| User | Rating | Min. Age | Adults Too | Comment |
| azboardgamer | 10 | 8 | Yes | My students love it. We have played a number of time during our boardgame club meetings. Additionally, there are some great spatial reasoning benefits to having students create the board from a set of directions. Plus, they have to read and dissect the special powers text on the card. |
| boltongeordie | 10 | 7 | Yes | A fantastic game which particularly appeals to boys. Simple rules, great minis, great scenery, expandability, replayability and some smashing fan-sites as well. If you have an 8-13 year old boy (or tomboy) and you want a great game for him/her to get obsessed by, look no further. |
| chaddyboy_2000 | 10 | | | Oh yeah! Kids love just setting up the map for this one. It almost doubles as a cool lego type toy with some action figures! |
| cindy | 10 | 8 | No | Fantastic components and theme for children. Not a lot of game here, more of a toy than a game. That being said ourt son spends hours and hours constructing landscapes and fighting mythic battles. Bores me to tears but well worth the investment for him and his friends |
| davebo | 10 | | | Has it all. Watch out though if you have Collector Disorder, lots to buy here.
Recommended for boys 8 and up. |
| deadboy222 | 10 | 10 | Yes | This is actually pretty fun! We played with my cousin (aged 10) and his friend (aged 12), we were 32 and 31. The minis drew them in |
| ed95005 | 10 | 8 | Yes | The must-have game for boys (and their fathers). |
| erik2point0 | 10 | 8 | Yes | Preteen male heaven. |
| Jatoha | 10 | | | Great game with loads of replay value. We love it. Some people may find this game a little too violent. |
| jcarvin | 10 | 8 | Yes | One of my favorite games that just happens to extremely popular with boys in 8-14 range. The game is also highly accessable since you can pick up the game and the expansions at Walmart, Target and TRU. |
| jiffypop | 10 | 6 | Yes | Great terrain, great minis, easy gameplay. Lots of luck, but also lots of fun. |
| jim.brooks10 | 10 | 8 | Some | This game has great components and I would have loved this as a kid myself. As an adult, I'd rather play this than just about any other kids game. |
| laraberrycross | 10 | 7 | Yes | Building the lego-like terrain is half the fun. The pieces are cool and the game is easy to learn. |
| Mark | 10 | 10 | Some | My non-gamer friends bought this for their 8-year old, but said it was too complicated for him. They do have older boys, and they thought 12 years was a good minimum age for this game. |
| mcross | 10 | 8 | Yes | Easy to learn, fun to set up and even funner to play. |
| Merkle | 10 | | | For a boy who can read fairly well (8 and above?) this game is every boy's dream---cool armies with neat guys. Its playing army with lego type set with basic (but understandable) rules. |
| reapersaurus | 10 | 3 | Yes | My son literally bit/tore through the outside of the box under the table when he was 3 to play with the figures some more. :) Kids (and fun-minded adults) just can't help but have fun with this family-friendly imagination-sparking game. I have seen kids of all ages enjoy the game on their level - younger kids simply play their own made-up games with the figures, while 8+ can play the basic game easy enough (probably 6+ even) and many 8+ kids can start playing the advanced game (simply flip the cards over).
Heroscape is the game many of us wish was around when we were young. |
| runehardt | 10 | 8 | Yes | This is a wonderful game.
The game play is very simple. I have two daughters (10 and 12) The twelve year old enjoys it a lot and has been playing with me for around 1 year. The younger one is not that interested, although it is just not something she enjoys but she could play it well if she fealt like it. A neighbor comes over and plays on occasion and he started playing at 8 years old. The only thing that might be difficult for the younger kids is coming up with good quality armies. They might just pick the figures they like and not notice the enhancements they get with certain combinations. |
| sigmazero13 | 10 | 8 | Some | An excellent choice for kids. Easy to learn even the advanced rules, with enough variety in the figures to appeal to almost every kids' tastes. Almost like playing with action figures, but in a structured way that also helps kids build strategies for later on with heavier games! |
| akambe | 9 | 8 | Yes | If ever there was a game where you could kiss the cool figures good-bye, it's this one. The smaller kids in my family LOVE the high-quality, detailed characters, and the pieces are too often found well outside the box, in strategic attack positions (or in death throes) all over the house. IF you can corral the pieces and keep them in the box, it's an excellent setup. The tiles fit like puzzle pieces into each other, and the stackable designs add a three-dimensional aspect that alters gameplay considerably. The tiles that have multiple hexes stuck together make it fast to set up a new board. And my kids can alter it all they want to. It has simple & advanced rule sets, so you can get up & running quickly. Requires you to really think through which fighters you want, depending on your own particular fighting style. The most confusing aspect of the game (for me) was the squads, and how they do battle, but it's not hopeless, just needs some extra thorough reading. Great game. |
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