Ravensburger 21580 Minecraft Explorers - Cooperative Card Game for 2-4 People Ages 8 and up

This game is SO MUCH FUN! The instructions were initially a bit complicated for us but we found a great tutorial by The Dicey Review on YouTube which broke it down for us really nicely as we're visual learners.My eight year old son, my husband and I all thoroughly enjoyed this game, and it is very easy to play once you understand it, and the difficulty level is customizable. It also gives you a lot of freedom of choice with how you play your turns. I love that when you play multi-player it is a cooperative effort and that you win or lose as a team in the end. I also love that it can even be played solo (which my husband immediately said after our first play-through that he plans to do at some point because he had so much fun lol).If you're thinking about buying this, do not hesitate! It is a superb value, as you can get endless hours of fun out of this $8 game. It truly is like going on a Minecraft adventure in card game format. It is incredibly fun even for adults and easy enough for kids maybe as young as 6 or 7 to understand and enjoy, and I also highly recommend that video tutorial I mentioned (which I am not affiliated with in any way, but found enormously helpful in easily understanding the game.)

I love cooperative games for our family - especially for our competitive 6 year old.The game is pretty simple to learn. It follows the standard card game format: each player's turn has them using their "food energy" cards to make choices that cost a certain amount of "food energy". So each player can collect items and/or fight monsters. The goal is for the team to collect the items needed to fill the chests. The challenge is to keep the monsters in check before we are overrun. There is also the Game Over card that is toward the bottom of the deck that will immediately end the game.Very simple concept but lots of fun. And a lot of conversations (especially with our 6 year old) about what the most pragmatic/helpful/logical choice to make and/or how to set up your teammate to have a fruitful turn as well.Our 6 year old loves Minecraft and he also likes board game so this was a no brainier.We also find ourselves having interesting conversations about his tendency to be a little too self-interested in his pursuit of collecting armor (his favorite part of the video game is also acquiring armor) in lieu of helping the team fight monsters or collect items. It's actually been a great opportunity to explore community cooperation in a low risk setting.Cards look great and are well made and thick. Very fun to look at - look just like you'd expect a Minecraft branded game to look.Definitely worth the cost - we'll get a lot of play time. We can even convince our 16 year old to play. We all find it pretty enjoyable to do cooperative games with our kindergartner.Husband tried playing the game solo. He said it's much more challenging playing solo but still doable. Love that it's an option.

I have a lot of fun playing and after just a small explanation later even my 9 yr old brother got it. The cards have a nice quality and they haven’t bend as much as I thought they would I love them they are so cute

Great quality and well designed, but my son says it's kinda complicated to play. He's a game lover and 11 years old.

This is a very fun game my kids (ages 12, 10, and 8) love playing with us on family game nights. It also has entertained our adult friends and family. It reminds us of an easier version of Pandemic which we also love to play but is not as kid friendly.Adult learned to play in one round, the kids took a little longer to figure out the game but overall it was a pretty easy learning curve for everyone as we just played slowly through the first time or two while reading the instructions as we played.For the value, this is one of our favorite games for our kids.

Bought this for my Minecraft loving kids and we all enjoy it. It is nice to find a kids game that is enjoyable for adults too. It is a cooperative game, you are working together to fill up mine chests and defeat the mobs.

I love collaborative games like pandemic, and this one is fun. My nearly-five year old is obsessed with Minecraft and learned this game's basic mechanics (like how much landscape cards and actions "cost," using the pickaxe/sword, filling chests, and identifying when mobs spawn) after two games. Obviously he doesn't get the strategy part, so we focus on addition, subtraction, "paying" with hunger cards, considering options and consequences, and working together as a team. He has a short attention span, but stays at the table and mostly focused through a whole game.

I enjoyed playing this game with my 8-year-old nephew. I don't know much about the video game, but he was happy to tell me all about it as we played. The mechanics and rules are pretty easy to grasp, and there is some space to learn/teach higher-level strategy. It's compact, got high-quality art, and has a flavorful design.