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2021
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Description
Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game is a standalone game in the Zombicide franchise based on the George A. Romero movie of the same name.
In Night of the Living Dead: A Zombicide Game, players take on the role of the movie's main characters, holed up in an isolated house while the dead come to life all around them. The original movie sees the few survivors hunkering for safety in the house as the ghouls (as they're called in the film) pose a continuous threat from outside. It's a tense psychological thriller full of gritty moods and dark themes, but the game lets the survivors take the fight to the hordes of the undead. The game uses standard Zombicide mechanics.
There are two variants included in the game: Romero - where the characters have the attributes from the original movie and Zombicide: where the movie characters have had their attributes amped up to meet the Zombicide world - but always have the chance of regressing to their original Romero character.
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Watch It Played Discussion at 5:19
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- Horror
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- get X launcher boxes out of my world
- Dark Moon is a dice version of the grander Battlestar Galactica game where things are going wrong on this spooky space station and what you need to do is go and do the go to the different places and everyone needs to give resources up in the form of dice to help solve those things however all your dice are behind a secret screen and they have different values on them and you can say oh I've only got negative values I can't help when you're lying you've got great dice you just want everything to fail because you're a traitor
- betrayal of house on the hill there's also a legacy Edition which I really would love to play I've not actually had a chance to even look at that much what's happening is you're all exploring this house getting stuff trying to get equipment all that type of thing doing things that happen tasks happen and things happen to your characters and all of a sudden there's a haunt one of the characters turns out to be a baddie and then you've all got to kind of get out of the house sometimes the haunt can go very strange sometimes the haunt's over in about six seconds and sometimes it's never over you know but for real wonderful Grand in Halloween night in the trailer house in the hill everyone sat round if you liked some candles get all spooky put some music on that's how I would like to spend my Halloween if I had the chance
- I love dead of winter I love it it's horror themed in my book it's a zombie game and I've it's uh there's also a hidden traitor type of aspect to the game possibly one time I ruined a friend's Night by playing that game because I was a secret Trader at the very end and we'd all won and then I turned my card over and turned out only I had won he didn't speak to me for the rest of the night he's never let me forget it actually that's why I love dead of winter
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Rob's Tabletop World Discussion at 20:47 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- One of only three zombie games the host cares about.
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Thematic elements
- zombies
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- So, baseball highlights 20 45. So, I kind of want to start testing some things and I think I'm going to try something real simple like a nice little playthrough with this game and um because you could play it solo and you know each game takes about four to seven minutes to play.
- And, you know, not the most high high high high quality game in the world, but as far as fun, I mean, isn't that what it's all about?
- I'll tell you, Stonemaier Games. Dear God, that guy just he's special. He really is. Really is special. Special dude. Just knows what he's doing.
- I can't even get rid of Star of Aaros because that piece of garbage is You got to have the 1.5. You know, they ruined they ruin any value of the the old game. If you ever want to get rid of the old game, it's it's completely useless because they had to come out with 1.5 version.
- All I want is just one more championship to make up for that because they were robbed with the Steelers which was the what they which they call the most crooked game ever.
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Rob's Tabletop World Discussion at 25:42:52 sentiment: mixed
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mixed
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- Do I keep that?
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Board Game Critique Top List at 4:17 sentiment: mixed
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Overall sentiment (raw)
mixed
Pros
- Most intentionally humble game in the franchise.
- Genuinely clever IP integration with the relatives mechanic.
- Item decks split by region ties theme and spatial strategy.
- Unique player count handling serves narrative logic perfectly.
Cons
- Deliberate simplification works for new players but lacks challenge for veterans.
- Veterans want more challenge and depth than this box delivers.
Thematic elements
- Survival horror
- Based on Romero's 1968 film
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none
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Item decks by region — Item decks are split by region, requiring players to search specific areas for different item types.
- Relatives mechanic — When relatives appear, survivors revert to Romero mode, weakening the team.
- Stripped-down system — No runners or abominations, focusing on walkers, fatties, and unique types like relatives and breakers.
- Unique player count handling — All six characters are always in play, regardless of player count.
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- Worst to best, no filler, and we're calling it on each one.
- Every other game we're going to talk about today executes that skeleton better.
- Completeness is not the same as excellence, especially when the underlying framework has been surpassed in every meaningful category since.
- This is where the fantasy line really proved itself because instead of just re-skinning Black Plague, the design team took the system and made it harder.
- The most mechanically streamlined Zombicide base game in the franchise's history and that streamlining cuts in multiple directions at once.
- This is also the most difficult Zombicide game in the franchise. Brutal in every sense of the word.
- The definitive modern Zombicide experience.
- A dynamic power escalation arc and the feedback loop between growing stronger and becoming a bigger target captures the tone of the source material more precisely than anything season 1 through 3 ever achieved.
- Black Plague is where the Zombicide formula reached its fullest expression for the widest range of players.
- Creates a layer of priority management that was completely absent from every original era Zombicide game.
- If you're new to Zombicide and you only buy one box ever, this is the one.
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The Dice Tower Top List at 8:47 sentiment: positive
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positive
Pros
- Embodies the theme very well
- Spooky, scary, and fun
Cons
- Host is in the minority for liking this Zombicide version best
Thematic elements
- zombie apocalypse based on the original movie
- a house
Comparison games
- Zombicide
- Marvel Zombicide
- Zombicide: Black Plague
- Space Zombicide
- Western Zombicide
Mechanics (from transcript analysis)
- Barricading — You're in a house just barricading it, trying to stop the zombies from getting in.
- Combat — In most of the Zombicides, it's get some weapons and go around blow up zombies.
- Mission-Based Scenarios — The early missions are based on George Romero's original movie.
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- There was a time where we thought, 'Oh, there's so many zombie games.' And of course there was.
- Zombies are a very easy mechanism to put into a board game cuz the bad guys will move slowly towards you or run fast towards you, whatever.
- Zombies are predictable, they don't have brains, they're trying to eat them, and so they're coming towards you and it just makes it an easier game mechanism.
- Frankly, in the past several years, the number of zombie games has gone down considerably.
- It is a neat way to get rid of that alpha gamer where someone a quarterback or telling everyone what to do.
- At the end of the day, your biggest enemies are the other humans.
- You're just chucking dice. So, this is kind of like mixing a Yahtzee type game or King of Tokyo with zombies.
- This is one of the meanest games out there.
- This is my favorite of all the Zombicides, which I know that I'm in a minority.
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