Villainous: Sugar and Spite is the newest standalone expansion to Ravensburger’s Disney Villainous board game series, adding 2 new villains to play as. Now, you can choose to play as King Candy from “Wreck-It-Ralph” or Shere Khan from “The Jungle Book”. The new expansion is less expensive, but also only contains 2 new villains instead of 3. As with the other Villanous games, each player chooses a villain to control and tries to accomplish their goal of what good villains do. Ravensburger continues to produce more standalone expansions to help players find their best villain and successfully complete their evil plans. We anticipate the next announcement trying to guess what new villains will be in their next expansion.
What’s In The Box?
- 2 Villain Movers (King Candy, and Shere Khan)
- 2 Villain Decks (30 cards each)
- 2 Fate Decks (15 cards each)
- 2 Reference Cards
- 1 Racer Token
- 4 Fire Tokens
- 2 Realm Boards
- 2 Villain Guides
- 15 Strength Tokens
- 25 Power Tokens
How’s It Play?
To start, each player takes a unique villain deck each time they play the game, and each player has different rules and ways to win the game specific to their chosen villain. In addition, each player has a unique board specific to their villain, usually with 4 different locations, although King Candy has only 1 location (a twist!). Players start by shuffling their villain deck and drawing 4 cards to form their starting hand.
Players take turns moving their mover on their player board to new locations and taking their actions. Again, each player has unique boards with all different actions. Sometimes cards cover icons that limit possible actions that can be performed. Players gain power tokens, playing cards, playing a fate card from another player’s fate deck to make it harder for them to complete their goal, moving items or allies, and maybe even defeating a hero.
With King Candy, you need to get Vanellope Von Schweetz to glitch and then beat her in a race. Shere Khan needs to find and then defeat Mowgli with no fire tokens being out on the board. Both new characters involve finding someone in the fate deck, which kind of matches each other in a way, so when going head to head with these two means they have that in common.
The Verdict
Although these villains were not as exciting at first, after learning their mechanics, they grew on us and have been one of the more exciting villains to play.
King Candy is the most unique villain for the game so far. You have an figure 8 race track and you can decide to move from 1-4 spaces each turn. Really you have just one location altogether using different actions and moving around on the track. Half of the actions are on top, where the hero cards are placed, and half are on the bottom. So if cards are blocking your movement, you might not get any movements that turn. King Candy wants to find Vanellope Von Schweetz, cause her to glitch out, and then beat her in a race. Candy Cy-bug helps and kind of gain strength as they help. It’s a balance to play because you need Vanellope Von Schweetz to glitch to win, but generally it’s not good as it puts her ahead.
Shere Khan is facing off against Mowgli, who moves around and places fire tokens on new locations and blocks action spaces on the bottom. Baloo gains power tokens when you defeat another hero, so you need to decide to go after Baloo before the others or how else you want to go about dealing with him. Monkeys are a good way to help get rid of the fire tokens, but some other cards help with that as well.
My son’s favorite is Kaa, because the more cards on it, more powerful he becomes. Also, he loves doing the eye trance. Overall you might have a hard time dealing with the other heroes, as they are strong, but Mowgli is actually pretty weak, with only a power of 2. This matches the story pretty darn good.
As for the components, the villain tokens are amazing, just like the others. They’re chunky and feel good to move. The inserts in the box reflect the King Candy theme, and it looks great with all the sprinkles. The art looks great and updated especially the Jungle Book art.
This is a good addition to all the different villains you can play as in the Villainous series, and I would recommend it if you are looking for a more advanced characters or if these villains might be one of your personal favorites. You should always check out the villain you gravitate to.
You can grab a copy of Disney Villainous: Sugar & Spite from Ravensburger, Target (which has an exclusive box cover and game piece), or your FLGS at an MSRP of $19.99.
Images via Ravensburger
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