New Game Round-up: Escaping from Zombies Yet Again, Space Station Argo Finally Docks & a Seafood Offering from Dr. Finn

In Escape from Zombie City, you and your fellow players are survivors of the zombie apocalypse, hiding in a church of a big city. Everything is going great — well, as great as it can be when zombies are all around — but this is all about to change as a big wave of zombies is coming to town, and they want your brainy goodness. Your only option is to gather all the necessary supplies, start up the old VW Microbus, and get the hell outta Dodge (the city)!

Escape from Zombie City is played with a soundtrack that lasts fifteen minutes. After that length of time, the zombie hordes have gotten too big to defeat, and you have lost your mind, so to speak...

You're waking up from the hibernation pods. The hibernation room doesn't look like the one in which you were being sent to sleep. In the nearby pods, your comrades from the other national teams that are to help you build the new international space station are also slowly emerging from their pods. Your eyes are not yet completely open when alarms start flashing red and a metallic voice shouts from the loudspeakers «Alien presence detected, evacuation in progress, self-destruction in GRRRRZZZRRRRR minutes»...

In Space Station Argo, a group of astronauts attempts desperately to survive as they explore a mysterious space station and are besieged by horrible alien monsters.

[Fantasy Flight Games] asked us to make some changes to the game rules, mostly adding more variety and making it a bit more complex....

This time, we had to make the game simpler, but it wasn't just moving back to our original version. Most of the changes initiated by Fantasy Flight, notably the different abilities of characters, are still there, but [Flatlined's Eric Hanuise] wanted to make the game faster and the rules simpler and more consistent. This was achieved through lots of changes, some minor, some more important. The station's modules are no longer divided into spaces, and the movement rules have been completely revamped. There are fewer modules, and their effects have sometimes changed. Aliens, which could appear only in one of their four nests, can now materialize almost anywhere in the station. They can even win the game if the players help them a bit, pushing opposing astronauts toward them or into dysfunctional teleporters. And we're still working on the prototype to make the game even more fun, simple and nasty.

Swim, spawn, and eat shrimp while avoiding sharks! In Let Them Eat Shrimp!, players place fish tiles (in various geometric shapes) in an effort to spawn (by covering fish eggs on the board) and receive more fish tiles. The fish can also eat shrimp (to gain victory points) and must avoid sharks (which will eat your fish, fish eggs, and shrimp).

Let Them Eat Shrimp! has two ways to play. The beginner's game is suitable for younger players, while the advanced version adds more strategy and depth, as well as more danger; in this version of the game, players might be knocked out early if they can't spawn quickly enough or if their eggs are devoured by the roaming sharks. The game also includes multiple game board components, which can be mixed and match for variety and various skill levels.