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Yet again, a ravening horde of horrible zombies has shambled forth to devour the living. It must be a day of the week that ends in ‘y’.
In I Hate Zombies., 2-12 players face off in a climactic battle for the very fate of the world that will last between 10 and 20 minutes. Some of the players will be the noble last survivors of humanity, while others will be dirty, wretched brain-guzzling zombies. To see who survives, they will engage in that time-honored tradition, that Sport of Kings...
Yes, that's right. Rock-Paper-Scissors. To the Death!
Although the valiant humans each have a special ability to aid them in their struggle to survive, the zombies are tougher to kill, and humans they kill turn into more zombies, and certainly let us not forget the spleen-churning stench.
While the game could be succinctly described as Rock-Paper-Scissors with special abilities, the abilities add some interesting decision making for the zombie players as to which humans to focus their brain munching beam on, and when. So, while the game uses the RPS mechanism, there are real and interesting decisions to be made which will have the zombies debating their strategy (or at least as well as their limited mental capacity allows).
If you hate zombies (and you should!), you'll find altogether more zombies than you're comfortable with in I Hate Zombies.
"I had all the guns, ammo, and canned food I could ever need. Why didn't anyone tell me I also needed to brush up on my bluffing skills?!"
-Last Words of Survivalist Joe
I Hate Zombies. is game #1 in the BGG Micro Series.
- Goofy fun
- Played a large 100-person game at a convention
- Great artwork on character necklaces/banners
- Zombies, lighthearted combat
- Dredge
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Card Play — Players play cards with their powers.
- Player vs. Player — Players are positioned with opponents on their left and right.
- rock paper scissors — Players 'do rock paper scissors with your powers.'
- Rock-Paper-Scissors — Players use rock-paper-scissors to resolve combat with their powers.
Video topics + discussion points
Quotes (from this video)
- The printer said that we never even came close to doing any sizable print run of anything
- nothing's left it's all gone it's never coming out
- I hate it's it's goofy fun
- On certain numbers you pass a card to the left
- It's a T-Rex on a surfboard
- The artwork was changed from the original version
- They did not get done fast enough
- They did not get on a boat fast enough
- Foundations of Rome in a city instead of in
- big fun
- It has a lot of rules
- you got to really pay attention
- Orlons the plague
- The plague
- I haven't played or so long nearby I was thinking about that the other remember I enjoyed it
- The original artwork is described as 'very cute.'
- It's a Texas hold 'em variant.
- Players 'do rock paper scissors with your powers.'
- The game is described as 'goofy fun.'
- The redesigned artwork is not preferred by some.
- The creator walked away and hasn't communicated them for too long.
- The effectiveness and morality of capital punishment compared to life imprisonment.
- Concerns about executing innocent individuals.
- The role of race in the application of the death penalty.
- Concerns about driving under the influence of cannabis.