Sky Team

What's Eric Playing?

February 12

Base price: $30.
2 players.
Play time: ~15 minutes.
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Logged plays: 13

Full disclosure: A review copy of Sky Team was provided by Hachette Boardgames / Le Scorpion Masqué.

Well, it's a travel week for me (or at least I'm traveling when I'm writing this), but it makes a certain amount of sense to also shoot for two-player games on this, the classic Valentine's Day Week. Whether you're in a relationship or not, there are always games that benefit from two people playing them in the most platitude-heavy sense possible. I mostly tend towards two-player games out of both convenience and a preference for more zero-sum interactions, since there's less of an ability for players to dogpile each other if there are only two of them. But that's hardly relevant here, since this is cooperative anyways. Let's check out a recent favorite, Sky Team, from the ever-talented folks at Scorpion Masqué!

In Sky Team, your goal is to land the plane. That's a nice, simple, and straightforward summary. However, actually landing a plane is a lot harder than it sounds. Over the course of several unique games and scenarios, you'll have to deal with everything from the altimeter to the flaps to the landing gear to an intern to making coffee to ice brakes to kerosene to, you know, not crashing into other planes. All in a day's work for you and your copilot. But surely you can land safely?