Review Details

Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game

Product Review (submitted on October 15, 2015):

Dead of Winter is a great game. It has a lot of fun qualities that make it unique, exciting, funny, and frustrating. The thing with this game, you have to play more to have a fun experience with friends than play to win. There are ways to break the game to ensure a victory so if you play with people who have to win and do anything to achieve it, than you might want to exclude them from this game. Another issue with this game is that one person who is experienced turns into kind of a dictator to what everyone else does. The game slightly balances this with having a betrayer in the group but if the dictator seems like he has a good cause than he can almost play the game by himself. I played a few games this way and it really wasn't fun. I later played without this personality type and it was a blast. The group was more focused on having fun and enjoying the experience than purposely trying to get exiled to achieve a solo victory when our demise seemed inevitable.

With the right group, the game is great. A single person, can ruin it.