The rest of the components are pretty solid as well, little wooden explorer tokens, a slider marking water level and the rules.Įach of the players is an adventurer on the eponymous Forbidden Island, each with their own special ability to break a single game rule to their advantage. Where simple markers to reflect item recovery would have sufficed, instead Gamewright decided to include little molded plastic replica’s of each – pretty spiffy, especially since they don’t serve any purpose beyond indicating that a relic has been recovered. The inclusion of the treasure tokens, the Earth Stone, the Statue of the Wind, the Crystal of Fire and the Ocean’s Chalice, is likewise a nice touch.
Inside are stacks of lavishly illustrated cards depicting the exotic picked over crumbling ruins of an ancient civilization which immediately set the tone of the game.
Part of this simple charm extends to the game playtime – a game of Forbidden Island, win or lose is over in half an hour.įorbidden Island doesn’t come in a conventional box – it comes in a pretty metal tin, at once distinctive and eye-catching. Part of the Cooperative-Game genus, Matt Leacock’s Forbidden Island is a lavishly produced product by Gamewright based around a fast playing easy-to-learn, easy-to-teach card-trading race-against-time mechanic. As a cooperative game, this excellent all-win or all-lose mechanic makes it an great title for families and a great way for players to experience a casual less-competitive game session. Players must manage their resources as they explore a sinking island, working against the clock to retrieve all the island’s treasures before the entire board sinks and they collectively lose. TLDR: Forbidden Island is a highly recommended first step into the realm of cooperative board games, featuring excellent components and easy to learn gameplay. Forbidden Island is one of his stand-out release, a distillation of cooperative game mechanics into a simple single-box release that serves as an excellent introduction to the whole genre.Īs a speedy 2 to 4 player experience, Forbidden Island is an excellent take on the hand-management and board control elements of many other cooperative games and is a must-have addition to any budding board game collection. Since the release of his modern classic Pandemic, Matt Leacock has developed something of a reputation as the guru of Cooperative board games.
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