Disney Villainous Pixar board game is bigger, badder, and full of promise

polygon.com:

Making villains’ dreams come true is the main goal in Disney Villainous, the critically acclaimed series of board games and expansions developed and published by Ravensburger. Polygon got an early look at its fifth entry, a standalone title called Disney Villainous: Bigger and Badder. It’s filled withpromise, new ideas, and new characters to play with. And it shows that this franchise still has plenty of potential on the tabletop.

In Disney Villainous games players take on the roles of classic Disney villains from all across the studio’s 85-year history. Each has their own objective, board, cards, and unique gameplay mechanics needed to pull off their scheme. And each expansion, with its own collection of villains, can be played on its own or combined with any other entry in the series.

Bigger and Badder adds three new characters to Disney Villainous, bringing the series total to 24. It’s also the first expansion to includePixar characters, as it features The Incredibles’ Syndrome and Toy Story 3’s Lotso. Madame Mim, from the Disney animated The Sword in the Stone, rounds out the new list.

In Disney Villainous,players each progress privately on their own sideboards, using any of the available actions in one of four locations on their turn. Those actions include drawing power, playing and discarding cards, activating abilities, and performing a Fate action, which allows players to draw cards from an opponents’ deck and play an Effect, Item, or Hero that will harm them in some way. A player’s Villain deck holds the cards they’ll use for themselves, while a Fate deck holds the cards others will draw and use against them. The key strategy is not to hold onto cards in the hopes that they might eventually help — Disney