Escape of the Dead Minigame

About this board game

Escape of the Dead Minigame is a solo zombie-apocalypse game for one player that takes about 15 minutes to play. Trapped in a house with a broken car and hordes of zombies attacking the lawn, you must repair your escape vehicle while defending yourself and your barricade.

Each turn, you receive four action dice and distribute them among three sections: shooting zombies, repairing the barricade, and fixing the car. Roll for success in each section, then deal with any zombies that survived. The remaining zombies attack the barricade, steadily putting your escape plan at risk.

Your objective is to reach 100% car repair and get out of the house before the barricade’s hit points reach zero. Killing zombies also provides a useful incentive: whenever you successfully eliminate 10 zombies, you receive a power-up.

• Solo gameplay for one survivor
• Four six-sided dice drive each turn
• Three competing priorities: combat, barricade repair, and car repair
• Win by fully fixing the car; lose when the barricade falls

The original version requires an A4 sheet to print the board and rules, four six-sided dice, and optionally a pencil and eraser. The version 1.5 “portable edition” uses printed rules, cardstock cards and zombie components, four dice, and optional transparent card sleeves, a dry-erase marker or grease pencil, and an eraser. Gaming stones or other markers can be used instead of drawing tools.

Available as a free download, Escape of the Dead Minigame offers a compact survival challenge where every die must support your fight to escape.