The Walking Dead: The Dice Game Review

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The Walking Dead television series satisfied my need for more zombie media, and as I’ve been making my way through the Telltale episodic adventure video-game series, this dice game also conveniently made it to the table. Accessing zombies across all the entertainment media was not on my bingo card this year, but we’re embracing it anyway.

The Walking Dead: The Dice Game is a dice-rolling game for 2-4 players that takes about 30 minutes to play. The best experience is with three players so everyone can get through the deck of cards in a reasonable amount of time.

The game takes place during a supply run, and players take turns going through the Exploration Deck as far as they can while battling Walkers and Survivors. The deck contains Location Cards, which potentially have supplies and enemies, while Event cards have a set of special instructions to follow.

The player’s turn begins with all Attack Dice, the blue Special Die, and three Wound Cubes. The top card of the Exploration Deck is revealed for the player to resolve. If it contains Walkers or an enemy Survivor, a battle begins and the player must attack until they defeat that newlt drawn opponent or are knocked out.

To attack, players roll the blue Special Die and up to three other Attack Dice which have varying strengths. The blue die has different faces that either hinder or augment the attack result. If the attack score for the roll matches or beats the fight value on the card, the player has successfully defeated the enemies, and the card is placed in front of them in their Stash. If the attack score does not match or beat the fight value, the player will lose wound cubes equal to the number of bites shown on the card and the fight continues on.

Once a player has lost all three Wound Cubes or if they run out of Attack Dice to roll, they are Knocked Out and their turn immediately ends, scoring nothing. Play then passes to the next player.

However if the player still has wound cubes and attack dice available