Board game like pandemic? Collaborative game play?

[RainMoon]

Looking for a board game like pandemic where you all kind of play on the same team towards the same goal rather than against each other. Any suggestions?

[ImNotMeImSomeoneElse]

Elder Sign is pretty good. Can also be played solo.

[Justbenice1]

The forbidden series is great. The new one is forbidden sky which you build an electrical circuit to win, which is so cool.
Flashpoint is great too as pp mentioned.
Mansions of madness brings out your inner geek. It's brilliant using the app on a tablet to take you through the story. Quite heavy going though for non gamers...
Arkham horror series is very good too if you like the more complex horror games.

I've bought gloomhaven, but think I'll try gloomhaven jaws of the Lion to begin with. Work my way up to the full gloomhaven game.

Highly recommend sherlock Holmes series. Got all of them, they're great to sit together with a glass of wine!

[NowellSingWe]

Zombicide (if they can cope with the theme, mine played from 10 I think)

[Reallynotavailable]

Forbidden Island can be played with two people, I think? It's a great game.

[Blueemeraldagain]

@RainMoon
You can play Ravine with two players, just take 9 hearts (lives) each rather than 6 (essentially split the third player between the two). Just DP and I play fairly often. Co-operative games that work well with two players are more unusual as I think most game designers assume that if someone wants a co-op then they will be playing with a group?

[Ginius]

Castle Panic is great!

[Bells3032]

Forbidden Island or forbidden desert are great.

We have recently bought horrified and absolutely love it. It's based on the old scho horror movies eg Dracula and the invisible man and you have to save a village from them.

If there's a group. Of you try hanabi or magic maze.

I've also heard great things about mysterium though haven't tried it

[RainMoon]

Flashpoint seems a good shout as I’m struggling to find it to buy online! Can find the expansion packs but not the base game

[RainMoon]

@BlueStarRose pandemic legacy looks good!

[RainMoon]

Thanks all for the suggestions! Really useful, maybe I’ll get one per lockdown 🙂
@BlueStarRose I don’t think ours is, off to google!

[TakeMeToYourLiar]

I've bought DH code names duet for Xmas for this purpose

Cooperative for 2 adults.

Plays in 30 minutes so we may find more slots to play it around kids than some other games we have

[FixItUpChappie]

Horrified - fun theme too with classic universal monsters.

[AnathemaPulsifer]

Came on to say Flashpoint as well.

[SingToTheSky]

Flashpoint fire rescue! You have to save people from a building before it reaches a certain amount of damage. Cooperative like pandemic but different enough to be worth having both.

[DoubleHelix79]

The Sherlock Holmes one is good - you work together to find clues and solve cases.

[BlueStarRose]

I love pandemic!!! @RainMoon do you have the Legacy edition?

Dead of Winter is also collaborative (although there is the added twist someone is a traitor).

Maximum apocolayse is also good.

[RainMoon]

Thanks @Trisolaris is it normally around £75? It does look good and I think it was showing me different things before

[Trisolaris]

Mansions of madness is 2 players

[RainMoon]

A couple of games have a minimum of 3 players, looking for something to play with DH in the evenings when we’re on our own. Suggested the Harry Potter one, looks amazing but DH said as he’s not a fan he might not get all the bits.

[ilovespinach]

Forbidden Desert

[RainMoon]

Thanks for all the suggestions will look them all up!
Looking for games that can be played mainly by 2 adults

[VenusClapTrap]

My 8 and 10 year olds love Mansions of Madness. It isn’t really scary.

[Hardbackwriter]

@Palavah

Ravine
and, to an extent, Secret Hitler.

Secret Hitler is fab but I think so much better if you're near the maximum rather than minimum number of players (it's a 5-10 game) so it wouldn't be my game of choice for most people this particular Christmas!

[Trisolaris]

@IfOnlyOurEyesSawSouls

Would Mansions Of Madness be ok for a 12 year old or is it too much horror?

Mostly I would say it would be fine unless it’s a 12 year older who gets scared easily by 12 rated films. It’s very fantastical type horror with monsters etc so it’s great fun. If anything they might find the game play a little complicated but if playing with older family members they should be fine and it comes with an app that helps tell you what to do. I think most 12 year olds would find it really fun.

[ChristmasBubble]

Listen again to one of Jeremy Vine's radio 2 shows from last week. There was a segment on board games. Most I'd never heard of.