Bag of Dungeon 2 - The Cursed Forest Board Game (1-4 Players) | Complete Game and Expansion | Simple-to-Play | Fantasy Adventure Game | 1st Edition

I've got too many board games, many of a similar theme (RPG dungeons and monsters)Some can be too complex and time consuming, BOD2 scores points due to being quick to set up and play, rules are easy enough to understand, the artwork is endearing and sets the scene.Quality wise it's nicely presented and the velvet bags are lovely.My wife and I completed it on first go although she had a few lucky critical hits , it was well balanced and fast paced. I like it as a short fun accessable game, easy to show others.It's not aiming to compete with Gloomhaven or Andor (both also great) but if you favour ease and speed this is a great choice

Had a good time playing this game, it starts off slowly but by the end it really feels like you're in a boss battle. It's easy to understand, the rules are clear with immersive artwork and an interesting story.Originally I was missing a piece, but the company were quick to respond to my communication and did their best to replace it. (Thanks Tim!)In short, it's a really fun game in a compact box, from a UK company, so pretty great. Looking forward to getting the first game and the expansions soon!

Compact game which is easy to get started but equally provides challenging twists and turns that keep the interest of both children and adults. Looking forward to playing again.

Great expansion. Can also be played by itself. Brings a lot more to the original game. A lot of fun if dungeon crawlers are your thing.

This "can be" played by itself... im not disputing that. This game has a lot more strong monsters, more devastating tiles, traps,and obstacles than BOD. It also has strong items, causing it to make RNG have an exaggerated effect on a precarious situation. If you dont get a good item quick or you draw a stong monster on your litteral 1st tile, you will probably lose. That's fine, that's fun. But if you use BOD2 in correlation with BOD you will see it is truly an expansion that "can be" but shouldn't be played on its own. This game is amazing! Very well imagined, and executed. Printed on sturdy thick cardstock and punched with precision accuracy, these pieces look great. The wooden dice, not so much. Cheap and a couple aren't stamped in the center. They work, but I use different d6's. I HAVE A COUPLE ISSUES... the rules could have been expressed better by adding only a few more pages, expanding on explanations. Luckily some people on YouTube, including the game designer have made videos trying to show how to play. The problem is that even these videos have some mistakes in them, such as forgetting that rolling doubles is a critical role for an adventurer. Even the videos I saw with the creator didn't cover things such as how ranged attacks are intended to occur. I purchased both bod and bod2 . Both rule booklets are at times ambiguous. I surprisingly enjoy and hate this because it then lays the rule interpretation at the feet of the players. Literally reading the rule in a certain way or not paying mind to just one single word can drastically change the understanding of the rule. After a fun, but seemingly "off" playthrough I decided I would try to figure out what went wrong. Now I can say that with proper understanding of the rules and setup, it is one the most fun and entertaining board games in a very large collection!

Bought this for my son who wanted to try an RPG game. I did research and landed on this one. I was not wrong in my choice. It is a great game, so simple to learn without being too simple. It takes very little to get into it. It doesnt require a college degree to play and all you need is around an hour and half to play. All 3 of my kids are into as am I. Great opportunity for me to spend time with them. We also got the second version of this series and it is alot of fun too. It was worth my money and I look forward to a 3rd installment. Hats of to the crew at Gunpowder Studios for concocting this one.

Bought both the original and 2 together, but started playing 2 at first. Let’s just say the first play through luck was against me. Part of it was just bad luck the other is slight flaws in game design. Bad luck was with the rolls; bad choices to run in to melee playing the wizard(which is a slightly flawed design character); but also with the monster draws the deck is slightly stacked against players. Perhaps the monsters were designed to more force players to team up against them, but overall there are a greater number of difficult monsters (2 Dice+ in attack) than not difficult. Also most of the not difficult monsters don’t have the hit point threshold to award a treasure upon defeating. Being a cooperative board game you can fudge the dice rolls if you really want, but needing to cheat to have any chance of winning isn’t really that fun either.The game designers should really consider slight modifications to the game to favor players, but still give a slight chance of failure.Quick Ideas that had are:Increase the ratio of weaker enemies, and set treasure thresholds lower.Give players an advantage on the dice with them getting D8’s OR giving monsters D4’sThe game is great, but if you’re also trying to make it a family friendly game you should definitely adopt some house rules to make it less likely you’ll have kids rage quitting and never wanting to play again.

I like the concept of this game and how it plays. It allows me to play a light tile-laying dungeon crawler in a short amount of time relatively speaking. It is quick and easy to set up and put away. As others have commented, I found that the rulebook for this game leaves out necessary gameplay explanations. Watching videos of how to play the game by the designers of the game didn't clear matters up for me either. For example, I'm not clear about the ring and how you take it from another player. There are set up instructions that are clearly shown in the creator's videos that did not make it into to the rulebook. I don't like that more robust explanations of how gameplay works are not provided. That is why the game doesn't rate a 5. This is definitely a game where there are just come areas where you are going to wonder if you are playing the game right and just accept that you are- "house rules, rule the table."

Such a good game. It's easy to pick up and learn. We have played this game for hours and it is always a good time.