The Night

About this board game

The Night is a 2022 solitaire board game for one player, with an approximately 120-minute play time. You take the side of a group of human refugees fleeing a widespread outbreak of the undead.

As darkness falls, the fugitives reach an apparently abandoned middle-class home in a pleasant midwestern community. Its occupants seem to have wisely fled earlier, leaving the refugees to face the long night with whatever weapons or tools they can find.

Your goal is to use your wits and available resources to defend the house and keep the human characters alive until dawn. The threat comes from slow-moving but purposeful, flesh-eating creatures: the zombies.

• One-player experience: You play the human characters while solitaire rules guide the undead.
• Survival setting: A frightened group seeks refuge in a seemingly abandoned home during an outbreak.
• Improvised defense: Weapons and tools that come to hand become essential during the night.
• Clear objective: Hold out against the zombies until daylight.

Fast-paced and focused on the escalating danger of a single night, The Night places you in the role of the survivors rather than the undead. Every decision is made against the backdrop of a community that appears peaceful, but is now caught in a widespread outbreak.

For players who enjoy a tense solitaire survival scenario, this board game presents a direct struggle between vulnerable humans and an advancing undead threat, all centered on one desperate attempt to see the dawn.