Maniacal

About this board game

Maniacal is a strategy game for 2–5 aspiring supervillains, with games lasting about 120 minutes. Choose one of five villains, each with unique abilities and weaknesses, then compete to become the most infamous villain in the world.

Begin by building a secret base through drafting from more than seventy different rooms. Construct a Robotics Lab, Massage Parlor, Torture Chamber, Planetarium, or Intrinsic Field Chamber to create a lair unlike any other. Your rooms attract four types of henchmen: Beasts, Criminals, Scientists, and Mystics.

Once your crew is assembled, assign henchmen to evil contracts posted around the globe. You might become a local warlord in Asia, steal a nuclear warhead in Europe, or build a floating fortress of doom in South America. Each contract offers the chance to earn infamy and money, but distance matters: the farther a mission is from your secret base, the more weeks it takes and the fewer contracts you can complete in a round.

• Draft from over seventy unique rooms to shape your secret base.
• Attract and recruit Beasts, Criminals, Scientists, and Mystics.
• Send henchmen on contracts across Asia, Europe, South America, and beyond.
• Manage time, earn infamy and money, and deal with the consequences of failure.

Failed contracts can leave a henchman injured or captured—or unexpectedly grant them a superpower. Along the way, you can hire mercenaries, hatch schemes, and chastise your lackey. Build your lair, assemble your crew, and complete as many missions as possible in Maniacal before history remembers another villain instead.