The aspect of a game where players work together toward common goals. The tag refers to two types of cooperation: (1) games where all players cooperate toward a common victory condition (everybody wins or everybody loses), and (2) two or more players working toward common but not-necessarily-identical goals.
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What cooperative board games are there that I could safely play with my wife?
My wife loves board games, but dislikes very competitive games, and is completely uninterested in aggressive "beat up the other guy" games. We recently discovered Pandemic, where each player works together to try and halt the spread of a number of…
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What makes a cooperative game require multiple players?
Many cooperative games (like Pandemic or Arkham Horror) could be played by a single player, even though they're intended to be played by a team of players striving against the board.
What makes a cooperative game require multiple players?
What…
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What makes a cooperative board game actually a game?
Most board games are competitive, where you have players competing against each other, trying to win. Some board games are described as "cooperative", where the players are trying to do...what exactly?
In a competitive game, there isn't usually a…
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How have coop board games prevented a player(s) from taking over decision making
A 'problem' with some coop board games is that it's easy for a dominant person or people to take over all decision making in the game.
I personally see this happen in Pandemic all the time, even though it tacitly tries to prevent this.
I can only…
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Arkham Horror: dominant personality issue?
I recently experienced the problem mentioned here, with myself being one of the enthusiasts pushing other party members around. It wasn't intentional, it's just that the structure of the game lends itself to giving each other lots of advice.
I'm…
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Recommendation for D&D players who want a faster dungeon/questing game after dinner?
My friends and I play Advanced Dungeons and Dragons from time to time. Since it's cumbersome to make so many preparations to play so little, I'd like a faster alternative reason to get together and play some board games.
It could be a war game or…
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Earliest cooperative board game
Which was the first cooperative board game?
For the purpose of this question, we can define "cooperative" as "there is more than one player, and at the end of the game, they either all win or all lose".
My unsuccessful attempts to answer the…
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How can I tell how replayable a cooperative game is?
I've been reading reviews on various cooperative games trying to find some more to add to my collection. (I currently have Pandemic, Forbidden Island, and Shadows over Camelot). In reviews, I've seen people give games low ratings for a few reasons,…
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Where can I find a list of cooperative "beat the game" games?
I know of Pandemic and I remember having played a game about mountain climbing where the goal was to as a team climb the mountain and get back down safely but there must be more of these games where one play as a team rather than against each other.…
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In Dungeon Run, is there ever a reason to assist another player if you have full health?
In Dungeon Run, when another player is on your tile, you can assist them. If you do, you are allowed to rally which means to remove a single damage from your character.
Since any other player will eventually be an opponent, does it make any tactical…
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Strategy for succeeding at Crisis skill checks
I've played my first real BSG game last week with three players and the humans got wiped out before we even jumped once...
I did some calculations to figure out if things get easier or harder with more players. What I found out made me wonder how…
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How semi-cooperative games handle players who have nothing to lose?
After watching Jumanji I wondered if the eponymous game was meant to be a co-op or a competitive game. Having difficulty figuring it out on my own, I have asked that question on a different stack exchange, and that's how I found out about games that…
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do all players win star realms pirates co-op
OK, with the Star Realms Pirates of the Dark Star co-op challenge, if a player dies but at least one other remaining team member still beats the Pirates, is it a team win or an individual win? e.g. if Bob and Sally play, and Bob is eliminated, but…
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cooperative game that is NOT like pandemic, forbidden island et al
The cooperative games I have played (pandemic, forbidden island, ghost story) share very similar mechanics in which players have to deal with different threats as fast as they can or they loose.
Is there any other good cooperative game without that…
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Clarification needed: Wrath of the Lich King - A Pandemic System board game
Recently we started playing "World of Warcraft: Wrath of the Lich King - A Pandemic System Board Game", but after reading the rulebook a couple of time we still had some questions.
There are some situations not described in the rulebook about the…
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