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The Walking Dead: Something To Fear

The Walking Dead: Something to Fear is a simultaneous card selection game with variable powers for 2-6 players and uneasy partnerships. Players must outwit their frenemies in order to acquire the best sets of cards to win the game, but if players aren't careful, the group will be...

Players

2-6

Time

20-40

Age

12+

Weight

1.5

Rating

6.05

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The Walking Dead: Something to Fear has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much.

Teach 2.3

Teaching signal

Replay 3.9

High replayability

Interaction 3.7

Highly interactive

Scaling 4.0

Scales well

Strategy 4.5

Deep strategy

Control 2.8

Luck-sensitive

Table feel

The Walking Dead: Something to Fear has a high level of direct confrontation and strategic depth in confrontation. Players must frequently pay attention to and react to each other's strategies and turns. However, the game does not emphasize cooperation as much.

Replay value

The Walking Dead: Something to Fear offers a high level of variability with its gameboard, expansions, and strategic depth. The player interaction score is also strong. The game scales well with different numbers of players and has a moderate level of easiness to learn. Overall, it provides a solid replayability experience with a score of 7.85 out of 10.

Luck profile

The Walking Dead: Something to Fear has a moderate influence of luck. Random elements have a notable but not exclusive impact on the game outcome. While players have substantial ability to mitigate randomness through strategic decisions and planning, the game still has a balanced mix of luck and strategy. Overall, luck plays a significant role in the game, but player strategy and decisions also have a considerable influence on the outcome.

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The Walking Dead: Something to Fear is a simultaneous card selection game with variable powers for 2-6 players and uneasy partnerships. Players must outwit their frenemies in order to acquire the best sets of cards to win the game, but if players aren't careful, the group will be overwhelmed and everyone will lose. In The Walking Dead: Something to Fear, players attempt to survive nine waves of walkers and brutal villains while collecting supplies and weapons in the post-apocalyptic world of Skybound’s acclaimed series, The Walking Dead. Each round, players secretly play 1 card from their hand facedown. All cards are simultaneously revealed to determine round turn order, and ability resolution(s). Players use iconic characters to secure sets of cards in an attempt to survive the harsh conditions the groups face. At the end of each round, 1 card will escape the group and deal an amount of damage to all players at the end of the game. Players must manage 20 collective group health, and if all players survive, the player with the highest set collection score wins! If the group takes 20 or more damage at the end of the game, all players lose. Do you have what it takes to survive?

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Designers

2
Derek Funkhouser Lizzy Funkhouser

Artists

1
Justin Chan

Publishers

1
Skybound Tabletop

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