Pandemic: The Board Game
Asmodee Digital · 2018 · Strategy, Simulation, Board Game, Outbreak Sim, Tabletop
PC
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About Pandemic: The Board Game
✦ AI summary
Lead a global disease control team across four deadly pandemics, treating infections and discovering cures before humanity falls. Assemble specialized roles like Medics, Scientists, and Quarantine Specialists whose unique abilities synergize in different ways, ensuring no two playthroughs feel the same across five challenging difficulty levels.
Humanity is on the brink of extinction. As members of an elite disease control team, you’re the only thing standing in the way of the four deadly diseases spreading across the world. You must travel the globe protecting cities, containing infections from spreading, and discovering the cure for each disease. The fate of humanity is in your hands!
You will assemble a team of specialists to save humankind. Each member of the team has their own set of skills that you must use efficiently.
Recruit the Medic to quickly treat diseases, discover a cure faster with the Scientist, or stop infections from spreading with the Quarantine Specialist. 
Each role opens new possibilities and syncs with the other roles to offer new strategies. Pick from seven available character roles to create your elite team.
- Choose your team from 7 different roles.
- 5 difficulty levels to change the game for newcomers and veterans alike.
- Immersive theme, challenging gameplay, and replayability. Don’t play the same game twice!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Pandemic: The Board Game, developed by Asmodee Digital and published by Asmodee Digital in collaboration with Z-Man Games, is a digital interpretation of a widely respected cooperative tabletop experience that flips the usual competitive formula on its head. Instead of players working against each other, everyone shares a single objective: prevent the collapse of global health systems by containing outbreaks and discovering cures before time runs out. This cooperative framework immediately gives the game a distinct tone, one defined by shared tension, collective responsibility, and the constant pressure of managing a crisis that can escalate at any moment. The gameplay is structured around a world map divided into interconnected cities, each vulnerable to the spread of multiple diseases. Players assume specialized roles within a response team, with each role offering unique abilities that shape how they approach the problem. Some are better at treating infections, others excel at research or movement, and these differences encourage players to think in terms of coordination rather than individual efficiency. Every turn presents a series of trade-offs: do you focus on containing im…1 found this helpful
1. This is great game because always random breakoouts, EVERY turn you have to work the most effective actions
Amazing way to play multi-handed solo games!
Not gonna lie, I failed at controlling the pandemic and everybody died. A+ for realism
unique gameplay
Freezes on the Stream deck.
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