2, and I can say that combining decks makes for a more varied game. I would also recommend the house rule of drawing a spell card every three or so turns because other than the two you start off with, unless you grab a handful of rooms that enable you to draw a spell card, you probably will never accumulate more than the two spell cards you started off with.

Boss Monster is a much simplier game than I usually play. I tend to go for heavy strategy games with a lot of choices. However, when I'm looking for a fast, easy to learn game that can be taught quickly and which has few complex interactions that can result in analysis paralysis, this is one of my top choices. The card play is simple, but there are different paths to victory and while there is limited direct player interaction what there is tends to be fun and social.This isn't the game for everyone, but it stands out for its surprising depth and fun for a simple game that's loosely based on old pixel graphic side scrollers.

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This game is great for anybody in your life that loves board games, card games, classic video games or just loves to hang out with friends & loved ones.It's a fairly quick game to play, which means you can play it any time, or play several rounds in an evening!After several plays, I have to say I still love the original Boss Monster a little more, but this is an excellent expansion or stand alone game.

Great Game! I like that this game can be played with the original or on its own since sometimes the two together can be a lot of cards. I also like that both this game and the original are games that are fun, strategy games that are just as fun to play with two people as it is to play with more. It can be hard to find games that are fun for just two people and don't require more. My husband and I love it and it gets very competitive!