Batman: Gotham City Chronicles

Batman: Gotham City Chronicles 2019

7.6 /10
BGG rating
#1437
BGG rank
3.8
Weight
2–4
Players
2
Best at
60–90
Minutes
14
Age

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Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Absolute Batman Expansion 2026 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Anarky 2024 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Batman Who Laughs 2024 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Season 3 Stretch Goals 2024 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Gotham City in Flames 2023 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Solo-Cooperative Mode Expansion 2023 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Narrows Chronicles 2: A New Eden 2023 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – 5th Player Expansion 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Amygdala 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Batman Beyond 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Batman Inc. Expansion 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Batman (New 52) and Rookie 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Batman Rebirth 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Carmine Falcone 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Catwoman (Batman: Hush) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Cluemaster 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Deacon Blackfire 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Etrigan (The Demon) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Gang of Robin 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Ghost Dragons 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Hawkfire 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Hounds 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – League of Assassins Expansion 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Lincoln March (Owlman) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Mr. Freeze (New 52) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Nobody 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Poison Ivy (New 52) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Prof. Pyg's Gang 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Red Hood (New 52) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Shen Fang 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Suicide Squad Expansion 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Talon (Uriah Boone) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Architect 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Beast 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Great White Shark 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Reaper 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Sewers & GCPD Maps Expansion 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Ventriloquist (Arnold Wesker) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Ventriloquist (Peyton Riley) 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – White Rabbit 2020 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Arkham Asylum Expansion 2019 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Portable Batcomputer Promo 2019 promo Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Batmobile Expansion 2019 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – The Narrows Chronicles 2019 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Versus Expansion 2019 Batman: Gotham City Chronicles – Wayne Manor Expansion 2019 Compendium: The Overlord – Tome IV (fan expansion for Batman) 2019

About the Game

In Batman: Gotham City Chronicles, one villain faces off against a team of heroes in one of multiple scenarios. Each hero has their own character, and they control this character by spending energy to perform actions (such as Melee and Ranged attacks, defusing bombs...) recovering more or less energy at the beginning of their turn depending on their stance. If the hero gets damaged, energy moves to a wound area, and if they lose all of their energy, then they're out of action for a while to recover their strength. Each hero has differing strengths for their abilities, and these strengths are represented by colored dice with different values; the more energy a hero spends on an ability, the more dice of that color they can roll.

The villain controls a team of henchmen and iconic villains of the Batman universe, and these characters are represented by tiles on their command board, with the characters costing 1, 2, 3, etc. energy to activate as you move left to right down the line. Once a character is activated, they move to the end of the line, boosting their cost to the maximum value should you want to use them again immediately, and decreasing the cost of the other tiles.

The game-play in Batman: Gotham City Chronicles is based on that of Conan, with revisions to character abilities, the addition of two different types of dice (w/ five types total), and a modified two-player set-up, the Versus Mode, in which each player has a command board and their own team of tiles that they can draft, with heroes facing off against villains.

See also Batman: Gotham City Chronicles - The Roleplaying Game

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