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Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed deck-building game that is an adaptation of the award-winning Star Realms game. The game includes basic rules for two-player games, along with rules for multiplayer formats such as Free-For-All, Hunter, and Hydra. Each player starts the game with a ten-card personal deck containing gold (for buying) and weapons (for combat). You start each turn with a new hand of five cards from your personal deck. When your deck runs out of cards, you shuffle your discard pile into your new deck. An 80-card Market deck is shared by all players, with five cards being revealed from that deck to create the Market Row. As you play, you use gold to buy champion cards and action cards from the Market. These champions and actions can generate large amounts of gold, combat, or other powerful effects. You use combat to attack your opponent and their champions. When you reduce your opponent's score (called health) to zero, you win! Multiple expansions are available for Hero Realms that allow players to start as a particular character (Cleric, Fighter, Ranger, Thief, or Wizard) and fight cooperatively against a Boss, fight Boss decks against one another, or compete in a campaign mode that has you gain experience to work through different levels of missions.
| Year | 2016 |
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| Designers | Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle |
| Artists | Randy Delven, Vito Gesualdi, Antonis Papantoniou, Richard Hanuschek |
| Publishers | Hobby World, Rawstone, Devir, IELLO, ADC Blackfire Entertainment, Lord of Boards, Games Factory Publishing, MIPL, Wise Wizard Games, ADC Blackfire Entertainment GmbH, Games Factory, IUVI Games |
| Players | 2–4 |
| Time | 20 min |
| Status | Played or rated only |
| BGG Rating | 7.4 |
| Categories | Card Game, Fantasy, Fighting |
| Mechanics | Hand Management, Take That, Once-Per-Game Abilities, Player Elimination, Deck, Bag, and Pool Building, Delayed Purchase |
| BGG Rank | 309 |
| Complexity | 1.84 / 5 |
| Language | Moderate in-game text - needs crib sheet or paste ups |
| Date | Location | Duration | Qty | Players | Scores | Winner | |
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2018-10-28 | – | 1 | Yashima | – |
My BGG Comment
Played @ SPIEL 2018. Basically the same as Star Realms but fantasy. If you like this style of deck/pool-building card game check out the hero packs and the coop campaign. However with those additions the game becomes quite expensive. And without it, I can just as well play Star Realms.