Forbidden Desert is a board game about working together to escape a disastrous situation, which certainly doesn’t echo with anything we’re currently seeing in real life.
Good co-op games have a way of uniting players in order to achieve a shared goal. Forbidden Desert may chuck its players into a tense scenario, where failure lurks around every possible sand dune. But it also pushes players to support one another, hear each other out and use their unique abilities to overcome obstacles as a team.
Forbidden Desert is part of a series of board games created by Matt Leacock – the designer of another excellent co-op game, Pandemic – that places players in a variety of perilous situations, from sinking islands to stormy skies, which they must survive long enough to find an escape from.