Now Boarding

Fly a fleet of planes together, in real time, and deliver every passenger before they lose their cool.

Designer: Tim Fowers
Published by: Fowers Games

Now Boarding is a cooperative pick-up-and-deliver game in which everyone flies airplanes and everyone plays at the same time. Passengers keep arriving at airports, they get angrier the longer they wait, and your job is to deliver all of them before it is too late. You can upgrade your plane to fly faster and carry more people, and since nobody waits for a turn, you hand off passengers to each other on the fly. The real-time pressure turns every handoff into a quick team decision. It is a busy, noisy hour in which the plan you made ten seconds ago is already out of date. Plan to talk fast.

Everyone plays at the same timeHand off passengers between planesUpgrade planes to fly faster and carry more

Who it's for

You want a cooperative game that is more chaos than calm, and you have two to five people who enjoy talking over each other.

Not for you if…

You like to think carefully on your own turn. Nobody waits here, so slower players can feel left behind.

Vibe's take

Frantic, loud and cheerful. Everyone moves at once, hands passengers across the map and shouts instructions that nobody quite hears.