^ "Plaid Hat Games Launches a Crossroads Cards App for Dead of Winter".^ "Dead of Winter: The Long Night PRE-ORDER! | News | Plaid Hat Games"."INTERNATIONAL TABLETOP DAY PROMO KITS REVEALED". ^ "Dead of Winter: A Cross Roads Game".Casus Belli (v4, Issue 13 - Jan/Feb 2015).We The Nerdy mentioned that the game is "brilliantly stressful and yet so much fun to play" Reviews īoard Games Land have included the game in the top 10 zombie board games ever made. The short video features Brandon Routh as Buddy Davis, Felicia Day as Olivia Brown, Jeff Lewis as Forest Plum, Amy Okuda as Annaleigh Chan, and Ify Nwadiwe as Harman Brooks. In 2015, Geek & Sundry later created a spoof of the board game.
In 2015, Plaid Hat Games released a Crossroads Cards App for Android and iOS devices. It can be played as an individual game or in combination with Dead of Winter.Īnother expansion Warring Colonies was released in 2017 and adds 15 new survivors, 50 additional crossroad cards, and close to 50 new items. The expansion would include a set of new survivors, locations, crises, objectives, and items. Both mini-expansions offer an additional character and crossroads card.Ī standalone expansion for the game, entitled Dead of Winter: The Long Night was announced in early 2016. In April 2015, Plaid Hat Games developed and released the Dead of Winter: Felicia Day promo cards for International TableTop Day.
Plaid Hat Games released the Dead of Winter: Kodiak Colby promotional expansion. These environmental difficulties are compounded by each player having a unique and possibly conflicting victory objective as well as repeated crises combine to create a difficult game to win. Each survivor at the colony will consume food, and all survivors will attract zombies. The game can end in three ways: morale reaches 0, the players run out of rounds, or the main objective is completed.Īfter each player has completed their actions for the round, a set of effects will resolve, generally to make the game slowly more difficult for the players. Each scenario has a starting morale level, a starting zombie presence, a 'game length' in round number and a unique 'team' victory objective. There are also other actions that don't require action die though, like moving survivors, playing or handing off cards, and contributing cards to the crisis.Įach game will be one of twenty possible scenarios. These actions can include scavenging locations for supplies, which can be weapons, food, fuel, medicine, or new survivors, attacking zombies and other survivors, clearing trash, and building barricades. The game is played over a set of rounds, during which the players will use dice to have their survivors execute actions.