{"id":81392,"date":"2025-09-10T09:39:46","date_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:39:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/article.php?article_id=2132140"},"modified":"2025-09-10T09:39:46","modified_gmt":"2025-09-10T09:39:46","slug":"dicebreaker-recommends-forbidden-desert-a-family-friendly-board-game-that-builds-rock-hard-bonds-between-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/dicebreaker-recommends-forbidden-desert-a-family-friendly-board-game-that-builds-rock-hard-bonds-between-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Dicebreaker Recommends: Forbidden Desert, a family-friendly board game that builds rock-hard bonds between players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/dicebreaker-recommends-forbidden-desert-a-family-friendly-board-game-that-builds-rock-hard-bonds-between-players.jpg\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p> <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/archive\/dicebreaker-recommends\">Dicebreaker Recommends is a series<\/a> of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dicebreaker.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Dicebreaker<\/a>.<\/em> <\/p>\n<p>Forbidden Desert is a board game about working together to escape a disastrous situation, which certainly doesn&#8217;t echo with anything we&#8217;re currently seeing in real life. <\/p>\n<p>Good co-op games have a way of uniting players in order to achieve a shared goal. Forbidden Desert may chuck its players into a tense scenario, where failure lurks around every possible sand dune. But it also pushes players to support one another, hear each other out and use their unique abilities to overcome obstacles as a team. <\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-13-dicebreaker-recommends-forbidden-desert-a-family-friendly-board-game-that-builds-rock-hard-bonds-between-players\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2021-01-13-dicebreaker-recommends-forbidden-desert-a-family-friendly-board-game-that-builds-rock-hard-bonds-between-players\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Dicebreaker Recommends is a series of monthly board game, RPG and other tabletop recommendations from our friends at our sibling site, Dicebreaker. Forbidden Desert is a board game about working together to escape a disastrous situation, which certainly doesn&#8217;t echo with anything we&#8217;re currently seeing in real life. Good co-op games have a way of uniting players in order to achieve a shared goal. Forbidden Desert may chuck its players into a tense scenario, where failure lurks around every possible sand dune. But it also pushes players to support one another, hear each other out and use their unique abilities to overcome obstacles as a team. 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