Cooperative board game

[3] While adventure board games with role playing and dungeon crawl elements like Gloomhaven may be included, pure tabletop role-playing games like Descent: Journeys in the Dark are excluded as they have potentially infinite victory conditions with persistent player characters.

[4] In 1903 Elizabeth Magie patented "The Landlord's Game", inspired by the principles and philosophy of Henry George.

In it, Magie had two rule-sets - the Monopoly rules, in which players all vied to accrue the largest revenue and crush their opponents, and a co-operative set.

[6] In 1956, the Lowell Toy Manufacturing Corporation of New York City released a board game version of I've Got a Secret, a panel show, featuring host Garry Moore on the cover of the box.

In the Sherlock Holmes: Consulting Detective series of games published in the 1980s, players are presented with a mystery to solve, and they trace the evidence together.

[13] It utilizes a video tape that runs constantly while users play the board game portion.

The video itself was directed by Les Landau and contains original footage filmed on the actual Star Trek: The Next Generation sets at Paramount Studios.

In 2000, Reiner Knizia released Lord of the Rings a cooperative board game that allowed players to work together against the forces of Sauron.

[14] In this game, players join forces as medical experts racing to stop the spread of global diseases.

In the same year, Space Alert; a cooperative survival designer board game created by Vlaada Chvátil in 2008 was released.

The game places emphasis on teamwork as the crew deals with emergencies, such as system malfunctions and alien threats.

The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine (2019), Forgotten Waters (2020), Sleeping Gods (2021), Return to Dark Tower (2022) are some other popular recent cooperative games.

[22] Some cooperative games might have an added layer of intrigue by giving players personal win conditions.

Other games, like Betrayal at House on the Hill, start out fully cooperative, but assigns a player to be the villain mid-game.