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Mid-game picture, note the special spaces where survival items show up.

Escape from Zombie City, Queen Games, 2014 — Queen's Frank Thyben (left) keeps an eye on our progress during a test game at BGG.CON 2013

Zombie tiles, which require dice rolls to defeat.

Starting setup with graveyard, church, and van to load survival goods into.

Zombie cards, which spawn random zombies, cause zombies of a color to move, or spawn zombies in special zombie pile spaces.

I created new zombie figures for use with Escape: Zombie City. Here is my complete zombie horde.

Escape: Zombie City, Queen Games, 2014 (image provided by the publisher)

I created new zombie figures for use with Escape: Zombie City. Here are some of my figures next to the originals from the game.

Exit found so far away and time ran out and partner died.

Escape: Zombie City (2014)

Players

2–4

Best: 4

Playing time

15–15 min

Age

10+

6.73

Average rating

1,430

Ratings

1.77/5

Weight

#3592

BGG rank

Top 5,000

Designer:Kristian Amundsen Østby

Artist:Marko Fiedler, Stephanie Böhm, Kevin Long (II)

Publisher:Queen Games

Average rating, ratings count, weight and rank are sourced from BoardGameGeek (BGG).

Game DNA

Strategy7.0

Luck9.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity3.5

Theme6.0

This game's strategy, luck, interaction, complexity and theme.

DiceReal-timeZombiesTile PlacementPick-up and DeliverCooperative GameDice RollingReal-Time

Overview

Game description from the publisher:

In Escape: Zombie City, you and your fellow players are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hiding in a church of a big city. Everything is going great — well, as great as it can be when zombies are all around — but this is all about to change as a big wave of zombies is coming to town, and they want your brainy goodness. Your only option is to gather all the necessary supplies, start up the old VW Microbus, and get the hell outta Dodge (the city)!

Escape: Zombie City is played with a soundtrack that lasts fifteen minutes. After that length of time, the zombie hordes have gotten too big to defeat, and you have lost your mind, so to speak...