There are some really cool things about Carnival Zombie. It is very thematic. Everything makes sense and the graphics go well with it. It's cooperative. It's hard to win. The cards have multiple uses. (I think that's the Nightmare deck?) Different players have different powers. There's a clever way of accounting for the fact that you might not have actually killed a zombie. I love the little map that shows where your group is.
I'm not sure that I like that you always need all 6 characters and I don't think this would work well with our friends. It's kind of long and dark and complicated. The graphics are great, but it's hard to see what's going on.
There's a second edition out: Carnival Zombie: 2nd Edition
August 16, 2019