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# Explore Raxxon lab with risky powerful items Upgrade colony defenses & strategies Standalone expansion with new undead threats Dead of Winter: The Long Night Expansion

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## Summary

> 🧟‍♀️ Outsmart the apocalypse or get left behind!

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- **What is this?** Dead of Winter: The Long Night Expansion by fantasy flight games
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## Key Features

- • **Fortify & Adapt:** Upgrade your colony’s defenses to withstand relentless undead hordes and evolving threats.
- • **Seamless Integration:** Mix survivors and cards from the original Dead of Winter for endless strategic variety.
- • **Immersive Storytelling:** Experience dynamic crossroads events that create unique narratives every game session.
- • **Risk vs Reward at Raxxon:** Uncover potent items in the sinister pharmaceutical facility—but beware unleashing deadlier enemies.
- • **Survive the New Frontier:** Lead your colony through fresh challenges and rival raids in a chilling post-apocalyptic world.

## Overview

Dead of Winter: The Long Night is a standalone expansion board game by Plaid Hat Games that deepens the post-apocalyptic survival experience with a new colony, the eerie Raxxon pharmaceutical lab, and upgraded gameplay mechanics. Designed for 2-5 players aged 13+, it offers 1-2 hours of intense strategy, resource management, and narrative-driven challenges. Compatible with the original Dead of Winter, it enhances replayability with new survivors, upgraded colony defenses, and high-quality game components.

## Description

Dead of Winter: The Long Night is a standalone expansion for Dead of Winter: A Crossroads Game that introduces the Raxxon location where horrible experiments will spill out into the town unless players can contain them. The game has players at a new colony location trying to survive with new survivors against brand new challenges. Can you handle being raided by members of other colonies? Will you explore more and unravel the mysteries of the Raxxon pharmaceutical location to find powerful items but release stronger enemies? Or will you upgrade your colony to help it better withstand the undead horde? These are all choices you will get to make in this new set, and if you want, you can mix in the survivors and cards from the original set to increase the variety even more.

Review: DOW is a great game - and what's not to love with adding mutant laboratories and marauders? - This is a stand-alone expansion of the original Dead of Winter that adds additional complications and nemeses - a mutant laboratory and marauding raiders, and more opportunities for evildoing for exiled players. The stand alone could be played as the original, with new characters, crossroads, objectives, and crises It adds a few adult crossroads, packaged in plain brown paper envelope with warning label, which are quite fun & surprising but, yes, adult. Or you can play with the expansion locations and complications. So far, these extras are fun and seem to fit comfortably within the usual game-play time-frame without slowing things down. DoW is one of my favorite games so who needs extras when you are already overrun by zombies? But what's not to love with adding mutants and criminality? I recommend it with one caveat for other DOW veterans- You'll miss Sparky.
Review: What a great game. Basically - What a great game. Basically, Dead of winter is a mostly co-operative resource management game and a race against the clock. This is probably our favorite zombie game, definitely easier on the wallet than going 900 bucks into zombicide. Zombies are treated as a resource that needs to be managed, along with food, tools, weapons, helpless and useless mouths to feed, books, and medicine. The game is divided into 2 phases: each players independent turn, and the groups team phase. Every team phase will introduce a new "challenge," which is just a resource that must be gathered, and donated to the group pile, before all the players' individual turns are over. The group will have a main game goal, which everyone generally tries to accomplish, such as: kill so many zombies, keep people from starving for so long, save so many other survivors. On top of this main goal, each individual player has their own goal to accomplish, and some of them run counter to the main groups goal, a few of them are "betrayal" goals, which usually spell disaster for the main group. In order to win, players must defeat the board's countdown, manage group resources to accomplish the group's goals and challenges, and accomplish their own individual goal. The long night introduces a few new elements, which are mostly beneficial for the players: improvements for the base, additional areas to search, additional items for each area, and 20ish new survivors. On top of these new elements, the generic items have been updated to include additional abilities, and some tokens had reverse sides which turn barricades into explosive traps or useless survivors into unruly survivors for example. We play the snot out of this game. most scenarios generally take us 2ish hours to play through, setup takes 10-15 minutes. expect a little longer for your initial runthrough of the game. Couple great elements of this game : a zombie bite = a dead character and the chance to spread the bite. This is great, definitely adds to the survival horror feel, we appreciate this mechanic than those in games like zombicide or last night on earth, where you take multiple zombie bites to kill off a character. Crossroads cards add a semi roleplaying / storytelling element to the game. each individual player turn someone will draw a card, and check to see if it's circumstances are met. If they have been met, a story gets read, and usually the player who's turn it is usually gets to choose an option, sometimes good, sometimes simply less bad. The game manuals are very clearly written, and include a campaign types playthrough option, which is designed to introduce the newer elements to the expansion gradually (in the long night) or increase difficulty gradually and tell a story in the original game. Some things to keep in mind. Long Night is not required to play the core game. The core game gets mostly replaced with the Long Night. If you have to choose between one or the other, I would grab the Long Night first, as it includes more than the original. The original survivors are still very playable in the expansion, as are all of the other cards. you can include 18 or 19 of the survivors from the expansion to the original without any trouble, the other two require elements from the Long Night to take advantage their abilities. Also, don't ebay the special release characters for $20 each, Plaid Hat lists them on their website at a reasonable price. One more thing the Expansion has over the original, the cardstock / paper stock cutouts for the areas you explore during the game have been replaced with high quality, thick, game board material. Plaid Hat, you guys hit the ball outa the park on this one. I laminated my old ones, and I'll probably do it with the new thick cutouts, but It's definitely not necessary. Dead of winter has replaced Last Night on Earth as our default Zombie game, and the game play is different enough that we still play Last Night on Earth also.

## Features

- EXPAND YOUR SURVIVAL: Dive into the chilling world of Dead of Winter: The Long Night, a standalone expansion that introduces the eerie Raxxon location, teeming with sinister experiments threatening to spill into the town.
- NEW COLONY, NEW SURVIVORS: Face fresh challenges as you lead your survivors in a new colony location against a host of menacing adversaries. Will you endure raids from rival colonies and confront the mysteries of Raxxon?
- RAXXON UNLEASHED: Delve deep into the heart of the Raxxon pharmaceutical facility to uncover potent items, but beware – unleashing more formidable enemies is a risk you must take to survive.
- COLONY UPGRADES: Upgrade your colony's defenses and strategies to fortify your chances against the relentless undead horde. Strategize and adapt to the evolving threats.
- MIX AND MATCH: Enhance gameplay variety by seamlessly integrating survivors and cards from the original Dead of Winter set, creating endless scenarios and narratives.

## Technical Specifications

| Specification | Value |
|---------------|-------|
| ASIN | B01DCIPU0G |
| Best Sellers Rank | #229,758 in Toys & Games ( See Top 100 in Toys & Games ) #3,608 in Dedicated Deck Card Games |
| Customer Reviews | 4.7 4.7 out of 5 stars (752) |
| Is Discontinued By Manufacturer | No |
| Item Weight | 4 pounds |
| Item model number | PH1001 |
| Language | English |
| Manufacturer | Plaid Hat |
| Manufacturer recommended age | 14 years and up |
| Product Dimensions | 11.6 x 2.84 x 11.6 inches |
| Release date | March 1, 2018 |

## Images

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ DOW is a great game - and what's not to love with adding mutant laboratories and marauders?
*by I***D on August 15, 2025*

This is a stand-alone expansion of the original Dead of Winter that adds additional complications and nemeses - a mutant laboratory and marauding raiders, and more opportunities for evildoing for exiled players. The stand alone could be played as the original, with new characters, crossroads, objectives, and crises It adds a few adult crossroads, packaged in plain brown paper envelope with warning label, which are quite fun & surprising but, yes, adult. Or you can play with the expansion locations and complications. So far, these extras are fun and seem to fit comfortably within the usual game-play time-frame without slowing things down. DoW is one of my favorite games so who needs extras when you are already overrun by zombies? But what's not to love with adding mutants and criminality? I recommend it with one caveat for other DOW veterans- You'll miss Sparky.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ What a great game. Basically
*by M***Z on September 11, 2016*

What a great game. Basically, Dead of winter is a mostly co-operative resource management game and a race against the clock. This is probably our favorite zombie game, definitely easier on the wallet than going 900 bucks into zombicide. Zombies are treated as a resource that needs to be managed, along with food, tools, weapons, helpless and useless mouths to feed, books, and medicine. The game is divided into 2 phases: each players independent turn, and the groups team phase. Every team phase will introduce a new "challenge," which is just a resource that must be gathered, and donated to the group pile, before all the players' individual turns are over. The group will have a main game goal, which everyone generally tries to accomplish, such as: kill so many zombies, keep people from starving for so long, save so many other survivors. On top of this main goal, each individual player has their own goal to accomplish, and some of them run counter to the main groups goal, a few of them are "betrayal" goals, which usually spell disaster for the main group. In order to win, players must defeat the board's countdown, manage group resources to accomplish the group's goals and challenges, and accomplish their own individual goal. The long night introduces a few new elements, which are mostly beneficial for the players: improvements for the base, additional areas to search, additional items for each area, and 20ish new survivors. On top of these new elements, the generic items have been updated to include additional abilities, and some tokens had reverse sides which turn barricades into explosive traps or useless survivors into unruly survivors for example. We play the snot out of this game. most scenarios generally take us 2ish hours to play through, setup takes 10-15 minutes. expect a little longer for your initial runthrough of the game. Couple great elements of this game : a zombie bite = a dead character and the chance to spread the bite. This is great, definitely adds to the survival horror feel, we appreciate this mechanic than those in games like zombicide or last night on earth, where you take multiple zombie bites to kill off a character. Crossroads cards add a semi roleplaying / storytelling element to the game. each individual player turn someone will draw a card, and check to see if it's circumstances are met. If they have been met, a story gets read, and usually the player who's turn it is usually gets to choose an option, sometimes good, sometimes simply less bad. The game manuals are very clearly written, and include a campaign types playthrough option, which is designed to introduce the newer elements to the expansion gradually (in the long night) or increase difficulty gradually and tell a story in the original game. Some things to keep in mind. Long Night is not required to play the core game. The core game gets mostly replaced with the Long Night. If you have to choose between one or the other, I would grab the Long Night first, as it includes more than the original. The original survivors are still very playable in the expansion, as are all of the other cards. you can include 18 or 19 of the survivors from the expansion to the original without any trouble, the other two require elements from the Long Night to take advantage their abilities. Also, don't ebay the special release characters for $20 each, Plaid Hat lists them on their website at a reasonable price. One more thing the Expansion has over the original, the cardstock / paper stock cutouts for the areas you explore during the game have been replaced with high quality, thick, game board material. Plaid Hat, you guys hit the ball outa the park on this one. I laminated my old ones, and I'll probably do it with the new thick cutouts, but It's definitely not necessary. Dead of winter has replaced Last Night on Earth as our default Zombie game, and the game play is different enough that we still play Last Night on Earth also.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ The Long Night is an excellent game. Thematically this game really capture the tension ...
*by K***N on August 6, 2017*

Dead of Winter: The Long Night is an excellent game. Thematically this game really capture the tension and uneasiness of not trusting your fellow survivors just like the original Dead of Winter did. If you have played the original, you'll be familiar with this game, as it takes what works about the original game and improves little areas and adds a few new mechanics. The game comes with all new survivors, crossroads cards, and standees for both the survivors and zombies along with some new cards in the various decks. The new characters all feel fresh and many of them get to use some of the new mechanics, such as laying mines that blow up and kill zombies instead of just regular barricades. There are several optional modules that you can add in, such as base improvements, a band of scavengers that can attack you, and a research facility with special infected that are more dangerous and deadly than the normal zombie but that also offers many powerful items. There are missions that incorporate these new mechanics into them as well. Overall, the quality of this game and the pieces is great! If you have never played Dead of Winter before, this is definitely the copy to get. If you have the original and are wanting to add some more variety and also improve some of the components from the base game, it is worth it to get this game. I've heard there is another expansion that's coming that will allow you to play as two warring colonies if you have both sets, so it could be worth having both!

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