EM Disaster Gaming tabletop game
CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE
Natural Hazards
Face fast-moving hazards where condition and consequences can change without warning. Wildfire Mayhem and STORMHAVEN: Maw of Zephyros challenge players to manage uncertainty, limited resources, escalating impacts, and difficult response decisions.
Public Health
From The Outbreak Floor to Boil Order, explore games and simulations that put players inside complex public health emergencies involving outbreaks, community health threats, interagency coordination, and high-stakes response decisions.
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Infrastructure
Keep critical systems operating when disruption strikes. Dark Current, Silent Intercept, Dead Reckoning, The Severance Protocol, Boil Order, Train Derailment, and Hell’s Highway challenge players to confront cascading failures, infrastructure interdependencies, and competing operational priorities.
Supply Chain
What happens when the systems that move critical goods stop working? Dead Reckoning, The Severance Protocol, Train Derailment, and Hell’s Highway explore shortages, transportation disruptions, bottlenecks, competing demands, and cascading supply-chain consequences.
Crisis Communication
When the pressure is on, every message matters. Empathy Cue, The Outbreak Floor, Boil Order, Dead Reckoning, Silent Intercept, Dark Current, and The Severance Protocol challenge players to navigate public trust, misinformation, media pressure, stakeholder demands, and incomplete information.
Leadership & Decision-Making
Step into the decision-maker’s seat. Crisis Command, Hell’s Highway, Complex Coordinated Attack 8, Wildfire Mayhem, STORMHAVEN, Special Event Madness, Drone Swarm, and Train Derailment put players under pressure to make consequential decisions with limited information, competing priorities, and evolving conditions.
CHOOSE YOUR CHALLENGE
Natural Hazards
Public Health
Infrastructure
Supply Chain
Crisis Communication
Leadership & Decision-Making
The experience

Games Are Meant to Be Played

Our games are designed to put people around the table, working through uncertainty, consequences, and difficult decisions together.
How We Play

How the game unfolds.

EMDG games use real-world scenarios, evidence-based content, and interactive mechanics. Decisions change what happens next, requiring players to continually reassess and adapt.

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Scenario

Players enter a realistic emergency or operational problem.
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Decisions

Teams decide what to prioritize, communicate, allocate, or sacrifice.
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Chance

Uncertainty enters through probability, game mechanics, and changing conditions.
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Consequences

Decisions alter what happens next, including intended and unintended outcomes.
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Adaptation

Players respond to the evolving situation, reassess, and make their next decisions.