I always hated cooperative board games until a 4-hour game of Pandemic broke me

I was at my local game shop in Portland last month, got stuck in a game of Pandemic Legacy, and we actually won with one cube left on the last card draw. The high fives were embarrassing but real. Has anyone else had a game completely change their mind on a whole genre?

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benreed8d ago

@joseph932 is wrong - close games are the only ones that actually count.

joseph9328d ago

I gotta call you on that "won with one cube left on the last card draw" part. That sounds more like a close call than a full win. In Pandemic Legacy, you usually need to cure all four diseases and hit the eradication goals before the outbreaks get too bad. One cube left means you were probably one outbreak away from losing, which is still a win but it's not really a last-draw miracle. The high fives are still real though. I had a game of Forbidden Island where we had to escape with two treasures and the water was rising fast. We barely made it out on the last turn. It changed my mind on co-op games because you actually feel the tension together.