I’m interested in hearing what cooperative games people are playing, old or new. My group has had Bloc by Bloc out on the table a few times. That is pretty fun for us, but I’m wanting to add some more cooperative titles to the library.
Some that I havent heard but love are Pandemic and Spirit island.
And as a hidden gem: Heroes of Tenefyre and sprawlopolis. Heroes is a deckbuilder dungeon crawler where the new cards in your deck are the monsters you slay. Sprawlopolis is a city builder the size of a small wallet, which you can easily take with you. There are 3 challenges out if 18 which decide how the game will play, which asks for different tactics every time.
I will always +1 spirit island.
Spirit island is amazing! So much replayability
Tenefyr is one of my favorites too, especially with the variety added by the expansion. I hope it gets a new printing soon so that more people can try it.
Yeah it is one of those games that I wouldnt play without the expansion anymore. We really like the legendary dungeons, which adds quite some difficulty and allows for multi classes, which can create some cool and strong combos.
The Captain Is Dead is underrated in my opinion - the theme is essentially the end of an episode of Star Trek or any other sci-fi show really but the main characters have unexpectedly died and it’s down to you to scramble and try and fix everything before it all ends badly…
It’s hard to win but a lot of fun to play!
This sounds like a lot of fun. I’ll have to check it out
Love, love, love Burgle Bros 1 and 2.
We have also been playing lots of Hanabi lately and having a blast (pun intended)
I love Burgle Bros! I really like Tim Fowers games in general, Paperback is really good!
Same here. I’ve got a whole shelf just of his games. He’s got so many interesting ideas.
I don’t have Paperback, but I did get the solo deck builder Paperback Adventures and think it’s awesome.
Spirit Island is probably our biggest mainstay at the moment. One of our group has most of the content and I’m still only about halfway through playing every spirit we have. The replayability is just amazing and the pacing is beautiful, hitting you hard in the early game and then slowly you turn the tide. Not to mention some of the spirits are just so doggamn satisfying to play.
We’re also pretty big into Aeon’s End. I completely hated this game in the beginning because I couldn’t see how you could possibly win. Once it clicked and we began to get better, it became a lot more satisfying to play.
We also played through and enjoyed all Legends of Andor, all Pandemic Legacy, Mechs vs Minions and Gloomhaven.
I just got Spirit Island and played the intro scenario with my group and we are all itching to try again with different spirits and the full ruleset. It’s a really engaging and complex puzzle with an enormous number of emergent strategies.
We are excited for a bigger challenge; the intro scenario felt very easy to us.
My husband and I really like Wonderbook. It’s a campaign game with several chapters. The theming is a bit childlike sometimes but the mechanics are fun.
Zombicide is one of my favorites. It’s an rpg, cooperative board game that puts you against zombies while trying to complete missions. The various base games cover different time periods from midieval to present to scifi future. Each one tweaks the rules slightly to work better with the characters and environment
Co-op zombie sci-fi. Right on. I’ll have to check this out sounds fun!
Here’s a fun one I haven’t seen mentioned: Castle Panic. You have to work together to save your castle from rampaging orcs and goblins
I found Castle Panic boring due to each turn having an obvious best course of action. No real sense of agency, just sort of on the rails.
That sounds fun! Thanks
Dungeon Fighter is a very silly coop game that might appeal to people that don’t like board games normally. You’re a group of adventurers and have to move through a dungeon. You roll the dice on a big bullseye board. The twist is that all abilities or traps etc. are in the form of modifying how you roll your dice. So you might have to roll the dice from below the table, or while jumping etc.
Absolutely love to play Dorfromantik with my kid, it even has campaign mechanics.
How is it even possible that no-one has mentioned the best coop/semi-coop in existence yet? NEMESIS.
EDIT: my submission is now the deep rock galactic board game. Heaps of fun and faithfully adapts the video game!
There’s a portal 2 board game?
Im so stupid! i thought this was for video games!