How to Play Dead of Winter | Beginner Guide & Rules Explained

🧟 Learn how to play Dead of Winter! In this beginner-friendly tutorial, I'll show you how to set up the game, understand the rules, survive the zombie apocalypse, complete objectives, and deal with the difficult decisions that can determine whether your colony survives. Dead of Winter is a semi-cooperative survival board game where players work together to keep their colony alive while each survivor may also have a secret personal objective. Cooperation is essential—but you can't always trust everyone at the table. 📚 In this video you'll learn: • How to set up Dead of Winter 🎲 • The objective of the game 🎯 • How Colony and Survivor cards work 👥 • How player turns work 🔄 • Moving Survivors around locations 🗺️ • Searching for useful items 🔎 • Fighting Zombies 🧟 • How Exposure and Frostbite work ❄️ • Crisis Cards and Crossroads Cards ⚠️ • Secret personal objectives 🕵️ • How Exile and Betrayal work 😈 • How to win—or lose—the game 🏆 💡 Each player controls a group of Survivors while working toward the main objective shared by the colony. 💡 At the same time, every player receives a secret personal objective. Some objectives may conflict with the needs of the colony, creating difficult choices throughout the game. 💡 On your turn, you'll use Action Dice to perform actions such as moving Survivors, searching locations, attacking Zombies, barricading areas, and gathering resources. 💡 After players take their actions, the colony must deal with a Crisis, requiring everyone to contribute the resources needed to prevent disaster. 💡 Crossroads Cards can trigger unexpected events when certain conditions occur, creating difficult choices and surprises for the players. 💡 Zombies become an increasing threat as they spread throughout the locations surrounding the colony. 💡 Be careful when moving and fighting, as Survivors can suffer Exposure, potentially resulting in wounds, frostbite, or death. 💡 The colony must complete its main objective before time runs out—but individual players may have very different goals. By the end of this video, you'll know exactly how to play Dead of Winter and be ready to see whether your group can survive the harsh winter! 💬 Comment below: Would you trust your fellow survivors—or assume someone is secretly working against you? 🧟 👍 If this guide helped, like the video and subscribe for more board game tutorials, survival games, and tabletop gaming content!