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Cooperative Duo
Paleo
Designed by Peter Rustemeyer
Published by Hans im Glück, 999 Games + 15 more
Moderate Depth: 30 Min Teach
Players
2-4
Community Snapshot
Best with 2–3
Medium complexity
45–60 min
7.7 on BGG (15.9K)
Categories
Since 2020, Paleo has captivated fans of deck building and co-op with its medium complexity design, shining brightest at 2 players.
How It Plays
Cooperative Game
Everyone works together against the game itself — you win or lose as a team, so get ready to strategize together!
Deck, Bag, and Pool Building
You start with a basic set of cards or tokens and gradually add better ones — watch your engine grow stronger over time.
Memory
You need to remember where things are or what happened earlier — a sharp memory gives you a real advantage.
Scenario / Mission / Campaign Game
You play through linked missions or scenarios that build on each other — it's like an epic adventure in chapters.
Simultaneous Action Selection
Everyone chooses their action at the same time and reveals together — no waiting around, and plenty of surprises.
About This Game
Paleo is a co-operative adventure game set in the stone age, a game in which players try to keep the human beings in their care alive while completing missions. Sometimes you need a fur, sometimes a tent, but these are all minor quests compared to your long-term goal: Painting a woolly mammoth on the wall so that humans thousands of years later will know that you once existed. (Okay, you just think the mammoth painting looks cool.…
Source: BoardGameGeek
Expansions & Related
9 Expansions
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