The board game is in English
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Information in English.
Dead of winter is a cooperative survival game. All players aim to survive, but at the same time achieve their secret goals. Just be careful – there may be traitors among the players who may start harming the colony.
The game is won by achieving the overall goal, or by achieving only your goal. And your goal does not necessarily have to be useful for the colony.
Each time you play, you choose a scenario that tells you what goal you need to achieve and how many rounds you have to do it. There is also a set morale level, which drops to 0 and the game is lost.
Each round consists of several phases.
First, all players roll the dice. Then, starting with the first player, they assign dice to one or more characters, who use them to perform actions such as searching for new items in different places (police building, hospital, gas station, etc.), or building barricades, managing a colony, or killing zombies.
Each round, a disaster strikes the entire colony that needs to be managed. Disasters are usually controlled by collecting a certain amount of a certain resource (medicine, food, fuel, etc.). If a sufficient amount is collected – the disaster is avoided. If not, the colony loses morale, additional zombies appear, etc.
All players can contribute to the control of the disaster (by providing the necessary resources for the control of the disaster), but at the same time they can also cheat the inhabitants of the colony (by placing the wrong resource), in which case the wrong resource even reduces the amount of the right resources.
Once one player has completed all possible actions, the next player moves on. Before each player's turn, the next player draws a Crossroads card that describes the situation. If this situation happens during the player's turn – players get several options from which they have to choose the most acceptable one. In this way, you can get resources, more survivors or a negative event can happen.
The game is lost if a) morale drops to 0 (morale drops if you do not deal with a disaster, a person dies, there is a lack of food, etc.), b) you cannot reach the main goal within the set time.
Fighting zombies is not the main goal of the game. The biggest challenge is to deal with disasters, to find enough food each turn to feed the often growing colony, as well as to find out if there are traitors and selfish people in the colony who can change the benefits of the colony to the pursuit of their own goals.
