A reimplemntation of the Star Wars Epic Duels, but asking which popular characters from fiction and folklore would win in a fight.
The selected characters are dropped into an arena, using deck-based abilities to fight each other, with the last man standing declared the victor. Some characters have unique abilities or a sidekick character to help them out, depending on their background and how powerful that character's individual abilities might be. Base sets typically come with four characters, though smaller expansions have been released with two characters apiece, or even only one.
So far the lineup includes:
- Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume 1, with King Arthur, Alice, Sinbad, and Medusa.
- Unmatched: Battle of Legends, Volume 2, with Sun Wukong, Bloody Mary, Achilles, and Yennenga.
- Robin Hood vs. Bigfoot
- Bruce Lee
- Red Riding Hood vs. Beowulf
- Unmatched: Cobble and Fog, themed after Victorian horror, with Count Dracula, The Invisible Man, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, and Sherlock Holmes.
- Houdini vs. the Genie
- Unmatched Adventures: Tales to Amaze, themed after pulp and mid-20th century folklore, with Annie Christmas, Jill Trent, Science Sleuth, Nikola Tesla, and Golden Bat. Introduces an alternative co-op game mode featuring The Mothman and Martian Invaders as villains for the players to defeat.
- Sun's Origin, Oda Nobunaga vs. Tomoe Gozen
- Slings and Arrows, William Shakespeare, Titania, Hamlet, and the Wayward Sisters.
Eventually sets with licensed characters started appearing, especially with characters from Marvel Comics, including:
- Buffy the Vampire Slayer, with Buffy, Spike, Willow, and Angel.
- Jurassic Park:
- InGen vs. Raptors
- Dr. Sattler vs. The T-Rex
- Marvel Universe:
- Deadpool
- Hell's Kitchen, with Daredevil, Elektra and Bullseye.
- Redemtion Row, with Luke Cage, Ghost Rider, and Moon Knight.
- For King and Country, with Black Widow, Black Panther, and Winter Soldier.
- Teen Spirit, with Ms. Marvel, Cloak and Dagger, and Squirrel Girl.
- Brains and Brawn, with Spider-Man, She-Hulk and Dr. Strange.
Unmatched provides examples of:
- Bigfoot, Sasquatch, and Yeti: Bigfoot is a playable character from one set, of course. The Skunk Ape is an enemy from Tales to Amaze.
- Blob Monster: The Blob is one potential monster the players will have to contend with in Tales to Amaze.
- Historical Domain Character: In addition to the fictional characters it incorporates, the game designers aren't afraid to incorporate slightly fictionalized versions of real people, like Bruce Lee, Houdini and a Science Hero version of Nikola Tesla.
- Hypothetical Fight Debate: Basically the series' whole premise, with its wide array of characters who are meant to be usable against any other character from any other set.
- Life Meter: Represented by a physical cardboard dial the player turns to represent damage being sustained.
- Oddball in the Series: Tales to Amaze can be played in the traditional last-man-standing manner of the others, but it also introduces the mechanic of the players working together to foil the plans of a game-controlled villain. The ones seen so far are The Mothman and Martian invaders.
- Our Cryptids Are More Mysterious: Besides the expansion making Bigfoot (and his friend the jackalope) playable, Tales to Amaze has various cryptids working as a Quirky Miniboss Squad for its villains. Like the Skunk Ape, the Loveland Frog, and The Jersey Devil. Along with some seemingly inspired by 50's B-movies like The Blob, the Ant Queen, and the Tarantula!.
- Public Domain Character: The game's bread and butter, letting players have matchups the likes of Dracula vs. Sun Wukong, Robin Hood vs. Sherlock Holmes, the Invisible Man vs. Houdini, and so on, and so on.
- Science Hero: Tales to Amaze has two, Jill Trent and Nikola Tesla, who use different styles of 30's comic book science to fight evil.
- Shout-Out: The game's version of a twisted, violent adult Alice certainly owes a lot of inspiration to American McGee's Alice.
- Sizeshifter: Alice's unique ability is to change between large and small modes.
- Superpowered Evil Side: Mr. Hyde is this, naturally. Boasting superior physical power, but paying the price of taking damage from traversing the board while transformed.
- Ultimate Showdown of Ultimate Destiny: Each set has a cross-section of unique characters, but they're meant to be freely interchangeable, allowing any character, from any set, on any board, that the players can imagine combining for the epic fight to the finish that's been teasing their imagination.
