This is a super difficult review to write. I debated whether I should make it positive or negative for a whole week. You can see what I ended up with. This game has many cool ideas, some unique to it. The ability to watch movies within the game is dope, I wonder how no other game came up with that idea. Hordes every night sound like a super challenging premise. Upgrading your car with spikes to make running zombies over easier is great. So, you might ask, what is your issue then??? Well... It feels like a Frankenstein game. Taking what's best from all the known titles like DayZ or 7 Days to Die or Nazi zombies and then just- making it mediocre.

-You can assign skills both by levelling up and reading books, kinda like 7DtD. But reading books is tedious and it requires you to set it up, and then spend around 20 real life minutes to read one book for one point, but you can only read when you're "resting" so when you're in a safe place near a fire. When you level up you can assign multiple points, so spending those 20 minutes farming XP instead of walking around your base is both more fun and more efficient.
-You can set horde intensity to be every night, which is the default option, every 3 days, or 7, you get the point. The 7 days is a dev-made scenario and its description basically says "yep we went there, enjoy." At first, I was terrified of the nightly hordes - the game tells you you can either fight or stay stealthy to avoid them. Again, sitting around without doing much for the entire night, maybe read a book then? Good idea! But wait, if you do decide to fight, the horde turns out to be... super underwhelming. SUPER underwhelming. The biggest issue is stamina, and it's not an issue if you're in a building with literally like 4 planks on each window.
-Speaking of planks on windows, you can take a structure and barricade it, putting planks on windows and locks on doors. Kinda like nazi zombies. Cool. But if you plank the entire window you can't attack the zombies destroying it from the outside, which you realize early on, so you make these slits for zombie killing and just sit behind the window hacking away. Not as fun as it is in 7DTD, cause there is no real danger to it.
-Danger. Oh boy. I've played for about an in-game week. And every night I chose to fight the horde. And every night I got an ominous message "horde difficulty raised to 2". yeah, every night. Cause when the next horde approached, supposedly level 2, I got a message that it's level 1 and the difficulty level is raised to 2. After a week of that I just got bored.
-The map is tiny. They're trying to correct it by forcing you to drive around (super around) because some roads have obstacles you can't drive through, like rockslides. And there wouldn't be anything bad about the map being small if the entire game didn't try to convince you that resources are scarce, making game modes where the resources do not respawn. I don't see why you would ever move out of your starting location if the loot respawned.
-Oh, there is one reason, actually. There is a power-plant that goes off sometimes and you have to restart it to bring power back to the map. There is no but here, it's a cool mechanic, especially on bigger servers.
-Ah, yes, servers. The game is online-only. Even if you wanna play singleplayer, which I did, you have to be online and set up a server, which means there is no pause button. You wanna pause the game, you gotta leave to the menu. And then the horde night is postponed and, yet again, restarted to 1. This isn't unique - That is the way DayZ rolls, too. But the biggest difference is that DayZ's map is huge, resources are truly scarce and moving a quarter across the map is a journey you have to plan out. This isn't the case here. It's just too easy.


The coolest thing in this game that I wish more games would implement is being able to turn a car into your home. There are buses and RVs and you can actually put storage boxes and fireplaces inside them, to make a mobile base. Especially the RV is clearly meant to be used this way, since you can set it as your respawn point.


tl;dr There is very little that this game does better than its competitors on the market. What you see in the screenshots on this page is the best this game has to offer. Maybe get it if you got a big crew, but on sale.

Disclaimer: this is a SIMP review. Curious?

This is a super difficult review to write. I debated whether I should make it positive or negative for a whole week. You can see what I ended up with. This game has many cool ideas, some unique to it. The ability to watch movies within the game is dope, I wonder how no other game came up with that idea. Hordes every night sound like a super challenging premise. Upgrading your car with spikes to make running zombies over easier is great. So, you might ask, what is your issue then??? Well... It feels like a Frankenstein game. Taking what's best from all the known titles like DayZ or 7 Days to Die or Nazi zombies and then just- making it mediocre. -You can assign skills both by levelling up and reading books, kinda like 7DtD. But reading books is tedious and it requires you to set it up, and then spend around 20 real life minutes to read one book for one point, but you can only read when you're "resting" so when you're in a safe place near a fire. When you level up you can assign multiple points, so spending those 20 minutes farming XP instead of walking around your base is both more fun and more efficient. -You can set horde intensity to be every night, which is the default option, every 3 days, or 7, you get the point. The 7 days is a dev-made scenario and its description basically says "yep we went there, enjoy." At first, I was terrified of the nightly hordes - the game tells you you can either fight or stay stealthy to avoid them. Again, sitting around without doing much for the entire night, maybe read a book then? Good idea! But wait, if you [i]do[/i] decide to fight, the horde turns out to be... super underwhelming. SUPER underwhelming. The biggest issue is stamina, and it's not an issue if you're in a building with literally like 4 planks on each window. -Speaking of planks on windows, you can take a structure and barricade it, putting planks on windows and locks on doors. Kinda like nazi zombies. Cool. But if you plank the entire window you can't attack the zombies destroying it from the outside, which you realize early on, so you make these slits for zombie killing and just sit behind the window hacking away. Not as fun as it is in 7DTD, cause there is no real danger to it. -Danger. Oh boy. I've played for about an in-game week. And every night I chose to fight the horde. And every night I got an ominous message "horde difficulty raised to 2". yeah, every night. Cause when the next horde approached, supposedly level 2, I got a message that it's level 1 and the difficulty level is raised to 2. After a week of that I just got bored. -The map is tiny. They're trying to correct it by forcing you to drive around (super around) because some roads have obstacles you can't drive through, like rockslides. And there wouldn't be anything bad about the map being small if the entire game didn't try to convince you that resources are scarce, making game modes where the resources do not respawn. I don't see why you would ever move out of your starting location if the loot respawned. -Oh, there is one reason, actually. There is a power-plant that goes off sometimes and you have to restart it to bring power back to the map. There is no but here, it's a cool mechanic, especially on bigger servers. -Ah, yes, servers. [b]The game is online-only.[/b] Even if you wanna play singleplayer, which I did, you have to be online and set up a server, which means there is no pause button. You wanna pause the game, you gotta leave to the menu. And then the horde night is postponed and, yet again, restarted to 1. This isn't unique - That is the way DayZ rolls, too. But the biggest difference is that DayZ's map is [i]huge[/i], resources are truly scarce and moving a quarter across the map is a journey you have to plan out. This isn't the case here. It's just too easy. The coolest thing in this game that I wish more games would implement is being able to turn a car into your home. There are buses and RVs and you can actually put storage boxes and fireplaces inside them, to make a mobile base. Especially the RV is clearly meant to be used this way, since you can set it as your respawn point. tl;dr There is very little that this game does better than its competitors on the market. What you see in the screenshots on this page is the best this game has to offer. Maybe get it if you got a big crew, but on sale. Disclaimer: this is a SIMP review. [url=https://steamcommunity.com/groups/SIMPbyH8]Curious?[/url]