Pandemic: State of Emergency

About this expansion

Pandemic: State of Emergency is a 2015 expansion for Pandemic for 2–4 players, with a playing time of 45 minutes. It makes saving the world harder by introducing three distinct challenges.

Each challenge adds a different threat to the Pandemic experience. The Hinterlands Challenge explores diseases spreading from animals to humans, bringing a new source of danger to the fight against outbreaks.

The Emergency Events Challenge introduces unpredictable events with nasty effects. These events can disrupt the game and create additional pressure as players work to respond to the global crisis.

The most severe test is the Superbug Challenge. A fifth disease threatens the world, and this disease cannot be treated. Before it can be defeated, players must find its cure while using quarantines to stop it from spreading.

• Hinterlands Challenge: diseases spread from animals to humans.
• Emergency Events Challenge: unpredictable events have nasty effects.
• Superbug Challenge: discover a cure, use quarantines, and produce vaccine doses.

In the Superbug Challenge, finding the cure is only part of the task. Players must then produce vaccine doses and eradicate the superbug disease to win. The challenge is explicitly not for the faint of heart.

With three ways to change the crisis, Pandemic: State of Emergency offers a tougher addition to the Pandemic series. Choose the challenge that suits your game, or face the untreatable superbug and its vaccine-focused objective.