Specifically I was a play tester for Mice and Mystics. Our goal as a game company is to make games you love to play, and to support the communities that form around our games…”Īlthough the main focus of this post is to talk about Dead of Winter you might also want to check out some of the following Plaid Hat titles: Wait a Second… Don’t You Playtest for Plaid Hat Games?Īt this point, and for total transparency, I should probably point out that I have a personal connection with Plaid Hat Games. “…At Plaid Hat Games we not only want to make fun and engaging games, we want to make some good friends while doing it. In a nutshell, PHG are all about fun and community, a point they put across quite nicely on their site! If you’ve never heard of PHG then now’s the time to find out more, because these guys have got some amazing titles heading your way over the next year or so! Based in the US, this vibrant publishing company is owned and run by chief game designer – Colby Dauch. The game in question is Dead of Winter, designed by Jon Gillmour and Isaac Vega, and published by Plaid Hat Games(PHG). I want to talk about another upcoming zombie title that’s getting loads of attention from gamers across the globe. However, today I’m not going to be talking about Kickstarter.
With the recent Zombicide Season 3 Kickstarter campaignraising $2,849,064 you can clearly see that the gaming public still have a real taste for Zombies. The survivors are all dealing with their own psychological imperatives, but must still find a way to work together to fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony’s morale up.ĭead of Winter has players making frequent, difficult, heavily- thematic, wildly-varying decisions that often have them deciding between what is best for the colony and what is best for themselves.It’s been a while since I finished off my two-part blog about Kickstarterand the Zombie hordes, but I continue to watch out for new and quality Zombie titles heading our way. It’s a story-centric game about surviving through a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world. Work toward the group’s goal, but don’t get walked all over by a loudmouth who’s looking out only for his own interests!ĭead of Winter is an experience that can be accomplished only through the medium of tabletop games. This secret objective could relate to a psychological tick that’s fairly harmless to most others in the colony, a dangerous obsession that could put the main objective at risk, a desire for sabotage of the main mission, or (worst of all) vengeance against the colony! Certain games could end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or all players losing. This means players are working together toward one common victory condition - but for each individual player to achieve victory, he must also complete his personal secret objective. Each player leads a faction of survivors with dozens of different characters in the game.ĭead of Winter is a meta-cooperative psychological survival game.
#Plaid hat games dead of winter series
“Crossroads” is a new series from Plaid Hat Games that tests a group of survivors’ ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside.ĭead of Winter: A Crossroads Game, the first game in this series, puts 2-5 players in a small, weakened colony of survivors in a world where most of humanity is either dead or diseased, flesh-craving monsters.
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