Pandemic Board Game (Base Game) | Family Board Game | Board Game for Adults and Family | Cooperative Board Game | Ages 8+ | 2 to 4 players | Average Playtime 45 minutes | Made by Z-Man Games

Amazing experience, this new trend to have players play against the game. Similar to Horrified (monsters from old movies) and Thanos Rising (heroes and villiams from Marvel Universe). Takes a bit to learn but wildly fun and creative.

Pandemic is perfect because it adds a team element not seen very often in board games. This one implements it perfectly! Its a game that is great to play by itself one night, or to throw in the middle of a long game night to break up the blood thirsty competition style games. I do wish it came with containers for the disease cubes, but I do know there are options for getting those separately/with other expansions. Pandemic is great for people of all ages, but can be kind of difficult for those who dont play strategy games very often. With that being said, being able to work together makes this game fun for both the expert and the novice to play together.

My family loves board games but it has been awhile since weve had this much fun playing one! You will always have a great time playing this game, win or lose. The fact that it is team based and you all have to work together is the best thing about this game. It is well designed and easy to play/learn. If youre on the fence about it just buy it, you wont regret it at all!

We received as a gift a year ago and have been playing it non stop since. I have gifted it 4 times and have gotten both expansions. We love the collaboration since we are ultra competitive and play this as a team without anger and hurt feelings. Difficulty is varied by adding Epidemic cards, changing the number of players, and randomly assigning role cards. The expansions add even more variations and difficulty to game play. There are several was to lose as a team but only one way to win. Game play is often complex. Creative thinking for using player special abilities and event cards are necessary to make it possible to win. I recommend that you keep the same Role cards the first few times you play since it can be confusing to learn the roles at the same time as learning the game mechanics while trying to keep the Event cards straight. If you are looking for a challenging team game , this is the one!

This is a great game! I really enjoy that it’s played as a team win or lose, instead of player against player. I don’t find it to be very cumbersome to get the just of it, like I do with some other strategy games out there. Easy setup and only takes about 1-2 hours to play.

Purchased after watching a live play session, I ended up being rather disappointed with the difficulty and replayability. The game is often won by the skin of your teeth, not allowing a large margin of error. While this sounds good, it unfortunately means that whoever the smartest, most aware, most veteran player in the game is is usually the one telling everyone what to do. If even one person makes the wrong move, it can cost the game, so to have any chance of winning, less capable players need to be babied, and this is not fun for them. Ive had some games ending with very upset players because they didnt get to play so much as do what they were told for an hour to two hours. The game doesnt really get better as your skill improves, either. One person will always be stuck running clean-up duty on diseases to keep them in check, maybe even two or three depending on the difficulty, and certain characters are practically indispensable (medic, dispatcher) compared to others (contingency planner). So much is left to luck, yet somehow still ends up being highly predictable; the same cities keep getting infected again and again and you know within a two-or-three turn margin of error when they will become more diseased. A game where you have Bangkok, Shanghai, Taipei, and Sydney erupting over and over can be pretty easy to beat since they are so close together, but not so much when you have Santiago, Johannesburg, St. Petersburg, and Seoul, forcing you to send your team globe-trotting and wasting precious moves every single turn. The first game was alright, but it quickly wore out its welcome and lost favor. No group Ive played with has wanted to try it again and, quite frankly, Im done suggesting it.

Pandemic is the perfect game for a group of overly competitive individuals who struggle to play regular board games because they want to kill each other halfway through. Why, you ask? Because we all have to work TOGETHER to cure/eradicate the diseases before they kill everyone in the world!. Its the perfect game for anyone who likes to strategize as a team. Very easy to learn, not so easy to win. We aim to eradicate all of the diseases rather than just cure them... but even curing all four disease colors is a super success. I highly recommend this game, especially as a cooperative multi-player, strategist game.

This game is an absolute blast. And it is reasonably easy to learn (now this is not Sorry or Chutes and Ladders, but for someone that plays role-playing games like D&D, Munchkin, Pathfinder, etc., this is fairly easy), and yet definitely takes some time to master strategy which leads to good replay value. It is a great game for a 10 year old. She learned about geography and maybe a bit about disease, certainly good for problem-solving skills. We love that it is cooperative and we dont have to worry about hurt feelings (we can be a bit competitive with competitive games). The quality of the board, cards and pieces is high. There are a lot of small pieces (the disease cubes, about 7 x 7 x 7 mm) so be warned if you have a baby/toddler around (or a cat like ours that likes to jump on the board while we play), that this could be a definite choking/scattering/getting lost hazard. I would highly recommend this to anyone who thinks an intelligent, cooperative board game would be fun. And again, probably 10 years old plus and it is for 2-4 players. It does seem a bit harder with 2 than 4 players to be honest. Games take about 30-45 minutes and player number does not seem to affect that. You do lose or fail to save the world sometimes, but difficulty seems very appropriate after playing 5 or 6 times. You can adjust difficulty by putting in less epidemic cards (per rule book) or even tweakin rules a bit (allowing cards to be exchanged just by being in same city instead of same city and having card of the city) at first while you learn or with younger players. We tried this game with a 7 and 8 year old and, at least for those two, I do think this game was a bit too advanced.

We play games as a family once a week, this game has been added to our rotation and we love it. It is a co-operative game, meaning either everyone wins or no one wins. There are several ways to lose and you really have to talk and work as a team to plan your game or you will lose. Even when we lose everyone has a great time. This game has some great dynamics that keep it fresh and entertaining every time you play it. The only bad thing i could say about this game is it appears they have changed the playing cubes from wood (in earlier editions) to plastic, while i can understand the need to keep costs down, it did disappoint me some not knowing in advance.

This is an amazing game in every single way possible. Starting from the beginning both the box and the game itself are high quality. The game pieces are nice, everything is clearly well thought out and is a product of passion. The game-play is also terrific. It is both complicated enough that it is not boring, but is also not crazy difficult and doesnt require sitting with rule book open the entire time to be able to play. I would recommend watching Wil Wheatons play-thru before you trying playing, but you could easily just read the rules I am just more of a visual learner so it helped to watch the video. Pros: Good packaging and game pieces Good game-play Variable difficulty Lots of fun Not crazy hard to play. Cons: None, buy it right now. p.s. After the first play-thru we immediately played another 3 times because it was so much fun. I would recommend that you dont play with kids under about 12ish unless you have a kid who is willing to take a little time to learn the rules.