The Mandalorian: Adventures Review

boardgamequest.com:

The Mandalorian: Adventures is a highly thematic campaign style cooperative game where players choose from 8 unique characters from the Mandalorian series 1 season to complete missions and unlock gain new game content as they progress.

I’m not sure if you were like me, but I couldn’t wait for The Mandalorian series to drop in late 2019. It was the first newly created series on Disney+ and I have rewatched that season at least 4 times before Season 2 dropped because it was so good. Fast forward and we’re waiting on Season 4 to drop possibly in late 2025 or Spring 2026 which feels like forever.

This brings us to today’s review of The Mandalorian: Adventures from Unexpected Games. This campaign adventure style cooperative game has 1-4 players experiencing Season 1 of the series trying to solve mission objectives and avoid defeat before the next mission. Each game session plays in about 30-60 minutes depending on mission and player count.

Players need to decide if they’re following the characters listed in the mission briefing in the Mission book or if they are playing one of the other player modes such as Sandbox, Shared, or Solo. Players also need to decide which of the 3 difficulty modes they want to use. After the modes are decided each player will choose and take their character’s unique skill deck of 12 cards—drawing 4 to begin with after shuffling—and standee that is placed on the mission starting space.

Each mission will have a variable setup of threats both face up and down on the mission map. The other decks, aside from the player decks, are the planning deck which mostly gives players advantages, and the event deck which will activate threats on the mission map and add reinforcements. Lastly, disrupt tokens are placed on each mission action slot with the numbers face-up.

The game is played over a series of turns starting with the first player who may perform the following steps in order on their turn:

The next player then follows the turn steps in order and