Lego Heroica Game review

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Back in October I found in the clearance aisle of a couple of the Lego Heroica games on clearance (LEGO HEROICA Draida Bay 3857 and LEGO HEROICA Caverns Of Nathuz 3859).  I’d been eyeing them as possible birthday or Christmas presents for the boys, and thought “Score!”  And I grabbed those ones right up.

Fast forward to Christmas and I had two boys who had to play it every chance they got.

 

Then, for their birthday they received the final game they didn’t have in that series yet (LEGO HEROICA Castle Fortaan ).  Though in looking up the actual names, there’s two others I don’t think we have.

 

Lego Heroica Game Review

Lego Heroica is a light role-playing game.  You pick a character type, barbarian, druid, thief, etc and you try to be the character who gets to the end of the dungeon first and defeats the main villain.

Along the way you can pick up torches, potions, weapons, and other things that help make your character better.

 

You also fight small villains along the way who may knock you back to start by taking away all of your health points.

 

What’s awesome about Lego Heroica?

I love you can put it together in many different ways.  If you follow their suggestions, it’s a nice rich game, that has many different paths to victory.

You can combine all of the different variations together.  There’s a main game, and then there’s 3 different expansions.  We started off with some of the expansions, and then got the original for their birthday from a friend.  The picture up above is of two expansions played together.

I like how there are different obstacles to overcome and there are different ways to do so.

I also love the different types of rooms, the visual appeal is great.

 

What’s not so awesome about Lego Heroica?

Losing instructions, which thankfully you can get the building instructions online, but it’s kinda not cool if you lose the game rules.

Losing pieces, I’l get to my tips for solving that in a moment.  Many of the pieces are replaceable, but the men themselves are not.

 

 

My tips and tricks for Lego Heroica

We combined all of the expansions into one box along with the instructions, it made the games easier to store.

Do not let your kids set up the board as one long line, it makes the game horrible, make sure there are several places to go different ways, or else the game is boring.

Don’t use every single part of the game, otherwise you will have a two hour game, and will be pulling your hair out (or maybe that was just me because I saw 3 other equally long games on the horizon).

Get small bags (like these Clear Zipper Shipping Bags, we store all game pieces in these bags), and put all of the little men in there.

Keep the different squares built, so you’re not rebuilding all the time, and so it’s harder to lose pieces.

Allow multiple starting points, this helps make sure you’re not all piled up together.

Consider getting the storage mat (I certainly am).

 

If you’re interested, I’m collecting game posts on my Games pinterest board.  Feel free to look for more game ideas there.

 

Also, wanted to let you know there’s only a week left on Heritage History’s Tax Sale, we used their Early America CD for the first part of the year and LOVED it.