Coming Soon... Dead of Winter

New game time!

I'm very excited about this game!

I've heard nothing but good things about Dead of Winter, and now I finally get to play it. It's been a highly anticipated game for me and my fellow gamers, so I thought I would share my first experiences of it with you in detail.

So this is sort of just an intro post to explain that coming soon will be a longer post chronicling our attempts to survive the Dead of Winter.

And an excuse to post loads of photos.

If you don't know the game allow me to give you a brief overview:

Dead of Winter is a zombie apocalypse game for 2-5 players. You each play a group of survivors tasked with keeping the colony alive by fighting zombies and searching for useful items like food, fuel and weapons. There is a specific objective for the players to complete, however each player also has a secret objective that they need to achieve in order to personally win the game. There is also a chance one player will be a traitor tasked with sabotaging the main objective. Players can chose to vote players out of the colony, however, so the traitor had better keep their head down and blend in if they want to stand a chance at winning.

One of Dead of Winter's great features is the Crossroads system.

There is a deck of Crossroads cards that are drawn from at the beginning of a player's turn by the player their right. The card details a specific situation that could occur during a turn. If the right criteria are met the player holding the card interrupts the game and reads out the scenario detailed on it. Each card features a difficult decision to be made either by the active player or the by the group. These cards create surprise moments of tension within the group.

Anyway, I have overstayed my welcome. Join me soon for more Dead of Winter fun.