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2014 Ranked #2,963

Escape: Zombie City

Cooperative real-time escape game where survivors search a zombie-filled city for supplies and start a getaway bus. A growing wave of undead is coming, so every roll and move must gather what the group needs before the city becomes inescapable.

Family Games Dice Real-time Pick-up and Deliver Cooperative Game

Players

2-4

Play time

Not listed

Age

10+

Complexity

1.78/5

Rating

6.73

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

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Is this game right for my group?

ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.

Teachability 2.4/5

Harder to teach

Replay value 3.9/5

High replayability

Interaction 3.8/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.1/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.7/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

Game description from the publisher: In Escape: Zombie City, you and your fellow players are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hiding in a church of a big city.

Core mechanisms

Key systems that shape the decisions players make.

Cooperative Game

Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Pick Up and Deliver

Collect goods at one location and transport them to another for rewards.
Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
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Game description from the publisher: In Escape: Zombie City, you and your fellow players are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hiding in a church of a big city. Everything is going great — well, as great as it can be when zombies are all around — but this is all about to change as a big wave of zombies is coming to town, and they want your brainy goodness. Your only option is to gather all the necessary supplies, start up the old VW Microbus, and get the hell outta Dodge (the city)! Escape: Zombie City is played with a soundtrack that lasts fifteen minutes. After that length of time, the zombie hordes have gotten too big to defeat, and you have lost your mind, so to speak...

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Type

1
Family Games

Category

3
Dice Real-time Zombies

Mechanism

3
Cooperative Game Dice Rolling Pick-up and Deliver

Family

5
Admin: Better Description Needed! Components: Compact Discs (CDs) Creatures: Zombies Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Game: Escape (Queen Games)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–4
Best with
2–4
Play time
15 min
Age
10+
Complexity
1.8/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

1
Kristian Amundsen Østby

Artists

3
Stephanie Böhm Marko Fiedler Kevin Long (II)

Publishers

1
Queen Games

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