Most of us tabletop gamers are familiar with “Pandemic” and “Forbidden Island” as they are (what I consider to be) staples in the cooperative genre.  Instead of curing diseases or getting off a sinking island, what if you all had to work together to outwit an alien tesseract that was removing bits of itself to destroy Earth?  To make matters worse, Will Smith and Jeff Goldbloom aren’t around this time to blow up a mothership.  I’m pretty sure I’ve used that joke before, so props if you can find it in a previous article.  I’m old and don’t remember such things.  Special thanks to Kurt over at Smirk & Dagger Games for providing me with a copy of the game for review purposes.

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