Tabletop Spotlight: Dead of Winter
The Tabletop Spotlight is on The Dead of Winter – can you survive the chill of the undead?
Welcome to another Tabletop Spotlight – This time the folks at Dragon’s Lair Comics & Fantasy brought us a game that’s been out for awhile, but it still really popular (because it’s fun). Dead of Winter from Plaid Hat Games is all about co-op zombie survival! But that’s not all – while the players are working together for a common goal, they still have to complete their secret objective. This can lead to some interesting play and makes every game different from the last one. Check it out:
Dead of Winter
Crossroads is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors’ ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.
Dead of Winter is the first game in this series, designed by Isaac Vega and Jon Gilmour. It puts 2-5 players together in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity are either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.
Dead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game. This means the players are working together toward one common victory condition–but for each individual player to achieve victory, they must also complete their personal secret objective. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that’s fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or worst of all: vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. Work toward the group’s goal but don’t get walked all over by a loudmouth who’s only looking out for their own interests!
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Dead of Winter is an experience that can only be accomplished through the medium of tabletop games. It is a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony’s morale up.
Dead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily- thematic, wildly-varying decisions, that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.
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If you’re looking for something more strategic than a classic board game, but still easy enough for anyone to get into, check out Dead of Winter this holiday season.
I’d never betray my friends…you believe me, right?
