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2014 Ranked #20,970

The Walking Dead: The Prison – Board Game

A zombie survival board game has players fight through a prison, secure rooms, and collect leadership points. The contest ends after enough areas are secured, making efficient clearing and control determine who leads the survivors.

Comic Book / Strip Horror Area Movement Cooperative Game

Players

2-6

Play time

Not listed

Age

13+

Complexity

2/5

Rating

5.99

Harder to teach Highly interactive Deep strategy

Overview

At a glance

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 3.7/5

Highly interactive

Player scaling 4.0/5

Scales well

Strategic depth 4.5/5

Deep strategy

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How it plays

How does it play?

The Walking Dead: The Prison – Board Game is a standalone sequel to the original The Walking Dead: The Board Game, published by Z-Man Games.

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.
Area Movement

Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Dice Rolling

Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Read the full game description

The Walking Dead: The Prison – Board Game is a standalone sequel to the original The Walking Dead: The Board Game, published by Z-Man Games. Covering the events of issues 13-24 of the comic book series, players must fight their way through the Prison, securing areas and killing zombies to collect leadership points. The player who has collected the most leadership points once a certain number of rooms have been secured (depending on the number of players) becomes the leader of the survivors and wins!

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Category

3
Comic Book / Strip Horror Zombies

Mechanism

3
Area Movement Cooperative Game Dice Rolling

Family

3
Comic Books: The Walking Dead Crowdfunding: Kickstarter Theme: Jail / Prison (Modern)

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Game and edition data

All specifications (5)

Play and group

Players
2–6
Best with
2
Play time
60 min
Age
13+
Complexity
2.0/5
Credits and catalog connections

Credits

Designers

3
Brian David-Marshall Keith Tralins Matthew Wang

Artists

2
Charlie Adlard Jason Greeno

Publishers

2
(Self-Published) MegaGigaOmniCorp, Inc.

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