When marketing staff with no knowledge apply buzzwords to things.
I convinced my friends to play this with me a decade ago and they were so bored they said never again 🥲
That's honestly the best case scenario. You still had friends after a game of diplomacy.
It is cooperative, before the backstabbing starts!
Board gaming blood sports right here!
If you don't have 12 hours to build hate in your friend group, you can try intrigue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3p5Xkdkb2SI
Another good one for this, if you can find it, is Republic of Rome.
In it you have to cooperate or everybody loses as the republic falls. But you also have to backstab your enemies to get ahead to win. Cultivating a good sense of rhythm so that you can backstab someone at just the right moment to prevent them from being able to retaliate is the fine art that wins that game.
