Anyone who knows the game "pandemic" by the same author, can start playing almost immediately, because there is the gameplay very similar. The Forbidden Island is the rule scope essential shorter and takes place in half the time (about 30 minutes). Together try the 2-4 players to find four artifacts on the sinking island and then disappear in a helicopter from the island before it sinks into the water. As with pandemic can also be the difficulty of the "threat" by flooding the island parts and their assembly be varied, the 6 different game characters with their special properties ensure that your entertainment. Was pandemic for the average family but quite a tough nut, so here is in my eyes the audience very well served. The short season is an invitation to a rematch when the rescue did not work out the first time. And for the price obtained good material. All fans of games where you either win together or not, feel free to access. (Eg pandemic, Shadows over Camelot, Space Alert, Lord of the Rings). Of all mentioned as an example games it is the most accessible and fastest leichsten played. Are the children once the great "Who was it" outgrown, is a thematic continuation beautiful here ready.