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Any examples of large co-op board games that you find interesting?

• zeisss 6y ago
  Pandemic
• alasdair_ 6y ago
  I really like Mansions of Madness as well as Dead of Winter. Both are co-op but both have a mechanic where it’s possible one of the players is actually a betrayer out to defeat the others. My problem with pure co-op, especially pandemic, is that what usually happens is one player ends up doing most of the actual “playing” and the others just provide a few suggestions here and there. Both MoM and DoW limit the things you are allowed to share with the other players too, which makes this happen less often, and in DoW every player has a unique hidden agenda in addition to the group goal - which gets fun if they do something weird because you have to work out if they are a betrayer or just have a weird agenda.
  • kmonsen 6y ago
    I have played Pandemic a few times, and it ended up like you mention. 1-2 players took control while the others were mostly passive. DoW looks interesting, but not sure how possible it is with 2-3 players and it is harder to get a larger group now in the middle of the pandemic.
    • alasdair_ 6y ago
      It’s fun with even two players but it’s definitely more interesting with four or more. The expansions allow twelve players, which I strongly recommend only doing with experienced players - it takes a whole day and people give up if you have to explain all the rules over and over.