Pandemic Legacy: Season 1

Win immediately upon completing the required number of objectives for the month, including every mandatory objective; do not wait for the turn to end. The team loses if the outbreaks marker reaches the final track space, the supply cannot provide disease cubes actually required, or a player cannot draw two Player cards after taking actions.

Players take turns clockwise: take up to four actions, draw two Player cards together and resolve epidemics, discard down to the seven-card hand limit, then infect cities at the current infection rate. Character abilities and unlocked rules can modify the details.

Moving, treating disease, sharing knowledge, building structures and discovering cures cost actions. Normally, sharing knowledge requires both players to be in the same city and agree, and only that city's City card can be transferred. Direct and charter flights require the appropriate City card to be discarded and must respect current city panic restrictions.

Under the starting cure rules, discard five same-color City cards at a research station to discover a cure; character abilities may reduce this requirement. Treating disease normally removes one cube in your city, or all cubes of that color there if it is cured. A disease is eradicated only after it is cured and no cubes of that color remain anywhere on the board. Winning does not require clearing every cube.

Epidemic cards do not enter your hand and are not replaced. Resolve each in order: increase the infection rate; draw the bottom Infection card and, unless that disease is eradicated, add three cubes of its color, applying the cube limit and outbreak rules if cubes of that color are already there; then shuffle only the Infection discard pile and put it on top of the deck. Resolve two epidemics drawn together completely, one after the other.

For normal infections, reveal cards one at a time and add one cube of the matching color to each city; eradicated diseases add none. A city already holding three cubes of that color outbreaks instead of receiving a fourth, spreading cubes to connected cities. A city cannot outbreak again in the chain caused by the same Infection card. Outbreaks also raise city panic, and characters present receive scars as required by the current rules.

The campaign runs from January through December, with at most two attempts per month. Retry after the first loss; advance after the second loss or immediately after a win. A win reduces funding for the next game by two and a loss increases it by two, within a range of zero to ten. Choose two game-end upgrades after either result, and never return used Legacy cards to their deck.

Characters, cities and rules evolve through the campaign; use only upgrades, scars and other content already unlocked. Writing, stickers and destroyed components are permanent changes. A loss does not permit an unrestricted reset, and unrevealed cards, packages and dossiers must stay closed until instructed.