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Im downvoting this game for a very specific reason.

As far as VR games goes this one is probably up there with the best. And as far as the gameplay goes this game has all the ingredients for a game I should love. Stealth, survival, resource management, crafting and an intense atmosphere are all things that makes a great game for me personally.

But there was one aspect that just completely ruined the fun for me.

When you kill a zombie in this game and walk 15 meters away, the zombie will literally respawn right where you just killed it. The game doesnt even try to hide the fact that it does, because sometimes when you turn your camera around you can see zombies just pop into existence from nothing. When I play stealth games with a survival aspect and resource management I like to be slow and methodical in my approach. Like for example I like to completely clear an area of enemies before I reward myself with looting in peace. But I cant do that in this game. I will walk into a house and walk down a hallway killing all the zombies in it, but when I reach the room at the end of the hallway and start looting I will immediatly start hearing growling behind me and the exact same zombies I just killed have respawned and are coming to get me. Like i just wish I could walk into a house, lock the door behind me, clear every room of zombies and just loot in peace, but no... Im completely fine with zombies respawning when you leave and re-enter a map. The fact that zombies could respawn when you are at home sleeping makes total sense. But the ridiculous respawn system when you are in a map trying to loot just completely ruined the game for me.

Also I wish there was abit more reason to actually kill the zombies. Even though its one of the most satisfying things ive done in a VR game just because of how good the melee system feels in this game, eventually you just realise that the zombies are just there to grind down your equipment with no reward whatsoever. This game would have been so much better with a level and xp system or of the zombies actually carried some loot in their pockets etc. If im going to grind down my newly acquired weapon that it took me a couple of hours to grind materials for, then atleast give me something in return. But thats just my opinion.

Jest jeden bardzo poważy minus: gra rzadko się zapisuje. Straciłem przez to ponad pół godzinny progres. Niestety dla mnie takie coś jest niedopuszczalne.

I had read a lot of good things about this game, and I wanted to like it, but I just couldn't. I'm not saying that people's praise is invalid, I just have a different perspective and as such also a different experience.

First off, let me start with the good things:
The world: this game initially had me hooked as they did a lot right with making you feel like a survivor scavenging through walker-infested neighbourhoods and sometimes coming upon a few survivors who need your help, whether it be for supplies or a task.
It's a dynamic world and they got it right.

Melee combat: At first it takes a little bit getting used to, but not too much. Cutting through a walker's skull isn't based on how fast or hard you slash, but how wide your swing is, and I didn't quite get it at first until the hint for it popped up, since then I've consistently had no issues with this.

Visuals: The animations are what you'd expect of a VR game, they're not great but they're also not terrible. They're about what you'd expect from a videogame (as opposed to realism).
Zombies are still moving their jaws after you cut their heads off, as true to the canon of The Walking Dead that they don't die unless the brain is destroyed, despite decapitation (whether this is consistent in the comics or TV show is another matter).

Now, for the bad:

Stamina: I'm not against a game having a stamina system for realistic effect, as endlessly playing Beat Saber with the zombies would trivialize them too much.
However, in this game, the stamina bar is so low, that even with the upgraded stamina bar and less stamina used during melee combat, you can take on the equivalent of 4 walkers or running down 1 block before your character gets so tired he forgets how to hold a knife.
This is incredibly anti-fun especially later on in the game where running into 4 walkers is extremely common.
As a user on the Steam Discussions forum said, you feel like a 45 year old chain smoker with asthma.

Health: It's not as bad as Stamina, but you run into certain walkers that when you kill them, your health bar drains unrecoverably unless you are carrying medicine. These walkers increase in quantity the further you get and medicine reduces in quantity, so the only option you have is to learn how to craft it, which you won't be able to unless you are selectively targeting it early on and ignoring everything else for a while. 3 kills and your health bar is at half capacity.

Crafting: This is kind of a double edged blade. The crafting system in this game is surprisingly satisfying (there's even a bat for you Negan boys out there), but the materials is where the game falls short.
As days pass, the available materials to scavenge will be reduced dramatically but as the amount of walkers increases, you will be a starved mess unless you scavenge all the right things early on and are set for a while.
It makes sense, because the longer time passes, the more people turn, and the more people loot places, hence more zombies and less supplies. But in practice it makes it feel like you're rushing to complete the game and you're not given a lot of time to wander around exploring the world at your own pace.

Durability: It's okay for some things to have durability. Knives should break, bottles should have limited uses, etc. But when was the last time you fired a bow and it shattered in your hand? I'm fine with guns breaking after a while, but I feel like I should be able to get off more than 2 full chambers before it blows up in my hand. Did Eugene manufacture these bullets?

PS: Sorry for my formatting, I'm not good at these things. If you have bought, or have decided to buy, I hope you have a better experience than me. I unfortunately have exhausted my enjoyment of this game.

PPS: I don't know if anyone else has this, but I've got consistent issues with height in this game. When I first started, I was tiny and my menu was appearing under the ground (even in real life) so it was incredibly difficult to navigate. As of lately, my menu is fine, but i'm hovering a meter above the ground. Regardless of HMD Height setting.

Please add manual save cause it's really iritating to repeat same mission again and again.

TL DR: nie jest źle ale tylko ze względu na fakt ze VR jest w ♥♥♥♥♥ i gracze cieszą się że maja cokolwiek :(... W momencie pisania recenzji nie ukończyłem jeszcze gry i wsm to nwm czy ją ukończę...bo gra robi się bardzo repetetywna i nie ma praktycznie żadnych wyzwań
Grafika: wygląda to oklej... nie jest to poziom np. HL:Alyx ale tez nie jest źle
Wydajność: na r5 3600x+32GB+3070Ti+Reverb G2 wydajność jest dobra na maksymalnych ustawieniach za co (niestety... to powinna być norma przy takim sprzęcie) duży plus
Fabuła: jest cos ale mnie jakoś nie porwała
Lokacje: nie duże (a niektóre wręcz małe) w ktr zachodzi bardzo mało zmian (zazwyczaj pojawiają/znikają npc)
Gameplay/loop: no i tu jest cały pies pogrzebany... Gra wymaga byśmy opuszczali kryjówkę poprzez wypłyniecie do jednej (na dzień) z kilku lokacji gdzie czasem nie potrzebujemy nowych surowców (bo to jest główny cel by się tam wybierać – poza wątkiem głównym) a jedynie pominąć czas jako że misje z wątku fabularnego zazwyczaj mają zadania w stylu "zrobiłeś X to teraz poczekaj aż Y się odezwie" i to czasem jest jeden dzień a czasem kilka.
* npc po zabiciu w większości przypadków upuszczają zepsuta bron... mimo tego że jeszcze przed chwila do nas z niej strzelali a jak już upuszczą działająca to ta zawsze jest na tyle uszkodzona że wystrzeli może 4-6 pocisków (ale to w celu balansu i położenia nacisku na 'crafting')
* tylko dwa poziomy trudności (standard i fabularny... boże już serio jesteśmy takie płatki śniegu że określenie łatwy wam przeszkadza...) gdzie standard nie jest trudny ale to raczej wynika z tragicznego AI npc'ow
* skalowanie poziomu trudności (?) a przynajmniej na to wskazuje komunikat gdy kończymy dzień - mianowicie zmniejsza się ilość dostępnego lootu a rośnie ilość zmobie (można to kontrować wykonując pewna czynność i zdobywając pewne informacje ale to pozostawiam tym ktr chcą zagrać bo jest to nawet spoko mechanika)
+ swobodne poruszanie z możliwością wspinania się zarówno po wyznaczonych obiektach (np. rynny, drabiny) jak i po prostu wciągnięcia się na np. samochód
+ fizyczność użytkowania przedmiotów i otoczenia - konieczność faktycznego zabandażowania ręki, możliwość podniesienia przedmiotów i rzucania nimi w przeciwników by zrobić im krzywdę lub zwrócić ich uwagę
+ interakcje z npc i mam tu na myśli zarówno możliwość rozmawiania w celu otrzymania questa jak i fakt że jak ich dotkniemy/podejdziemy zbyt blisko/wycelujemy w nich bron to na to zareagują
+ widoczne obrażenia po trafieniu bronią na ciałach zabitych (np. ubytki w czaszce po trafieniu siekiera) czy tez możliwość rozczłonkowywania ale...
- takowa zabawa jest ograniczona bo jak np. chcemy uciąć maczeta głowę zombie to trzeba go kilka razy ciapnąć gdzie pierwszy już go zabije i mimo że już nie stanowi ani zagrożenia ani nie jest w żaden sposób istotny to każdy następny cios będzie uszkadzał bron (imo bez sensu bo nic nie wnosi poza ograniczaniem zabawy)
- bronie są z guwnolitu bo np. luk się rozpada po ~15-20 strzałach i inne bronie podobnie...
- strzelnica do trenowania strzelania (m.in. z luku ktr tam możemy znaleźć) nie posiada jakiejś specjalnej 'aury' ktr by sprawiła że broń i ammo się nie będą zużywać co jest o tyle dziwne bo ten obszar bazy nie zużywa staminy podczas biegania/machania
- część broni mimo że jest na wyższym poziomie craftingu to nie wydaje się być żadnym ulepszeniem (szczególnie pistolety/karabiny 'leaver'/'bolt action) bo i tak wymagają dużo strzałów w tułów a zabijają na hita w głowę (z nożami jest podobnie bo można mieć kose (shiv) ktra bez żadnego problemu zabija zombiaki a dwa poziomy wyżej można wycraftowac maczetę ktr tez w cale nic nie zmienia poza tym że można nią tylko 'ciąć' a nie 'nabijać' a zaś wytrzymałość jest raczej taka sama... za mała)
- crafting czyli poniekąd nasze drzewko umiejętności jest ale tez ma swoje głupoty jak chociażby to ze jeden poziom umożliwia nam craftowanie broni a dopiero na następnym dostajemy możliwość craftowania do niego ammo
- brak możliwości naprawy przedmiotów (nawet broni palnej)
- OGROMNY MINUS... postać jest astmatykiem z jednym płucem zaatakowanym przez raka a drugim po prostu nie istniejąc... nie dość że meczymy się szybko i to bardzo to jeszcze zęby tego było mało stamina regeneruje się wolno i gdy się zużyje to poruszamy się BARDZO... ale to na prawdę BARDZO powoli (można ulepszyć stacje craftigowa surwiwalu by zwiększyć ilość staminy o ~25%)
- zombie respia się dosłownie 3-5m od gracza gdy ten nie patrzy w danym kierunku (jest to szczególnie widoczne na mapach z duża ilością npc co zapewne jest po to by nie wykorzystać ich do wyczyszczenia mapy z zombie) po minucie może kilku
- kolejna OGROMNA WADA AI npc'ow jest kompletnie do ♥♥♥♥!!! możesz zabić z luku jednego npc strzałem w głowę a drugi ktr stoi dosłownie obok niego (~0.5-1m) nawet się nie zająknie... a nawet gdy zaczniesz strzelać strzeblą w ich bazie to atakować cię będą tylko najbliższe npc bo te co stoją ~15m dalej już nic nie słyszą... npc można wywabić rzucając cokolwiek co czasem sprawia ze potrafią wejść w swoje pułapki z drutu kolczastego i puszek (co prawdopodobnie nie zadaje im obrażeń ale rozbraja pułapki)... gdy npc wejdzie w ramach swojego 'patrolu' do pomieszczenia w ktrm stal jego kolega a teraz owy kolega leży bez głowy i my właśnie się schylamy po to co niego wypadło to... nic z tym nie zrobi a nawet czasem się do nas obróci plecami jakby chciał byśmy wbili mu kose w głowę

Koniec końców na chwile obecna ta gra jest 'okej' ale może za ~80zl bo można się tu pobawić jednak wynika to z faktu ze poza HL:Alyx nie ma dobrych gier na VR bo albo mamy małe produkcje ktr będą w ea wieki (albo póki ten pojedynczy dev jej nie porzuci) lub jakieś gnioty/starocie ktr są słabe albo tragiczne jakościowo

I feel a bit mixed about the game. I really think that VR needs a lot more story-focused and immersive games; and games like this should be experimenting and filling that role. VR is incredible tech and deserves to rise in mainstream popularity. However, having played this game AFTER playing Half-Life: Alyx I can say that this is a far less-enjoyable game.

Take my opinion lightly here because I've only invested about 5 hours into this game. However, I feel like the vast majority of those hours are frustrating and not fun. I don't enjoy battling the controls in my games and I don't enjoy the feeling of being pressured to play the game a certain way. This game makes me do both of those things. The controls and motions feel very "floaty" or "wobbly", that's the best way I can describe it. Long weapons like shotguns and rifles just sorta float around like pointing a big stick, even when two-handing them. Handguns feel similarly floaty, but much less so. Iron-sights aiming is pretty decent though and satisfying to line up a good headshot. Firearms have a satisfying sound and echo to their shots, though. I was impressed to fire off shots on the revolver and hear a realistically loud boom that echoed off all the surroundings. I dislike that to two-hand any weapons you have to squeeze BOTH controllers. Why can't I just rest my non-dominant hand against my dominant hand and the game KNOW that I want to two-hand the weapon?! Half-Life: Alyx does this perfectly. It also does weapon-switching and holstering about 1,000 times better. Maybe the developers were trying to create a more tense and immersive control scheme but I honestly just find it frustrating. I dropped my weapons too many times to count because I didn't "let go" in just the right spot and my revolver goes clattering to the ground without me noticing.

I can live with the floaty mechanics but the two things that really bother me about this game and turn me off is the timed pressure of the day/night cycle and the weapon degradation. The day/night cycle adds what I think is undue pressure to the game. I feel rushed to perform a certain mission in a certain amount of time, leaving me unable to explore the rest of the map and collect the resources that the game focuses it's gameplay loop around. One of the appeals of VR, to me, is exploration and taking surroundings in. This game pressures you to finish story critical missions in a set amount of time or be penalized. If you don't do the objective fast enough you won't have enough time to explore for crafting resources. I think that goes against the idea of immersive VR.

Weapon degradation is fine when it comes to melee weapons; I totally understand that a shiv should break after so many stabbings or killing a zombie with a spoon is a one-time thing. But who has ever had a revolver just blow up in their hand after 20 shots? Who has ever had a longbow just shatter after 10 arrows? And when non-zombie human enemies die they drop their weapons, but they're almost always "broken". They were firing it at me just seconds ago, but as soon as they drop their weapon it's completely toast. This is incredibly immersion-breaking and only serves to further the recycle-and-craft gameplay loop, not the actual story mechanics of the game.

Overall, I'll likely keep playing the game and trying to find the joy in it. But what I really think sums up my opinion is this thought. I realized I played the game for 3 hours and said to myself "Well, I can't get a refund now."

Unpopular opinion, but this game is overhyped. It's unpolished, with a great concept but shoddy execution. Here's a few points to take into consideration.

1. The UI is essentially non-existent unless you're running or eating food, and most of the time if you're in combat you'd barely have time to pull out a snickers bar to find out you're one shot away from death. Personally when I got into any serious fights, such as the first major human v human fight in the game, between the reclaimed and the tower, I died ridiculously easily and didn't even realise I was that close to dying. No visual indication of injury, and the UI didn't even show up to say 'Yeah, you have very low health, maybe try not to get shot'. So I poked my head over cover to shoot at the enemy, who headshot me with remarkable ease. Speaking of enemies and humans.

2. The AI. For the zombies, the AI is okay, but then again all the zombies have to do is walk towards you at a speed slower than you run but faster than you walk. Sometimes they can be absolutely braindead (which makes sense now that I think about it), but usually they're passable. Humans on the other hand, oh god the humans. Human enemies have all the intelligence of a lobotomised puppy. They have no sense of danger, but they're ridiculously good shots unless you run at a slight angle toward them, in which case they can't hit you at all.
One of the most memorable moments from this game is when I was fighting the Tower, probably not the smartest move as one man to take on around 7. First, I just threw an explosive canister at them, and they did nothing. Then I shot the canister, it exploded, killed 5 of them. The others did nothing. I walked directly up to them and they just told me to get out of their territory. I had to shoot them to get them to react. When it got to the actual human v human combat, it was a mix of laughably easy to annoyingly difficult, all within a time period of a few minutes. In wide open spaces, your best bet is to run at an angle toward a human enemy with a melee weapon and to bludgeon them to death. But indoors, the game starts to break down.

3. The graphics. Don't get me wrong, this game looks nice, and it runs nice enough whilst still looking good. When I say graphics, I mean characters glitching through the environment, items glitching through the environment, etc. In the previously mentioned tower fight, one human enemy got stuck in a wardrode, and he could shoot me, but I couldn't shoot him properly. I wasted so much ammo trying to hit him, and in the end had to run behind the wardrobe in order to stab him in the hand until he died. Another thing is that if you drop a box of cigarettes without closing it, then say goodbye to those cigarettes, because they've launched themselves into the next dimension at high speeds. These glitches are common, and they might be minor in some cases, but other times they just ruin the game. My final point, by the way, is

4. The gameplay. This game is boring, and I say that with such resentment for myself. The crafting system is simple and repetitive. You grab junk, you put it into a bin, and you somehow make a working revolver out of it. This has been done before in so many other mediocre survival games and the only reason people don't complain about it here is because it's a VR game. The combat is simple, it's literally every other FPS ever, but you sprinkle in a bit of stamina so that you can't fun forever from the horde of zombies. As long as you have two functioning hands and enough knives in your backpack the zombies are only as big of a threat as you make them. Humans are, as previously mentioned, incredibly stupid. The AI in this game is one of its biggest downfalls, and really needs to be fixed. Overall, the only reason this game is forgiven for its mistakes is because it's a VR game, it's something new, but new doesn't always mean it's good.

TL;DR - Boring game, terrible AI, only considered something NEW because it involves face toaster.

This game had a lot of potential to be amazing but my experience was hampered to hard by a few things.

Crafting:
I enjoy crafting weapons and making things as you progress, but the durability in this game was like grabbing a knife that was held together by hot glue. The guns felt like someone put black powder into a BB gun and expected it to hold. It makes me never want to fight things at the tedium of going out to find more weapons to fight with.
Breath of the Wild syndrome is the best way to describe it.

Enemy spawning:
Why can I not walk into a building, strategically clear out all the walkers then explore at my own pace? Nothing feels more pointless than clearing out a whole gym to have 16 more infected appear in there when you accidently walk outside. This goes back to weapon durability making fighting feels worthless.

Stamina and health:
This is the final straw when it comes to combat. I can understand someone getting tired from combat and needing to rest before engaging again, but when you can't run half a block before wheezing for 30 seconds or fight 3 infected before you act like you ran a marathon, it gets rather painful. Medicine is so scarce you spend the game with half your health most of the time, especially when some zombies lower your health just by dying next to you.

TL;DR A really fun zombie killing game is held back by tedious stamina and crafting mechanics, as well as a horrendous spawning system.

I really wanted to like this game.
Killing zombies is satisfying, New Orleans is a great setting and it's done pretty well, and at the beginning looting new stuff is fun. My first couple of hours into the game were amazing.

However, the overall experience I had killed the game for me and I'm really not driven to keep playing after I've beaten it, which was about 17-18 game days in.


In terms of responsiveness, the game is a hit or miss. There were many times that I went to brain a zombie with a knife or screwdriver and went to swing / stab, only to have my arm fly into the zombie's shoulder or around its head and get grabbed because of it, and thought "Wow, that was annoying." Some melee weapons feel great, but sometimes they just feel outright janky. I mainly used the Night Shift (big combat knife) for most of the game because it felt good to use and was the most responsive. Fun and satisfying when it works, annoying slog when it doesn't.


Ranged weapons suffer different problems. The bow and arrow felt really great to use after some getting-used to. Unfortunately, most other ranged weapons just felt really... off. The weight never felt correct for any two handed gun, felt like I was swinging around a barbell until I manage to latch on with my other hand. This made me want to avoid most two handed guns until I got my hands on an assault rifle or shotgun, and even then I found myself using the bow and arrow, knife, and pistols most often. Pistols took a little getting used too, but using them felt do-able.

EDIT: The hitbox for the bow and arrow is VERY generous. As long as the arrow comes close to the head, it will go into the head. I'm not too mad at this because I can see the developers not wanting to make using the bow too difficult, but it did feel much less satisfying landing shots when I noticed some shots that looked like they were going to miss but end up clipping into the head instead. You can also rapid fire arrows by just pulling the string back again, which makes the bow insanely powerful.

Enemy AI was minimal. For zombies, that's a no-brainer, it's understandable for them to have simple AI of running at the player when spotted. However, the enemy survivor AI also seems to adopt the "run directly at and try to kill the player with little concern of self preservation" tactic, as I found myself hiding around a corner of a car or building, making noise and waiting for each survivor to charge me and pick them off until moving on to the next group of enemies.

The story was also passable at first, but I couldn't get invested into any of the characters. Henri and Casey were cool I guess, everyone else was bland and forgettable. Additionally, the story was rushed towards the end as the story wraps itself up and all loose ends through somewhat anti-climactic and rapid missions. The two warring factions are uninteresting and hardly interact with each other, except for the skirmish here or there. The Tower is a powerful group that originally was led by Mama who is missing, and its hinted that Georgia likely killed her in order to assume control and is now led by Georgia, a sadistic c-word who rules with an iron fist. The faction leader of the Reclaimed, JB, is not introduced until the mission before the last one. His presentation was... bad. He presents you with a decision to flood the Reserve, a hidden military cache of supplies. He does this while giving you his monotone musings on the greatness of humanity and it's addiction to survivalism and that this could somehow be a chance to fix that addiction by destroying the cache of food, medicine, and weapons, and 'save' humanity from itself. I didn't get it, as the only way that really makes sense is that he knew that the discovery of the Reserve would be loud and dramatic and would draw both groups simultaneously into a blood bath. The only reason I sided with him because Georgia was depicted as a ham-fisted c-word that threatened to cut my tongue out when I first met her. This choice barely matters, as it only seems to affect who is shooting at you during the last mission.

Spoilers for second to last mission:
In a decision to kill a leader of a faction and join the other, I decided to kill Georgia, the de-facto leader of the Tower, and that was that. There were no repercussions to that happening other than having members of the Reclaimed not fire at me during the last mission. JB says something along the lines of "Wow thanks for helping me, I might've died! Please remember to flood the whole Reserve, because that's my whole purpose as a character in this game!" and then runs off and is likely killed off-screen, as he is never seen again. It had zero impact on the game and zero impact on me. The factions 'at war for control' rarely really seemed at war with each other. Also I could be wrong, but I could swear I heard Georgia's voice during the last mission, even though I had shot her dead the mission before.

Overall, I wish I could give a "meh" review. Game was enjoyable at many parts, especially the beginning, but quickly lost it's charm and fun. The story is bare-bones and didn't have seem to much love (or thought) put into it. The only interesting character was Casey. And he doesn't even come with you if you save him. "Thanks for saving me! You're the only person that I've trusted for a long time, and without you I wouldn't have made it out... I'm going north now bye!"

Also, I straight up shot May at the bell tower because I had no idea it was her when I walked in. I just saw a crazy lady trying to kill us all, so I capped her. Then I walked up and then realized what happened, but I didn't feel anything from it. Maybe its because I'm used to The Walking Dead and killing off family members if they have a family tie because its tragic, but I really didn't get much when Umbra died either, just kind of a "damn that sucks."


I might go back to kill a few zombies here and there, but I don't see myself playing again to see the other endings or try and finish more side quests.

EDIT: They've added The Trial, which is a fun gauntlet of killing a bunch of walkers while getting coins to spend on weapons and upgrades. It's fun, but it brought out a huge flaw that wasn't much of an issue in the story for me: stamina. They want to making killing herds of zombies fun, but its near impossible to manage your stamina when the wave becomes a constant flow of zombies and the recharge timer resets on a kill. Your character is very unrobust and their arms will turn to noodles the second that bar runs out. Killing walkers is still do-able when you're in a stamina 'cooldown' but your arms will suddenly feel like they're floating around until your character eventually decide to breath. It takes awhile for it to recharge, even with the beignet food upgrade. The main way to remedy this during combat is to avoid sprinting, but the player moves so SLOW. It feels like a cheap limitation rather than an interesting survival mechanic. Dying because my asthmatic ♥♥♥♥♥ of a character, in a LIFE-OR-DEATH situation, can't even use a knife because they were too tired is frustrating. It's a knife, not a dumbbell.

That being said, lopping off heads with the katana feels great. It's my go-to weapon now, because decapitation takes way less stamina than just braining.