Team-Based Board Games
Team-based board games are a genre of tabletop games where players work together in specific groups or teams, often competing against other teams to achieve set objectives. The genre emphasizes collaboration, strategic planning, and sometimes communication skills within a team to succeed.
Characteristics
- Cooperation: Players within the same team collaborate, making collective decisions and strategizing to outplay the opposition.
- Competition: Teams compete either directly through confrontation or indirectly by achieving better scores or faster completion of objectives.
- Roles and Abilities: Team members may have unique roles or abilities that contribute to the team’s overall strategy.
- Objective-Oriented: Games typically involve completing missions, solving puzzles, or accomplishing specific goals before the opposing team(s).
- Interaction: High level of player interaction, both within teams and between opposing teams.
Popular Examples
- Codenames: Teams work to identify their agents from a grid of words based on one-word clues.
- Pandemic: On the Brink: While Pandemic is primarily a cooperative game, the On the Brink expansion introduces a bioterrorist role, effectively creating teams with conflicting goals.
These games provide a blend of social interaction, strategic depth, and collaborative challenges, making the team-based genre a popular choice for game nights and social gatherings.
