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A light-security prisoner is trying to escape through tunnels starting underneath his cell. Will you be able to join forces and cards to stop him? Bandido is a cooperative game of strategy and observation for the entire family.
Can be combined with the sequel, Bandida.
Year Published
2016
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Adam Porter top_100_list at 8:03 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Compact, great with families
- Strong group appeal; tends to play well with non-gamers
Cons
- May feel light for veterans looking for heavy strategy
Thematic elements
- cooperative heist/escape
- cooperative tunnel defense against a Bandido
- team-based, light
Comparison games
- Bandida
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- cooperative tile placement — Players place cards to block tunnels and shape the mine/escape routes.
- Shared resource management — Team works together to prevent exits while new ones appear.
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- it's basically a deck builder that has been stripped back to its very very core and made accessible for children
- it's such a small package and you've got really quite a deep abstract strategy game in there for two players
- it's frantic sort of race of observation trying to spot these minor differences
- it's a trick taking game ... the great thing about adding pi to it is that you never end up with a tie
- it's a roll them right game with a little bit more going on than some other examples in the genre
- Bandido is such a small package with that nice helvety graphic design
- it's a really good clever game neat little mechanisms fun simple
- it's a great flicking game
- the unique little twist here is that we're actually writing onto cards
- it's a rolling right game
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