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Boss Battle

Boss Battle mechanics involve players working individually or cooperatively to defeat a single, powerful adversary.

Implementation:

  • Set up: A singular entity with superior abilities or resources.
  • Gameplay: Phases or rounds; escalating difficulty; strategic decision-making.
  • Win Condition: Defeating the Boss via depletion of resources, completing objectives, etc.

Significance:

  • Provides climactic moments and challenges.
  • Encourages strategic cooperation in co-op games.
  • Offers variability with different Boss scenarios.

Examples:

  • Gloomhaven
  • Shadows over Camelot

Boss Battle and Delayed Purchase games

-28%
$49.99
$35.99
Astro Knights is a cooperative deck building game where your deck is never shuffled. Your goal is to defeat the Boss before it destroys your team or the Homeworld you're defending.Each round, the players and the Boss will take turns in a random order...
80%
14+
1 to 4
60 mins
Relaxed
-28%
$49.99
$35.99
It's been centuries since the Astro Knights, the stalwart defenders of the galaxy, vanished without a trace, leaving the powerful Star Cores scattered and lost. But when a group of ragtag scrappers comes down to salvage a wrecked spaceship, they stumble...
89%
14+
1 to 4
60 mins
Involved
-27%
$59.99
$43.99
This isn't the end of the world. That already happened. This is what's left. Us, Gravehold, and The Nameless - creatures seeking to snatch what little we left from our group. The breath is in our lungs,. The weak light in our eyesFor generations, we ...
80%
14+
1 to 4
60 mins
Involved

Boss Battle and Push Your Luck games

King of Monster Island
-30%
$69.99
$49.15
Escape the Dark Sector
-38%
$44.99
$28.00
Escape the Dark Castle
-20%
$39.99
$31.99
Bullet Heart
-20%
$39.99
$31.99
Heroes of Tenefyr
-27%
$75.00
$55.00
Bullet Star
-45%
$39.99
$22.00

Dice Game with Boss Battle

$129.95
$90.00
$39.95
$38.69
$75.00
$50.00
$175.00

Boss Battle games published by Brueh Games

Keep the Heroes Out!: Boss Battles

$79.95
In the depths of our dungeon, an unsettling feeling rippled through the air, igniting an atmosphere of greed and thirst for power.We didn't know at the time, but, within the Guardians chamber, a radiant red jewel whispered promises too good to believe...
very positive, 94%
14 y/o +
1 to 4 players
40 minutes
Relaxed
Cooperative Game
Fantasy
Boss Battle
Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game

Boss Battle and Variable Player Powers games

Street Masters
-27%
$130.00
$95.00
Dark Souls - The Board Game
$458.02
Kingdom Rush - Rift in Time
$59.99
$32.00
Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze
$59.95
$44.00
Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze
$59.95
$47.99
Marvel Champions LCG: Marvel Champions - The Card Game Core Set
$63.95
$41.99
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game - Wildspire Waste Core Game
$129.99
$95.00
Monster Hunter World: The Board Game - Ancient Forest Core Game
$129.99
$110.99
The Bad Karmas and The Curse of Zodiac w/Teburu System (Kickstarter Core Pledge)
$0.00
Sentinels of the Multiverse - Definitive Edition
$69.95
$45.00

Boss Battle games published by Ediciones MasQueOca

Slay the Spire: The Board Game
$114.99
$100.00
Townsfolk Tussle (Kickstarter Fantastic 1st Edition)
$220.00
$215.00

Boss Battle games published by Nuts! Publishing

One Deck Dungeon: Forest of Shadows
$37.66
$12.00
One Deck Dungeon
$25.00
$17.00
One Deck Dungeon: Abyssal Depths
-25%
$8.00
$5.99
Gloom of Kilforth: A Fantasy Quest Game
-20%
$80.00
$64.00

Boss Battle games illustrated by Kate "vesner" Redesiuk

Kinfire Delve: Vainglory's Grotto
$19.99
Kinfire Chronicles: Night's Fall
$95.00
$90.00

Two-player Game with Boss Battle

$49.99
$28.00
$26.95
$49.99
$20.00

Boss Battle games illustrated by Mathieu Harlaut

-20%
$109.99
$87.99
The ritual is nearly complete.The Unspeakable Old Ones will enter our world.You can't stop it. You have to destroy them.An ancient apocalyptic cult has nearly summoned a Great Old One into our world. Its devastating arrival is imminent! Now What?Cthulhu...
87%
14+
1 to 5
90 to 120 mins
Relaxed
-28%
$109.99
$79.47
Welcome Home, Good Hunter.The Blood Moon rises into the night sky, pushing the city of Yharnam into madness and chaos. Hunters are tasked with cleansing the infected victims of the Beast Plague on this night of the Hunt. Should they tarry or fail their...
77%
14+
1 to 4
60 mins
Involved
-20%
$74.99
$59.95
"Turns out that Death may, in fact, die. We destroyed it. Some of us even got out alive. Mostly. And it turns out there's another one in Cleveland. Here we go again."- AnonymousSeason 2 expands the action, bringing the terror and insanity to new heights...
95%
14+
1 to 5
90 mins
Involved

Boss Battle and Square Grid games

$149.95
Welcome to Daelore, a land cowering in fear of a lawless melting pot of evil known as The Ebon. You and your companions are Gearlocs from Deepwood and have lost your homes and many kin to this foe. Their latest invasion ahs struct at the very heart of...
84%
12+
1 to 4
60 to 120 mins
Involved
$109.95
$99.95
In Deliverance, you take on the role of an elite angelic warrior in the army of Heaven. Since the victory on the Cross, you hunt the fallen angelic Princes. Once your faithful brethren, they now lead Satan’s forces of Darkness in a bitter war against...
91%
13+
1 to 4
60 mins
Involved
$129.95
New threats approach Eureka Springs...Word of the Sheriff's demise has finally reached our neighboring towns, and their residents are lookin' to take advantage of our little slice of heaven. Do you have what it takes to keep Eureka Springs safe from...
98%
14+
2 to 5
80 mins
$49.95
We'll cut to the chase: the Peddler's been stripped of her wares, and now you're stuck defending Eureka Springs with bottom-barrel goods. But don't worry, the Peddler's got a plan to get back on top!In the Odd Jobs expansion, you'll help the Peddler...
98%
14+
2 to 5
80 mins

Solo / Solitaire Game with Boss Battle

$90.00
$75.00
$49.99
$34.97
$45.95