Ravensburger Minecraft: Portal Dash

This is not a bad game, it can take some time to finish but me and my 8 year old played it quite a bit.

Such a fun game for family night! Everyone really enjoyed it! Our players ranged from 8 to 45 if that helps! If you're a fan of Minecraft, you'll love it! The instructions are very thorough but it does take a bit of time to go through everything and set up! For younger players, it may take a minute for them to grasp everything too, but our youngest players were able to pick up well enough. To give some more perspective, it is kind of like Minecraft meets D&D. It is well worth the money, and doesn't require a lot of room for setup. The box isn't very big and we set everything up on our kitchen table. Getting through the game will take a bit of time, but it has varying levels of difficulty which is nice so you can go based on everyone's ability or the challenge you're looking for. If you're looking for something different for game night, are a minecraft fan, or strategy game fan it is a great pick and would recommend!

We bought for a gift and they loved it! Kind of confusing but super fun once you figure it out. Good quality game

Holy moly this game is fun. Holy FRIGGIN' moly it takes a good while to set up and tear down. But the time spent on that is absolutely worth it. Bonus points for the fact that the game comes with a bunch of little plastic bags to put all the small parts in. Being a co-op game, communication and planning is absolutely necessary, especially when you plan to start setting up harder difficulties. There are a LOT of parts, but don't let that intimidate. The game is surprisingly easy to learn.... For the most part. I'd give it a 5, if it weren't for the instruction book. Prepare to do a little research of your own, because there are some things in the rule book that were either way too vaguely worded, or not even mentioned but conveyed in passing in some of the illustrations (something some may VERY easily miss) to be able to fully understand a few minor mechanics of the game. My first few games, we did a few things wrong because of it, but after FULLY understanding everything, it was all smooth sailing. So to help out anyone else who may have struggled with this as we did, here's a list of things I had to look up in order to clarify (Some of these may be in the book, but as someone with dyslexia, I just could not find these details): - When mobs are activated, they first move toward the nearest player, regardless of who is active, and attack them. If multiple people are occupying the same space and are to take a hit, then they decide amongst themselves who gets the damage. And if multiple mobs are activated, everyone gets to deliberate on which order they go in. Because mobs move to the players nearest to them, multiple people can take damage if they're on different spaces. If a mob is spawned, then it does go on the spawner nearest the ACTIVE player. - Mobs can, in fact, move onto the starting strip if there are any unoccupied spaces on it. - All mobs can move onto magma spaces, it's just the ghasts that are able to specifically fly over lava. - Discarding blocks from the block die isn't just from the top layer, it's the topmost available layer. So like if you roll a red, and there's one on layer 2 and 3, you would have to take the one that's the highest up. - If you repair an enchanted item, you keep the enchantment. But if you decide to replace the item entirely, the enchantment does not carry over. Hopefully this helps! Have fun and good luck!

This game is pretty cool! Working together to defeat the enemy and some extra stuff along the way. This should last a few years if he still likes Minecraft

Fun game, and good mechanics that allow young and old to enjoy the game.

Well crafted Action Adventure board game and a great option for Minecraft fans. The game has easy to follow directions, although this isn't a learn in a couple minutes kind of game. Directions are lengthy and will probably need a play through or two to remember everything, but if you enjoy Strategy games with focus on Minecraft highly recommend this purchase. My kids were getting excited about each character NPC (enemy)

Fun game takes a bit to learn to play. I found some YouTube guides made the instructions way simpler. Very fun game my kids are 10-12

Jeu coopératif par excellence. Acheté pour les enfants, on fini par jouer entre adultes. Beaucoup de possibilités de difficultés, jeu bien pensé et chaque modulation fait penser à de nouvelles stratégies. Je recommande vivement.

Absolutely brilliant board game. Loads in the box, all feels high quality. Looks daunting at first but once you get going gameplay is intuitive and the kids and I were having a great time. Has been played several times since Christmas morning already and I can see it becoming a family favourite.

The overall quality of the pieces from the blocks to the cardboard cutouts is poor and lower in quality than those in the previous game(Builders & Biomes made by the same company). The cardboard tore easily, and the wooden parts were hollow, and you could even feel the poorer quality of the wood compared to the other game. There were also typos in the instruction menu, and while this game was about $10(SGD) cheaper than the other game, I did not expect a major drop in overall product quality and quality control. Topping it all off, the box came damaged. That being said, the CO-OP concept and structure of the game were fun and really interesting, with each game taking at least an hour, depending on the difficulty level you selected and set up. Work together to escape Hell.

As well as being really fun to play there is a lot of variation with different boards each game, different enemy difficulties and 5 levels of overall difficulty. As well all that you can play with just yourself or up to 4 people. Great game 👍

As you would imagine, this game arrives well packed and presented in a nice cardboard box, that is more than suitable to be given as a gift. The box contains all the pieces you need to play the game. Quality wise, the wooden cubes are very good, but the cardboard pieces and boards are only really about average quality. That being said, they should last a while if treated properly. The game itself is a cooperative game aimed at 1 to 4 players. The games I played tended to last around the 45-60 minute mark. The idea of the game is to make your way across the terrain, collecting equipment through mining, finding chats and defeating mobs, before finally taking on the final boss in order to escape through the portal. Whilst this is marketed as Minecraft, in many ways, the gameplay and objective has much more in common with Minecraft Dungeons, than is does with the standard Minecraft game. However, the theming is excellent, and I can’t imagine many Minecraft fans being that put off by this, as they both share the same world. The instructions are about 16 pages long. Whilst not too hard to understand, they are a bit more complex than your bog standard board game. So, if you are new to the world of board games and getting this to play with your kids, you might want to watch a YouTube tutorial or playthrough just to get a better idea of the rules. On the whole we found the game to be a lot of fun. It can be a little frustrating at times though, as certain dice throws can really alter the course of the game and swing things either massively in your favour or against. One nice thing about the game is that you can alter the difficulty level, and also switch between two different final bosses. This combined with the fact that it can be played with 1 to 4 players means there is quite a bit of replayability value here. In conclusion, this is a reasonably good quality board game, that we had a lot of fun playing. Some games that are brand tie-ins can be little more than cheap gimmicks, but in this case, the game would be a good game even if it wasn’t Minecraft related. As a result it is suitable for fans of Minecraft, and those who are not. The only slight negative is that the game can occasionally swing quite considerably on the outcome of a single dice role, which some players (especially younger ones) might find a little frustrating. ~ Amazon asked me to review this product and to give my honest opinion about it. That’s what I have set out to do, so I hope you found it helpful. ~