Posts tagged with "cooperative"
X-Men Mutant Insurrection Review
X-Men Mutant Insurrection is the brand new cooperative, dice based, board game from publisher Fantasy Flight Games. Designed by Richard Launius and Brandon Perdue, the game sees 1 - 6 players spend around an hour controlling their favourite X-Men heroes. Using dice, training, bonds and abilities...
Forbidden Island Review
Forbidden Island is a cooperative board game from famed designer Matt Leacock, where players take up the roles of adventurers on a sinking island. Published by Gamewright and originally released back in 2010, 2 - 4 players will spend around 30 minutes on the island attempting to save local...
MicroMacro Crime City Review
MicroMacro Crime City is a brand new cooperative murder mystery style board game from publishers Edition Spielwiese and Pegasus Spiele. Designed by Johannes Sich, featuring artwork from Daniel Goll and Tobias Jochinke, the game sees 1 - 4 players solving cases, often after someone has been found...
Cross Clues Review
Cross Clues is a word based cooperative party game, released just at the end of 2020 by publisher Blue Orange. Designed by Grégory Grard, the game lasts around 5 - 10 minutes and sees 2 - 6 players making various clues for the others to guess - all potentially against the clock. From orange and...
Pandemic Legacy Season 0 Review
Pandemic Legacy Season 0 is the third and final installment of the cooperative board game from publisher Z-Man Games. Designed by Rob Daviau and Matt Leacock, season 0 puts a spin on things, as it is actually a prequel set back in 1962. 2 - 4 players will find themselves back in the midst of The...
Cities Skylines The Board Game Review
Cities Skylines The Board Game is unsurprisingly a title based upon the city building video game of the same name. Published by Kosmos, the board game is a cooperative experience, with tiles placed to create the growing city. Designed by Rustan Håkansson, the game sees 1 - 4 players using cards...
Scooby-Doo Escape from the Haunted Mansion Review
Scooby-Doo Escape from the Haunted Mansion is a brand new cooperative, escape room style, board game from publisher The Op (previously USAopoly). Designed by Jay Cormier, Sen-Foong Lim and Kami Mandell, the game sees players working together as the Mystery Inc gang to solve the mystery of Lady...
Project: ELITE Review
Project: ELITE is a real time cooperative board game, of which a new edition has just been released by Artipia Games and CMON. Designed by Konstantinos Kokkinis, Marco Portugal and Sotirios Tsantilas, the game sees players going up against an alien invasion. With miniatures flooding the board,...
Back to the Future: Dice Through Time Review
Back to the Future: Dice Through Time is a brand new cooperative board game from publisher Ravensburger. Designed by Ken Franklin, Chris Leder and Kevin Rodgers, this is a Back to the Future themed dice rolling title with pick up and deliver style mechanics - playing with 2 - 4 players in around...
Pandemic Hot Zone North America Review
Pandemic Hot Zone North America is the brand new cooperative board game, from publisher Z-Man Games. Designed by Matt Leacock, this takes all the concepts of a full Pandemic game and boils them down into a shorter experience - akin to what Ticket to Ride London/New York are to the regular Ticket...
Toy Story: Obstacles & Adventures Review
Toy Story: Obstacles & Adventures is a cooperative deck building game, which re-implements The Op’s previous board game Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle. Designed by the team of Prospero Hall the game sees 2 - 5 players take up the roles of some of the most iconic Toy Story characters and make...
Undo Cherry Blossom Festival Review - There's No Escaping Discussion
Undo Cherry Blossom Festival is a brand new cooperative board game with storytelling and mystery elements. Designed by Michael Palm and Lukas Zach, this is one of the first three Undo titles from publisher Pegasus Spiele. Set in Japan this adventure sees 2 - 6 players (though could slightly...
Magic Maze Review - Shopping Mall Adventures Await
Magic Maze is a real time cooperative board game released, back in 2017, by publisher Sit Down! Designed by Kasper Lapp, the game sees a mage, warrior, elf and dwarf robbing a shopping mall before they can go on their next adventure. The adventure however is never seen by players with the maze...
Pandemic Rising Tide Review - Challenging Tides
Pandemic Rising Tide is the 2017, round the world like, variant of Matt Leacock’s iconic cooperative franchise. Co-designed by Jeroen Doumen, with Leacock, it is a board game with hints of hand management from publisher Z-Man Games, featuring art from Atha Kanaani. The game sees 2 - 5 players...
Just One Review - Great For Family Gatherings!
Just One is a brand new party game from publisher Repos Production, released right at the end of 2018. Designed by Ludovic Roudy and Bruno Sautter the game was originally released as We Are The Word before being picked up by Repos. Unusually for a word guessing game it is cooperative in nature,...
Pandemic 10th Anniversary Edition Review - Same Game, Special Components
Ten years ago, a game was released for the hobby market. It was cooperative, set on a disease ridden Earth, where players were tasked to save humanity. In a fast moving industry where games get only a minute amount of time in the spotlight Pandemic has shone through. The series has seen multiple...
Deckscape The Mystery of Eldorado Review - An Escape Room In A Tiny Box
Deckscape The Mystery of Eldorado is a cooperative escape room styled board game that is hot of the press. Published by dV Giochi and designed by Martino Chiacchiera and Silvano Sorrentino, this is the fourth Deckscape title. Taking about an hour to complete the game sees 1 - 6 players flipping...
ROAM Fundamentals Video Update Released
Ryan Sharr has just unveiled a first look at ROAM, a Kickstarted cooperative action title. The game itself revolves around four basic concepts "Scavenge. Build. Fight. Survive." ROAM offers gamers a procedurally generated world to explore and survive in. Plenty of structures are creatable to...