![]() The game has a set number of turns before darkness falls and you lose. If too much of the building burns down, you lose. The firefighting equipment is among the gear you can find while searching rooms. If you need to go through a room on fire, you either need firefighting equipment or you get burned. The building can also catch fire and at the end of the turn the fire spreads. Zombies also spawn randomly at the end of each turn and on some event cards. If he does, he sends more zombies after you. The building also has security cameras so at the end of the players’ turns, the board gets to check to see if the scientist can see you. That means players must gather the items to open locked doors, randomly open those doors while searching for the ones that are part of the combination to the lab, and then return them to the corner rooms while fighting zombies and zombie animals. Two of the doors we opened were out of the way and then proved to be useless, allowing the monsters time to build up and the board to gain an advantage.Īdditionally, once a code chip is retrieved, it has to be taken to a deposit location in one of three corners of the building. You can’t tell what code chip a door contains until you are one room away from it, so we ended up having to open all five locked doors to get the code we needed to open the lab door. Our board had five locked doors and three of them contained the code chips needed to unlock the lab door. Once you get a door unlocked, the same code that unlocked the door is now available on a chip for you to use to unlock the lab door. We discovered it could easily become problematic to find enough gear to give you the necessary symbols to open doors. The locked doors leading up to the lab contain the code chips you need to open the lab, but if you can’t get right equipment to open those early doors, you can’t gather the code chips. Items serve two purposes: to help you with the defeating the zombies and other things in the building and helping you collect the code chips for unlocking the lab door. ![]() So, if the luck of your roll means you get one item, that’s it. But once one character has found something, even if it was only one item, the room cannot be searched again. Another character could search and the number of successes on his search role would equate to the number of items he could find there. So, in the entry hall for example, one character might search and then fail the search role. Like other games, you can search for equipment in a room, but once you find something in a room, you are done searching there. Those same symbols are used to open locked doors in the building. Each piece of equipment has one symbol on it for breaking the code into the lab. You can view a demonstration of the gameplay here:īut the real frustration of this game was all the things going on. In our play through, it led to frustration because the tiles themselves created only one path through the building to the lab. This is usually good for increasing a game’s replay value. Dark Darker Darkest Gameplayĭark Darker Darkest has you randomly choose which tiles are included, so the game board can vary a lot. Some games, like Zombicide, give you a list of scenarios and guide you to the tiles to use for each scenario. Like many cooperative games, the first thing you do is create the game board from the tiles. Setup is always going to be long the first time you play a game, but this was even longer than usual. We spent a little over two hours playing one round of the game and more than half of that time was setup. There was lot going on, which drew you out of the game to do the sort of record-keeping that bogs down a game. Unfortunately, that’s the best thing I can say about the game. The game does a good job of sticking to theme, with the player characters including a programmer and medic among others. Think Resident Evil and you have the basic premise. This is a cooperative game where the players are supposed to find the code chips to unlock the door to the lab where the zombie infection started and defeat the scientist responsible. With the price of most board games, spending $100 is a piece of cake. That’s our go-to site for gaming materials because the prices are usually great and shipping is free if you spend $100. Dark Darker Darkest by Queen Games was a Kickstarter game that we didn’t back, but found at a reasonable price on sale, probably at Miniatures Market.
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