Welcome to the Iberian Peninsula! Set in 1848, Pandemic Iberia asks you to take on the roles of nurse, railwayman, rural doctor, sailor, and more to find the cures to malaria, typhus, the yellow fever, and cholera.
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Abdul
Iberia is a decent cooperative game that comes with some mechanics that encourage long term planning, giving it a slight edge over the original. It can be quite tense, and victories do not come easily. Very pretty board, but it can be tricky finding city locations if you are not familiar with Spanish geography. Like the original Pandemic, if played with the official rules, the game is way too easy to quarterback and turns into a multi-hand solitaire game. I would suggest playing with your hand hidden to force players to communicate.
a2greg
I really enjoyed my first co-op experience with the Pandemic system. It was a two player gaming session and we won both times (though barely in the harder, second game). The game flows well and the deck manipulation that intensifies the diseases is a genius mechanic. The roles are all a little different and require some adjustment of strategies. I'm glad I started with this historical variation as that definitely helped me with my engagement.
ajewo
Reimplementation of Pandemic. Makes the game more thematic which I like much more. For me Pademic was always a bit too dry and abstract. + Artwork + Component quality + Thematic (historic, fighting diseases in Spain in 17th century) + Building railroads or using harbors to move pawns more quickly (no flights as in regular Pandemic) + Water tokens use to secure whole areas (similar to quarantine tokens from Pandemic Legacy) + Curing a disease give only a small bonus (a disease cannot be eliminated like in Pandemic) + Player cards refer to 4 colored areas on the map like in Pandemic: Cthulhu (single city in regular Pandemic) + 7 characters with special abilities + Modest sized game box + Some fun variants included + Different difficulty levels + More challenging and more variable than regular Pandemic # No hidden information # Luck of the draw (from player and event deck) # Alpha leaders may be a problem Similar games: * Pandemic: Rising Tides (build dikes or water pumps to prevent the Netherlands from being flooded, some design flaws) * The Captain Is Dead (cooperative, Sci-Fi game, similar gameplay, thematic, all about planning ahead and activating stations for certain effects) * Commissioned (religious theme, reversed: players add cubes instead of removing cubes from the board)