Board Game Break Time: Tiny Epic Zombies

Board Game Break Time is a new feature we're bringing in, where we play board games and review them. 

Title: Tiny Epic Zombies 
Manufacturer:  Gamelyn Games

Release Date: 2018
Designer: Scott Almes

Game Mechanism: Co-op, are control, dice rolling, modular board

# of Players: 1-5   Best: 3

Ages: 14+

Play Time: 30-45 Minutes 

  

Average Rating: 7.3

Average Rating: 4.0

This was a pretty fun game. It was kind of difficult and took a while for us to really understand how to play it.

It is a little bit confusing, reading the instructions. We ended up watching a tutorial on youtube for it. 

The one that we played there was two missions. The first one was to find components to a cure, but you have to find them in a certain order. Each component is in a different room.

The other mission was to move all the army guys to the center so they can help you escape.

If I remember correctly there is a few missions for you to pick from.

The artwork is cute and I love the meeples. I had way too much fun playing with them while waiting for it to be my turn. I even turned one into Negan. Zombie Negan. 

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The game is hard. This was the first tiny epic game I've played. I thought the game was well done, fun, and difficult but not too difficult. There's definitely the aspect of needing to work together to get anything accomplished and to stay alive. The cooperative play was good, the zombie meeples were freaking adorable and the game seems to have a lot of replayability. It's always fun runnin from zombies. 

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What Michael Thought: 

The name describes the game fairly well. It involves tiny zombie meeples who look like they are doing Thriller dance. (Look at the pictures to see what I mean) The game has different styles of play to make the play style slightly different each time and different objectives. There is even a option where one player can choose to play the zombie horse. Because one mind controls the zombies. We played a cooperative version where we had to complete missions before our barriers broke.
This is very much an area control type game. Because you can't just focus on objectives. You also have to take out zombies to make sure you don't get overwhelmed by the horde.
The objectives themselves can be time consuming so sometimes you have to one person who focuses on clearing this objective or that objective but also have to manage the zombie population at same time.

Each turn you get to move 3 times, if you come across a zombie you have to fight it, and then you can explore a room to get items to complete objectives or get better weapons.this is a fun but challenging game.i recommended this for fans of cooperative gameplay and zombie fans.

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They were tiny, it was epic, and there was zombies.

It was fun, I'm pretty sure we didn't play it right. But it was worth it. It just felt too easy. It started off hard and we thought we were going to lose... then we didn't. It was all very confusing. 

I liked the zombie meeples, because why would you not like zombie meeples? 

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