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Mar 11, 2024 · 1. Quick list 2. Best overall 3. Best for adults 4. Best 2-player 5. Best strategy 6. Best for families 7. Best for kids 8. FAQ. If you're not a fan of how competitive things can get around the...
Oct 12, 2023 · There are only fully cooperative board games listed here, so you won’t find any semi-cooperative games, One vs. Many games, or games with traitors. There are a lot of great co-op games for you to look through on this page, so I’m very confident you’ll find one (or two, or 10, or 40) that you’ll enjoy playing.
- Nemesis: Lockdown
- Sleeping Gods
- Marvel Champions: The Card Game
- Frosthaven / Gloomhaven: Jaws of The Lion
- Exit: The Game
- Paleo
- Pandemic Legacy
- Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on The Cursed Island
- Just One
- The Crew: Mission Deep Sea
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Lots of board games have tried to replicate the success of the Alien franchise, but it took this unlicensed homage to perfect it. Players must work together to survive a terrifying incursion of hostile life-forms into a Martian base. You're on a constant high-wire between staying slow and quiet or getting things done fast but attracting alien atten...
Narrative-heavy board games have always faced a content problem: there’s only so much variety you can achieve with boards and cards. Sleeping Gods belongs to a family of adventure games that bypassed this problem by putting everything into a huge flip-book, featuring a mix of maps for different quests. Sleeping Gods stands head and shoulders above ...
This is a “Living Card Game”, which means it’s kind of collectable, like Magic: The Gathering, but there’s no random element. You just buy sets and expansions knowing what cards are in each. And unlike a lot of LCG's, deck building is easy because it’s modular, seeing players pick fixed sets of cards to create decks for their hero and the villain y...
To call Gloomhavena fantasy adventure game is technically accurate, but a bit reductive. It tells the story of mercenaries chasing different goals in a changing world, and the legacy they leave behind. Gloomhaven takes the legacy system from Pandemic Legacy and weaves it into an epic fantasy campaign that takes place over generations. Each hero com...
An escape room in a box, the Exit series of games does a surprisingly good job of simulating the real thing. Players work together to find clues and solve riddles in real time in an effort to complete the scenario. Each scenario tells you to bring some pens and a pair of scissors because you’ll be permanently modifying your game throughout the sess...
At first glance, this game of stone-age survival doesn’t look anything special. You create a deck of cards for the scenario you want to play and distribute them between the players. Then you take it in turns to flip a card from your pile and face the challenges thereon with the skills and stone tools available to your tiny tribe. The magic happens ...
Pandemic put cooperative games on the map, and for good reason. Much of the genre’s hallmark mechanics originated here, from action point allocation to player roles with unique abilities. It also spawned a bevy of expansions and spinoffs, but Pandemic Legacy is the best and more revolutionary take on the virus-eradicating co-op game. It takes the c...
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island is a daunting and dark game, but players willing to wade through the sea of iconography, hefty rulebook and stifling theme will be rewarded with a satisfying survival simulation that rewards communication and teamwork. Based on the 1719 novel, players take on the role of survivors of a shipwreck that...
A lot of games on this list are, to a greater or lesser extent, strategy affairs. But cooperation is a great mechanic to use in party games too, and Just One tops the list. All the players bar one get to see a clue, and they have to write down a word related to that clue. Then all the clues get revealed to the remaining player who has to guess the ...
You likely know trick-taking games from long time classics like Whist and Bridge. The Crew: Mission Deep Sea cleverly repurposes the concept into a cooperative game through the use of missions, demanding that certain players win tricks of particular types. So you might have to win a trick containing a yellow one, for example, or two consecutive tri...
A list of co-op board games for different themes, levels of complexity and player counts, from Nemesis: Lockdown to Exit: The Game. Find out why these games are fun, challenging and immersive for teamwork and collaboration.
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- Spirit Island. Designed by R. Eric Reuss. Supports 1 to 4 players. About 90 to 120 minutes. 8.4 on BGG. To this day, there's no board game quite like Spirit Island.
- Tales From the Red Dragon Inn. Designed by Geoff Bottone, Jennifer Kitzman, Jeff Morrow, and Sam Waller. Supports 1 to 4 players. About 60 to 120 minutes. 8.5 on BGG.
- Adventure Tactics: Domianne's Tower. Designed by Nicholas Yu. Supports 1 to 5 players. About 45 to 90 minutes. 7.9 on BGG. If you've ever wanted to play Final Fantasy Tactics in board game form, this is the game.
- Marvel Champions: The Card Game. Designed by Michael Boggs. Supports 1 to 3 players. About 45 to 90 minutes. 8.1 on BGG. Marvel Champions: The Card Game is exactly that: a cooperative card game where you each play as a Marvel champion.
- Gloomhaven. The co-op board game giant offers an epic fantasy adventure in a box. Gloomhaven has quickly earned a reputation as one of the greatest co-op board games of recent years, earning a place alongside the likes of Pandemic and Arkahm Horror as a true modern classic.
- The Crew: Quest for Planet Nine. Communicate through cards in this space-themed co-op board game. Up until fairly recently, The Mind was considered to be the go-to cooperative card game.
- Mansions of Madness: Second Edition. Explore haunted houses and uncover terrible cults with friends in the co-op horror hit. Set in the Lovecraftian expanded universe of the Arkham Horror Files series, Mansions of Madness does what it says on the box: players venture into spooky houses (or sometimes unsettling city streets) to discover what awful horror befell their residents – and avoid falling victim to the same doom.
- Spirit Island. An anti-colonialist board game that offers a tough challenge for cooperating friends. Too many board games give colonialism centre-stage, tasking players with taking control of parts of the world and exploiting them for their own gain without a second thought.
Apr 11, 2023 · Discover the best cooperative board games for different players and occasions, from kids and families to veterans and zombie fans. Learn the rules, features, and themes of each game, and find out how to work together to achieve a common goal.
Jan 16, 2023 · The best coop board games are: Spirit Island – best overall. The Crew: Mission Deep Sea – best for newcomers. Nemesis – best survival horror game. Alien: Fate of the Nostromo – best quick horror game. Gloomhaven – best coop RPG campaign game. Pandemic Legacy Season 1 – best legacy coop game. Horrified – best family friendly coop adventure.
