Overview
At a glance
Is this game right for my group?
ABG editorial scores on a 1–5 scale.
Harder to teach
High replayability
Highly interactive
Scales well
Light strategy
Luck-sensitive
How it plays
How does it play?
Guide a band of survivors across a ruined America, resolve story chapters, and keep everyone alive long enough to reach Jackson.
Core mechanisms
Key systems that shape the decisions players make.
Cooperative Game
Players coordinate their actions toward a shared objective and win or lose together.
Dice Rolling
Roll dice to introduce uncertainty into actions, production, movement, or resolution.
Narrative Choices
Choose between story options that lead to different passages and consequences.
Area Movement
Move pieces between connected regions rather than along individual spaces.
Move Through Deck
Progress through an ordered deck that represents position, time, or distance.
Read the full game description
The Last of Us: Escape the Dark adapts Themeborne’s narrative adventure system to the post-pandemic world of The Last of Us. One to five players begin in a quarantine zone and plot a route toward the reputed safety of Jackson. Each location reveals illustrated Chapter cards with choices, hazards, discoveries, and hostile encounters. Survivors roll character dice, equip weapons and useful items, share scarce resources, and decide when a dangerous detour is worth the risk. Hunters, FEDRA agents, and the Infected can quickly turn an imperfect plan into a desperate fight, so the group must coordinate every decision and keep all survivors alive to complete the journey.
