The Lightbringers must travel through them into the unknown to destroy the Darkness once and for all. The equipment system gives a fun simulation of loot from video games, and the class system is pretty impressive in how different each character feels. There is a bag building element to the experience, as the treasure bag starts with a majority of ‘common’ tokens and a few ‘rare’ tokens. Please measure the bottom inside of your game box to confirm fit for the organizer dimensions listed above.

Massive Darkness 2 also does a great job of offering progressively better loot as the scenario goes on.UNIQUE SCENARIOS: Massive Darkness 2 Hellscape takes the original Massive Darkness and rebuilds it from the ground up, giving players more replayability and smoother gameplay with every session.

Almost 4 years ago to the day, the Massive Darkness campaign was launched and became one of our most successful projects! To calculate the overall star rating and percentage breakdown by star, we don’t use a simple average. Even when you figure out what goes where, the setup of any map takes at least a half an hour from cracking the box open before anyone is ready to play. The box is massive, with three trays of different units, hundreds of cards, different skill boards, play dashboards, enemy cards, and different levels of weapons and skills.

I enjoyed this more as a 2-player game, but if you don’t mind some waiting, this could be a fun 5-6 player experience as well. Players use at most 5 of these cards during a given scenario, so there’s also strategic variation within each hero as well.

We reviewed it, and the new mechanics it offered, in our January 2018 issue of Tabletop Gaming Magazine, but you can have a read of it online. Players fight by assembling a dice pool based on their gear, any abilities, any monster abilities and some monster dice that represent counter attacks. One notable thing is they even included the concept of ‘set’ items, where if players find a few pieces of the named set item, it gives special bonuses.

Massive Darkness 2’s designers Alex Olteanu and Marco Portugal did a great job with diversifying the 6 heroes in the game and making them asymmetric.

You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie preferences, as described in the Cookie notice.What makes it even more fun is that even within the class, there are different builds to experiment with. The Darkness that had been vanquished long ago is rallying all manner of wicked creatures to its cause.