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Brave & Bold: Bag Building Combat Game (2026)

Players
2–6
Best: 2
Playing time
45–90 min
Age
8+
8.72
Average rating
187
Ratings
2.50/5
Weight
#10705
BGG rank
Outside top 5,000
Designer:Brad Zander
Publisher:Resurrection Games
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Game DNA
  • This game: Strategy 5, Luck 5, Interaction 7, Complexity 5, Theme 5
Strategy5.0
Luck5.0
Interaction7.0
Complexity5.0
Theme5.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

Comic Book / StripTeam-Based GameDeck, Bag, and Pool BuildingAction / EventCritical Hits and Failures

Overview

For over 65 years, the Justice League has stood as Earth’s last line of defense against impossible threats. In Brave & Bold, that legacy becomes a head-to-head test of skill, nerve, and mastery.

Brave & Bold is a competitive bag-building combat game where every turn is a calculated gamble. Players draw tokens from their personal arsenal—deciding whether to stop safely or push deeper for devastating combos. Push too far, and the game pushes back.

Unlike traditional deck-builders, Brave & Bold replaces cards with tactile tokens drawn blindly from a personal bag, creating constant uncertainty and dramatic momentum swings. Players must manage not only what goes into their bag, but when and how much to draw from it—turning every action into a calculated risk.

Each turn plays out as a tense push-your-luck skirmish between rivals, where you draw tokens from your arsenal (bag)— combat, agility, focus, resources, character boosts, and crises deciding whether to keep digging or stop and trigger your character’s ultimate combos.

Surviving the draw lets you spend tokens to unleash character specific abilities, trigger jaw-dropping combos, and acquire stronger tech from the Hall of Justice. Quick turns, escalating bags, and cinematic powers create a taut rhythm of risk, reward, and a spectacle worthy of your favourite superhero in every matchup.

Combat is fast, interactive, and highly asymmetric. Each player develops a unique engine over the course of the game, unlocking abilities, chaining effects, and building toward explosive finishing moments. Multiple game formats—from tense duels to large team battles—offer distinct strategic challenges while maintaining a tight competitive core.

Your goal is to be the last hero (or villain) standing. Your starting damage limit is defined by the game format. You win when you have defeated all other opponents first by injuring them, and then by reducing an injured opponent's damage limit to zero.

Designed with organized and competitive play in mind, Brave & Bold rewards skill, foresight, and adaptability. No two matches play the same, and victory belongs to the player who best balances aggression, restraint, and timing when it matters most.

Games unfold quickly but reward mastery. As bags evolve, strategies sharpen, and tension escalates, Brave & Bold delivers cinematic moments worthy of the DC Universe—whether in a tight 1v1 duel or a chaotic 3v3 team showdown.

About the game: 2-6 players in 1v1, 2v2 or 3v3 game formats. 45-minute playtime. First of its kind bag-building combat game focused on character skirmishes. 2-character sets and 8-character combat vault configurations with new character expansions coming out regularly. Push-your-luck style skirmishes where you draw tokens, allocate them to abilities, trigger damage and special combos. Build your bag by purchasing additional tokens each turn. Every character wins in a different way in how fast they move, how they apply pressure and how they recover when things go wrong.

The game is easy to learn, deep to master and stable for organized play.

—description from the publisher

Expansions

Brave & Bold: Supergirl & Lobo Expansion
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