Asmodee Pandemic on the Brink Board Game EXPANSION - Face New Challenges and Save Humanity, Cooperative Strategy Game for Kids and Adults, Ages 8+, 2-5 Players, 45 Minute Playtime

This expansion makes an already great game even more fun. It adds new character classes, new event cards, and new game types and scenarios. My biggest issue with the base game, Pandemic Board Game , was that I often had five people who wanted to play, but I was limited to four players. This is fixed here, with the addition of new role and event cards and a couple extra rules. Hurray! There are several new game modes to provide an extra challenge. These are all great fun, but the biggest change is the "Bioterrorist Mode," which switches this from a straight co-op game to a cooperative competition between the bioterrorist and the CDC team. This is a crazy-fun game mode that has the main CDC team torn between the regular outbreaks and trying to stymie the new strain unleashed by the bioterrorist character. It can get very hectic, and it is very fun. This expansion also serves as an improved storage vessel for the game, with little petri dishes for storing your disease cubes (fun!) and little nooks and crannies built into the box for storing all the other pieces. If you enjoyed Pandemic, you will love this too.

This is hands down my favorite board game. Even with just the base, there is no getting bored of the gameplay and it’s never the same game twice. My favorite items of this expansion pack are the petri dishes, new roles, and the bioterrorism challenge. Definitely worth the money if you love the base. They even include a customizable role and event card. Thanks to the shortcut/move cards they include for each player, a potentially complicated game becomes straight-forward and simplified for almost anyone to learn. Even if you’re an expert at the base game, this add-on could take some getting used to on your first play so grant it it’s well deserved time and don’t rush through it. Fun game to play by yourself, but personally I find two players is ideal. Can’t wait to collect all the expansion packs!

Pandemic is one of my favorite games and does not need to be expanded. However, if you feel like the game is a little stale like you've played it so many times that you need new challenges or just something a little different, this is almost a must-have expansion. In this box are several new role cards, a 5th infection cube color, a 1-vs-all variant, cards to make a disease tougher, and a box insert that lets you store the base game, this expansion and the 2nd expansion: "In the Lab" (fitting all 3 expansions with the base game is quite difficult). The 5th cube color is used in 2 new game variants: bio-terrorist and mutations. The 1-vs-all variant has everyone trying to win the game while a bio-terrorist player is also infecting locations. The mutation variant adds a few cards to the player deck and a few cards to the infection discards and drawing one of those cards will add purple cubes to the board. Curing the purple disease is a little harder since there are half of those cubes than the original 4 colors. This expansion has Virulent Strain epidemics that can replace your epidemic cards. Instead of just following the basic 3 actions of an epidemic, you now have a new ongoing- or one-time effect like "remove 4 infection cubes from the virulent strain supply". You determine which disease has the least cubes available and dub it the virulent strain the first time you have an epidemic and will make curing that disease harder. The game comes with more events, roles, and a few blank role and event cards. With all the new events comes a new method in using them: 2 cards per players get shuffled into the player deck before dealing cards. I like the new roles, the new events, and the virulent strain variant a lot. The bio-terrorist has been played once in the ~100 times I've played with this expansion but everything else in the box has definitely been worth buying. If you can only afford 1 expansion for Pandemic, this is the one to buy. I recommend this expansion above the other 2; then "In the Lab" and "State of Emergency" last. (However, all 3 expansions are great and have new variants well-worth the money.)

If you like pandemic - this is an absolute must have addition. The extra challenges bring a whole new level of play. 3 modes included in this expansion: 1) 5th virus (purple), is a mutation disease and a new way the virus is added and spreads. Makes the game just a wee bit more difficult if you’re looking for a little more challenge and will extend the game play time a bit as well. Makes you really pay attention to what you discard. 2) variant epidemics: you replace the ‘regular’ epidemic cards with a whole new set. These epidemics add a ‘plot twist’ to one of your viruses. Things like “you must remove a cube before you leave a city as an action” or “every time this virus has an outbreak, it counts as 2 outbreaks”. It ups the game difficulty level ten fold. Especially if you pair with the 5th mutation virus! Love these 2 modes together!! The 3rd is the ‘bioterrorist’. I’ve only watched YouTube videos, because of social restrictions we haven’t been able to have company to have enough folks to play this mode but looking forward to it. The new roles are key as well and really unique. Their skills definitely help with the mutation virus, such as being able to pick up a discarded card, having 8 cards in your hand or being able to peek at the top infection cards before your turn. There are also new event cards. Things like being able to swap out a character for a different one, also makes the game entirely different. I only wish I bought this expansion earlier. It is amazing and if you are a pandemic fan, this will blow your mind for a next level pandemic experience. Also.. cute little dishes for the cubes!

Il gioco mi è stato recapitato in tedesco seppure fosse indicata la lingua italiana al momento dell'acquisto. Chiarito telefonicamente l'equivoco con Amazon, mi è stata subito inviata la scatola italiana e creata un etichetta di reso che ho dovuto applicare al prodotto tedesco e recarmi in un ufficio postale per rispedirlo al mittente. A parte questo equivoco, comunque risolto agevolmente, passo alla recensione del prodotto. Premesso che per giocare bisogna possedere il gioco base, la scatola introduce dei contenitori molto comodi per le varie malattie, una quinta malattia viola, nuove carte e tre nuove esperienze di gioco anche combinabili tra loro. Pandemia è un gioco progettato davvero bene, ci ho giocato con diversi amici ed è piaciuto a tutti, dopo i primissimi turni di rodaggio ci si prende subito gusto e finita la prima partita viene voglia di riprovare! Consigliatissimo!

Pandemic por si solo es un juego bastante genial y entretenido. Facil de aprender y de entender. Pero tras jugarlo unas diez veces o mas, con personas que ya conocen sus mecanicas puede volverse sencillo y aburrido. Pandemic on the brink, es una expansion genial, añade diferentes modos y modulos de juego, algunos de los cuales se pueden jugar simultaneamente. Con estos modulos la dificultad y el estilo de juego cambian completamente inyectandole nueva vida y diversion al juego base. Como puntos adicionales (lo que me hace poner 5 en vez de 4 estrellas), el diseño de la caja permite almacenar pandemic y pandemic on the brink en la misma caja. Y contiene 5 cajas de petri etiquetables para almacenar los cubos de las 5 enfermedades.

Everyone knows Pandemic is a fun, addictive game; great to break out when you have friends over. Well this expansive pack brings more challenging to it and keeps it fun for those more experienced players. It also gives you three expansion in one. Bargain.

It's an awesome expansion. The box, rules, new roles, events, it's well done and thought-through. Great indeed.