
- This game is a Medical Co-op game that can be played with up to 4 or 5 players
- In the game there are 2 roles and 4 actions
- In order to find a cure for a disease, a player will need 5 cards of the same color
- The scientist needs only 4 of the same color
- There are “Special Event” cards that allow you to do extra tasks throughout the game
- When it is your turn, you must Draw 2 cards every time
- If the “Epidemic” card is drawn, the infection rate moves up
- No more than 3 cubes are allowed on a city at once
- If a city with 3 cubes gets infected again, then an outbreak occurs and every surrounding city adds one more cube
- To treat the disease (cube), a player must move to that city to remove the cube
- The Medic can remove all cubes from a city that they are in at once
- “Sharing knowledge” is an action that allows for players to help share their cards with another player during their turn to ultimately cure a disease
- The object of the game is to find the cure for all 4 diseases before:
- The infection cards run out
- Outbreak spreads too high for the game to continue (Up to 8 outbreaks)
- The player cards that are drawn every turn run out
- During our game, the roles were as followed:
- Sloan – Scientist
- Austin – Researcher
- Rae – Medic
- Shelby – Operations Expert
- This game was already the second time that we played due to such an early death in the previous game
- Sloan began by moving to Sao Paulo to begin curing the city
- Austin cured Atlanta and then flew to Buenos Aires to help cure the city
- Rae then flew to and cured Hong Kong
- Shelby went to Los Angeles
- Still no outbreaks, thankfully
- Sloan cured the rest of Sao Paulo and continued by flying to Moscow and then curing Istanbul
- Austin went to Paris and then went on to cure Milan
- Rae used her turn to help cure Osaka
- Shelby cured San Francisco and then flew over to Tehran
- Sloan helped to finish curing Istanbul
- Austin added a research center in Milan and once again cured Istanbul
- Rae cured Lima
- Shelby added a research center in Karachi following the curing of the city
- Sloan moved back to Atlanta and cured Chicago
- She then drew the “Epidemic” card throwing every player into a panic
- Austin cured the previously infected towns of Karachi and Baghdad
- Rae moved to Seoul in order to cure Tokyo
- Shelby moved to Beijing and both cured and added a research center in the city
- Another “Epidemic” card is drawn and the infection rate moves up once again
- Sloan moved to Bangkok and then partially cured Shanghai
- Austin flew to and cured both Toronto and New York City
- OUTBREAK in Algiers
- First outbreak of the game causing everyone to finally begin stressing
- Shelby cured Khartoum
- Drew another “Epidemic” card and the infection rate moved up to 3
- Austin flew to Milan and helped cure the area
- Another OUTBREAK in Algiers causing the total to increase rapidly all over the map
- This game lasted longer than our first game by far
- The game was very fun and intriguing and allows you essentially the chance to save the world of disease
- However, failure means that the world is practically doomed with infections
- I would absolutely play this game and would recommend it to anyone that enjoys intense games with an overall clear objective
By: Austin Wright