Pandemic: Rising Tide – Hold Back the Sea Together 🌊🌷

Storms are brewing and the sea is growing restless. Pandemic: Rising Tide by Jeroen Doumen and Matt Leacock (Z-Man Games) is a standalone cooperative game for 2–5 players aged 8+, in about 45–60 minutes.

For centuries, the Dutch have relied on dikes and wind-powered pumps to keep the water out. With a quarter of the Netherlands reclaimed from the sea and the population growing, a new system is needed. You and your friends play a team of Dutch civil officials modernising the water containment system. Your main goal is to build four hydraulic structures that will keep the Dutch people safe for generations. To buy yourselves enough time, you build dikes to control the water flow, ports to make travel easier and pumping stations to pump the water out of flooded land. But one misstep can send water spilling across the countryside. Each game also uses a new combination of objective cards – expanding the population into areas threatened by storms, protecting the textile industry with pumps or building ports along the Maas – so every game is a new scenario. Each player takes on a role with special abilities, and you win or lose as a team.

🌊 Moving Water

Floods spread across the land.

🧱 Dikes and Pumps

Control and drain the water.

🏗️ Four Structures

Your main goal.

🎯 Objective Cards

A new scenario each game.

Why You'll Love It:

• 🤝 True Teamwork: plan every move together.
• 🌷 Fresh Theme: Dutch water engineering.
• 🔁 Standalone: no other Pandemic box needed. More ideas among our strategy games.

Quick facts

• Players: 2–5
• Age: 8+
• Playing time: about 45–60 minutes
• Designers: Jeroen Doumen, Matt Leacock
• Publisher: Z-Man Games
• Type: standalone cooperative game
• Language: English
• Contents: board, 7 pawns, 7 role cards, 78 player cards, 56 dike failure cards, 4 hydraulic structure tokens, sea level marker, reminder marker, 5 reference cards, population loss/setup card, 50 dikes, 5 pumping stations, 12 objective cards, 36 water cubes, 36 population cubes, 5 ports

Do I need the original Pandemic? No – Rising Tide is a standalone game.
Is every game the same? No – different objective cards create a new scenario each time.

Grab a shovel, raise the dikes and keep the Netherlands dry. 🌊

⚠️ Warning: Choking hazard – small parts. Not for children under 3 years.