Battle Bosses Review

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We review Battle Bosses, a light skirmish game published by Kess Co. In Battle Bosses, players have a giant boss miniature that they are using to try and take down their opponent.

i could see how someone might be confused when first picking up a game of Battle Bosses. This rectangular window box shows off a 3-4″ high painted miniature. Is this a toy or a game? Well, turns out it can actually be both (especially if you ask my kids).

Battle Bosses is a light, quick-playing skirmish game for 2-6 players. To play Battle Bosses you’ll need to pick up at least 2 figures. For this review, we were sent 4 different bosses to check out.

Battle Bosses can be played either as a 1v1 skirmish game or a MOBA style game for 4 or 6 players. For the sake of brevity, we’ll focus on the 2-player gameplay.

Each boss comes with a pre-painted miniature, dice, a unique deck of cards, and a stack of punchboards which are used for various tokens, half the game map, and some minions. Once everything is set up, the gameplay is fairly straightforward.

On a player’s turn, they first roll their 4 dice. The symbols shown give them a number of energy and crystals to use. Crystals can be saved from round to round, but if you don’t use up all of your energy, you lose it.

Energy can be spent to Summon Minions, Move the Boss or Minions, or activate your boss’s special powers (heal, or use their Ultimate). Crystals are for playing cards from your hand. Cards will be either 1-time event cards or upgrades to make your boss stronger.

Combat is super simple, anytime a minion moves into an enemy’s space, they do one damage to each other. Minions have 1 health, and bosses have 15 or more depending on who is in play. The first player to defeat their opponent’s