Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (Red Edition)

Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 (Red Edition) is a highly acclaimed co-operative legacy board game for 2 to 4 players, offering an immersive campaign spanning a simulated year. Lasting approximately 60 minutes per session and designed for players aged 13 and over, this strategic experience challenges your team to coordinate movements, manage cards, and work together to halt deadly global diseases.

An Evolving, Permanent Campaign

What makes Pandemic Legacy distinctive is its permanent, changing nature. Unlike traditional board games where every session resets, actions taken in one game of Pandemic Legacy carry over to the next. You will write on components, place permanent stickers on the board, tear up cards, and permanently alter the state of your world. Characters can gain scars or even be lost entirely, and the viruses themselves can mutate in unpredictable ways as you progress through the twelve-month campaign.

The Birth of a Modern Classic

Co-designed by Rob Daviau, who pioneered the legacy genre, Pandemic Legacy: Season 1 was released in 2015. It adapted the core disease-fighting mechanics of the original Pandemic into an evolving, narrative-driven campaign, earning widespread praise as a major milestone in modern board game design.

Red Edition vs. Blue Edition

The Red Edition features distinct box art but contains the exact same gameplay, components, and narrative campaign as the Blue Edition. This allows players to choose their preferred aesthetic, or permits gaming groups to run multiple concurrent campaigns without confusing their physical copies.