Hey everyone! It's Kylie at Games Unlimited,
and I wanna show you one of my favorite games
to come out this year, Zombie Kidz Evolution.
This was one of my top games to play during
the quarantine. Played it with my family,
my 6-year-old and my 4-year-old, my wife and
I. We brought grandpa in at some point. This
is just a phenomenal cooperative children's
game where you play kids in your school that's
being attacked by zombies. You're trying to
kill off the zombies and lock the gates so
more zombies can't come into the school. Great
theme. Great artwork. Games play in about
10-15 minutes. It's recommended age is 7 and
up, but like I said I've successfully played
it with my 6-year-old. My 4-year-old gets
in on the action. We kinda say that's playing
on hard mode because she often wants to do
things that aren't as beneficial to the overall
group, but just because, well, she wants to
be in the purple room. So that's just playing
on hard mode. But super accessible game, largely
because it works. They tout it as a legacy
game. Some people are scared off by that term
"legacy game". I really like to think of it
more as a game with layered sets of rules.
So as you play you're gonna unlock these envelopes
that are gonna add new characters, new rules,
new ways for the zombies to move and interact.
So by the time you're done, you will have
kind of be playing the full game, having the
full, rich experience, but they get layered
on as you do that. The other cool thing is
that it has an achievement-type system. So
when you look at the rulebook here - no spoilers
- but on the back of the rulebook there's
a progress chart, and every game that you
win you get to put a little brain on here.
And as you pass these envelopes you get to
open up the next envelope and unlock new rules.
So as I mentioned, you get a brain for every
game whether you win or lose, and then there's
achievements. You can get bonus stickers if
you complete some of the achievements. So
there's a whole list of different achievements
you can do here, like winning a certain way,
with a certain combination of players, etc.
The way the game works is super straightforward.
Your goal is to lock all four of these gates.
You characters, the kids, start in the middle
in the red room. There's gonna be some zombies
on the outside. And in the initial play of
the game all the zombies are the same. That
changes as you unlock some things. When it's
your turn, let's say it's gonna be lightsaber-girl's
turn here, first you roll the die. Whatever
color you get - yellow - the next zombie in
line shows up in that room. Then the player
can move one space, so move to an adjacent
room, and any zombies there will die. Boom,
this zombie's gone, so we're sort of like,
back where we started. We've got four zombies
on the board and I'm one step closer to locking
a door. The way that you lock a door is you
have to be in the outside and there have to
be two of you there. If there are two people
there, one to hold the gate closed, the other
to actually lock it, you put the lock on there
- boom, you're one step closer to victory.
Lock all four doors and you win! It gets a
little more complicated because like most
zombies, if they can reach a critical mass,
it's a lot harder to do things. In this case,
every turn you're gonna roll the die, if you
ever have three zombies in the same spot,
no one can go in that room anymore. If you're
already there you have to leave on your turn.
So normally, if there's just two zombies and
you move in a room, you kill both of them.
You kill all the zombies in the room that
you're in, except you cannot go into a room
that has three or more zombies. So you have
to be really careful, do a little bit of discussion,
use some teamwork to decide who's gonna go
where to stop this zombie threat, who's going
to meet up to lock this door. That's the basics
of the game. You see here I actually have
character cards. You don't start the game
with these character cards, that's one of
the unlocks. Don't worry, I'm not going to
show you, there's no spoilers, but the characters
get special powers. The zombies start to get
special powers. And as I say you just sort
of layer it on. I mention it's not as much
a legacy game, some people think of legacy
games like, oh, when you're done you can start
over and do the whole experience. It's not
necessarily the sort of game that once you
unlock everything you wanna go back and start
over. You're really experiencing the full
richness of the game. Plus there's some cool
bonus scenarios that open up as you move further
into the game. 15 minute game, super awesome.
Price tag is $22.99. I highly recommend this
for anyone that has children, I would say
5 to 9. What I love about this, it's got that
feature that is super important with kid's
games, that adults love it too. My wife and
I couldn't wait to play this more with our
kids and see how they are sort of starting
to see the strategies. When we'd unlock a
new rule they'd be very excited about having
new special powers. So check this one out.
You can order it on our webstore for curbside
pickup. I'm Kylie at Games Unlimited, and
as always, go play some games.
