Carcassonne: The Plague

About this expansion

Carcassonne: The Plague is a 2010 board game for 2–6 players with an approximately 60-minute play time. In this entry in the Carcassonne series, pestilence descends upon the landscape and spreads across its tiles under the players’ control.

The plague introduces a clear threat to the familiar setting: any followers unfortunate enough to be located where the pestilence reaches may be carried off. As the disease moves across the landscape, the position of followers becomes an important part of the unfolding situation.

Rather than presenting a separate setting, Carcassonne: The Plague places its central idea directly within the Carcassonne world. Its focus is the interaction between the growing pestilence, the landscape tiles, and the followers occupying them.

• Players: 2–6
• Play time: 60 minutes
• Core feature: Pestilence spreads across landscape tiles and can carry off followers
• Series: Carcassonne

Carcassonne: The Plague was first released in both German and English editions of issue 2010/6 of Spielbox magazine. That release places this compact addition within the broader history of the Carcassonne series while highlighting its distinctive pestilence-focused premise.

For players looking for a Carcassonne-related game built around the movement of a spreading danger, this title offers a concise thematic concept: manage the presence of pestilence across the landscape while followers remain vulnerable to its advance.