If you've not tried Pandemic before, you need to remedy that immediately. Although it's taken on a new edge for obvious reasons, this remains one of the best board games ever made and is an honest-to-goodness classic. It's one of the few titles I think should be in every collection.
A co-op race against time for two to four players, Pandemic tasks you with nothing less than saving the world. A clutch of diseases threaten to overwhelm civilization as we know it, so the odds are against you from the start. But that's why this game excels. Nail-biting tension and last-minute Hail Marys make winning all the more satisfying, and it's never less than memorable as a result. Strategic, satisfying, and strangely moreish, this is the perfect storm of ideas that shows off everything tabletop gaming is capable of.
