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Resident Evil 2: The Board Game is a cooperative, zombie-filled experience that can be devastatingly difficult to play if you don’t work together. The designers faithfully recreated the same atmosphere, which translates extremely well to the tabletop. What We Liked: Whatever flavor of zombie apocalypse game you seek, you shall find it here. Browse the collection for many more top titles. It’ll be some kind of thematic element injected in the middle of the turn. They are always stressful but they add so much thematic flavor to the game. What We Liked: The designers, however, were seriously committed to putting out a quality product and decided to revamp the rulebook and clarify a bunch of ambiguous rules. Through the fire and flames, a damn good game was born from the ashes of controversy. The thematic elements in Dead of Winter are top-notch. Not only do you have to contend with the flesh-eating zombies but the unforgiving elements of winter as well.
I'll tell you what you'll do. You'll stare at the board, like a disassembled gun, and try to figure out how to murder him. Zombie State: Diplomacy of the Dead is a brutal game. Zombies will be constantly spawning and flooding into your territories and it’s actually extremely difficult to get rid of them. In Dead of Winter, you take on the role of a character in a motley crew of survivors. You could be anything from an urban ninja, a drunken Santa Claus, or even a dog. It gets a little weird sometimes but it’s all in good fun.The Walking Dead took the zombie genre and brought it into the popular consciousness. AMC’s TV show, based on the comic book, made it cool to like zombies again. As with most things in the pop culture sphere, there are a ton of different spin-offs, merchandising, and collectibles that go along with it. City of Horror sees everyone trying to shepherd a personal handful of survivors - your people - through just four hours in a 28 Days Later-type zombie apocalypse. And you're going to make a terrible, disgusting, amoral mess of it, because this isn't Left 4 Dead. City of Horror has no safe rooms, no heroes and no hope. It does have a couple of guns... but you won't be using them on the zombies. Both of them are extremely tense with the time limit really putting on the pressure. What We Liked:
Dead Panic is the zombie version of Castle Panic. Replacing the hordes of orcs and trolls are unending hordes of the undead. Resident Evil was the KING of horror during my childhood. I still remember the first time I played Resident Evil 2. Until that point, video games (for me anyway) held your hand and when you started playing, usually were able to obliterate anything in your path, especially during a tutorial level. The game scales in difficulty from Basic to Director’s Cut. The basic game is what you expect from a low-budget zombie movie. The zombies shamble along and the survivors mow them down. The locations themselves determine the difficulty you’ll face at each one. Each location has a value on it that determines how many zombie cards are drawn.I love the artwork of the game. It’s like a sketchbook rendition of the events so thematically, all of the artwork looks like it could be found in the journal of a survivor. Whether the survivors made it out alive or the journal was found later is entirely up to you. What We Liked: All of the characters are blatant stereotypes and tropes. There’s the Sheriff, his daughter, the preacher, a random drifter, and even a busty nurse. Last Night on Earth does not take itself seriously and you really shouldn’t either.
They both have almost identical themes. Find stuff in a zombie apocalypse and escape before the timer runs out. The time limit is even the same for both games at 15 minutes.GameCows Tip: A beer koozie makes a very quiet dice cup. One of the problems with pure dice games is that it does tend to get pretty loud. Other zombie games feature survival but this is the first one where the players are actually on the offensive. They’re sneaking through the doctor’s house, avoiding traps, killing his zombies, and, ultimately, trying to kill him and retrieve the antidote. It’s a rather refreshing theme. By killing off literally every adult and turning them into zombies, this game is clearly aimed at a younger audience. Seriously, every protagonist is 15 years old. It looks a little cutesy but there’s actually quite a bit of game to be had here. What We Liked: But this game's not done. Your dwindling options and your desperate dialogues are drawn out by a final pit-stop. Every survivor card is actually double-sided, and you can flip it - once - to use that character's power. The kid can hide. The burglar can break into a building that's full. The pregnant woman gives birth, giving her two votes. But if you do use these, those survivors are worth fewer points at the end of the game. If you get a bum hand of elderly survivors, it just means more points if you can get them through the night. Also, nobody suspects gramps has a holdout pistol. Its simplicity is one of its best attributes. Like Castle Panic. At its core, Dead Panic is simple. As a zombie-cooperative family game, Dead Panic fits all the bills. What Could Be Better:
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