The Captain Is Dead

great game but gets a bit repetitive during the game

This game is okay, but way overhyped.

good

cool

Very expensive, average art. I guess this game is only popular because this site won't stop promoting it.

Very Different! Excellent co-operative game, better than most others! Even fun when the game wins LOL : )

Great game. It has some great moments of tension and can really make you doubt yourself and your ability to survive! Highly recommended.

Fun and exciting Co-Op game! The tension really builds! Everyone who has played it with us has loved it!

I really appreciate the solo play ability.

We purchased this game on Amazon, and thoroughly enjoyed playing it. Its a fun game. It took us a couple of plays to develop a winning strategy. Although, I'm not convinced we'd win every time!!! ...

This is basically FTL the game and all of my friends love it for that alone. The fact that it scales up to seven people only makes it more awesome.

This review is for the "The Game Crafter" version based on my impressions during my unboxing. There are a ton of gameplay reviews and mine would just mimic theirs.., ie. It's the best co-op out there ...

From the perspective of a couple, who play it mainly as a 2 player game: -Easy to play 2 characters each. Not fiddly whatsoever. -Can be a little on the bleak side for the younger people. -I find the ...

I bought this for my husband last year because we saw it at UnPub. I'm a huge fan of cooperative games and Sci-Fi, so I was thrilled that he seemed as into it as I was! We've played this too many time...

Great survival fun. I'm not sure which of the seasons is most devious but even the first one is challenging. No two matches are alike.

You know how Galaxy Quest is one of the best Star Trek movies? The Captain Is Dead is one of the best Star Trek games. This is probably the game that is requested most in my collection.

Put it on the table for a game night with college students and after the first loss the group decided to play it all night! It was a blast! Can't wait to add Episode 2 to our experience.

Fun game. Lots of tension. Lots of randomness. Re-playable.

I just played it for the first time. We scrapped out a 2 player win and it felt perfect. Straight forward game play that does an excellent job making the players a natural team and I loved the ability...

As soon ass I heard about the game, it caught my attention. All the guys and I are big scifi buffs and we love boardgames. This game is the perfect combination of the two. It is incredibly fun, challe...

AAA+++

A co-op game that plays well solo, too, even when using 4 characters, because each character's turn consists of a few short decisions and their cards don't use much space. A thematic and fun game!

A good, solid co-op game in the same vein as Pandemic and Flashpoint: Fire Rescue. This game has quite a bit more replay value out of the box, however, because the game is both far more difficult to w...

Great game, easy to start hard to stop. My only problems with it is the art style is scratchy (witch i do NOT like) and it costs 50 flippin bucks! But other than that its one of my favorite games

LOVE IT!

We recently purchased a boardgame, “The Captain is Dead,” from a little company called The Game Crafter. It's a great game, a beautiful value, and we expect to enjoy it for some time to come. Also, th...

This game was fantastic. I've played it over and over again, and every time was excitingly different. Everyone I've played it with loves it. I rarely spend $50 on anything and normally look away fr...

This game has a lot going for it, but by far the best thing about it is how well it captures the feeling of imminent danger. Throughout the game, players genuinely feel as though they're actually in t...

The Captain is Dead is a great game. There are some things in the rules that I wish were either clearer or different (for example, it seems that playing with more characters in the game makes it subst...

Favorite co-op game I own. I'm constantly overwhelmed the whole time and love every second of it.

By far the best co-op tabletop game I've ever played. On our first play-through it took only a round or two for my group to feel comfortable with the rules. The layout of the board and clever color co...

The Captain Is Dead is highly thematic, colorful, intense, and predictable. Every Alert card will bring the hurt which means the players very quickly get used to it. If that sounds like a bad thing, I...

An excellent challenge. We have not won yet but we have come very close. It has just the right amount of tension that we were looking for in a new co-op. In the original setup we did goof by puttin...

Finally got to play this today. It was amazing. Everyone loved it (7 player game). Even the people that weren't really interested in it loved it. Two of them said they're going to buy it.

Absolutely terrific game. Fun theme that is executed very well. Easily the most challenging game I own. My friends and I have yet to get that dang jump core back online before we explode, but we keep ...

Very challenging, but great fun! I love the art style, and the mechanics are very smart and easy to understand (though a little tricky to explain to new players). I am a big fan of co-op games, and th...

A complete experience - tension from start to finish, and filling up every little bit in between. Just what I want from my co-ops. Component quality was a bit on the low side, and I would love to see...

I'm really late to the game, but The Captain is Dead (TCID) is a great game. I've played this in 2, 3, and 4 player games with people of various skill. It's relatively easy to teach with a pretty easy...

It took a few runs to figure out how to not get destroyed. Very fun, cooperative game play that works for many different ages and gamerness levels.

A game for gamers. Fun, creative, and deserves its rave reviews.

Got my first chance to play TCID this weekend with family and everyone loved it despite losing twice (first time due to a really bad series of initial events). Highly recommended and difficult even f...

Great game. Easy to understand, although somewhat impossible. This game earns every 5-star review it has.

Great game! The best in Game Crafter! Wonderful art!

Of all the co-op games I own (and I do own a lot), The Captain is Dead delivers a robust 9.5/10. Thematically, you really do feel like you're on the starship which is collapsing around you, while y...

I love this game, and yet, this game, despite being an inanimate collection of cardboard, plastic, and ink, hates me with a passion I once only though possible between Vi/Emacs zealots, Collegiate Sp...

This was one of my most anticipated Kickstarter games, one that was difficult to wait until Christmas to give to the family. It took a little while to digest the rules and takes at least one play to u...

I do NOT own this game - but I have played it several times. My friend bought it recently. We've actually yet to beat the game - but we keep going back to play it each week in hopes to win. Great co-o...

I have played this game so many times and seen it go through many changes. I'm always up for a game because I know it's going to be tense and the odds aren't in our favor. This is a wonderful coop gam...

Great game! Can't go wrong with this one!

Current fave cooperative. All the excitement of Space Alert without the stress of a time crunch, though if you like that sort of thing, I suppose you could always add a turn-timer. Theme has more ge...

Love the storyline and concept. Gameplay is fun and has a high-replay value. One of the best,

Heard about this game on All Us Geeks. Just bought it last week and played it solitaire with 4 characters, with the wife with 4 characters, and at game night with 6 players. Got blown away each tim...

TCiD is a fantastic light co-op game and probably my favorite project to come out of Kickstarter. The huge number of roles/classes adds a ton of replayability and insures that every player feels that ...

A genuine 5 star game. The first time I played this game (after backing the KS) was with my wife and a group of non-gamers. It took 5 minutes of convincing to get some of the players to believe they ...

Of all the games my buddies and I play, this is the one we want to play most often and get most excited about. It never gets old, it never gets boring, and it's always exciting. And that's the part I ...

Great Fun. My gaming group loved it so much they tracked it down and ordered several copies for themselves. Great Co-Op game. 5 stars easy.

THE ABSOLUTE BEST CO-OP GAME!!!!!!!! I backed this game on kick starter and since getting have played it well over 20 times on different difficulties, every game night it is the most requested game. ...

Mega cool game with rad artwork, looking forward to playing it more. Fills a similar niche to Eldritch in my group but at a significantly lower play time I see it taking over the spot in time.

I'm a huge co-op game fan. The Captain is Dead is easily one of my favourites. It plays so well, sparks great discussions and planning on each turn, and it's just so much fun! Every game we've played ...

If you love co-op games, you need to check this out. Extremely fun, accommodates large numbers of players, and the theme carries through the mechanics very well. Results in some very funny stories eve...

A great co-op! I Kickstarted this because I hadn't seen very many sci-fi co-ops and this fit the bill perfect. If you're familiar with Pandemic, Darkest Night, or Yggdrasil you'll be right at home h...

Rules, as of v1.1 are great. It is the most thematic coop game I've played and the fact that most actions depend on working ship systems, and that those actions make sense given the system names, is p...

A couple of quibbles with the rules, but otherwise a fantastic game. Have played it a few times with friends and they all think it's great. {Edited to remove questions that belong in a rules forum}

This is the best co-op game out there! It plays from 1 to 7 players. And it plays just as well with 7 players. No down time. Lots of fun. You have to get this game if you like sci-fi and co-op games! ...

This is probably my favorite Co-op game I've played, even above Pandemic. It was recently a big hit at my local gaming store Boardgame Night. The mechanics are intuitive, and easy to teach. After a...