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Dark Darker Darkest

Game ID: GID0084922
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2013
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Dark Darker Darkest is an intense cooperative survival horror game in which a team of urban survivors try to fight the darkness in an unsettling location: the house of Doctor Mortimer, which holds the antidote to a virus turning the world into an army of undead.

Players must gather the optimal tools to open doors, control destructive fires that slowly destroy the locations of the game, and battle the endless hordes of terrifying creatures that will do anything to slaughter this fragile group, while outsneaking lurking creatures and the eye of the ever-present security cameras guarding the secrets of the house.

The game uses innovative mechanisms for group-forming and mixes item management (using a color-code system), exploration, stealth, and icon-driven combat to form an intense tactical experience in a strongly thematic setting riddled with surprises and variation. All the creatures and other challenges are controlled by the A.I. of the game system. The board is modular, creating a unique narrative experience for each session.

Can you fight the darkness?

NOTE: The Designer has uploaded a Revised Set of Rules in the Files Section that greatly streamlines play. As of now, boxed copies only have the older ruleset.

DARK DARKER DARKEST
Un jeu coopératif de survie et d'horreur.

"Une équipe de 2 à 5 survivants doit explorer la demeure étroitement gardée du docteur Mortimer afin de découvrir son laboratoire, de le déverrouiller et de mettre la main sur l'antidote. C'est la seule façon de mettre un terme à cette apocalyptique invasion de zombies. Pour déjouer le système de sécurité, l'équipe doit dénicher de l'équipement dans la
maison afin de déverrouiller les portes. Les codes des portes permettront finalement aux joueurs d'ouvrir le labo... où ils découvriront qu'aux hordes de zombies, aux créatures enragées et aux incendies qu'ils ont dû
affronter jusqu'ici s'ajoute une créature abominable, la Némésis, dont ils devront venir à bout au cours d'un final spectaculaire."
Les joueurs coopèrent et luttent ensemble contre le système de jeu a fin de déjouer les pièges du laboratoire !

• Un jeu de zombies coopératif.
• Une grande re-jouabilité.
• Une mise en place modulable

Description

Dark Darker Darkest is an intense cooperative survival horror game in which a team of urban survivors try to fight the darkness in an unsettling location: the house of Doctor Mortimer, which holds the antidote to a virus turning the world into an army of undead.

Players must gather the optimal tools to open doors, control destructive fires that slowly destroy the locations of the game, and battle the endless hordes of terrifying creatures that will do anything to slaughter this fragile group, while outsneaking lurking creatures and the eye of the ever-present security cameras guarding the secrets of the house.

The game uses innovative mechanisms for group-forming and mixes item management (using a color-code system), exploration, stealth, and icon-driven combat to form an intense tactical experience in a strongly thematic setting riddled with surprises and variation. All the creatures and other challenges are controlled by the A.I. of the game system. The board is modular, creating a unique narrative experience for each session.

Can you fight the darkness?

NOTE: The Designer has uploaded a Revised Set of Rules in the Files Section that greatly streamlines play. As of now, boxed copies only have the older ruleset.

DARK DARKER DARKEST
Un jeu coopératif de survie et d'horreur.

"Une équipe de 2 à 5 survivants doit explorer la demeure étroitement gardée du docteur Mortimer afin de découvrir son laboratoire, de le déverrouiller et de mettre la main sur l'antidote. C'est la seule façon de mettre un terme à cette apocalyptique invasion de zombies. Pour déjouer le système de sécurité, l'équipe doit dénicher de l'équipement dans la
maison afin de déverrouiller les portes. Les codes des portes permettront finalement aux joueurs d'ouvrir le labo... où ils découvriront qu'aux hordes de zombies, aux créatures enragées et aux incendies qu'ils ont dû
affronter jusqu'ici s'ajoute une créature abominable, la Némésis, dont ils devront venir à bout au cours d'un final spectaculaire."
Les joueurs coopèrent et luttent ensemble contre le système de jeu a fin de déjouer les pièges du laboratoire !

• Un jeu de zombies coopératif.
• Une grande re-jouabilité.
• Une mise en place modulable

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positive
Pros
  • Best Resident Evil style board game
  • Great action economy and player mechanics
  • Can be found on the cheap
  • Worth getting wholeheartedly
Cons
  • Atrocious rulebook in the first printing
  • Missing rules in the original box
Thematic elements
  • Survival horror, Resident Evil style
  • A mansion
  • Scenario-driven with modular map configuration
Comparison games
  • Zombie Side
  • Resident Evil
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
  • Action Point Allowance — Players use action tokens to perform various actions, with a smart economy system.
  • Boss battles — Includes challenging boss fights that are a major part of the game.
  • Dungeon Crawl — Features a basic dungeon crawl element with exploration and combat.
  • Modular Board — The map can be arranged and configured to dictate difficulty and scenario.
  • Survival Horror — Players navigate a mansion, fighting off threats and solving puzzles.
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Quotes (from this video)
  • hey everybody welcome to another top 10 list today as you can tell from the title we are covering the top 10 misfit games
  • jamie from the secret cabal he's a friend of mine and he's struggling right now he's recovering from esophageal cancer he's on the mend
  • these are games that for whatever reason kind of just flew under the radar didn't really make a splash there's something kind of weird about them but games that i really would enjoy and recommend
  • the order is actually i'm going to go from oldest to newest so we're going to go way back way back when
  • this is the one game on the list i do not think you will be able to find if you can find it good luck to you
  • it's hard to explain in short summary
  • i think the best resident evil style board game that i've played
  • i loved it and had a blast with it so there you go
  • i think all these you can get on the cheap
  • it's going to take a couple of plays but the rest of these it was like huh this game's kind of weird let's play this again this is weird and then we'd play it a couple times and then then actually this is actually really neat game really different and kind of a unique experience
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