Tag: Pandemic Legacy

I was wrong about how I thought the unreleased Pandemic Legacy games were going to play out. Pandemic Legacy Season 0 is going to be the next release. That much is true. And I thought that Season 3 was still being worked on, but according to this new Dicebreaker interview, Season 0 will be the last final game. It says so right in the first paragraph:

It’s been three years since the last Pandemic Legacy game, and five years since Season 1 first reinvented the co-op hit with its widely acclaimed campaign. Countless cards have been torn, endless stickers have been stuck and the excitement of opening the next box of surprises hasn’t dimmed. But with Pandemic Legacy: Season 0, the series comes to an end.

Ah well, I was wrong but that doesn’t temper my expectations of the game. Ending a trilogy with a prequel feels like some sort of Soderbergh or Tarantino altered timeline film, so I’m curious how it’ll go

Pandemic Legacy Season 0 is now available for pre-order over at Z-MAN Games. Price is $79.99, but if you’re patient, you can probably score a pretty great deal on it eventually (I got Season 1 and 2 for more than half off from Amazon last year). Never played a Pandemic Legacy game before? No problem, you don’t need to have played Season 1 or 2 to play 0, it says so right on the box:

Never played any Pandemic game? The original co-op is still in print (and on sale from Amazon right now for $35.99, a 20% discount) and there’s a ton of spin-offs. There’s also a newly released scaled-down version of the original game called Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America for $19.99 available from Target right now. Designed for quicker games with less moving parts and a smaller size for portability, it’s enough to give you a taste of the full Pandemic game at a cheaper price. Think of Hot Zone as an amuse-bouche to the full game. I’m waiting for my copy of Hot Zone to come in and give it a whirl.

Earlier this week, Dicebreaker broke the news that the next chapter in the Pandemic Legacy series will be a prequel, Pandemic Legacy Season 0. The events of this game will be set before Season 1 and details the story of how it all started. Season 3 was the one that Pandemic fans have been waiting for. The game’s creator, Matt Leacock, stated that Season 3 is postponed due to the real-world pandemic and he wanted a more appropriate time to release it. That totally sounds like a lie because that didn’t stop him from announcing Season 0 or releasing Pandemic: Hot Zone – North America for that matter, and last I checked we’re still living with an unchecked virus. My guess is that Season 3 is far from being complete and my hope is that the story and/or game play mechanics are being tweaked and reworked so that it can be the best that it can be and live up to the Pandemic Legacy legacy.

No release date, price, or game play details have been shared other than this short teaser trailer. No matter, I got plenty of games to play through in the meantime.

Board games isn’t something we normally cover here on FBTB. But it is something I’ve been getting into a lot lately. I did do one post a few months ago on Batman: The Animated Series Gotham Under Siege game. Gloomhaven is my current game of choice and we had a pretty epic session the other day which I’ve thought about writing about.

Anyways, another game I really enjoy playing is the co-operative disaster control game, Pandemic. I’m not here to talk about that though, I’m here to talk about the Pandemic Legacy games. Played properly, Legacy games are episodic in a way: you only play through it once. This concept is fascinating to me as most board games I know of allow you to replay them to your heart’s content. So having this “one and done” experience of playing the game once and actually destroy some game components is… something else.

I was browsing Amazon last night and noticed that the Pandemic Legacy games are on sale. Pandemic Legacy Season 1 Blue Box and Season 2 Yellow Box are both $37.90, marked down from a $79.99 price tag. The game’s designer confirmed that there’s no difference between the different colored boxes of the same season. But if you wanted to play with more than one group of friends, I suppose this is a good way to keep track of that.