Forbidden island is another truly excellent game from gamewright it is a cooperative game meaning that players do not play against each other but must work together to win the game the rules are very simple but it039s fiendishly difficult to avoid drowning and collect all of the treasure in time the aim of the game is to rescue four treasures from the ruins of the island the gameboard is created by laying shuffled tiles to create the island the tiles get turned over to show they039re