The story will come through and instruct you to open small boxes or do something to the board. Before and after certain games, you’ll be instructed to draw a certain number of cards from this deck (NO PEEKING). The story comes in the form of a legacy deck. Certain cities can become hotspots for diseases and it gets pretty hard to travel around the board. Without giving away spoilers, the viruses mutate and do “different” things, and at the same time, the board will start to shift. There are four viruses and you need to cure them before you run out of cards or have too many outbreaks… easy peasy. The first game you play is pretty standard. Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 starts players out almost like any other game of Pandemic.

So if you’re completely badass and never lose a game, a complete run of Pandemic Legacy Season 1 will take 12 games and at most you’ll be able to get 24 plays out of a box. If you fail to meet the objectives for that month, you’ll get one more chance to play a second game during that month. Each round you play represents a month of in-game time. The full campaign of Pandemic Legacy (Seasons 1 & 2) is broken down into one year (of story time, not real time). It topped the BGG rankings for quite some time. Z-Man Games has done an amazing job with the versions and expansions of Pandemic, and Legacy is no exception. Risk Legacy may be the first Legacy game ever made but Pandemic Legacy is where it blew up and became part of the board game mainstream. We’re going to take you through our favorite Legacy board games and take a look at what makes each one tick. For now, let’s see what board games are available. Board games after all, are a social experience, and anything that connects you to the world you are playing will enhance the experience.Įven at the time of writing this, the factors of what constitutes legacy board games has evolved and are constantly being challenged. The system accounts for the high emotional value that the players attach to characters and objects in-game and uses that emotion to not only tell a story but also to bring the players more deeply into it as well. It can be gimmicky at times but I can honestly say that outside of a Pen & Paper RPGs I haven’t been as invested in the story of a board game in quite some time. Again, I don’t really have an answer to that one either (but I don’t think that’s the case).

Many people saw the Legacy system and immediately railed against it, claiming the board game publisher Illuminati was planning to destroy the secondary market. I can’t give a definite answer yet and that’s because this genre is still in the growing pains phase. Is it the destruction of game components?.What officially constitutes a Legacy game? Because it’s such a new genre there’s also a lot of ambiguity surrounding legacy games, so let’s clear that up.

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