What Are Your Favorite Cooperative Games?
What Are Your Favorite Cooperative Games?
I'm interested in hearing what cooperative games people are playing, old or new. My group has had Bloc by Bloc out on the table a few times. That is pretty fun for us, but I'm wanting to add some more cooperative titles to the library.
for sure I love flash point. I think it might be one of the most commonly played games I have.
I need more expansions for it though I've only got 2nd story
Some that I havent heard but love are Pandemic and Spirit island.
And as a hidden gem: Heroes of Tenefyre and sprawlopolis. Heroes is a deckbuilder dungeon crawler where the new cards in your deck are the monsters you slay. Sprawlopolis is a city builder the size of a small wallet, which you can easily take with you. There are 3 challenges out if 18 which decide how the game will play, which asks for different tactics every time.
I will always +1 spirit island.
Tenefyr is one of my favorites too, especially with the variety added by the expansion. I hope it gets a new printing soon so that more people can try it.
Yeah it is one of those games that I wouldnt play without the expansion anymore. We really like the legendary dungeons, which adds quite some difficulty and allows for multi classes, which can create some cool and strong combos.
I don't see it mentioned, so: 2p Onirim is an interesting low cognitive game you can play with your partner before going to bed. You are in a common dream and both need to beat the game without talking, simply by giving hints. Playing with a low light is cool.
I wouldn't say it's my favorite co-op game, but still, it's easy to pick.
I love Gloomhaven. It's cooperative, but still offers some competitive gameplay elements.
lightweight:
- forbidden games (Island desert sky)
- flashpoint
- castle panic
- escape the curse of the temple
- magic maze
- hinabi
medium weight:
- pandemics
- stuffed fables
- zombicide
- legendary predator
- Sherlock Holmes consulting detective
- the grizzled
- mysterium
heavy weight:
- Arkham horror the living card game
- Lord of the rings journeys in Middle Earth
- Arkham horror third edition
- mansions of madness
- Eldritch horror
- Spirit Island
- Robinson Crusoe
Great list. Flashpoint semi replaced Pandemic for our group for a short period of time. I love the theme of that one. Some really excellent expansions for that one too. Who doesn't want to be a fire fighting dog?
I love co-op games. A few of my favorites (in no particular order) are:
Fallout (w/ Atomic Bonds expansion of course)
The Crew (either version)
Black Orchestra
Stars of Akarios
Forbidden Desert
Gloomhaven
Mysterium
Arkham Horror LCG
Spirit IslandHonorable mention for some semi-co-ops:
Fury of Dracula
Specter Ops
Dead of WinterThis is a great list, thanks! I can't believe I didn't know about the Fallout game since that is one of my favorite video game series. I"m going to have to find that one and get it on the table.
Do you have house rules for Fury of Dracula? It was a long time ago that we played it, but I remember that Dracula was too hard to catch and if you cornered him he disappeared into the ocean.
None that I can remember.
Him escaping via the ocean shouldn't end up being terribly difficult because everyone can tell that's where he is, how many ocean spaces he went through, and cannot backtrack. Usually you can narrow his location down to a few ports.
Mina Harker's power is absolutely critical to use whenever possible. Once you've narrowed position down to a region the game should feel much more winnable because all 4 hunters can spread out and close in.The bigger issue we usually have with that game is the combat doesn't feel super great and bogs the game down.
Honestly, if you like the hidden movement aspect of the game, I think Specter Ops is the easier/more accessible game to play. It's not that far off from FoD, but it's not as heavy.