Pandemic
Pandemic is a cooperative game where players take one of five roles to fight the spread of four different diseases that threaten the Earth.
The mechanics of disease cause outbreaks that can be fought but spread out expotentially. It is a co-op but at the intermediate and advanced levels you can't count on winning very often. It is a cube game but it's a good cube game, it can get pretty damn tense. If you lose the world dies. Sounds good to me.
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Editor reviews
Solid co-op offering
This is a fun co-op to bust out and try to save the world from a host of plagues and diseases. Each player works together by using the skills of their different roles to try and discover a cure for each disease, all the while stemming the...
Pandemic is a great game that I have largely run out of steam for, so my personal tilt on that rating is considerably lower. But the initial discovery and experience period is outstanding, and it remains a game that I would automatically feel comfortable recommending to people who only...
This is one of the better co-op games I've come across - it offers a decent amount of chaos, usually results in a tense end-game and the random role each player gets increases not only re-playability but the sense of individual action. However the theme is silly (cash in...
User reviews
Lack of Complexity and Realism Hamstring Pandemic
Disclaimer -- I work with epidemiologists for a living and have some insight into their world. I got the opportunity to play Pandemic at the WBC and shortly afterward the guy that explained the game to me asked, "So Sag, how did you like Pandemic?" At first I...
The best of the recent crop of purely co-op games.
Of the recent crop of purely cooperative games (including Red November and Ghost Stories), Pandemic is the best to me in that it offers the most interaction and accessibility. Unlike Red November, where it's pretty much every gnome for themselves, in Pandemic there is often a lot of interaction...
Several CDC Workers Save World
A co-op game that is fun and relatively easy to learn and plays in a short amount of time. Each game tends to be very different and they are usually tense to the end. It's fun to give each disease a name and then watch it spread or try to...
More Euros like this would help the hobby
This is a Euro, through and through. An abstracted map, some wooden blocks, stacks of cards, and role selection. Even with all that, the theme is great (diseases are spreading! The CDC is on the scene!), there is a lot of tension as you try to rein in infections, and...