Zombicide: Invader

Setting up Zombicide: Invader involves assembling modular floor tiles to construct the sci-fi base map layout as specified by the chosen mission. Players distribute survivor dashboards, plastic miniatures, weapons, equipment cards, and tokens into designated areas. Enemy figures and spawn markers are organized nearby for quick access during gameplay, ensuring everything is primed for an action-packed cooperative session.

The main objective varies per mission, requiring survivors to accomplish goals such as rescuing scientists, securing key rooms, or escaping through designated zones. Players must work together strategically to complete these tasks while surviving relentless hordes of xenos organisms that constantly threaten to overwhelm their position on the hostile planet's surface.

Turns are split into player and enemy phases. During the player phase, each survivor spends actions on movement, combat, searching, or interacting with objectives. The enemy phase follows, where xenos miniatures activate to attack adjacent targets or move toward noise tokens, followed by spawn cards revealing new threats on the board.

Players earn experience points by eliminating enemy xenos miniatures. Reaching specific experience thresholds increases a survivor's danger level from blue to yellow, orange, and red, unlocking new skills and actions that make them more powerful while simultaneously scaling up the difficulty of enemy spawns.

The game concludes immediately when all mission objectives are successfully accomplished, resulting in a joint victory for the players. Conversely, the game ends in defeat if any survivor is eliminated under specific campaign conditions or if the mission timer runs out, representing a total base overrun.