Onward

Onward

The ultimate MOBA board game

Draft champions, slay monsters, and rally minions to destroy the enemy base in this game heavily inspired by MOBA video games.

  • 1–4 players
  • 45–90 minutes
  • 14+ age

Onward is rated 8.5 on BoardGameGeek. This is what they say…

  • Utterly fantastic experience. League of Legends in a box, without the raging. A masterpiece of game design. Give us more heroes and items!
    — Prometheus1384
  • A very elegant and tight adaptation of MOBA concepts [...] Even in your first game you'll find more time contemplating your and opponent strategy than you will considering the rules, unlike many other games of comparable depth and variety.
    — uramer
  • I've been playing DOTA2 for years and had a hard time seeing how a board game could replicate the MOBA experience [...] I was wrong. The game is really streamlined and surprisingly well-balanced. It captures the MOBA feel 100%.
    — mafolk
  • Onward captures the MOBA experience extremely well. From the hero drafting, jungle farming, lane pushing, and tense battles, to the game-changing abilities and Outsider last-hits, Onward is a great time.
    — jeffersonrey
  • I've owned/tried all the MOBA implementations out there and this feels most like a MOBA, is the quickest to play, and is the easiest to get to the table [...] I'll own and play this for a lifetime.
    — Benageddon
  • The best part for me is probably the minion system. It is both innovative and very gratifying to manipulate. The unusual turn structure also deserves a mention. It's cleverly organized and amplifies the importance of initiative.
    — OrjanDanielsen
  • An excellent game that does exactly what it sets out to do: make a genuine MOBA experience (without the toxicity) in a board game. The strategic depth far outpaces the rules complexity, and the replayability is nearly infinite.
    — DoctorMLJ
  • Captures the MOBA feel incredibly well. It requires a delicate balance of focusing on minions, lanes, jungles, and heroes. The Heroes are all pretty asymmetrical and it feels very strategic. I love it!
    — kipernicus
  • If you haven't played a MOBA, what does Onward feel like? To me, it feels most like a coop game like Spirit Island or Pandemic. You run around putting out fires everywhere while trying to find time to advance your own win objective before the clock ultimately runs out.
    — timori
  • Rules are not heavy and the whole gameplay is light-weight and enjoyable. Also, 30+ heroes makes every session really different which is a huge plus.
    — aleximandar

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Onward

€6000

Onward

Onward

€6000

Onward

In brief

Onward distills the strategy and thrill of MOBA video games into a streamlined 1-hour board game for 2 to 4 players.

This box has 16 heroes, 48 items, and 2 maps, and it plays and feels like a complete game on its own. The 16 heroes are all the ones from the Liothan and Kurumo factions.

This is the standee edition: heroes and nexus come as cardboard standees, minions and towers as a mix of standees and flat tokens, and the Miniatures Box add-on replaces them all with plastic miniatures.

Contents
  • 1 Double-sided Board (50x70cm)
  • 1 Rulebook
  • 16 Hero Sheets
  • 1 Outsider Sheet
  • 96 Hero Cards
  • 48 Item Cards
  • 16 Hero Figures
  • 2 Nexus Figures
  • 6 Minion Figures
  • 1 Outsider Figure
  • 18 Tower Tokens
  • 24 Minion Tokens
  • 18 Monster / Gold Tokens
  • 7 Gold Tokens
  • 22 HP Tokens
  • 30 Status Tokens
  • 1 Onward Token
  • 1 Skytear Card
  • 4 Player Aids
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 32 × 7 × 32 cm (12.6 × 2.8 × 12.6 in)

  • 21 Big Cards (110x110mm)
  • 96 Medium Cards (63x88mm)
  • 48 Small Cards (44x67mm)
  • All cards fit into the box (sleeved).
Onward: Taulot Expansion

€2500

Onward Taulot Expansion

Onward: Taulot Expansion

€2500

Onward Taulot Expansion

Pre-order: estimated to ship from December 2026.

Orders ship complete: if you combine pre-order and in-stock items, everything ships together once all items are available.

In brief

Get 8 more heroes, one from each class, from the Taulot faction.

You can freely mix factions but this one is known for disruption, pushing lanes, and dealing an annoying amount of Disarm…

Onward base game is required to play.

Contents
  • 8 Hero Sheets
  • 8 Hero Figures
  • 8 HP Tokens
  • 48 Hero Cards
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 15 × 4 × 15 cm (5.9 × 1.6 × 5.9 in)

  • Fits into the Onward box, sleeved
Onward: Nupten Expansion

€2500

Onward Nupten Expansion

Onward: Nupten Expansion

€2500

Onward Nupten Expansion

Pre-order: estimated to ship from December 2026.

Orders ship complete: if you combine pre-order and in-stock items, everything ships together once all items are available.

In brief

Get 8 more heroes, one from each class, from the Nupten faction.

You can freely mix factions but this one is known for speed, creating illusions, and dealing an annoying amount of Silence…

Onward base game is required to play.

Contents
  • 8 Hero Sheets
  • 8 Hero Figures
  • 8 HP Tokens
  • 48 Hero Cards
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 15 × 4 × 15 cm (5.9 × 1.6 × 5.9 in)

  • Fits into the Onward box, sleeved
Onward: Legendary Expansion

€2500

Onward Legendary Expansion

Onward: Legendary Expansion

€2500

Onward Legendary Expansion

In brief

An exclusive expansion of legendary monsters that grant an epic item upon defeat, plus an alternate outsider. The all-in-one box has miniatures for all of them.

Onward base game is required to play.

Contents
  • 1 Outsider Sheet
  • 6 Monster Figures
  • 9 HP Tokens
  • 16 Legendary Item Cards
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 15 × 4 × 15 cm (5.9 × 1.6 × 5.9 in)

  • Fits into the Onward box, sleeved
Onward: Twisted Expansion

€3000

Onward Twisted Expansion

Onward: Twisted Expansion

€3000

Onward Twisted Expansion

Pre-order: estimated to ship from December 2026.

Orders ship complete: if you combine pre-order and in-stock items, everything ships together once all items are available.

In brief

Onward: Twisted brings solo and co-op play to Onward, the MOBA board game. Face up to 32 Twisted heroes and the Twisted Outsiders in a mode compatible with every hero and expansion you own.

Onward base game is required to play.

Contents
  • 32 Twisted Hero Sheets
  • 68 Twisted Hero Cards
  • 1 Solo Player Aid
  • 2 Twisted Outsider Sheets
  • 8 Twisted Outsider Small Cards
  • 11 Twist Small Cards
  • 1 Rulebook
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 15 × 5 × 19 cm (5.9 × 2 × 7.5 in)

  • Fits into the Onward box, sleeved (Sleeves Bundle #2 covers its cards)
Onward: Deluxe Tokens

€2500

Onward Deluxe Tokens

Onward: Deluxe Tokens

€2500

Onward Deluxe Tokens

In brief

Poker-like chips that replace the HP, monster/gold, Onward, and status tokens from the base box and all 3 expansions. Designed to complement the miniatures if you want to (essentially) replace all cardboard.

Contents
  • ~110 poker-like chips (30mm diameter)
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 18 × 7.5 × 13 cm (7.1 × 3 × 5.1 in)

  • Fits into the all-in-one box
Onward: Double-Sided Playmat

€3500

Onward Double-⁠Sided Playmat

Onward: Double-Sided Playmat

€3500

Onward Double-⁠Sided Playmat

In brief

We simply could not resist a playmat combined with poker-like chips and miniatures.

Contents
  • 1 double-sided neoprene playmat (50x70cm, 2mm thick)
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 10 × 70 × 10 cm (3.9 × 27.6 × 3.9 in)

  • The playmat does not fit into the game box.
Onward: Ultimates Promo Pack

€500

Onward Ultimates Promo Pack

Onward: Ultimates Promo Pack

€500

Onward Ultimates Promo Pack

Pre-order: estimated to ship from December 2026.

Orders ship complete: if you combine pre-order and in-stock items, everything ships together once all items are available.

In brief

The exclusive promo version of each hero's ultimate ability: no new gameplay, just beautiful artwork to win (or lose) with style!

Contents
  • 32 full-art Ultimate cards
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 6.4 × 1 × 8.9 cm (2.5 × 0.4 × 3.5 in)

  • All cards are 63x88mm (same size as Magic: the Gathering)
Onward: Miniatures Box

€15000

Onward Miniatures Box

Onward: Miniatures Box

€15000

Onward Miniatures Box

Pre-order: estimated to ship from December 2026.

Orders ship complete: if you combine pre-order and in-stock items, everything ships together once all items are available.

In brief

An add-on to complement your Onward collection with miniatures for every hero, minion, tower, and monster.

Important: this box has ONLY the miniatures and the colored snap bases for the heroes, it does NOT contain any gameplay element.

Contents
  • 99 miniatures (32 heroes, 40 minions, 18 towers, 2 nexus, 2 outsiders, 5 legendary monsters)
  • 8 plastic snap bases for heroes
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 32 × 18.5 × 32 cm (12.6 × 7.3 × 12.6 in)

  • The box fits all present (and future!) expansions, sleeved, plus the deluxe tokens
Onward: Sleeves Bundle #1

€3000

Onward Sleeves Bundle #1

Onward: Sleeves Bundle #1

€3000

Onward Sleeves Bundle #1

In brief

All the sleeves you need to protect the cards from the gameplay all-in bundles, including the Ultimates promo pack add-on.

Contents
  • 250x Custom sleeves for 63x88mm cards
  • 100x Transparent mini sleeves for 44x68mm cards
  • 50x Transparent big sleeves for 110x110mm cards
  • 100 microns thick
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 16 × 5 × 13 cm (6.3 × 2 × 5.1 in)

  • All boxes fit cards sleeved.
Onward: Sleeves Bundle #2

€1500

Onward Sleeves Bundle #2

Onward: Sleeves Bundle #2

€1500

Onward Sleeves Bundle #2

Pre-order: estimated to ship from December 2026.

Orders ship complete: if you combine pre-order and in-stock items, everything ships together once all items are available.

In brief

Sleeves Bundle #2 complements Sleeves Bundle #1 and protects all the cards from the Onward: Twisted expansion.

Contents
  • 100 transparent sleeves for 63x88mm cards
  • 50 transparent big sleeves for 110x110mm cards
  • 100 microns thick
Storage & sleeving

Box size: 10 × 5 × 13 cm (3.9 × 2 × 5.1 in)

  • All boxes fit cards sleeved.

About Onward

Onward is the spiritual successor to Skytear, the competitive card-⁠driven game inspired by MOBA video games such as League of Legends or DOTA2.

Players split into two teams, with each player controlling two or more champions.
The goal of the game is to destroy the enemy nexus that is a portal in the enemy base.
The game takes 45 to 90 minutes depending on the map that can have two or three lanes.
Lanes are corridors connecting the two nexuses and are populated with towers and minions from both teams.
Towers are defense structures preventing enemy champions and minions from rushing into the nexus.
Minions are weak units that grow in strength as they increase in number. They always try to advance toward the enemy nexus and attack any enemy in their way.
Jungles are dangerous areas between lanes where champions can venture to defeat monsters to gain gold and buy powerful items.
The river is a central area where your champions can go fight the colossal outsider... or die trying!
Designer
Giacomo Neri, Riccardo Neri
Artists
Vlad Botos, Douglas Deri, John Ric Detoon
Complexity
3.1 / 5
BoardGameGeek
8.5/10 (370 ratings)

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