Hellboy: The Board Game
Hell to play
Designer: James M. Hewitt, Sophie Williams | Artist: Jose David Lanza Cebrian, Mike Mignola
Hellboy:The Board Game lands with the punch of the Right Hand of Doom.
Released in time with the new cinematic reboot of the series, but hewing closer tonally and visually to Mike Mignola’s original comics, Sophie Williams and James Hewitt’s rompy dungeon-crawler pits the agents of the B.R.P.D. against evil frogs, eldritch tentacle monsters and, worst, the ticking clock of encroaching doom. Mignola was himself involved in producing the look of the game – and it shows.The cards and player boards are faithful to the comic-book artwork, while the purple, turquoise and blue hues of the garish map tiles that make up each modular layout are a breath of fresh air against the dank dungeons and murky forests of so many bland dungeon-crawlers.