Co-operative board games are fast becoming a popular trend, especially for a more casual audience. Thrilling co-operative board games are great way to work with friends and enjoy a game without competition with each other. Players can work together as teammates, normally against one or more AI opponents.

Features of Co-operative Board games

• Co-op is gameplay which involves cooperation between two or more players
• There is an extensive range of co-op game designs
• Co-op is gaining ground rapidly
• Co-op games trigger more positive emotions than competitive games
• Co-op helps to overcome loneliness

Here are the best cooperative board games you can play right now, balancing the old with the new. These alluring games beckon you to come back for one more new strategy or one more round, or one point higher up on the complexity scale.

Mechs vs. Minions
It’s a brainy game of two to four players. It involves programmed movement and action with playtime of 60 to 90 minutes. The players blow up endless endearing little league minions loaded with fun element and speed, it comes with a horde of miniatures and premium components.

Mysterium
It is an entertaining game based on deduction and reasoning with touch of creativity. Released in 2015, the game can be played with 2 to 7 players and the playtime is 42 minutes. One player is a ghost, while the others are psychics who try to find out who was behind the murder. The ghost player has to inform the players as to what happened to them by using only cards with surrealist images. The players have to narrow down the suspects, check out the murder locales and murder weapons.

Arkham Horror: The Card Game
This card game designed by Nate French and Matthew Newman was released in 2016. The playtime is 60 to 120 minutes and can be played between 1 to 4 players.

It is quick, intelligent, and mechanically best adaptation of Arkam Horror. This living card game is preferred by tabletop players. They create custom decks of cards to defeat Cthulhu mythos monsters and unfold mysteries. The decks symbolize their characters. It exhibits adventurous experience as the original Arkham Horror.

Pandemic and Pandemic Legacy
This is a typical cooperative game, fighting a worldwide disease outbreak in Pandemic was released in 2008. The popular classic game is played between 2 to 4 players. With playtime of 45 minutes, this masterpiece is based on prioritizing action and bringing up quick solutions to tough problems. Pandemic Legacy is the long-term version in which cities are annihilated, characters are killed, and deadly diseases are given names.

Forbidden Island
Forbidden island is a lighter version of the pandemic experience designed by Matt Leacock. With playtime of 30 minutes, 2 to 4 players can play this race against time to recover artifacts on a sinking island. It is much simpler and faster. Players assemble on the island with sandbags and move from place to place snagging artifacts before escaping on a chopper.

Spirit Island
Spirit Island takes a completely different track wherein the players adopt the role of powerful magical spirits which defend their island’s native people against aggressive and violent occupiers. It’s a complex game played between 1 to 4 players with the track time of 90-120 minutes.

Other games such as Sherlock Holmes Consulting Detective, Robinson Crusoe: Adventures on the Cursed Island and First Martians: Adventures on the Red Planet are also gaining immense popularity these days. You can browse online for some more captivating games and enjoy the gaming experience.