Even Shaun James Riley’s Cricket Bat Can’t Stop These Great Zombie Games

Marvel Zombies – A Zombicide Board Game

Zombicide is another great zombie game to come from the early 2010s, but for my money, I think Marvel Zombies is a little more my speed. In the base game, players take the role of your favorite Marvel heroes, but with a little less mental faculties, and a little more hunger for grey matter. But, the still-alive heroes will be trying to stop you every step of the way as NPCs played by the game itself.

But with the Heroes Resistance expansion, the game plays at its best. Combine both games together for fully asymmetrical Marvel Zombies mayhem. Play out your own version of Earth-2149 and see if yours turns out any better.

Dead of Winter

At least in my mind, Dead of Winter is the zombie game to come out of the aforementioned zombie saturation era. Still, it’s a fantastic, story-driven, mostly-cooperative survival game. Players must work together to survive against the hordes of the undead. Gathering and rationing supplies is a key part of the game. Deciding who gets what and what takes priority is a large part of the game.

But each player has their own hidden personal objective too. Some objectives won’t always be so copacetic with everyone else’s objectives. Navigating tense situations while working together, but ultimately keeping yourself your top priority is what makes Dead of Winter a truly unique gaming experience.

Zombies!!!

This is the third edition and updated version of the award-winning Zombies!!! board game. Players work as a team to get to the helipad in order to win. But to get there they must avoid being taken down by zombies and loosing all of their health tokens. Will you and your friend both make it to safety and escape? Or is somebody getting bitten and having their brains eaten?

Resident Evil 2: The Board Game

If you ask people what franchise best encapsulates the idea of zombies, I bet a good chunk of them will say Resident Evil. There are several Resident Evil board games, and they are all top-notch. But for the sake of having to pick one to show off, we’re going with Resident Evil 2.

This scenario based zombie game plays probably pretty much like you might imagine, assuming you’ve played any Resident Evil game. Players are trapped in tight corridors filled with zombies, and there’s limited ammo. If the players can work together to complete the scenario objective before the tension deck runs out, they win!

Munchkin Zombies

Sometimes zombie games can be a little heavy and stressful. There’s a lot of survival and betrayal to contend with. So let’s make everything a little lighter with some Munchkin. This version turns your game into a silly and low stakes monster movie as you combat zombies in card form and collect as much treasure as you can to win.

Zombie Dice

Not all zombie games need to be super heavy, highly strategic, deeply thematic, play-all-night-long kinda games. Some are just simple, fast, and most importantly, fun. Zombie Dice is a quick-playing dice game where you are a zombie. Your first and only goal is to eat 13 brains before you get shot to double-death.

It’s an excellent push-your-luck style game that teaches in a minute and plays in maybe 10 minutes. It’s an absolutely fantastic way to start a game night, or great to keep in your car anytime you got a few minutes to kill.