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Pandemic Legacy: Season 1Lose a month and you play it again, then the calendar moves on regardless, so a campaign runs anywhere from 12 to 24 games. That rhythm is why this is still the benchmark: every defeat pushes the story forward, and the consequences land on the components. Stickers permanently mark the board,…0 - 2
GloomhavenThe legacy here is a whole world rather than a single board. Finishing scenarios places illustrated location stickers on the city map, ability cards take enhancement stickers that change what they do, and 17 character classes wait, mostly sealed, for your group to unlock them. Each hero chases a…0 - 3
CharterstoneJamey Stegmaier's competitive village builder turns worker placement into a legacy campaign. Building stickers peel off cards and go permanently onto your own charter of the shared board, and more than 75 numbered crates hold new rules and pieces that open as the 12-game campaign unfolds.
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Risk LegacyThe 2011 original from Rob Daviau and Chris Dupuis still has the most gleeful sense of destruction. You choose one of your faction's two powers, stick it onto the faction card, and tear the other up and throw it away. Winners sign the board and found cities, scars stay on the map for good, and…0 - 5
My CityReiner Knizia's polyomino city builder is the gentlest way into legacy play. The campaign is 24 games of about 30 minutes each, grouped into eight eras of three, and stickers alter each player's landscape as new rules arrive. Short sessions mean a group can finish an era in one evening, and the…0 - 6
Pandemic Legacy: Season 2The sequel flips the premise: the world almost ended seventy-one years ago, and instead of curing disease you work from floating stations called havens, re-establishing supply lines to cities that have fallen off the grid. Rebuilding a network, rather than holding back outbreaks, makes it feel like…0 - 7
Pandemic Legacy: Season 0A Cold War spy thriller wearing Pandemic's rules. It is 1962, your team of medical graduates has been called up by the CIA, and the campaign runs across 12 months of objectives in which every success or failure brings you closer to the truth. Swapping field medicine for espionage gives the series…0 - 8
Clank! Legacy: Acquisitions IncorporatedThe funniest campaign here casts your group as new hires of a dungeon-delving franchise, sent out by your boss Omin Dran to bring back treasure. Underneath sits Clank!'s deck-building dungeon run, with a giant dragon standing between you and the loot, and around it the legacy layer adds stickers,…0 - 9
Ticket to Ride Legacy: Legends of the WestThe map literally grows. The United States is split into 13 jigsaw pieces, only five of which form the starting board, and the winner of each game chooses where the map expands next. Over the 12-game campaign new cards, rules and stickers pile up, and what you complete is stored in a vault box to…0 - 10
Machi Koro LegacyThe quickest full campaign on this list: 10 games of roughly 30 to 40 minutes each, so a group could finish it in a few evenings. Along the way you tear up components, add stickers and open surprise envelopes and tuck boxes as the dice-rolling town builder grows new rules.
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