Arcadia Quest Board Game (Core Game) | Campaign-Based Strategy Game | Fantasy Adventure Game with Miniatures for Adults and Teens | Ages 14+ | 2-4 Players | Average Playtime 60 Minutes | Made by CMON

Arcadia Quest is a fun dungeon crawling game that has players going against the board and each other. At the start of the game, players, two to four, are given three characters to play through a campaign or stand alone adventure. A campaign is six scenarios which are made up of the games eleven scenarios that it comes with in the game. Each scenario will ask players to complete three objectives which two are driven by the scenario and a standard eliminate the other players. The first player to complete either the two objective scenarios with one eliminated player character, or two player character eliminations and one objective scenario will win that current scenario.This leads to what makes the game fun is that a player is never out of the running if they have one of their characters defeated. If they are eliminated by the enemies of the board, or fellow players, they can return by doing a simple rest action. That is the great mechanic of this game. Every time a player does an attack with one of their three characters they will have to place an exhaust token on that weapon. Eventually a player will no longer be able to do something and will need to rest. This gives a lot of strategy and timing that a player needs to consider on their turns.Combat itself is rolling dice, which is defined by being a range, bows, or close range attack, swords. Special equipment can add a little more to what a player can do, but it is still just rolling dice against enemies/players. When combating an enemy from the board a player chooses who they are using for their turn and activating a weapon for attack. That weapon dictates the amount of dice used, are they wanting swords or bows, and whatever other special power the player may have of that particular character. They then simply roll the attack trying to match or exceed an enemies health. This leads to another great effect in the game as enemies have an overkill rating. The overkill rating is the amount of success that needs to be rolled to avoid a retaliation attack. If a player does not hit that value the enemy gets to attack that player back, even if the player managed to eliminate the enemy. Players do not get the same counter attack when targeted by a player, but they can roll defense against a player's attack. Combat is fun, fast, and easy to learn.At the end of each scenario the players will tally up the amount of gold they earned from completing quests, being the first to complete a quest, and eliminating enemies/players. Then a drafting round will occur that gives players a chance to improve their characters for the next round. Someone would consider that this is the moment where the game will fall apart as the player with the most money will win the game, that is not true. Players are limited to only being able to buy three things. The items available to purchase are strong, but some can also be really cheap for players with little money to purchase. Yes, there are expansive powerful items, but never so much that it will make someone think the next round is going to that player. Also, since it is drafting, six cards dealt to each player as they pick two and pass the rest, players are able to choose to keep the most powerful item cards out of the other players hands by drafting that card, since that player can afford it.This series has fantastic miniatures to immerse anyone into the game, and plenty of expansions to keep players interested if they really fall in love with the series. Highly recommended for anyone who wants a dungeon crawler that is not co-operative, nice amount of dice chucking, and a fantastic amount of replay value.

I almost don't even need to review this game. This is an outstanding multiplayer game. If you want to play a solo game, look elsewhere. This is one to get together friends and have fun. Kill monsters, kill your friends, get rich, upgrade characters, die, come back to life, do it again!This game is not a co-op, but an all against all. I describe it a lot like a board game version of the video game gauntlet. Each scenario you set up the board as it's shown in the manual, which can take a little bit of time because you need to look at the tiles and match the way they're turned, etc. Once you've done it once, setup is a breeze each time after, like maybe 10 mins. Once you get the game started it's fast and you can be through a scenario in 45 minutes, maybe less.The goal is to kill the most monsters and get the most loot which is staged around the map. Each scenario has a set of requirements to win. The first player to get an objective finished the first time gets bonus gold. Gold is spent on cool items between rounds, items are passed around in a drafting sort of manner. So between each scenario you get these upgrades and the game get better and better, it's quite a nice character progression system and the game comes with plenty of character sheets to help you record stats/items between gameplay sessions.What is cool about the scenarios is that you have different layers of the world, you start out on the outer circle, beat some many scenarios, goto the next, then to the middle circle. But you can only choose scenarios next to each other on each circle, so what this does is lets you play back through multiple campaigns in order to have played every scenario, you get to play 6 of 11 each time. It gives you a real reason to start over with different characters and play it all again. The game already has many add-ons that will keep you playing as long as you have the money to keep spending.The figures in this game are awesome, unless you can't stand chibi style artwork, you will love these. The booklet has some cool character lore in it and the game world is interesting. The quality of pieces and the board tiles are great, the only thing is that it can be hard to get it all back in the box which is a little annoying. You get a lot of pieces in here and a lot for your money.Rules are simple and easy to follow, the rulebook is among the best out there.Being all against all you will be killing each other over and over again. You actually respawn in this game, you don't have permanent death, which keeps everyone playing to the end of the scenarios and not getting bored. You do take a penalty for dying at the end of each scenario.Bottom line: If you've been thinking about this game, you should get this game. Period. This game is competitive, but never seems to make anyone mad. I don't think anyone who's played this or bought this has been let down and that's not always easy.