Pandemic | Z-MAN Games (2024)

FAQs

Who bought the Pandemic games? ›

Pandemic Studios, alongside BioWare, was acquired in 2005 by Elevation Partners and placed under VG Holding Corp., which in 2007 was sold to Electronic Arts (EA).

Pandemic has multiple legacy versions available to play. The legacy titles are Season 1, Season 2, and Season 0. Legacy games take place over the course of one year. Your actions each month of the campaigns will continue to affect you throughout the course of the very lengthy gameplay.

It introduces developing railroads and purifying water as new mechanics. In addition, players can play to cure four specific historical diseases: malaria, typhus, yellow fever, and cholera. It was rebranded as a “Pandemic System Game” from the 2022 edition, under the title Iberia.

On Steam the game's store page says it was removed “At the request of the publisher.” It also appears to be removed from the Google Play Store and Apple's App Store. If you already bought the game you can still install and play it on Steam and mobile, but Pandemic can no longer be bought by new customers.

Released shortly after Electronic Arts shuttered the Pandemic Studios, The Saboteur was a rare third-person World War II shooter and stealth-action game that placed players as a skilled resistance fighter trapped inside of a Nazi-occupied France at the height of the war.

Every Pandemic Legacy game is designed to be played once through. Some people burn components as the game instructs them to destroy cards, some players create shadowboxes of their completed games, and still others find even more creative ways to commemorate (or dispose of) their copies.

Sure, you have more characters and so more special abilities, but you also start with fewer cards each and draw fewer cards per player over the course of a game, making it harder to collect sets for cures. Plus there are more turns — and thus more things that can go wrong — before a specific player gets to act again.

The game is finished after you complete the campaign. While you can possibly play the game 12–24 times, expect about 16-18 games.

Pandemic's digital board game removed due to old age and declining performance. “The time has come to make way for the digital future of Pandemic.” After the digital version of Pandemic disappeared from online stores last week, publisher Asmodee Digital gave players a fairly cryptic response.

End of the game and how to win

Because it's a co-op game, everyone wins! While there is only one way to win the game, there are three ways to lose: If the outbreak marker reaches the last space on the outbreak track. If you need to place disease cubes but have run out of cubes of a certain colour.

How difficult is Pandemic board game? ›

Everyone begins the game in Atlanta at the Centre For Disease Control, which is your first Research Station on the board. The Pandemic board game is a very challenging game and there are plenty of ways to lose. The level of difficulty can be managed though during the set-up phase of the game.

On May 10, 2016, as a result of the discontinuation of its Disney Infinity series, Disney shut down Disney Interactive Studios, and exited the first-party home console game development business in order to focus on third-party development of home console video games through other developers.

States begin to implement shutdowns in order to prevent the spread of COVID-19.

Disney had laid off all of the Disney Create workers so they could shift towards making mobile apps and not "waste" their time on taking care of the many websites housed by Disney. Disney claims to have other ways to create art, but none of which have been found worthwhile, or have art that comes out well.