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Cooperative Game

Open
Games using
145
Median complexity
2.00
0–5
Median rating
6.22
bayes
Tabletop fit
0.631
weight-controlled

Definition

From BoardGameGeek

Players coordinate their actions to achieve a common win condition or conditions. Players all win or lose the game together.

Top games using this mechanism

By BGG bayes rating, top 50.

GameYearRatingWtTime
Pandemic Legacy: Season 1#320158.352.860m
Gloomhaven#420178.303.9120m
Spirit Island#1120178.144.1120m
Slay the Spire: The Board Game#1720248.022.9150m
Nemesis#2520187.953.5180m
Arkham Horror: The Card Game#3220167.893.6120m
Too Many Bones#3720177.853.9120m
Mage Knight Board Game#3920117.844.4240m
Cthulhu: Death May Die#5420197.762.5120m
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2#7020177.693.260m
Mansions of Madness: Second Edition#7520167.682.7180m
Endeavor: Deep Sea#8320247.652.9120m
Voidfall#8620237.644.6240m
Mechs vs. Minions#9020167.622.5120m
Kingdom Death: Monster#9320157.624.3180m
Bomb Busters#9920247.592.030m
The Lord of the Rings: Fate of the Fellowship#10420257.593.1150m
Aeon's End#10820167.582.860m
Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island#11920127.553.8120m
Battlestar Galactica: The Board Game#12620087.533.3180m
Tainted Grail: The Fall of Avalon#13620197.503.4120m
Eldritch Horror#13720137.493.3240m
The Lord of the Rings: Journeys in Middle-Earth#14320197.482.7120m
Aeon's End: War Eternal#14920177.462.960m
Just One#15820187.441.060m
Iberia#16020167.432.645m
The 7th Continent#16320177.422.91000m
Too Many Bones: Undertow#17020187.404.0180m
Pandemic#17120087.402.445m
The Lord of the Rings: The Card Game#18520117.383.260m
Legendary Encounters: An Alien Deck Building Game#19720147.372.760m
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective: The Thames Murders & Other Cases#20019817.362.7120m
This War of Mine: The Board Game#21320177.343.3120m
Vantage#21720257.342.3180m
The Elder Scrolls: Betrayal of the Second Era#22320257.334.1240m
Aeon's End: Legacy#25320197.272.990m
Codenames: Duet#27420177.231.430m
Zombicide: Black Plague#28720157.222.5180m
Aeon's End: The New Age#30520197.202.960m
Star Realms: Frontiers#31920187.181.945m
Detective: A Modern Crime Board Game#33820187.162.7180m
Chronicles of Crime#34220187.152.190m
T.I.M.E Stories#35220157.142.690m
Arkham Horror (Third Edition)#35320187.143.4180m
Space Alert#37720087.113.030m
Nemo's War (Second Edition)#40220177.093.3120m
EXIT: The Game – The Abandoned Cabin#41020167.082.5120m
Burgle Bros.#41620157.072.390m
Dead of Winter: The Long Night#42320167.073.3120m
Harry Potter: Hogwarts Battle#44220167.052.160m

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