Pandemic on the Brink Board Game EXPANSION - Face New Challenges and Save Humanity! Cooperative Strategy Game for Kids and Adults, Ages 8+, 2-5 Players, 45 Minute Playtime, Made by Z-Man Games

GREAT expansion for one of my favorite board games. It’s a little complicated to learn the new pieces so keep the instructions handy.The expansion comes with a TON of new roles to play. I love that. It feels well worth the price when there’s this many new roles with a variety of skills to choose from and help the game advance.I really enjoy the little petri dishes for the cubes that come in this expansion. I moved all my cubes to these from the little dime bags (lol) in the original game. It gives it an overall feeling of real diseases in those dishes.The new mix of situations is awesome. It makes each play through different and adds fun difficulty depending on how you play.

We love Pandemic because it is a team player game rather than “I win, you lose.” You have to discuss your plans with the other players to find the best way to cure diseases while battling potential outbreaks. On the Brink is a great add on to the game because it adds a whole other layer to really spice things up. My kids are 9 and 8 and I feel that this game is a good challenge that they can handle. Younger kids may not fully understand the planning but can still be helpful to the cause. It’s a great family game for a range of ages.

Makes the game significantly more difficult (in a good way). It offers 3 more ways to play the base game, a different way to hold and store the cubes (in small Petri dishes that are actually very convenient), and 7 new roles. (A few are super useful!)The game also comes with more event cards as well as 2 blank create-your-own event cards and 2 blank roles. My roommates and I are currently creating a role called "Gregory House, MD" or the main character from the show House. His ability is tha after every three epidemics drawn, House can "pull a cure for one disease out of thin air". His caveats are that he can only make 3 actions per turn due to his limp leg that debilitates him in the show as well and that due to "his unwillingness to be a team player", he cannot share cards with anyone. We have also created an event card called "Socialized Healthcare". This card when played causes the infection rate to go down by 1 for three rounds. After playing it, however, we decided that makes it too easy, so we will most likely change it to just one full round.Overall: 9/10. I really like two of the game modes added but the bioterrorist challenge is a bit frustrating with how Overpowered the bioterrorist is. It almost makes the whole point of the game null.

This is hands down my favorite board game. Even with just the base, there is no getting bored of the gameplay and it’s never the same game twice. My favorite items of this expansion pack are the petri dishes, new roles, and the bioterrorism challenge. Definitely worth the money if you love the base. They even include a customizable role and event card. Thanks to the shortcut/move cards they include for each player, a potentially complicated game becomes straight-forward and simplified for almost anyone to learn. Even if you’re an expert at the base game, this add-on could take some getting used to on your first play so grant it it’s well deserved time and don’t rush through it. Fun game to play by yourself, but personally I find two players is ideal. Can’t wait to collect all the expansion packs!

There are a number of options within this set to expand upon classic pandemic, but I was most impressed with the box insert accommodating all of the classic + expansion pieces--allowing me to discard my original pandemic box and keep all the pandemic play options together! Great game, quality pieces, and identical cards.

Pandemic is one of my favorite games and does not need to be expanded. However, if you feel like the game is a little stale like you've played it so many times that you need new challenges or just something a little different, this is almost a must-have expansion. In this box are several new role cards, a 5th infection cube color, a 1-vs-all variant, cards to make a disease tougher, and a box insert that lets you store the base game, this expansion and the 2nd expansion: "In the Lab" (fitting all 3 expansions with the base game is quite difficult).The 5th cube color is used in 2 new game variants: bio-terrorist and mutations. The 1-vs-all variant has everyone trying to win the game while a bio-terrorist player is also infecting locations. The mutation variant adds a few cards to the player deck and a few cards to the infection discards and drawing one of those cards will add purple cubes to the board. Curing the purple disease is a little harder since there are half of those cubes than the original 4 colors.This expansion has Virulent Strain epidemics that can replace your epidemic cards. Instead of just following the basic 3 actions of an epidemic, you now have a new ongoing- or one-time effect like "remove 4 infection cubes from the virulent strain supply". You determine which disease has the least cubes available and dub it the virulent strain the first time you have an epidemic and will make curing that disease harder.The game comes with more events, roles, and a few blank role and event cards. With all the new events comes a new method in using them: 2 cards per players get shuffled into the player deck before dealing cards.I like the new roles, the new events, and the virulent strain variant a lot. The bio-terrorist has been played once in the ~100 times I've played with this expansion but everything else in the box has definitely been worth buying. If you can only afford 1 expansion for Pandemic, this is the one to buy. I recommend this expansion above the other 2; then "In the Lab" and "State of Emergency" last. (However, all 3 expansions are great and have new variants well-worth the money.)