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Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game

Product Review (submitted on November 17, 2015):

This is a great survival / resource gathering game set in a wintery zombie filled apocalypse! Players take turns moving their survivors around gathering supplies, food and weapons trying to achieve a main goal, round goal and a secret goal all at the same time. Only problem is... someone might be a traitor! The paranoia creeps in fast, as every move you make is scrutinized by everyone else. i.e. Did you just make that extra noise because you were actually looking for something or were you intentionally trying to get the zombies attention. Ah yes it gets ugly fast, as you really need to work together in order to win. I like how the zombies are not the main focus, more of a background, the main focus is trust, survival and deception.

I have yet to play as a traitor, even though all my friends think I am one every game, I have managed to call the traitor every time but no one listens and it always ends in disaster. We even have had games where a single person sacrificed himself to save everyone else and a game where no one won being unable to achieve any victory conditions, including the traitor.

Really great game and lots of fun!