Pandemic Legacy Season 2 (Black Edition)

Name: Pandemic Legacy Season 2 (Black Edition)
Brand: Z-Man Games
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Rating: 4.6 (529 reviews)

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A cooperative legacy campaign for 2–4 players aged 13 and up, Pandemic Legacy Season 2 (Black Edition) sends a small band of survivors across a plague-ravaged world in roughly 60–90-minute sessions of medium-heavy, story-driven play.

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About the Game

Pandemic Legacy Season 2 drops your team into a world already lost to plague. Rather than treating outbreaks, you lead a small band of survivors from a coastal haven, exploring an unknown world, reconnecting cities and delivering supply cubes to keep settlements alive. Every decision permanently alters the game: cards are marked, stickers placed and sealed packages opened as a twisting campaign unfolds across a year of play.

Designed for 2–4 players aged 13 and up, sessions run about 60–90 minutes, with a full campaign spanning 12–24 games. This medium-heavy cooperative legacy game blends action points, hand management and set collection.

Created by Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau and published by Z-Man Games in 2017, Season 2 is a standalone sequel to Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, set decades later. It inverts the original's formula by adding supply cubes instead of removing disease cubes, and the Black Edition shares its contents with the Yellow Edition, differing only in box artwork.

History

Pandemic Legacy Season 2 was designed by Matt Leacock and Rob Daviau and published by Z-Man Games in 2017. A standalone sequel to Pandemic Legacy: Season 1, it is set decades after the original, in a world where civilisation has already collapsed.

Season 2 was released in Black and Yellow box editions; the contents are identical, with only the box artwork differing.

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Rules of Pandemic Legacy Season 2 (Black Edition)

Set up the campaign: place the board with most of the world hidden, set supply and plague cubes nearby, deal starting cards and follow the legacy deck's opening instructions.
Choose characters: each player picks a character with a unique ability, and places their pawn at the coastal haven.
Take four actions per turn: sail or move between cities, deliver supply cubes, build supply centres, recon unexplored regions, or share cards where the rules allow.
Draw player cards: after actions, draw two player cards, watching for epidemic-style events that escalate the plague.
Cities consume supplies: the infection step drains supply cubes from connected cities; a city with no supplies gains plague cubes instead.
Embrace permanence: mark cards, apply stickers and open sealed packages only when instructed — these changes carry through the whole campaign.
Win the session: complete the current objectives, such as connecting cities to the grid or keeping settlements supplied.
Ending a game: you lose if the player deck runs out or plague overwhelms the network, but the campaign continues across 12–24 games either way.

Strategy

Explore early: reconnning new regions expands your options and is usually needed to progress objectives.
Keep cities stocked: a settlement that runs dry gains plague, so prioritise deliveries to the emptiest cities first.
Build supply centres on key routes: well-placed centres shorten delivery trips and often ease card sharing.
Lean on character abilities: plan turns around what each survivor does best rather than duplicating roles.
Talk before acting: it is fully cooperative — sequence everyone's four actions as one team plan.
Don't hoard cards: hand limits are tight, so spend cards on travel and objectives instead of waiting for the perfect moment.
Expect change: new rules and components arrive as the campaign unfolds, so stay flexible rather than locking into one plan.
A loss is not the end: the campaign keeps moving after defeat, so treat setbacks as story, not failure.

Fantastic board game with a great plot!

J. K. Rosen

We played through the whole game as a party of 2 and found it to be well balanced and an extremely good time. This is probably my favorite board game experience ever. It has a plot that builds on what happened in the first Legacy game, so I recommend playin...
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We played through the whole game as a party of 2 and found it to be well balanced and an extremely good time. This is probably my favorite board game experience ever. It has a plot that builds on what happened in the first Legacy game, so I recommend playing that first so events in the game mean more to you. The mechanics are somewhat different from normal Pandemic, but also similar. We found it to be more difficult than the first Pandemic Legacy game. I think we lost ... 4 games total, as opposed to one game in Season 1. My only complaint is that some of the stickers didn't stick well, and I needed to use some glue to get the additional rule stickers and role upgrade stickers to adhere to their respective cards. For those who are concerned about the price for a game that is a consumable product, it is worth it. Think of it like a movie or theater... 12+ evenings of good gameplay that draws you in and makes you feel like you are managing resources in a post-apocalyptic world.

Reviewed in the United States on 22 September 2018

Todo perfecto

Pedro Alberto Lopez Cuenca

El juego llego en excelentes condiciones, todo perfecto. Excelente juego, muy divertido. Lo recomiendo.

Reviewed in Mexico on 12 January 2026

Correcto y rapido

Fernando

Todo correcto y rapido

Reviewed in Spain on 15 November 2019Reviewed in Spain on 15 November 2019

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Alina

Bellissimo, ci siamo goduti un sacco. Abbiamo giocato alla stagione 1 con gli amici e abbiamo deciso di comprare stagione 2 per me e il mio marito. Il bello di questo gioco è che devi completare 12 mesi (12 round di gioco da circa 1-1,5 hh), ed ogni “mese” ...
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Bellissimo, ci siamo goduti un sacco. Abbiamo giocato alla stagione 1 con gli amici e abbiamo deciso di comprare stagione 2 per me e il mio marito. Il bello di questo gioco è che devi completare 12 mesi (12 round di gioco da circa 1-1,5 hh), ed ogni “mese” sarà diverso in base a come hai giocato quello precedente. Per chi apprezza anche aspetto narrativo di un gioco da tavola, è una meccanica perfetta

Reviewed in Italy on 18 July 2026

Great legacy game

Gabriel N.

Great game, storyline and challenge.

Reviewed in the United Kingdom on 3 October 2020