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Cooperative board games are so much more fun to me. Have you ever played Scotland Yard? All but one of the players work together to catch the one player playing the criminal in a chase over a map of London. It's one of my all-time favorite game and it's all about strategy and coordination.
Well I have a deep love for Spirit Island and I enjoy playing The Crew every time I get it to the table (so does everyone else who plays usually). I love co-operative games!
My only thing with co-operative games is I already can’t stand the type of person who wants to control what everyone does in a situation (it’s called “quarterbacking” in board game terms) because they “know” the best strategy and it is very tricky to design board games so that it doesn’t immediately encourage this type of person to try to micromanage what everyone else does on their turn. It is even more insufferable when the person trying to micromanage everyone else’s turns and tell them what to do is right about it because what are they supposed to do just sit there and let the other player make a stupid move that loses everyone the game?
I think also co-operative games need to be tuned to be generally be hard as nails because otherwise the ending of a co-operative game can feel like the (fun) tension just goes out of the game at the end when it becomes apparent everybody won but the game isn’t over yet. This is way less a problem with non-co-operative board games because even when the end of the game isn’t super close everyone is still invested in what score they got/what place they will come in.
All those caveats aside, Spirit Island is my fav board game of all time full stop so yes I love co-operative board games! I have not gotten the pleasure of trying Scotland Yard though and you reminded me I need to try it.