Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

Lose 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, characters take scars that hinder them, and some cards are torn up and thrown away. It starts out as ordinary Pandemic, which makes it the easiest story-heavy legacy campaign to teach a group. Torn-up cards do not come back, so plan on one campaign per copy: the finished box is a record of your year together, not something you reset.