Disney Villainous is a strategy game where you are a Disney villain striving to become the evillest villain in the land. You move around the board to locations from your character's film, playing cards and taking evil actions. It's a strategic game where impeding your opponent's progress is just as important as pursuing your own evil schemes.

You play as a Disney villain with your own unique victory goal. With each turn, you choose between advancing your goal and hindering your opponents. You do this by moving between the four locations on your Character board and selecting from the actions available in this space. However, you can only take actions if you have enough Power tokens, so must manage your currency carefully.

As you progress, you meet heroes from your story that hinder you from completing your goal by covering up actions, until you are able to destroy them by playing Ally cards from your deck. You can also play cards that unlock extra powers that enable you to speed up progress towards your goal. The first villain to complete their specific goal is the winner.

It's a game of strategic resource management where evilness is the key to victory. You must take enough evil actions against your opposition to stop them from progressing, whilst keeping enough resources available to advance towards your own evil victory goals.