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All Things Zombie: Better Dead Than Zed! box art
2009 Ranked #11,309

All Things Zombie: Better Dead Than Zed!

Zombie survival campaign game has survivors escape the outbreak, confront threats, and work toward rebuilding their world. Uncertain identities make human encounters dangerous, while an ongoing campaign lets early survival grow into taking territory back.

Dice Fighting Variable Player Powers Cooperative Game

Players

1-8

Play time

Not listed

Age

12+

Complexity

2.64/5

Rating

7.48

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

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Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 4.0/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.6/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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Worthy successor to Two Hour Wargames' Origin Award winner: All Things Zombie. Now revamped, expanded, and improved.

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Worthy successor to Two Hour Wargames' Origin Award winner: All Things Zombie. Now revamped, expanded, and improved. Better Dead Than Zed sweeps you up and sticks you right in the middle of a catastrophic zombie outbreak. Who you are when the outbreak occurs is just as important as where you are. Because unlike other zombie games, where the zombies have been around for awhile, you won't be able to tell the humans from the zombies until maybe it's too late. Because it's all happening to you just like it would on Day One. Confusion, chaos, and lack of information are just some of the challenges you'll face when the world starts to crumble. Will you have what it takes to survive the first 30 days? Then what? All Things Zombie takes you to where no other zombie game has before. Yes, it starts on the first day of the outbreak, but then let's you continue your life building your very own future. It's a game where every detail has been covered, as you first escape the soulless creatures that threaten you, then hunt them down and take back what's yours. On the way there you'll find out that maybe your most dangerous enemies aren't the zombies, but maybe your neighbors or sometimes your friends. All Things Zombie can be played solo, cooperatively with everyone on the same side, or competitively with everyone against one another. All Things Zombie can be played as a one up game or part of an ongoing campaign. But it doesn't matter which way you play it, as the goal of All Things Zombie is to rebuild the world, as you knew it; except maybe this time with you in charge.

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Play and group

Players
1–8
Best with
1–4
Play time
45 min
Age
12+
Complexity
2.6/5
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Credits

Designers

1
Ed Teixeira

Artists

1
Paul Kime

Publishers

1
Two Hour Wargames (THW Game Design)