


Risk Legacy may be the first Legacy game ever made but Pandemic Legacy is where it blew up and became part of the board game mainstream. We’re going to take you through our favorite Legacy board games and take a look at what makes each one tick. For now, let’s see what board games are available. Board games, after all, are a social experience, and anything that connects you to the world you are playing will enhance the experience.Įven at the time of writing this, the factors of what constitutes legacy board games have evolved and are constantly being challenged. The system accounts for the high emotional value that the players attach to characters and objects in-game and uses that emotion to not only tell a story but also to bring the players more deeply into it as well. It can be gimmicky at times but I can honestly say that outside of a Pen & Paper RPGs I haven’t been as invested in the story of a board game in quite some time. Again, I don’t really have an answer to that one either (but I don’t think that’s the case). Many people saw the Legacy system and immediately railed against it, claiming the board game publisher Illuminati was planning to destroy the secondary market. I can’t give a definite answer yet and that’s because this genre is still in the growing pains phase. Is it the destruction of game components?.What officially constitutes a Legacy game? Because it’s such a new genre there’s also a lot of ambiguity surrounding legacy games, so let’s clear that up.
