A digital survival-horror board game of desperate survivors and endless infected.
Eight hours. One house. Endless dead.
I built 8 Hours Till Dawn because I wanted to play a co-op game that felt like you and your friends were actually inside your favorite 1968 zombie-trapped-in-a-house movie. Not the heroes who figure it all out, but real people making desperate choices in the dark, hoping the next decision is not their last.
You and up to five friends are trapped. The dead are surrounding the house. The sun will not rise for eight hours. Everything you do between now and dawn is the difference between escape and becoming part of the horde.
Each in-game hour is a timed planning phase. The clock gives you the same amount of time every round, but as the night goes on, the decisions stack up, the horde keeps growing, and the weight of every choice gets heavier. Panic is not a side effect of this game. Panic is the point.
Build Your Survivor
Every survivor in 8 Hours Till Dawn is unique. Choose from a roster of premade characters, each with their own strengths and weaknesses, or build your own from scratch. Mix and match different survivor features, pick your favorite hat, Choose a set of survivor traits, to create exactly the survivor you want to bring into the night.
What Will Be Available at Launch
Base Game
Pure survival horror. You and your team are in the house, the dead are at every door and window, and you have eight hours to hold it together until dawn. This is where the atmosphere hits hardest and where every wrong decision costs someone everything.
Barricade Add-On
Included at launch. This one changes the feel completely. You are not just surviving now, you are fortifying. It plays like the co-op zombie experience you have probably been playing since the late 2000s. Hold the line, fight back the wave, and pray the barricades hold until morning.
Coming in Free Future Updates
Bigger, Badder, Weapons and Survivors
Each expansion and add-on will add a small amount of weapons and survivors.
Eventually you will be able to customize what weapons you want to play with. Once that is live even more weapons and survivors will be added with that update so you can customize your experience even more!
Mall Expansion
This shifts the whole game into something that feels closer to a co-op zombie shooter in board game form. Open spaces, resource runs, and a horde that never gives you a single breath. If you have ever wanted to run through a zombie-infested mall with your friends as a board game, this is it.
The Full Legacy Experience
When you play the base game, the mall expansion, and all add-ons together, everything transforms into something much deeper. A mini-game bridges the two scenarios and carries you from one into the other. The ruleset shifts so that every player has their own win and loss conditions instead of the all-or-nothing co-op of the base game. Characters can die permanently and stay dead across sessions. What you lose one night, you wake up without the next. It is the full story told across multiple playthroughs, and it is the experience I am most excited for people to finally get to.
Game Modes
Story Mode
Eight hours. Survive until the sun comes up and escape into the morning light while you still can.
Endless Mode
The sun never rises. The horde never stops growing. You and your friends just keep going until you cannot anymore. No win condition. No rescue coming. Just you, your team, and an ever-increasing horde. See how long you last.
Features
1 to 6 players: with full single player support in variant rules
Online co-op: with open voice chat built in
Timed planning phases: that build real tension as the night goes on
Premade and fully custom survivors: with unique strength and weakness combinations
RNG-driven gameplay: that ensures no two nights ever play the same way
Multiple variant modes: Story Mode and Endless Mode
Expanding universe of free content: including future expansions and add-ons at no extra cost
Pixel art style: built to feel like a classic brought to life
I designed this as a four player game. It runs great anywhere from solo to six survivors, but four is the sweet spot the game was built around.
8 Hours Till Dawn is developed by Junkshop Games. Every future expansion and add-on will be delivered as a free update to all owners. One purchase. Every nightmare. Forever.