Toy Story: Obstacles and Adventures is a cooperative board game for 2-5 players in which players take on the role of one of their favorite Toy Story Characters and they’ll work together with their friends to overcome a series of dangerous and sometimes scary hazards. The game is designed to be played over a series of games, 6 to be exact but it’s challenging enough that you’ll probably play it more than 6 times before your team of ragtag heroes are able to overcome every challenge they’re faced with! 

At the start of the game each player takes their unique character card and their deck of cards and then they’ll draw 5 cards from it. These cards will have unique actions that can be taken on them as well as imagination tokens, which look like this, and insight tokens which look like this! 

The board will have an adventure track, which determines the game length, a danger stack which will present the players with  problems they’ll be facing, a hazard stack and an active hazard which will be the feats the players face and must overcome to win the game and finally the Adventure Stack and the available cards in the market. 

At the start of each players turn they’ll flip the top card of the danger stack & resolve the card. This can cause a number of actions to be taken. The token may move up on the adventure track, that players might lose health or the players might have to discard cards and one of the cards might even stop the players from drawing additional cards on their turn. 

On their turn the players will be playing the cards from their hands to receive the icons listed on them and then they’ll spend their turn deciding how to use them. The Insight can be placed on the various active hazards in an effort to work together and defeat them while the Imagination will be used to get new cards from the marketplace! 

The players goal is to overcome every card in the hazard stack before the token makes its way to the End Game Over space. In a race against the clock the players will need to be careful what they play and when, especially when it comes to adding cards to their decks! 

Now, I won’t spoil the other expansion boxes but if you are looking to play a 5 player game you’ll need to open boxes one and two so you have Jesse. This game is a spiritual successor to the Harry Potter Deck Building game but is definitely aimed toward a slightly younger audience but that doesn’t mean it’s easy to win! The first two times we played the first scenario we lost and had to try again! The game does a great job of balancing difficulty with simplicity that makes it easy to play, teach and explain.If you want to pick it up you can do so at your friendly local game store or you can click the link below and support us directly. Thanks so much for watching! Be Bold, Play Games, Be You! Happy Gaming!