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Horrified: Universal Monsters Strategy Board Game

9.0 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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Frankenstein, Dracula, The Wolf Man, and other iconic horror film monsters descend upon your village...

Payday 2

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Payday 2 is a cooperative first-person shooter video game developed by Overkill Software and...

Chronicles of Crime

8.6 (5 Ratings) Rate It

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Chronicles of Crime is a cooperative game of criminal investigation mixing board game, an app and a...

Lumos (380 KP) rated Pandemic in Tabletop Games

Apr 26, 2018

Pandemic

2008 | Medical

8.2

(49 Ratings)

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I like this game, but I feel like it depends on what roles you have when you are playing. There always seems to be a lot of "get all these things to one person so they can cure everything" and it is really mostly one person doing the work. As a cooperative game, I think this falls a little short in this respect.

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Mike (9 KP) Mar 14, 2019

Our favorite co-op board game! It's everyone versus the disease. What helps, too, is that the difficulty and characters can be changed to create a unique experience every game. Although I have not yet tested this game with children, every adult I've played with loves it!

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Jeffrey (11 KP) Sep 18, 2019

Moderate cooperative game, providing great opportunities for each player to have a hero moment each game.

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Peter Russell (61 KP) rated Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle in Tabletop Games

Mar 21, 2019

I love that this game is cooperative (0 more)

A scenario can become unbeatable (0 more)

A friendly jaunt through the world of Harry Potter

This is a cooperative Harry Potter Board game for 1-4 players. A cooperative board game puts all players on the same team against the board with challenges that are randomly generated by a deck of cards in this case. This game is a deckbuilder/ card drafter and each play you build a new deck thoughout the gameplay. This game also has elements similar to a legacy game (a game that has more content that is unlocked after each playthough), however, this game does not require any destruction of parts and can be completely reset. There are 7 boxes, corresponding to the 7 books/ years of Harry Potter. You start at year 1 and after each play through and defeating the villains, the group can choose to move on to the next year, adding the secrets of the next box to your next play through. Each year does get more difficult. I love this game for the theme, the cooperative working together part and the thrill of getting a new experience with each playthough. The only bad aspect of this game I have experienced is that because the random generation of challenges by the board, a scenario can become unbeatable, the good news if that happens, ypu just reset where ypu are, shuffle everything and try again. I really love this game and after writing this review I even increased my rating from 7 to 9, as writing this made me happier about the game.
If you get through year 7, there is an expansion with more boxes to open and work through.