Cooperative board game

A board game in which players work together toward a shared objective, usually winning or losing as a group against the game itself.

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Player-versus-environment: A game structure in which players cooperate against challenges controlled by the game. The game itself supplies the opposition that cooperative board-game players face.
Game mechanics: The rules and interaction systems that shape how a game is played. Cooperative games combine mechanics to make teamwork and shared risk matter.
Legacy game: A game whose components or rules change permanently as a campaign progresses. Cooperative campaigns use lasting consequences to make group decisions persist across sessions.
Competitive board game: A board game in which players pursue outcomes that place them in opposition to one another. Its individual victory conditions contrast with a team's shared result.
The Landlord's Game: An economic board game created by Elizabeth Magie and patented in 1904. Its reformist rules included cooperative and monopolistic variants, an early precedent for contrasting game goals.
Shared victory condition: A rule that makes success or failure common to all players rather than individually assigned. It turns separate turns and roles into one collective outcome.
Turn-based game: A game in which participants act in sequence during distinct turns. Turn order determines when teammates can respond to emerging threats.
Cooperative card game: A card game in which players work together toward a shared objective. The same collective structure can operate without a board-centered layout.
Solo board game: A board game designed for one person to play alone. It can retain game-controlled opposition while removing cooperation among players.
Arkham Horror: A cooperative adventure board game in which investigators confront supernatural threats in a fictional city. Its 1987 release helped establish modern board-game play against a game-controlled threat.