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Munchkin Board Game Buying Guide

Comic-style art appears across video games and

. In the 1980s, my childhood was filled with several of these stylized games that integrated comic characters into their gameplay. While Steve Jackson’s cartoonish dungeon crawler Munchkin wasn’t around back then, it is certainly a game I find myself returning to for nostalgia and silliness here and there.

Munchkin is a cartoon foray into a dungeon featuring a cast of characters from fantasy and reality. The card game is filled with comical art and often witty banter that will have you laughing and probably rolling your eyes at some of the dad jokes.

Munchkin Gameplay

Gameplay for Munchkin is fairly quick and simple. You start as an ordinary human with a few cards in your initial arsenal of goodies. The cards in your hand, along with others you’ll pick up as you play, help you navigate 10 floors of a dungeon by giving you attributes of a specific class and arming you to fight the monsters you’ll encounter. You’ll employ various zany antics and characteristics against formidable foes as you compete against other players, kicking in doors to fight monsters and gaining loot to increase your power throughout the dungeon run. Which player will reign victoriously in the end? The journey is yours to discover in Munchkin.

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Your mission, if you choose to accept it, is to battle your way through the dungeon and get to level 10 before your counterparts. Kick in the door and start fighting across plenty of different versions of comical shenanigans.

Munchkin (Core Game)

Munchkin (Core Game)

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  • MSRP: $29.95 USD
  • 3-6 Players (best with 3)
  • 60-120 minutes
  • Ages 10+

The base card game of Munchkin is a fantasy dungeon crawler that incorporates the types of characters that you might expect to help you along your quest. It also has a few that you might not expect, with fantasy monsters that go beyond dragons to plants and even lawyers.

Munchkin Expansions

While Munchkin has a considerable number of expansions, there are five that pair with any base game.

Munchkin 2 – Unnatural Axe

Munchkin 2 – Unnatural Axe

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Contents: 112 more cards, including orc race, new armor, allies, new weapons

  • MSRP: $19.95 USD
  • 3-6 Players (best with 3)
  • 60-120 minutes
  • Ages 10+

This expansion can be played with the original base game as well as Munchkin Conan or Munchkin Pathfinder. Unnatural Axe adds the orc race to the game, as well as new armor, new allies, and some zany new weapons.

Munchkin 3 – Clerical Errors

Munchkin 3 – Clerical Errors

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Contents: 112 cards, including bards, gnomes, new monsters, new armor, five comic artist-created expansion exclusive special items

  • MSRP: $24.95 USD
  • 3-6 Players (best with 3)
  • 60-120 minutes
  • Ages 10+

Clerical Errors adds gnomes as a playable race. It also adds my personal favorite of an archetype class – bards. There is new armor. There are new monsters. There are also five uniquely designed items, each designed by comic artists.

Munchkin 4 – The Need For Steed

Munchkin 4 – The Need For Steed

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