Adventure · 2021

The Adventures of Robin Hood

Nine co-op chapters on a flipping map of Nottingham: move your outlaws, talk to people and keep hope alive.

1–4 players
45–75 min
2.1 / 5 · Light

Set up the game

0 of 6 steps

Tick each step as you complete it.

1Assemble the board from its eight pieces and spread it out. It is a big map, so leave room for the book, the bag and the four character figures.
The map of Nottingham
Board
Pieces
Bag
2Give each player the five figures in their character's colour: two standing, two walking and one running. Robin, Little John, Marian and Will Scarlet each have their own colour.
The character figures
3Open the adventure book at the current chapter and follow its setup tasks. Every chapter is set up differently: it says where each character starts, which discs go into the bag and which map panels get flipped.
Book, bag and figures
Player board
Character
4Put the turn discs into the bag: the players' colours, the white one, the grey one and the bad-news discs. During play they are drawn one at a time to show who acts or when something goes wrong.
Tokens
Bag
5Place the hope marker on its starting space. Hope is the campaign's life: it drops when guards roam freely and rises when the people trust the outlaws.
Marker
6Remember the golden rule: never read book pages the book has not sent you to. Every chapter has branches and pages belonging to other chapters, and browsing ahead spoils the whole campaign.
Book

What it is about

The Adventures of Robin Hood does not feel like a normal board game: the rulebook is a novel, the board flips like a choose-your-own-adventure book, and there is not a single die. Everything that happens is decided by a bag of tokens the group fills and empties.

That mix means the game is won on two fronts. One is the story: talking to people, meeting the chapter's goal and choosing which branch to open. The other is probability: every turn you save energy puts a white cube in the bag, and every fight you win takes one out.

Hope is the marker that ties it together. It rises when the people trust the outlaws and falls when the guards roam freely, and once it hits zero the book starts collecting on the debt. That is why the game is not about running further, but about running better.

BGG page Official rulebook

Source note

This game ships without a separate rulebook: the adventure book teaches the rules chapter by chapter. This guide is based on the manual and Devir's official description, and deliberately does not detail the plots or objectives of the nine chapters so as not to spoil the campaign. Component photos come from the BGG gallery.

Libro de aventuras ES (Devir, 2021) · Reviewed: 24 Oct 2026