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The 14 Best Cooperative Board Games


Game night by way of The Fellowship of the Rings.

What is the point if you aren’t going to beat the other players,” says game designer Rob Daviau, whose co-op titles include Stranger Things: Upside Down and Pandemic: Legacy, a co-design with Matt Leacock. Chronicles of Crime takes place as much in its companion app as it does on the table, with a VR-lite experience that lets you examine a room by holding up your phone and moving it around as if you’re looking at the four walls, the ceiling, and the floor. Sky Team has two players posing as pilot and co-pilot, trying to bring their big ol’ jet airliner in for a landing at a major world airport, which means getting all sorts of things ready so the runway is clear and you approach at the right speed and angle.

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