My main issue with the Heroquest expansions is that the cards inside the boxes have no icons whatsoever to indicate the expansion they belong to. Which I find so frustrating when I have to sort them back into their boxes because pretty much every board game with expansions today has them and it shouldn’t be an issue money-wise to add. Plus when you’re spending big bucks on a product of Hasbro you’d expect it to be well thought out, organised and have some quality of life at least to make it up for the cost. Unless I’m missing something.

The beauty about hero quest is also being able to improve more challenge or change anything up as wished, thats what i do :) if a quest seems a little lackluster just change it up a little as you go.

Daniel does his "due diligence" with a dive into HeroQuest product old & new, and we all benefit from his hard work. Thank you!

regarding storage: everything released so far including all the crowdfunding bonuses will fit into the core box once you get rid of those terrible plastic trays. :) (i know this because i have promised my wife that i'll only buy as much HQ as can fit in the one box, and i haven't stopped buying stuff yet....)

It's great they keep expanding this game. Recently a new out on the market. 🎉

FYI to all HeroQuesters, Rise of the Dread Moon just went live on the app!

Loving these videos. I have the base game coming Monday cannot wait to start

Hey all Divers, and good evening. :) I hope everyone had a great weekend. Thank you, Daniel, for covering all the HQ stuff. Enjoying this and loving it! TY for everything you do. Have a great day all, stay safe, happy gaming,t talk to you soon. :)

All the expansions! That is a huge (money) commitment for the video series :) Now that you showed it all, i think the one area Heroquest did better than its spirital successors like shadow over Hammerhal or Altar Quest etc is the Homebrew friendly nature. The simplicity / toy nature of the game means even children can come up with house rules and the new hasbro expansions just means a lot of new toy for kids to play with.

Am sooo happy that HeroQuest is BACK on the Menu! I got myself all the expansion packs and with a tweak, a houserule and some more players together this will be a GREAT time ^^

Stellar review man. As someone who got introduced to tabletop gaming partially through HQ, this game has a special place in my heart and collection. While I still have some of the old stuff, and even managed to get Against the Ogre Horde for a reasonable price, I was never able to get my hands on the other rare expansions. Been on the fence as to whether I should get the new ones just so I can finally have a version of them. This vid was really helpful seeing what exactly you get with each one. Thanks!

thanks for the vid ,Looking forward to buy all these expansions the next few days and start drawing my own cards and stuff. I really liked the comment about spinal tap! you nailed it!

Great video! Back in the day I only had the base game, so this new edition has been a dream come true for me. I am playing mostly solo with the app and I'm enjoying a lot (but I control myself the monsters with my own pseudo-AI system and giving them some special abilities) Looking forward to the 3rd part!!

Don't agree with your Review but like your enthusiasm for it.

Thank you for the overview of the products. I'm really excited to see the mods for the game. I haven't had a chance to dive into those but love the base game.

Not sure if they missed the mark with keeping the game and the first two expansions true to the original. I think there are those in the HQ community that would have balked (despite the flaws) if they deviated too much too early on. Moving forward though, I do hope to see more creativity and new stuff.

I'm very keen to pick up a new HQ and some expansions. Partly for a maze to use with my AHQ and also as the stand-alone game. Kellers Keep and Return of the With Lord are only about £22 each in UK and the main game about £70 - so fairly good value IMO. I have a lot of original HQ mins I picked up on ebay cheap in job-lots over recent months so may swap out the new minis for the classic old ones. As a kid I used to paly this a lot but not for about 25 years!

To be fair, we generally all played it rules as written until we ran out of quests. THEN we started modifying it & adding to it to keep things different. I don't think anyone got the Boxed sets for the first time & said "let us only play with these house rules that just appeared fully formed in my head".

❤ the cool thing is you can make your own quests

As a long time follower I knew you couldn't resist this title much longer, BUT, an impressive peaceful protest up until now none-the-less. May your views and subscribes ascend!

I use stairs to BREAK UP line of sight. My Heroes cannot see what is up the stairs. Otherwise, the stairs are literally useless.

I got the mythic tier when it came out which was fantastic because i never got to play Kellars Keep & Return of the witch Lord as we never got them in NZ

Love this series! Not a game for me I think, but such an interesting look at what’s out there.

Not to rush you or anything but I can't wait for part 3 to see your solo rules.

Great video. But I think you missed the point of including more green skins and undead in Kellars Keep and Return of The Witch Lord. The "power" of these creatures lay in their ability to horde, something 3 skeletons can hardly do. When I bought these expansions during HQ's original release back in the 90s, I was pleased to add to my legions of green skins and undead. Of course, not as excited as I would later be about the entirely new monsters of the Elf and Barbarian quest packs. Your point isn't invalid. Just a little short-sighted...maybe.

Where's episode 3? I'm at the edge of my seat! ;-)

Really cool!

Only one I'm missing currently is Rise of the Dread Moon. Can't afford it right now but I'm hoping I can get it one day. Same for the Ogre Horde when it comes out. Things are tight right now.

Loving this coverage. Have you checked out the Rogue Heir character expansion? The difference from the new heroes to the original 4 is so stark. I really do hope they eventually go back and add skills and upgrades to the original 4.

True, many fans house rule HeroQuest, but I believe the casuals stick to the rules more and there are usually more casuals then superfans imho. I think BGG and other fan sites may give false impressions that house ruling is more prevalent than it is since the superfans are generally more vocal on sites like that.

Sir, when my wife finally discovers my new HeroQuest stash in the garage, I shall promptly blame thee. Good day.

I bought every expansion, however my core box is in Polish language (as my natural), but people don't interesting much of this title in my country, so I decided to mixed two language versions. I hope there will be no important differences in card quality (e.g., like colours).

Sorry if it’s been asked already. But can you use the cards like artefacts from the expansion in the main game. Just shuffle them into those decks ??

Keeping just about everything the way it was is extremely important to the product and legacy of the product. Sure more advanced things have come but they are not heroquest. And adding new rules is purely up to the player as it was 30 years ago when supplements were coming out and as the internet blossomed in the 90s bet your bottom dollar so did the community and sharing ideas. You yourself have said you have no attachment to this piece of actual board game history when many many many more do have that. And to buy the og content again after all these years and not pay scalpers is an amazing thing and it's done well for them. That is the reason why the product to you feels old because it is. But there is 30 years of fan addition to go through which adds so much great content and changes the way. But if they were to release this not the way it was it wouldn't have sold well.

Awesome

App not available in EU?! Weird.

considering how few of the minis you get in base set, some extra minis is good. You don't have the Rogue set?

Honestly. I'de be fine with the repeat enemies in the expansion if they used alt sculpts for them.

I don't like the app either & so I don't use it. I've been using solo rules from BBG. I may just be Zargon & run a friend through the book adventures just to see what it's like (never played them). On top of HeroQuest, it looks like you have a lot of cool stuff for 4AD now too 😄

huh huh huh twist wood

As of writing this, 666 likes. Don’t anyone dare change that!

Is there a reason why the third video is hidden?

Are you going to cover descent 2nd edition with similar depth ? I would like to know your thoughts on that game vs his one and to be covered as deeply as this one. Also what do you think about key to the kingdom the new vs the old edition.

Witch lord and Kellers Keep were simple because they were betas. Tests. At the time no clue where the game was going

in the frozen horror is female barbarian the only option ?

Daniel, you lamented the fact that the enemies in the core game do not have ranged abilities, but you didn't highlight (I may have missed it) the ranged enemies in the later expansions; starting with the Mercenary Crossbowman (ally/foe) in The Frozen Horror set & the Elven Archer in The Mage of the Mirror. Just sayin'. I have never played HeroQuest.

The inserts for Heroquest are horrible. The miniatures get stuck and if you paint them you can’t really put them back in those inserts anymore without damaging them.

All these expansions seem so bad, not thought through and just crappy in general. Sad that you can be missing half your brain and still release expansions to a pretty good game like Hero Quest.

You really need to warn about your spoilers. Also I don't understand why you are reviewing it from the perspective of your own way of playing solo as this is irrelevant to most people .

I don't really understand why you criticize expansions for lacking new content. It's a reprint! The things that were lacking or bad in the original, will be just the same in the new one.

25:51 how the FUDGE can you even get through all that?!!!