That’s OK. You are allowed to not like it. Not every game is for everybody.

I have to say that it has yet to draw me in. I see the other 3 players getting into it, tense, excited and exhilarated and I honestly wonder what I’m doing wrong? Here’s why.

If you lose a month, you play it again except you get a bit of help.

If you lose 4 months on the trot then . . . well I don’t know what happens but there is some sort of special contingency rules for this eventuality. We’ve only lost 2 games and they were not one after the other.

It’s non-competitive – no one wins or you all do.

It causes arguments because of the team driven nature.

I recognise that it is supremely well designed but I find it extremely boring.

Summary : It’s very cleverly written and designed, but it’s not fun.

Except it’s a minimum of a 12 time game for 12 months, but sure keep trolling.

For the most part, I’d say yes. You can always ignore stickers on the board and on cards. You’d just have to make sure you don’t permanently destroy anything you might need to play regular pandemic.

I played the game with my wife and we only controlled one character each. We both had a ton of fun and never really felt the need to control two characters each. It might be slightly easier with only 2 characters vs 4, but I never really like having to control more than one character.

That’s great to hear, Will get this coming holiday season.
Btw, is it also possible to use the boardgame as a standard pandemic game once you’re finished with it? Would love to be able to get people into the hobby with this game as well if needed.