Dead Walk Again

A fun zombie game that you can play with your friends:) There's little to no competition, so it's more or less only for fun. I've played this game several times at Gothcon, a game convention in Gothenburg. The game designers version of the game was very impressive; they had surely around 50 painted metal zombies and a large home built town that you played in.

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First, some background. I haven't/don't play miniatures games, and i pretty much actively dislike anything from the Zombie genre. That being said....

My friend asked me to play a minis game. I was thinking WarHammer, or something similar. If he had said zombies, I would have passed but since I agreed already, I thought what the heck. Anyway, we gave it a try, and man was it brutal! There's really no hope of surviving past the first few turns. so we modified the rules just a little to make it more survivable. Didn't work. In a nutshell, theres 3 basic ways to kill a zombie: blunt weapon (bat, club); edged weapon (sword, machete); and firearm. (I won't go into grenades, since we didn't use them) So what's the problem? Blunts don't kill 'em, just knock 'em down. Then, unless you can hit them again, they just get back up. Edged can kill, but not easily. Either way, you end up stuck in place whilst more zombies surround you and bite you to death. As for firearms, they can and do kill very well, but you end up attracting way more than you kill - diminishing returns. Once again, you end up surrounded and getting eaten. Oh, and chainsaws? They attract zombies faster than firearms! Then, add in the fear factor. The more zombies around you, the more wounds you have, the easier it is for you to panic, and all your actions cost twice as much, which means you can't do anything effectively.

tl;dr - It's more difficult to beat than Ghost Stories. No way to win, so no real reason to try again.

Another Zombie game, that is a little too complex for its own good.