10 Best Marvel-Themed Board Games

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com
 

By now we’re sure you’ve seen Avengers: Infinity War at least once. No spoilers here, but if you were like us you left the theater in shock and disbelief. For us it only makes us more excited for the next movies in the Marvel Cinematic Universe to see how what happened will be handled and what futures lie for our favorite characters.

Marvel has been around for quite some time and it should come as no surprise that there are a number of board games themed in everything Marvel. So many that it can take forever to separate the good from the bad. Not to worry, we’ve done the hard work already and have come up with our top ten Marvel-themed board and card games (and at least one dice game)!

You won’t find classic games with slapped-on themes like Marvel Checkers or Marvel Chess in our list. What you will discover are deep, engaging games perfectly suited for all ages, even if you’re not a Marvel fan (but who isn’t?!). So here they are in no particular order – our choices for the Ten Best Marvel-Themed Games!

Best Marvel Games

Codenames Marvel

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

The Marvel edition of Codenames combines the hit social word game with the Marvel universe including spider Man, Guardians of the galaxy, the Avengers and Doctor strange. Opposing teams, s.H.I.e.L.D. and Hydra, compete to be the first to identify all of their team’s ‘field agents’ from 25 code cards displayed in a 5×5 grid. A must-have for Marvel fans of all ages.

Best Marvel Games

Thanos Rising

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Thanos Rising – Avengers: Infinity War is a cooperative dice and card game for 2-4 players. In the game, players will recruit heroes and assemble a team to face off against Thanos and his villainous forces in an effort to thwart him from accomplishing his master plan – collecting all six Infinity Stones to power the Infinity Gauntlet and wreak havoc on the very fabric of reality.

SEE OUR FULL WRITE-UP ABOUT THANOS RISING!

Best Marvel Games

Marvel Contest of Champions

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Inspired by the critically acclaimed mobile game, Contest of Champions: Battlerealm is a game of combat, strategy and chance. Choose one of 13 fan-favorite Marvel champions, roll the dice and carefully allocate your ISO-8 to power up your champion and attack your opponents, travel to new locations or activate powerful special abilities. Make every game unique in this fast-paced combat game as you battle your champions across 40 different locations.

SEE OUR FULL WRITE-UP ABOUT CONTEST OF CHAMPIONS!

Best Marvel Games

Legendary Marvel

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

In Legendary, players take on the roles of Marvel heroes, including the Avengers and X-Men, and team up to defeat an evil Mastermind. The players have to defeat the likes of Magneto, Loki, Dr. Doom, or Red Skull to win the game – if they do, the players are ranked by the most Victory Points accumulated during play. Because of this, Legendary has a cooperative feel.

SEE OUR FULL WRITE-UP ABOUT LEGENDARY MARVEL!

Best Marvel Games

Trivial Pursuit MCU

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Test your knowledge of the Marvel Cinematic Universe with 300 questions covering 6 categories from the first 10 films featuring: Iron Man, The Incredible Hulk, Marvel Avengers, Thor, and Captain America.

Best Marvel Games

Risk Marvel Cinematic Universe

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Play as one of five factions, each with its own victory condition, representing heroes and villains in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.

Best Marvel Games

HeroScape Marvel

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

The city is on the brink of a great battle. A band of Marvel Heroes have come together to face the ultimate challenge as they go head-to-head against the most notorious villains the world has ever seen. Which side are you on? On this customizable playing field, you carry fate in your hand. So, choose one of eight game scenarios – or design your own! Pick your sides and get ready to wage war against your enemy! Marvel Heroscape set is fully integratable with the full line of Heroscape products.

Best Marvel Games

Munchkin Marvel

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Munchkin Marvel fuses the classic card game fun of monster-slaying and role-playing with the most iconic characters from the Marvel universe. Created under license from Steve Jackson Games and in conjunction with Marvel, Munchkin Marvel comes complete with new monsters (villains), allies (heroes), and custom S.H.I.E.L.D. Identification Cards.

Best Marvel Games

DiceMasters Avengers vs. X-Man

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Marvel Dice Masters: Avengers vs. X-Men is a collectible dice-building tabletop game designed by Quarriors! creators Michael Elliott and Eric M. Lang. In this game, each player fields one of the superhero teams, with each hero – Captain America, Wolverine, Spider-Man, and more – being represented by custom-tooled dice; each team must be composed of 15 dice, and a player can “purchase” dice only from his team. Each hero also has one or more character reference cards, which show the special abilities for the characters based on the die rolls.

Best Marvel Games

VS System 2PCG:  Marvel Legacy

You've finally seen Infinity War and are itching to play a good Marvel-themed board game. There have been many made, but only these ten have made the cut! - SahmReviews.com

Epic competitive game play to pit your team of allies against your opponents! each box comes with over 200 playable cards across eight different team factions. 8 new main characters and 32 new supporting characters to expand on the current 8 Marvel factions.

Best Marvel Games

As you can see, Marvel-themed games run the gamut of type, complexity and pricing. Many of these games have other versions in the Marvel universe covering specific characters like Deadpool, Spider-man, X-Men and even the Fantastic Four. No matter your character preference, one or more of these titles belong in your game collection!

What is your favorite Marvel-themed game?

UPDATE!

See our newest lists of 10 More Marvel-Themed Board Games and 10 Newest Marvel-Themed Games updated with brand new releases!

54 thoughts on “10 Best Marvel-Themed Board Games

  1. My husband and boys are huge Marvel fans. They play Contest of Champions ALL the time but not the board game, the app. I have not heard of some of these, I will have to check them out – Father’s Day is right around the corner!

  2. These are the perfect games for my brother in law who loves Marvel everything! I couldn’t save myself naming all these characters lol!!

  3. Every night would turn into family hangout night if we had some of these games. My family really enjoys the Marvel world and I bet these games would be played often.

  4. My husband has seen Avengers multiple times, but I haven’t seen it (yet). I’d love to get one of these games for our family game night!

  5. I am a fan of Marvel and would love to play the Codenames Marvel game. A Mother’s Day gift for moi.

  6. I never knew there were these many Marvel games and they all look like fun!
    I love trivia games. I would love the
    Trivial Pursuit MCU game.

  7. I really love Marvel Legendary! We have Thanos Rising, but haven’t played a full game of it yet, but we did learn the rules and it looks great too!

  8. Even though I am an adult (supposedly), I am never too old to have heroes or play heroes’ games. I am checking these out! Especially
    Munchkin Marvel.

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