2016Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, Sean Sweigart
- Videos
- 107
- Creators
- 50
3 players180 minHeavy weight

2023John Cadice, John Kovaleski
Mainly reviews. Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery is covered on BoardGameVideo.com by 5 reviews, 1 how-to-play guides, 2 recorded sessions, 2 unboxings, and 2 other videos.
From BoardGameGeek
Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery! is a co-operative combat-action board game. You and a team of Vault Hunters enter Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery to face off against his collection of skags, bandits, and assorted psychos. You can play a one-off battle filled with explosions, slaughter-splosions, sauce-plosions, and loot-splosions!!! Or play a series of deadly fights in campaign-mode that will see your Vault Hunter level up between games. Visit vending machines to buy better gear, advance your character using unique skill trees, equip epic new guns, and enter the next game even more BADASS than before!!! Just make sure you're tough enough to take on the final boss, an Ultimate Murder-Machine, hellbent on sending you back to the borderlands as moist and meaty skag-snacks. Borderlands is a cooperative, campaign based game, where players must defeat the hordes of bandits, skags, and other challenges Mr. Torgue throws at you to prove you are Ultimate Badasses. You are Vault Hunters who have stumbled into Torgue's Tournament, a violent gladiator pit. You can play this game as a one-off or as a series of scenarios that link together to form a campaign. After each scenario, you will be able to visit the vending machine, mod your character, and enter the next scenario even more badass than before. During the last scenario in the campaign, you will fight a boss. Survive and you win!
Review
Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery has 12 videos from 11 creators: 5 reviews, 1 how-to-play guide, 2 playthroughs, 2 unboxings and 2 other videos. They date from 2021 to November 2025.
To learn the rules, start with "How to play Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery" by JestaThaRogue, which runs 20 min.
For an opinion before you buy, start with "Learn to Play Presents: A Kickstarter overview for Borderlands Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery" by Learn to Play Games. 5 creators have reviewed it. To see it played, watch "Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena | Playthrough | With Mike | Review copy provided" by One Stop Co-op Shop, one of 2 playthroughs.
If you like it, try Star Trek: Ascendancy, Firefly: The Game, Cyberpunk Red: Combat Zone and Spartacus: A Game of Blood and Treachery, also by John Kovaleski.
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2016Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, Sean Sweigart
3 players180 minHeavy weight
2013Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, Sean Sweigart
1 - 4 players120 - 240 minHeavy weight
2023John Cadice, Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski
2 - 4 players45 - 90 minMedium weight
2012Aaron Dill, John Kovaleski, Sean Sweigart
3 - 4 players120 - 180 minMedium weight
From BoardGameGeek:
Borderlands: Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery! is a co-operative combat-action board game. You and a team of Vault Hunters enter Mister Torgue's Arena of Badassery to face off against his collection of skags, bandits, and assorted psychos. You can play a one-off battle filled with explosions, slaughter-splosions, sauce-plosions, and loot-splosions!!! Or play a series of deadly fights in campaign-mode that will see your Vault Hunter level up between games. Visit vending machines to buy better gear, advance your character using unique skill trees, equip epic new guns, and enter the next game even more BADASS than before!!! Just make sure you're tough enough to take on the final boss, an Ultimate Murder-Machine, hellbent on sending you back to the borderlands as moist and meaty skag-snacks. Borderlands is a cooperative, campaign based game, where players must defeat the hordes of bandits, skags, and other challenges Mr. Torgue throws at you to prove you are Ultimate Badasses. You are Vault Hunters who have stumbled into Torgue's Tournament, a violent gladiator pit. You can play this game as a one-off or as a series of scenarios that link together to form a campaign. After each scenario, you will be able to visit the vending machine, mod your character, and enter the next scenario even more badass than before. During the last scenario in the campaign, you will fight a boss. Survive and you win!
Designers
John Cadice, John Kovaleski
Artists
Katie Dillon, Jose David Lanza Cebrian
Publisher
Monster Fight Club
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