Star Wars Villainous: Power of the Dark Side!

On your turn, you move your character to an adjacent location on your personal sector board, perform the available actions (play cards, deploy allies, collect ambitions), and draw up to four cards. With the Fate action, you draw two cards from an opponent's fate deck and play one onto their board — heroes and obstacles that slow down their plans. The Ambition system regulates the speed at which villains can achieve their victory condition, and ships in Deep Space offer additional actions. The first player to fulfill their unique victory condition wins.

Star Wars Villainous successfully expands the Villainous formula into a completely different universe, with new mechanisms that make the game more complex but also tactically richer than the Disney original. The five villains play fundamentally differently and are thematically well developed — Darth Vader's fate cards can both hinder and help him, Grievous' lightsaber hunt is mechanically satisfying. Reviewers appreciate the depth but warn that the learning curve is steeper than with Disney Villainous.