Cooperative board games have players come together…
…rather than ripping each other apart.
Top 10 Cooperative Board Games
I like games where we all work together and some of my favourite games of all time are co-op games.
But, for me, there needs to be something to stop one player trying to run the game for everyone because it ruins the game for the majority a lot of the time. In this list, I include games that do this in some way…
What is a cooperative board game?
A cooperative board game is a game where players work together to achieve a goal. Example – Pandemic
But, this can be split further into a few subsections.
Team Game – Where two teams compete against each other, but players on those teams are working together. Example – Tension
One vs Many – Where one player is on a team of their own trying to achieve a goal while the other players are working together to complete a different goal or defeat the solo player. Example – Letters from Whitechapel
Social Deduction/Traitor – Similar to the one vs many style of game, except ‘the one’ (or more) in this case is hidden. Example – Werewolf
Semi-Coop – This is a game where players are trying to achieve a goal, but only one player will win the game. Example – Marvel Legendary
List of Cooperative Board Games
Here is a list of the cooperative board games I’ve covered on this site, only the fully coop ones though!
Borderlands: Mister Torgue’s Arena of Badassery
Chronicles of Crime
Comanauts
Disney Animated
Escape Tales
Escape: Curse of the Temple
Escape: Zombie City
Flatline
Forbidden Dessert
Forbidden Island
FUSE
The Grizzled
Hanabi
Kingdom Rush
Legendary: Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Legendary Encounters: Alien
Legendary Encounters Firefly
Lord of the Rings: Adventure Game Book
Magic Maze
Marvel Champions
Marvel United
Marvel Zombies
Mechs vs Minions
Pandemic
Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu
Red November
Robinson Crusoe
Samurai Spirit
Scream: The Game
Sentinels of the Multiverse
Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective
The Shipwreck Arcana
Spaceteam
TEAM3
The Game
The Mind
This War of Mine
Thunderbirds
T.I.M.E Stories
Undo
Unlock
Warhammer Quest: Adventure Card Game
Witness
XCOM: The Board Game
Xenoshyft: Onslaught
Zombicide
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