King of Tokyo
About
Play as your favorite movie monster and win by being the first to achieve 20 points or kill all of your opponents.
Thoughts
Tim:
4/5 Very Good
This is one that has been played many times, but after a recent pay with the work board game group I realize I never put up a page. It's still a fun game that is easy to learn and fast to play. About my only compliant is that wining by killing the other players is very infrequent and almost all games seem to be won on points.
Laura:
4/5
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Expanded Thoughts
The multiple victory conditions is what makes this game. Many times you will be playing and realize that you are too far behind on points and that you need to switch strategies. While it's still the luck of the dice you still have some options and going all in with being in Tokyo dealing out damage to everyone in a last bid for victory is still fun.
As I said before it would be nice if the balance between winning on points vs wining by fighting was more even but maybe that could be fixed with a house rule capping everyone's max health at 8 instead of 10. I also recommend removing a few power cards that I think are unbalanced (Which of course I can't find now).
Interesting I discovered they released an expansion pack back in 2012 which adds unique powers for each of the monsters. I'll have to look into that a bit more.
5/24/2025