My wife and I just finished playing the last month of Pandemic Legacy Season 0. OMG, that was a great ride.
We’d played Season 1 with our son at the start of COVID, which gave us a sense of agency. This version is a prequel that takes place in 1962. You’re playing doctors recruited to the CIA. Instead of disease cubes, you’re trying to fight off Soviet agents. However, since an outbreak would send disease to neighboring cities, and Soviet agents don’t work that way (that we know of), there’s a new mechanic for bad stuff that happens instead. Each player has a passport for their character. Each passport has pages for 3 different aliases you can take (Allied, Neutral, and Soviet). You’ll need to create and direct teams to complete objectives.
Highly recommended. If you’re interested, here’s the Shut Up & Sit Down review.
My group beat Pandemic Legacy Season 1 (amazing) and Season 2 (great for the first 11 months but the last month was broken). We got half way through Season 0 before we quit. We we started off with more powerful characters but the game was also harder and kept getting even harder from there (more loss conditions and the win condition became much harder to accomplish). We got plenty of upgrades, but very few of them were interesting and many were very situational.
How much harder did you feel like season 2 was compared to 1? I played season 1 like 7 years ago, but I just started season 2 recently and it’s feeling pretty tough. We won our first game fairly easily but then lost two in February (some bad draw luck and a turn one pandemic on both attempts didn’t help). We barely won March on our first attempt but then it looks like we’re already potentially having some difficulty ramping up.
Season 0 is hard. There were a few months where we only won on the last possible turn (won during my turn when there was only 1 card to draw, so we’d if my turn ended and I had to draw 2 cards)