Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game is the first title in Plaid Hat Games' Crossroads series, which tests a group of survivors' ability to work together and stay alive while facing crises and challenges from both outside and inside the group. Here you lead a faction of survivors, drawn from dozens of different characters, in a small, weakened colony in a world where most of humanity is dead or turned into flesh-craving monsters.

A Meta-Cooperative Survival Game

Players work together toward one common victory condition, but to win individually each player must also complete a personal secret objective. That objective could be a harmless psychological quirk, a dangerous obsession that puts the main goal at risk, a desire to sabotage the mission, or even vengeance against the colony. A game can end with all players winning, some winning and some losing, or everyone losing.

A Story-Centric Experience

Survive a harsh winter in an apocalyptic world: fight off outside threats, resolve crises, find food and supplies, and keep the colony's morale up. Players make frequent, difficult decisions that often pit what is best for the colony against what is best for themselves. The rulebook also includes a fully co-operative variant in which all players work toward the group objective with no personal goals.