It is rare to find a board game that takes more than an hour to win, and less than ten minutes to lose. Yet somehow Matt Leacock has managed it in the emotional rollercoaster of a cooperative survival game known as Forbidden Desert.

Many aspects of this game are carried over from its prequel, Forbidden Island, but do not let that fool you. This sequel is no simple reskin of an older game. Leacock took all of the amazing parts of Forbidden Island and added a number of twists and complexities that really bring this desert to life.

Crash Landing in a Dangerous Desert

In Forbidden Desert, the players form an intrepid group of Indiana Jones-style archaeologists whose helicopter was knocked from the sky by a sudden, mysterious desert storm. Now, with the sun beating down and the sandstorm threatening to bury them alive, they must find the scattered remnants of an ancient flying machine. With the pieces gathered, each member of the archaeology team must meet at the landing pad. Only then can they escape the ravages of the desert storm.

Oh, and did we mention that literally…

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