After a few playtests, we've all come to one common agreement...the game isn't working.

Why?

There are two very opposing forces at work here...threats and humans.

Originally, I had multiple parties of survivors versus the zombie hoard, and the game runs very well as a single player game...but this is where the problem lies.

Sure, I had certain cards that would allow you to steal resources, switch survivors, and basically give you the choice to either help yourself or hurt another party...but overall, there's still very little interaction between players, and it still seems like it's several seperate versions of the same game going on with an occasional run-in here and there.

Therefore, to fix this issue, we've all decided...the game must change...again.

I'm open for suggestions.

What we've got so far is that there should be one party of survivors, and another player should take the role of the zombie threats...which would work with a few adjustments, but still...zombies won't have the ability to use weapons, items, etc..., and this would make it pretty boring for the bad guy. (this would also work as I roll out alternate threat decks, like vampires and werewolves, which would allow someone to play as the survivors, someone as zombies, someone as vampires, and so on. obviously, in this mode of play, if a zombie kills a human, they receive more zombies, which also works alternatively with vampires, werewolves, ghosts, etc...

so the humans fight to survive, and the threats fight to kill them. i'm thinking i need to redesign a set gameboard and use colored tokens to depict areas of the map that your race owns, and have it work out somehow so that you battle to gain ground, which, for the humans, gives them resources, and for the threats, give them more threats.

Again, I'm looking for suggestions here. Care to help?