Last Night on Earth, The Zombie Game puts players in the role of townspeople trying to survive a B-movie zombie invasion.
One player plays as a horde of zombies, while the others play such stock movie characters as Becky the Nurse, Sheriff Anderson, Jake Cartwright the Drifter, and Sally the Highschool Sweetheart. Each of these characters have different special abilities. For example, the nurse can heal another character in the same space, while the track star can move an extra space each turn.
The heroes have a limited number of turns to accomplish the goal of the scenario. In the game I played last night, we had to get at least two of the heroes in the truck in the center of town—after finding the keys and filling the truck with gas.
The game is simple to play, and it does a really good job of simulating a B-Movie experience. There were a lot of fun moments in the game last night: Jake the drifter was holed up the hospital morgue with a chain saw, taking out zombies left and right. Eventually he found the keys to the truck in the morgue. He started running towards the truck, but the zombies had cut power to the building and he was forced to pick his way slowly out of the hospital. By the time he got out, it was almost sundown. Billy the track star ran towards Jake, hoping to take the keys and run back to the truck, but Jake couldn’t quite make it to Billy in time.
The zombies feasted well last night.
This game is not a deep strategy game by any means; it’s a lighthearted romp through a cheesy horror flick. If you have any place in your heart for the kinds of movies mocked by Mystery Science Theater 3000, I think you’ll really like this game.