Regicide Legacy is a cooperative, fantasy card game for 1 to 4 players, serving as a campaign-style follow-up to the original Regicide. Players embark on a journey across 12 perilous missions, utilizing a deck of cards and a legacy system involving stickers to track progress and evolving rules. It is described as challenging and builds on the base game's mechanics with a narrative campaign.
The Verdict
based on 12 reviews
“But to say that Regicide Legacy has been a pleasant surprise would be the understatement of the year. Regicide Legacy takes what was already a challenging system and cranks up the insanity to eleven.”
The reviewer found Regicide Legacy to be an absolutely superb and delicious campaign game that encourages repeated play, easily earning a strong recommendation.
Tom Vasel and Mike DiLisio found 'Regicide Legacy' to be a highly enjoyable and replayable legacy experience, particularly for solo players, praising its clever challenge mitigation through the mercenary deck and the significant amount of content offered for its price.
The reviewer found Regicide Legacy to be an absolutely delightful and engaging campaign board game.
The reviewer expresses a strong desire to play Regicide Legacy, calling it a very unique cooperative card game and noting that others have highly praised it as the best board game of 2025. He is eagerly awaiting a reprint to acquire and play it.
The reviewer expresses strong interest in Regicide Legacy, appreciating its solid legacy system and extensive replayability. Despite a minor concern about the amount of text on the cards, he finds the game intriguing and comparable to some of his favorite trick-taking games.
“But the stories it told above the table — the way our deck transformed along with our aptitude as players, the inside jokes we developed, the characters whose named we pronounced five different ways — those are worth keeping around. That’s the real legacy here. That’s what makes me consider Regicide Legacy such an unlikely success.”
“Simply named Regicide Legacy, the new project from New Zealand studio Badgers from Mars keeps the core experience from the original Regicide intact, expanding its cooperative battling structure with campaign missions, locations and more.”
The reviewers found Regicide Legacy to be an outstanding and impressive game that takes the core card game system and expands it with a surprising amount of design space. They highly praised its replayable post-legacy content and top-notch production, making it an excellent experience for both solo and potential multiplayer play.
“Regicide Legacy is a worthy Game of The Year for some, one to avoid for others, but definitely a love letter to all that was and is Regicide. Despite all the criticism I have and having found this iteration of Regicide isn’t for me, I have to stress what a great product this is.”
The reviewer found Regicide Legacy to be a game with high-quality components, clear rules, and quick setup, offering significant replayability; however, they noted that the gameplay can be very unforgiving and challenging, particularly in a two-player setting, leading to mixed feelings about the overall experience.
The reviewer found 'Regicide Legacy' to offer smooth gameplay, good value, and high-quality components, with well-laid-out rules. However, they expressed mixed feelings due to its unforgiving and tough cooperative nature, and a specific mechanic related to progression.
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