2014Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle
- Videos
- 80
- Creators
- 58
2 players20 minLight weight

2016Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle
Mostly reviews and playthroughs. Hero Realms is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 29 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 25 recorded sessions, 1 unboxings, and 10 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed deck-building game that is an adaptation of the award-winning Star Realms game. The game includes basic rules for two-player games, along with rules for multiplayer formats such as Free-For-All, Hunter, and Hydra. Each player starts the game with a ten-card personal deck containing gold (for buying) and weapons (for combat). You start each turn with a new hand of five cards from your personal deck. When your deck runs out of cards, you shuffle your discard pile into your new deck. An 80-card Market deck is shared by all players, with five cards being revealed from that deck to create the Market Row. As you play, you use gold to buy champion cards and action cards from the Market. These champions and actions can generate large amounts of gold, combat, or other powerful effects. You use combat to attack your opponent and their champions. When you reduce your opponent's score (called health) to zero, you win! Multiple expansions are available for Hero Realms that allow players to start as a particular character (Cleric, Fighter, Ranger, Thief, or Wizard) and fight cooperatively against a Boss, fight Boss decks against one another, or compete in a campaign mode that has you gain experience to work through different levels of missions.
Hero Realms has 71 videos from 48 creators: 29 reviews, 6 how-to-play guides, 25 playthroughs, 1 unboxing and 10 other videos. They date from 2016 to February 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "Hero Realms - How To Play, by Watch It Played" by Watch It Played, which runs 17 min. For a quicker teach, "Hero Realms How to play" by Toucan Play that Game runs 7 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Hero Realms Review - with Sam Healey" by The Dice Tower. 26 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Hero Realms - Play Through, by Watch It Played" by Watch It Played, one of 25 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Star Realms, Star Realms: Frontiers, Robot Quest Arena and Ascension: Deckbuilding Game, also by Robert Dougherty. It appears in convention videos from Gen Con 2016.
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2014Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle
2 players20 minLight weight
2018Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle
1 - 4 players20 - 45 minLight weight
2023Robert Dougherty, CJ Moynihan, Paul Waite
2 - 4 players30 - 60 minMedium weight
2010Robert Dougherty, John Fiorillo, Justin Gary, Brian M. Kibler
1 - 4 players30 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Hero Realms is a fantasy-themed deck-building game that is an adaptation of the award-winning Star Realms game. The game includes basic rules for two-player games, along with rules for multiplayer formats such as Free-For-All, Hunter, and Hydra. Each player starts the game with a ten-card personal deck containing gold (for buying) and weapons (for combat). You start each turn with a new hand of five cards from your personal deck. When your deck runs out of cards, you shuffle your discard pile into your new deck. An 80-card Market deck is shared by all players, with five cards being revealed from that deck to create the Market Row. As you play, you use gold to buy champion cards and action cards from the Market. These champions and actions can generate large amounts of gold, combat, or other powerful effects. You use combat to attack your opponent and their champions. When you reduce your opponent's score (called health) to zero, you win! Multiple expansions are available for Hero Realms that allow players to start as a particular character (Cleric, Fighter, Ranger, Thief, or Wizard) and fight cooperatively against a Boss, fight Boss decks against one another, or compete in a campaign mode that has you gain experience to work through different levels of missions.
Designers
Robert Dougherty, Darwin Kastle
Artists
Randy Delven, Vito Gesualdi, Richard Hanuschek, Antonis Papantoniou
Publisher
Wise Wizard Games
Mechanics