Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances First Impressions

Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances sees Disney characters beat each other up.

Can Mickey Mouse fend off Gaston?

Become the next Master Summoner in the battle arena game Disney Sorcerer’s Arena: Epic Alliances, an expandable tabletop game inspired by the popular mobile game Disney Sorcerer’s Arena.

Disney Sorcerer’s Arena Game Overview

Quick Rules Summary

Players control 2 (or more) Disney characters and use cards to move around an arena to attack, defend and play abilities.

How do you win?

If a character starts their turn on a golden space they get a point, if they KO an opponent they get points depending on that character.

Most points wins.

Main Mechanisms

Just card-driven combat.

USP

Disney isn’t a unique theme, this was the first of 3 Disney-themed games I played at this one UK Games Expo.

Also, it’s very similar to Super Fantasy Brawl which was Kickstarted 2 years earlier.

Theme

Disney.

Setup

Lay a bunch of stuff out and shuffle the two characters you have chosen’s decks together.

There are a bunch of power, buff and debuff tokens to layout which I’m guessing would take some time.

Components & Artwork

I didn’t mind the components, I like those transparent plastic standees.

It’s Disney art so it’s pretty good. It’s nice to look at.

Ease of Teaching

This will be very easy to teach. Although the hands of cards are hidden, they are very straightforward.

Similar Games

I’ve already mentioned Super Fantasy Brawl, but games like Funkoverse, Unmatched etc are in this

Disney Sorcerer’s Arena Review

Positives

A good theme with plenty of characters to add.

Easy gameplay but tactical too.

It looks really nice.

Negatives

There are many better games that play in a similar way.

Summary

It would be fine if it was a unique game, but it is not.

Jesta ThaRogue