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Pandemic Rising Tide Board Game - Battle the Elements to Save the Netherlands! Cooperative Strategy Game for Family Game Night, Ages 14+, 2-5 Players, 45-60 Minute Playtime, Made by Z-Man Games

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Brand Z-Man Games
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Genre Cooperative
Number of Players 5
Minimum Age Recomendation 168

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  • DUTCH WATER CRISIS: Experience a thrilling twist on the cooperative classic Pandemic. In Rising Tide, you and your team of Dutch civil officials must fend off relentless flooding and overflowing rivers to protect the Netherlands.
  • VARIED ROLES: Each player assumes one of seven unique roles, each with special abilities, making teamwork essential to control water flow, build ports for travel, and erect windmills to reclaim flooded lands.
  • MODERN HYDRAULIC STRUCTURES: Strategically construct four vital hydraulic structures to defend against the relentless floods. Every structure provides crucial benefits, bringing you one step closer to victory.
  • OBJECTIVE DIVERSITY: Enjoy extensive replayability with twelve distinctive Objective cards, ensuring that every game of Pandemic: Rising Tide offers a fresh and challenging experience.
  • EMBRACE THE CHALLENGE: Test your collaborative skills in a high-stakes game that combines strategy and cooperation, as you work together to save the Netherlands from the encroaching waters.

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Pandemic Rising Tide Board Game - Battle the Elements to Save the Netherlands! Cooperative Strategy Game for Family Game Night, Ages 14+, 2-5 Players, 45-60 Minute Playtime, Made by Z-Man Games

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In the Netherlands, flooding from North sea storms and over flowing rivers are a constant threat. Join the effort to keep the country safe in Pandemic: rising tide, a tense new take on Pandemic for two to five play ERS. In every game of Pandemic: rising tide, you join a team of Dutch Civil officials striving to keep the ever-encroaching waters at bay. Sailing these water-filled regions, you need to build dikes to control water flow, ports to facilitate travel, and windmills to pump water out of flooded lands. Ultimately, only teamwork will help you keep the waters at bay long enough to build the modern hydraulic structures that will help you defend against the Flood!

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For centuries, the Dutch have relied upon a series of dikes and wind-powered pumps to keep water from invading their lands, but now the sea is rising and the fate of the nation is in the hands of a skilled team of experts.

In Pandemic: Rising Tide, you play as a team of Dutch civil officials helping to modernize the water containment system. Your goal is to construct four hydraulic structures that will ensure the safety of the Dutch people for generations to come.

You must first buy yourself some time by building dikes to control waterflow, ports to facilitate travel, and windmills to pump water out of flooded lands.

Rising Tide builds on the addictive gameplay of Pandemic, but adds all new challenges for your team. You may have to complete other objectives like expanding the Dutch population or constructing water pumps to protect the cities.

Rising Tide introduces seven new role cards like the Carpenter, the Pump Operator, and the Hydraulic Engineer. Each one has their own abilities to add to the team.

Work together with your team to save the nation in this stand-alone adventure in the Pandemic series.

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Number of Players 2-4 2-4 2-4 2-5 2-4 1-5
Average Playtime 45 minutes 60 minutes 30 minutes 30 minutes 40 minutes 45 minutes
Recommended Player Age 8 and up 14 and up 8 and up 8 and up 14 and up 8 and up
Game Objectives Fight diseases Fight diseases Fight diseases Fight diseases Fight against the Darkness Fight against Invading Hordes
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What's in the box

  • 1 Board
  • 7 Role Cards
  • 7 Pawns
  • 77 Player Cards
  • 5 Reference Cards
  • 56 Dike Failure Cards
  • 36 Water Cubes
  • 50 Dikes
  • 5 Pumping Stations
  • 5 Ports
  • 4 Hydraulic Structure Tokens
  • 1 Sea Level Marker
  • 1 Reminder Marker
  • 12 Objective Cards
  • 36 Population Cubes
  • 1 Population Loss Card

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    Customers find the board game fun, challenging, and enjoyable. They say the concept and gameplay are great, and the game system is good. Customers also say the game is different enough to enjoy as a variation.

    "Great game. Very creative. Takes a few games to get the hang of it. Seems a bit complicated at first but gets easier the more you play...." Read more

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    "...I think the mechanics are different enough that it’s familiar and still enjoyable even after being pandemiced out. I really like this one...." Read more

    "...This game can be played with the basic objectives but there are also different objective cards to change the game up a bit each time you play it." Read more

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    Customers find the board game very creative, with richly illustrated game board and cards. They also say the game is wonderfully thematic, tense, variable, and replayable. Customers also like the concept and gameplay.

    "Great game. Very creative. Takes a few games to get the hang of it. Seems a bit complicated at first but gets easier the more you play...." Read more

    "...But you read that already. This version is beautiful as well, I think the mechanics are different enough that it’s familiar and still enjoyable even..." Read more

    "The best Pandemic outside of Legacy. Wonderfully thematic, tense, variable, and replayable. A masterclass in board game design." Read more

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    Laura S
    5.0 out of 5 stars Challenging and fun
    Reviewed in the United States on June 5, 2021
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    Great game. Very creative. Takes a few games to get the hang of it. Seems a bit complicated at first but gets easier the more you play. It’s like Pandemic only different which makes it a lot of fun. Definitely recommend this game. Since it comes with the variable objectives, no expansion to buy!
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    John M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Great game
    Reviewed in the United States on September 7, 2019
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    I own over 400 board games and this one is one of my favorites. A great addition to the Pandemic line of games. I love them all. In this game, you are all cooperatively working to stop the ocean from flooding Holland. A bit more fiddly in game play than the other games in this line [Pandemic, Pandemic: Reign of Cthulhu, Pandemic: Iberia, Pandemic: The Cure, Pandemic: Fall of Rome], but still very fun to play.
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    J M
    5.0 out of 5 stars Not the best pandemic, but still a fun game
    Reviewed in the United States on October 10, 2020
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    If you are just looking to get into Pandemic and are unsure which version to pick up, I'd recommend getting Iberia or Fall of Rome before this one. If you love Pandemic and want more, then this version is definitely worth getting, especially if you want a break from the current actual pandemic.
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    Corey
    4.0 out of 5 stars A great new twist on an old favorite
    Reviewed in the United States on March 7, 2018
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    If you ignore "Contagion" for a minute, all of the Pandemic variations that Z-Man has been putting out have been pretty high quality. Cthulhu fell flat in my group, but others have enjoyed it. Iberia is excellent. It used to be our favorite spin off, but Rising Tide has now taken its place. Tide has all the flavor of a normal Pandemic game, but the dikes and water flow mechanism add their own unique feel and challenge to the game. It definitely deserves shelf space along-side the original. I especially like that the game comes with objective cards that allow you to change the victory conditions for additional longevity and replay value.
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    Rob
    5.0 out of 5 stars Different enough to enjoy as a variation.
    Reviewed in the United States on September 25, 2018
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    If you have none of the spinoffs, you should buy Iberia. But you read that already. This version is beautiful as well, I think the mechanics are different enough that it’s familiar and still enjoyable even after being pandemiced out. I really like this one.

    You have to be very thorough in setup and water flow stages as the water placing can become tedious at times.

    A good edition to play as solitaire as well.
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    Boyce Deaton
    5.0 out of 5 stars The best replayable Pandemic
    Reviewed in the United States on May 27, 2021
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    The best Pandemic outside of Legacy. Wonderfully thematic, tense, variable, and replayable. A masterclass in board game design.
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    5.0 out of 5 stars Great Pandemic game with flood outbreaks instead of disease
    Reviewed in the United States on February 9, 2020
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    The game was a great twist on the original Pandemic game. This game can be played with the basic objectives but there are also different objective cards to change the game up a bit each time you play it.
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    L.W.
    3.0 out of 5 stars Not what I had hoped for.
    Reviewed in the United States on March 11, 2018
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    First and foremost, Matt Leacock did an excellent job designing a game that has a similar feel to the original game, but different enough that you did not feel you were buying another Pandemic game with a pasted on theme. As with the original, the game board and cards are richly illustrated, the instructions are well laid out and the components are of a nice quality. .

    The overall theme is the constant flooding of regions and you trying pump out the water and to build dikes. The goal is to build all four hydraulic structures to win the game. The tension of controlling the waters, watching the sea level rise with each storm card drawn and the task of getting to the next area that might flood is implemented very nicely! The whole mechanism of how the water flows give the game a completely new feel than the original. The different rewards to the players completion of each hydraulic structures is a nice touch.

    However, there are some negatives of the game that I have. 1) One accidental bump of the board and the dikes move pretty easily (there are so many possible positions for the dikes on the board, you don't know where the went!). 2) The rivers on the board tend to blur in with the lines that mark the dividing lines for the regions. 3) Every game you will spend a majority of the time and manpower in the Zuiderzee region. Thematically this makes sense, but for game play it takes away from the variability of each game. 4) Pandemic has the lines connecting to the cities which gives a visible ease of connecting the regions. The regions in Rising Tide are not as clear, which are made worse by all the dikes.This gave us the nagging problems of forgetting to put down water cubes in certain areas. Though not a negative, some people might have a problem with the unfamiliarity of the names and pronunciations of the regions (I had an easier time guessing at the pronunciations of the cities in Pandemic Iberia).

    I knew I had to get this game when it was announced and I tried to convince my self that it was a great game after playing it a couple of times. Unfortunately, I found the game flow (no pun intended) to be awkward and the negatives to be restricting to my enjoying the game like I had hoped to. I would recommend Pandemic Iberia over this game if somebody was choosing between the two.
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    Joann M.
    5.0 out of 5 stars Interesting Game
    Reviewed in Canada on January 3, 2020
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    This item was delivered very quickly. I haven’t played this particular version yet, but Contagion is a lot of fun. Working cooperatively, instead of competitively makes for an interesting game experience.
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    Fabio Lopez
    5.0 out of 5 stars One of the best in the Pandemic range
    Reviewed in Germany on March 21, 2019
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    Difficult and really realistic games. The basic mechanic is from Pandemic but you get the feeling of the flooding of the lands! One hour or fun. If you've never played game, maybe is better to start from Pandemic!
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    Johanne
    5.0 out of 5 stars Parfait
    Reviewed in Canada on December 2, 2018
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    Parfait
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    Neil
    5.0 out of 5 stars Five Stars
    Reviewed in Canada on February 22, 2018
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    awesome game.
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    Matt
    4.0 out of 5 stars Fun game!
    Reviewed in Canada on February 27, 2019
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    a bit more complicated than the original pandemic, but a great new spin on cooperative gaming
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