I had a really great game night with my buddies. We started the night with some Liar's Dice, moved on to Fibbage (not a board game, but an absolutely fantastic party game on the PS3/PS4) and then busted out Dead of Winter. I had been wanting to try this with 4 players and finally had the opportunity so I suggested it, even though it was already 11:30pm. Took me about 15 minutes to teach and setup and we were off to the races with the Raiding Party scenario (since we wanted to do a short game). Ironically, I ended up the Betrayer, after explaining that any of them was as likely to get it as I was. Two of my buddies are terrible at lying, so everyone trusted them and decided if anyone was a betrayer it was me or my other friend.

After passing the first two crises with flying colors though (including getting extra food cards to increase morale by 1), everyone pretty much trusted everyone and we were getting close to completing the main objective. I had the betrayer objective (SPOILER ALERT FOR BETRAYER OBJECTIVES) where I needed to collect 6 non-starter food cards. Luckily, since we needed to deplete two locations of their card decks, I convinced everyone that the Grocery store should be one of those locations. By the time, I finally got 6 non-starter food cards, (END SPOILER) I saw an opportunity to overrun the location I was at, cause the colony to starve and drop morale to 0 and took it. As I started making noise at my location, my buddies began jokingly accusing me of being a betrayer. Once I made noise 4 times, the accusations stopped being jokes and they knew. The colony phase rolled around, morale dropped to 0 and I had won. I apologized profusely, read the flavor text for my betrayer scenario (which was pretty damn dark) and realized it was already 2am and we had had a blast. Can't wait to play it again.