The pre-built decks are a fine on-ramp and I played my first several games that way, but this game really opens up once you start building decks yourself, choosing an aspect, aggression, protection, justice, leadership, that matches how you want your hero to actually play, and suddenly the same character feels completely different depending on the build you’ve put together. That deckbuilding layer is what’s kept this in rotation for me longer than most cooperative card games manage, because the replayability isn’t just new scenarios, it’s a genuinely different way to play the exact same hero.

Solo play surprised me the most. I don’t usually gravitate toward solo gaming, but this hits that “just one more game” rhythm better than almost anything else I’ve tried alone, quick enough to set up and resolve in under an hour that squeezing in a solo scenario before bed became a real habit for a while. The alt-ego and hero forms give it a real narrative shape too, most turns you can do something your partner in a two-player game can’t, and that asymmetric give and take between forms and between players is doing a lot of quiet design work under a theme that’s mostly there to be fun rather than deep.

I’ll echo a complaint I’ve seen from other players, that the game flow can feel a little too forgiving at points, minions rarely attack aggressively enough, side schemes don’t always trigger the pressure they’re clearly meant to, and there’s enough card draw in some builds that resource scarcity stops being a real constraint. It’s a genuinely good game that I think could be an even better one with a slightly tighter difficulty curve out of the box. As it stands, dripping with theme, built for comic fans specifically but not exclusive to them, and legitimately strong in both solo and cooperative multiplayer, it’s earned its shelf space many times over.