1. Operation Spider-Man Edition board game (Marvel board game rating: 6/10)

The game tries to cure Spider-Man’s 11 ailments before it’s too late. These include webbed foot, spider pennies, a radioactive spider bite, and many others. With each successful trade, you earn a certain amount of money. The doctor with the most money by the time Spider-Man is better wins the game.

2. Chutes and Ladders Superhero Squad (Rating 8/10)

Use your favorite Marvel superhero to race to the top just like you would in the popular and traditional ramps and stairs board game. As always, the stairs will take you forward and the ramps will take you down. The first player to reach the goal wins the game.

3. Marvel Matching Game (Rating 6/10)

This is another classic matching game, but it features your favorite Marvel superheroes (and villains) on the cards.

4. Marvel Heroes (8/10)

This 2006 Marvel board game is played by 2-4 players (best played with four players) ages 12 and up. Players control a team of superheroes (i.e. the X-Men, Avengers, Fantastic Four, and Marvel Knights) and the respective team’s archenemy (Magneto, Red Skull, Dr. Doom, and Kingpin). Individual players obtain collaborators, opponents and power-ups and fight against the villains controlled by the other players.

This set includes plastic figures of various heroes and villains (nemesis) from the board game Marvel. Each character is represented by these figures and character cards (cards that describe the special abilities of the characters). Each character has a different incarnation and they are all included in the game.

5. A Marvel Deck Building Game (Rating 8/10)

This game is a 2012 board game played by one to five players (best with three players) ages 14 and over. Players choose an instigating villain (eg, Loki, Magneto, Dr. Doom, etc.), stack the villain’s cards (attack), and then modify the deck according to the villain’s plan. Players will then choose superhero decks (eg, Thor, Cyclops, Spider-Man, etc.) and shuffle them. Throughout the game, the hero deck varies because players only use a handful of hero cards.

A player will want to build a stronger deck of heroes, so they will compose as powerful a collection of hero cards as possible. To recruit more heroes, a player will need to increase their recruiting powers. To fight the villains and achieve success, the player will have to increase his fighting ability.

There are five cards from which a player can recruit his heroes. The player reveals a villain (adding him to the villain row). This continues with all players until the limited slots for villains are filled. When they fill up, the villain who has been in line the longest escapes, making room for the next player’s villain.

When a villain first appears, he can take an action (harm an innocent). The villain deck includes “masterstroke” cards that allow the instigating villain (mastermind) to take an additional action.

By defeating the villains, players accumulate points, which are then counted at the end of the game.