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The urban hero gang, ready for hardcore survival inside Dr. Mortimer's Mansion. Sculpts by Matthias Zander.

This is the first series of creature sculpts for the game that will form a tough challenge for the team, outside the hordes of the undead.

This set of miniatures represents: a roaming zombie and the undead Mortimer family that will challenge the team during the finale: Doc Mortimer (devious scientist), his knife wielding wife Helen (ex circus freak) and their pyrokinetic daughter

Dark Darker Darkest (2013)

Players

2–5

Best: 4, 5

Playing time

120–120 min

Age

12+

6.25

Average rating

1,032

Ratings

3.30/5

Weight

#6822

BGG rank

Outside top 5,000

Designer:David Ausloos

Artist:David Ausloos

Publisher:Queen Games

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

Game DNA

Strategy5.0

Luck7.0

Interaction5.0

Complexity6.6

Theme9.0

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

ExplorationAdventureHorrorFightingMiniaturesZombiesAction PointsModular BoardVariable Player PowersCooperative GameArea MovementDice Rolling

Overview

Dark Darker Darkest is an intense cooperative survival horror game in which a team of urban survivors try to fight the darkness in an unsettling location: the house of Doctor Mortimer, which holds the antidote to a virus turning the world into an army of undead.

Players must gather the optimal tools to open doors, control destructive fires that slowly destroy the locations of the game, and battle the endless hordes of terrifying creatures that will do anything to slaughter this fragile group, while outsneaking lurking creatures and the eye of the ever-present security cameras guarding the secrets of the house.

The game uses innovative mechanisms for group-forming and mixes item management (using a color-code system), exploration, stealth, and icon-driven combat to form an intense tactical experience in a strongly thematic setting riddled with surprises and variation. All the creatures and other challenges are controlled by the A.I. of the game system. The board is modular, creating a unique narrative experience for each session.

Can you fight the darkness?

NOTE: The Designer has uploaded a Revised Set of Rules in the Files Section that greatly streamlines play. As of now, boxed copies only have the older ruleset.

DARK DARKER DARKEST Un jeu coopératif de survie et d'horreur.

"Une équipe de 2 à 5 survivants doit explorer la demeure étroitement gardée du docteur Mortimer afin de découvrir son laboratoire, de le déverrouiller et de mettre la main sur l'antidote. C'est la seule façon de mettre un terme à cette apocalyptique invasion de zombies. Pour déjouer le système de sécurité, l'équipe doit dénicher de l'équipement dans la maison afin de déverrouiller les portes. Les codes des portes permettront finalement aux joueurs d'ouvrir le labo... où ils découvriront qu'aux hordes de zombies, aux créatures enragées et aux incendies qu'ils ont dû affronter jusqu'ici s'ajoute une créature abominable, la Némésis, dont ils devront venir à bout au cours d'un final spectaculaire." Les joueurs coopèrent et luttent ensemble contre le système de jeu a fin de déjouer les pièges du laboratoire !

• Un jeu de zombies coopératif. • Une grande re-jouabilité. • Une mise en place modulable