Right now the game is just a collection of assets and a vague game structure, It plays like a proof of concept. Just about everything is off gameplay-wise. It's not ready for even early access. The price point (this early on) worries me for this type of game, I suspect the developer will stall out before it becomes a good game. If they don't stall out it will take years to complete.

Wait a year or 3 to see how it develops, don't buy it yet unless you want to support the dev. It's got a lot of work to do.

Keep in mind this is probably a one man project and will take some time. If the dev keeps working on it i can see it being a decent, cheap, solo survival game.

Edit: Be very wary, this game has had more free key give aways than updates.

So far so good.

I will continue to add to the below review as I play.

I have played about about 10 hrs so far and like what I see so far....

View game play here: https://www.twitch.tv/dthem_2000

My Review:

Pros:
- Fun (and smooth) Game Play
- Inexpensive
- Nice Game Concept
- The look of the game on epic setting

Cons: (I have several however, some impact the game experience more than others).
The ones below with an * indicate items that in my opinion should be addressed as soon as possible:

- Male only player available
- Random game crashes *
- Unable to turn off alarm when generator is out of fuel *
- Unable to repair car *
- Unable to add gas that is found in the world to the generator *
- Only 1 gas spawn
- Unable to unload/store ammo
- Unable to siphon gas from abandoned cars
- Robots/AI/Zeds don't drop items that can be picked up (except for alien tech) *
- No multi player *
- Lots of unused areas on map
- Stamina recharge is to slow *
- Zed noise is bad (sounds like a sick dog) *
- Player does not drop gear upon death *
- The AI/Bots hardly ever miss a shot
- No hot bar *
- Walking speed is a bit slow
- Need bigger storage in bunker or way to craft more
- Can't move while aiming in crouched position *
- Always daytime *
- The car slips and slides around on the road to much (like its on ice) *
- Player seems to be stuck for a second or two after fighting a zed with melee *

Bugs:
- Unable to free look after looking at map while in car *
- When in a tight space (like a house) in first person view the movement is not smooth *
- How to craft bio-fuel with no power in bunker?*
- How to drop items from backpack/storage? *
- Headlamp does not shin in all directions being looked at
- Remove generator out of gas message from view when not in bunker *
- Unable to free look when walking/running
- Dead AI/Zeds/dropped guns can be kicked and moved long distances *
- Unable (most of the time) to pull only one zed from group and fight them alone *
- All cars should have the ability (may or may not have loot) to be looted
- Picking up items (zombie skin sample after kill) is wonky, have to re-position
- Land mind placement (press T) don't work sometimes *
- Zeds get stuck on school steps
- Player moves fwd when standing still and using melee *

Again, I like the game and realize its an early release game and is to be expected to have some issues. Overall, I like the game and think for the money its worth it. I can't wait to see where it goes in the future and wish it (and the Dev's) all the best!

Thanks,

Way too BETA to be enjoyable at this time. Hopefully this game will be further developed. Reminds me of MIST. Too many bugs and not enough game to become invested with. Really tried hard to enjoy the content...

* Note: Game was received for free by the developer, but has no impact on my score or opinions of the game *

This game is very reliant on assets purchased from the Unreal asset store, and lacks enough actual developer created content. I honestly wouldn't even call this a game yet as of launch day in early access, but rather a mash together of unreal assets into a big open plane.

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The developer had the link to my video review of this game removed.. so they don't like that I pointed out faults in their game. Hmmm. You can find my video review by simply searching "Zaxtor99 MISS 71" on the youtube search bar (copy & paste whats in the quotes)
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Let's talk about what you'll likely experience if you purchase this game as of November 2019..

- Impressive graphics - The game uses the Unreal engine and nice looking assets purchased from the Unreal store, including houses, trees, rocks, plants, zombies, apocalypse beaten and over-turned cars etc. While everything you'll see in this game is just a purchased asset, the developer has purchased assets that are cohesive with each other and placed them onto a map of rolling hills well to create a nice overall look.

- Good, not great audio: Some of the ambient sounds are the best, while other sound effects like the growls of the aliens sound like annoying generic zombie growls that make the game sound like a just cheap zombie asset mash together. Hmmmm...

- Responsive movement of your character that is hampered by awkward turning, and feels too slow when walking, but too fast when running especially inside buildings. You cannot make any moves that aren't included in your character models default movement script (such as getting into a prone position or leaning left or right). Also the default movement as of launch will not allow you to turn 180 degrees around on the spot, but instead will automatically loop your model in a box reverse turn movement that makes controlling your character inside buildings frustrating and awkward to watch.

- What would look like an immersive world of nice looking assets is cheapened by tons of text graffiti attempting to explain what almost every item is all the time with no way to turn it off. Ugh. If nothing else, this right here is a "no go" for me as I absolutely hate it. Seeing long paragraphs of text on objects all over the game, especially in your home shelter is just "ugly" and removes any immersion I might feel completely. I don't need to see a paragraph on the generator explaining how the fuel works or that the gas mask requires a filter that needs monitored 100% of the time. Just eww.

- Melee combat looks "cool" the first few times you hit an enemy, but gets very repetitive with the exact same motions over and over and over and over. Zzzzz. Why can't we at least see or do different movements sometimes, even if it's randomly chosen just to alter it up sometimes? Imaging watching a wrestling match where two wrestlers just do the exact same attack over and over and over and over and over and over the whole match and you'll understand my complaint here better I think. Perhaps the problem is the character models look too good to see this simplistic of attack animations repeatedly?

- Car handling is terrible to say the least. I'm not driving on ice, so why am I sliding all over the place all the time? ..Likely the culprit here is that the developers again are just leaving default control mechanics and code "as is" from their purchased asset with no work done to it what-so-ever. The result is car handling that makes me feel like the developer is just lazy and doesn't care about his game or how it controls, period.

- Character models feel gigantic inside houses and buildings. Again, likely the result of the developer just buying assets and dropping them in world without care being taken to make sure that the sizes of the models are appropriate for house and building assets purchased. The awkward character movement described earlier also amplifies this problem.

- Quest and Journal tasks are just simple "Go to point A" or "Go find this item" objectives that offer no real reason for doing them and seem to have no time limit or priority based on the urgency. This makes the game feel like an empty world full of mundane tasks to complete.. or not complete. ..I mean who cares right? It doesn't really matter with no sense of urgency and no real reasons for what you are doing being explained. If the game doesn't give me a real reason to care, why should I? ..Honestly, I'd rather go play a 2D game where I feel like what I am doing is 100 times more important and where I feel rewarded for the tasks that I do complete. But maybe that's just me.

- For all the vitriol the handful of fans seem to have over this game and my negative review, you'd think this was the apocalypse game of all apocalypse games ever made. (My review was the first negative review of this game when 15 positive reviews were all raving about how amazing it is. To understand the 'vitriol' I speak of, just look at the comments under this review where 35 of them were left in only about 12 hours after I first wrote this review)

This game offers a little hope in that if the developers put a lot of work into it that it could become a decent single player survival game. However, from what I've seen and played of the game, it really just feels like a rushed mess of Unreal assets placed onto a map with no real story, no direction or purpose, and too little care for the player's level of immersion or fun.

Graphics don't make a game great, and this game is a perfect example of that. Project Zomboid here on Steam launched many years ago and offers at least 100 times the depth and feeling of immersion that this game does. It's just a much better game period, despite not having nearly as pretty of graphics. The same can be said for at least a hundred other Steam games that fit this similar apocalypse survival mold and leave this mess of Unreal purchased assets looking like nothing but a gaudy gimmick here on Steam.

MY VERDICT: NOT RECOMMENDED. - Let's see that the developer cares enough and shows the ability to create content and purpose in this game that he can't just buy on the Unreal Marketplace. Once that is shown, perhaps I can change my mind, but until then, this game is just what I call an A.R.S.M. (Asset Reliant Sloppy Mess) completely void of any meaningful content and real purpose.

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Here's Just A Few Of The Unreal Marketplace Assets That Make Up This "ARSM" Game:

*** Note: The developer again is so scared of being exposed for making a near-zero-effort mash together of Unreal Marketplace assets with no substance that he cried out and asked Steam to remove my links to these assets that I linked below. You can find all of these links however under my video review of his game.
To find my video & links, just search "Zaxtor99 MISS 71" on Youtube.

Player character model asset:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/classic-male-hero

Female Zombie model asset:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/zombie-female

Other Zombie model assets seen in game:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/zombie-pack-v1

Zombie kid asset pack:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/zombie-boy

Bomb Shelter (Your Home Base) asset pack:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/nuclear-bomb-shelter

House pack asset pack:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/realistic-house-kit

Barn asset:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/old-west-modular-barn

School asset:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/hq-abandoned-school-modular

Gas Station asset:
https://www.unrealengine.com/marketplace/en-US/slug/desert-gas-station

So far the game is great for sp game so yes no co op and no mp and its not needed in every game so thank you devs for not wasting time recources sticken to your vision of sp story driven game world .

now the game its fun its open world story driven explore collect craft survive and it is done , well first unlike most games at this stage no crashing not one nothing at all and for bugs only few i found and they were all minor nothing game ending or lose stuff just cant pick up a piece of cloth the game for me is very very stable and runs perfect with a xbox one controller no issues at all on that end .
my only gripe is no explaining nothing i have no clue how to get gas for my car or what generator and stuff in my base do or need yet (example it says keep a eye on generator as quest WTF) . the game is worth every penny so far and if you like exploring collecting materials and stuff then its got you covered. so its zombies and no i have not had enough zombies i love them so million more games like this and i am happy but it also has aliens wtf lol hell ya its crazy world i just started but as it goes now i plan on staying for long haul this is one of better EA games i have ever bought and highly recomend it if you are tired of survival forced MP like day z this game is great example of those games done for SP fans its truly something i always wanted and never new i wanted until i played this game so to devs thank you

I can't recommend this in its current state (as of July 5, 2020). I like where it seems to be headed but it's too early in the development cycle for me. It's also got nausea inducing movement, especially when driving the car, and I just can't deal with that.

I've requested a refund for this game since the 30 minutes I played was enough to see it's not far enough along for my liking, and because I still feel ill 20 minutes later due to the character movement, driving, lighting, and a few camera issues.

Sadly despite an interesting concept and some decent animation, character models, and an overall okay look to the game I didn't really see anything that made me want to keep going in the time I played.

I know that the developer is working hard, and mostly alone, on this game. I think it could improve drastically but it may take a long time to get where it needs to be since they're basically solo. I hope they succeed, but at this time Invasion 2037 is just not for me.

Gameplay not very good.
Getting items on ground is not easy.
Your base is already done at start, no way to build your own custom base.

This could be a great game. However it needs alot of work still.
lags car is still unstable.
Needs more space.
Needs building system not just crafting items.
Needs trucks and suvs with storage space.
Car needs storage space cant use the trunk which makes no sense.
There is plenty that still needs to be done in this game.
Police suv should have been made a working one.
So at this point I can't recommend this game.
Requesting a refund.

Though i enjoyed the game the main character (you) are at a crazy disadvantage! First you have to run around collecting very little hardware while avoiding zombies, aliens and tribes men that are better equip and more of. Then if that wasn't enough you are only left with a magnum and little maneuverability when in battle (forced or not). Aiming down the sight leaves you open and you can't fix your armor on the fly. The enemies go down after three shots but a magnum compared to a full AR or railgun (that's what i think they had i didn't want to get close to find out) doesn't leave you with a slimmer of hope. The two recordings i did on my youtube channel shows how much of a disadvantage you are in. i hope future updates will allow the player to be in a better situation than they are now.