A Little Selfish: Zombie Edition mini

Though the blurb makes Selfish, in all its variants, seem much more tactical and in-depth than it really is, it can still be a reasonably fun, undemanding game in the right company.

Yet the mini editions, which strip the game back even further, barely qualify as games; they’re over before you know it, and the lack of meaningful decisions or strategies is remarkably stark.

So, what’s this particular version of Selfish about?

Each player is a survivor of the zombie apocalypse…for now.

All of you are trying to get to the chopper and escape the zombie hordes, but it appears that there’s only room for one survivor.

So on each turn, you draw a card from the game deck (which can be supplies or one of a few types of action card), then decide whether to play any actions.

These will often hinder your opponents, usually by forcing them to move back a space or perhaps causing them to use or discard supplies.

Then, you make the decision whether to move towards the helicopter by discarding two supplies, or staying put and discarding just one of your supplies cards.

If you move forward, you draw a Wasteland card to place in the space you’ve just vacated and follow the instructions on it; sometimes it can give you extra supplies, force you to spend more supplies, do nothing or, in the case of one card in the deck, get you bitten by zombies, at which point you become a zombie yourself.

If you run out of supplies to spend when you need to, you also become a zombie; at this point, you no longer have supplies and your turn consists of you using two actions: moving or biting an opponent.

Παίκτες : 2 – 4

Ηλικία : 8+

Διάρκεια : 10 min

Γλώσσα : Αγγλικά