Right off the bat classic issue that you can find in almost every survival game. I've eaten 3 chocolate bars, can of dog food and can of corn. and that reduced my hunger by around 10%. So by that logic I should eat 10 times that amount of food to be satiated. I also drank 1 liter of water and I'm 40% thirsty afer a few minutes. Dear devs, please. Rather make food more scarce than to implement such ridiculous mechanics. Thank you.. Edit: I'm not here to bash on two-man dev team. Props to you. I just hate this mechanic immensely.

I decided to write this review after I lit a cigarette in game near a propane tank that said "no smoking" - They've included so many systems and features that I was genuinely nervous that the tank was going to explode and promptly moved away from it. Crossing my fingers that this game gets the support it deserves so it can grow. Impressive highlights so far; - Shot a zombie from a car. Drove by a zombie on a motorcycle and smacked him with a baton. - Got ambushed by a boar that scared me more than any zombie did. Still put 4 rounds into it. - Found a functional police car, which fits my Police background choice and lets me wee-woo around. - Didn't know how I could fit a Generator into inventory so I loaded it into the bed of a pickup. 10/10 - Finding DVDs around the world that I can put on to play in the background while I work. - Made myself some tea after a little trial and error and was significantly rewarded with CONFIDENCE. - Made some soup and got a 'nice smell' buff. - Smoked some cannabis and savored my victory soup.

As a Project Zomboid player with over 1300 hours, this game shows great potential into being essentially 3D PZ. However, in its CURRENT state, it is...lacking. There's bugs, mechanics needs polishing and lots of stuff has yet to be implemented, reason as to why I'm not sinking endless hours into it. Still, I'm giving it a positive review because if development follows its current trend, the future looks awesome. ---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☑ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☐ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☐ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☑ Good ☐ Not too bad ☐ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☐ Potato ☑ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☐ Old Fashioned ☑ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☐ Easy ☑ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☐ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☑ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☑ No Story ☐ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long ☑ To infinity and beyond ---{ Price }--- ☐ It's free! ☑ Worth the price ☐ If it's on sale ☐ If u have some spare money left ☐ Not recommended ☐ You could also just burn your money ---{ Bugs }--- ☐ Never heard of ☐ Minor bugs ☐ Can get annoying ☑ ARK: Survival Evolved ☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs ---{ ? / 10 }--- ☐ 1 ☐ 2 ☐ 3 ☐ 4 ☐ 5 ☐ 6 ☐ 7 ☑ 8 ☐ 9 ☐ 10

Check back in 2028. I thank all the people who support the development but not something to even attempt to play for a couple of years.

TLdr; Its got a good foundation but needs more time in the oven. Give it until summer of 2026 to resolve bugs and add content. Update: 2Nov2025 After putting a lot of extra time into this game to really feel it out, I am changing this to less of a recommended and more of a middle or not recommended. The game is just too early. It is less Early Access and more "In testing phase" something akin to alpha. Players are often expected to help devs out for no pay and no reward; this is for some awful reason the norm. I am going against the tide here and saying players should not be doing this. Devs should be releasing games in a complete or near complete state. Instead what happens is they start collecting a paycheck with no promise that the player will get what they paid for. If you want to be a fangirl and simp for devs, go for it but I will not. You should get paid for what you deliver, not for what you might deliver. Everyone says this is a 3d Project Zomboid and they are sort of right. There is depth to the systems here but like PJ, I don't really care for that. I don't need 3 stages to filling a bucket with water; This game says: Here is a water source. You: Fill container Game: Okay, here is your whole inventory, find bucket. You: This one Game: Neat. Now select how much water you'd like. Me: Dude Just fill it and leave me alone! I just do not care for 1000 extra steps to do each thing. This is called tedium and I am not interested in games with it. Besides the core concept above, The game suffers from many things EA titles do such as: Poor lighting Nonfluid combat Wonky animations Misplaced UI/Hitboxes Lack of explanation for the hows or whys Convoluted progression path But if you don't care about those things and you liked Project Zomboid, then this game is right up your alley. (in 2026 or 2027) I am recommending it because while I am not interested in this kind of game, I think others who enjoy this flavor will like it when it has had much more work. I just hope if these two devs strike it big they don't make the mistakes of their predecessors of games like 7dtd that sat in alpha for 10 years while bad mouthing their playerbase. Good luck Devs.

I came for the zombie survival, stayed for the part where I spent 20 minutes trying to open a mailbox. I've died of Hunger, Thirst, and embarrassment. The only thing I haven't died of is boredom! 9/10 would open mailboxes again

Another video game demonizes wolves!(real original) Another game requires shooting gallery like so-called-hunting for gear. Boots, riot vest, a shirt? Kill animals or you can't fix it. Not everyone gets a kick out of killing the innocent.

Good concept, but shows strong signs that its scope to development ratio will take this down the path of a lifelong passion project or abandonware. I would hold off before buying for the sake of playing it; buy to support its development. Edit: To be clear, the game is fun and generally good. I really just mean it's probably better to stick to the demo unless your objective is to invest in the game's future. The positive reviews are no cult... it really is a good concept, just not ready for a paid release of any sort and ambitiously scoped games like this are a risk for buyers. I will still be playing this.

game dont have optimisation

It seems that the majority of the player base are pieces of s, no teamwork. Just selfish day-z style pvp killing. Regret buying this game for this reason. If i get back on it ill make sure to spread the toxic. Trust no-one.

absolutly terrible game, the zombies and thier fighting mechanics are god tier crap, you get hit once and yuu have an open wouned, fighting zombies are really crap, you cant out run them and you can fight them as thier reach is longer than yours and dont get me started on the power attack, its so small that even if oyur a foot in front of the zombie it doesnt hit its stupid as hell. thier is no instructions on how to resolve any sort of infection or anything like that. you want zombie game thats not a bunch of janky bad mechanics play 7 days. this is one of the worst game iv ever played

Love the game should have stayed in demo Zombies respawning out of nowhere is a massive problem for me its such garbage to come back to a place after cleaning it or turn my back and theres a zombie there when there wasnt 2 sec ago Half the custom settings for game does not work i put 100% walker and had like a dozen of running zombies within 10 min unfortunate use of Unreal Engine which is buggy asf poor optimization and lots of fps drops Performance is even worse after patch and game crashes

4070 ti super, I hit new game hit start and it never finishes loading......

>Me and my friends get the game together >Make our usual tried and tested tradition of characters >♂Gachigasm♂ >Create Van Darkholme >Strong and agile asian man >Artist >Peak survival ability assured >Van, Billy, Mark Wolff & co go around looting checking for prime real estate for our new dungeon, preparing for the big wrestling tournament we'll have >Get distracted over all the items we're finding >Find a long latex glove that goes all the way up to my armpit >Plenty of laughs are had >Billy proceeds to aggro a bunch of the ♂ boys ♂ next ♂ door ♂ >Massive horde of them come sprinting >We are all on foot, and already exhausted after constantly wrestling, we won't be able to outrun them >The gang scatters, everyone for themselves >Proceed to spot a car we were messing around with earlier but had no key >All of us are good, upstanding leathermen, so none of us had the skill to hotwire the car >Dash for the car anyway, gang shouts that it's no use, we won't be able to hotwire it since it damages you each time you fail an attempt >Realize I had my latex gloves still >You do not take electrical damage while wearing them >Gamble it all as a ♂ performance ♂ artist ♂ and give the car ♂SIX♂HOT(wire)♂ ATTEMPTS♂ >Succeed >Car boots up >Crash through the ♂ SLAVES ♂ chasing Billy & co >They all get into the car just like Steve Rambo escaping the hillbillies >Drive off, we all make it out alive >This is why I am the ♂ DUNGEON ♂ MASTER ♂ And then we played some Vein. The game's pretty good, too, I guess.

20 dollars is to overpriced the game should be 5 dollars max it was complete shit

Complete garbage, woke slop hidden everywhere.

Very buggy and the inventory is janky. Seems unfinished.

So as a long-time survival game player, and massive lover of hardcore survival games I had high hopes for this. I've put hundreds of hours into Project Zomboid, and it's by far one of my favourite games of all time. PZ gives you the wide freedom you get in this game but to a more polished degree. I appreciate that this game is still in *super* early access but in it's current state I cannot recommend it. The combat feels clunky and slow, the menus need a lot of refinement, and it feels like the Developers expect you to have played Project Zomboid previously to understand most of the game. The UI also needs a lot of work, where a lot of survival games have 10,000 bars to alert you, I'm a fan of the lack of bars making you have to dig into your 'Health' tab on PZ, or the use of little icons that only appear *when you need them*, it makes you more alert to your characters needs rather than just more bars to fill up. This game feels like it's trying to toe the line between PZ and traditional survival games, and it does the worst of both worlds. The game is also unbearably dark, with battery life that lasts no time at all for cell phones/flashlights, meaning at night you're stuck wandering about as if you've taken a trait for blindness hoping you don't stumble into a Zombie that sprints at you out of nowhere. I also noticed after clearing the gas station, I stepped no more than a few metres away to the pumps and when I turned around, it had populated with no less than 3-4 zombies within seconds of clearing it. The game has a lot of potential, however in it's current state I absolutely cannot recommend it.

The foundation is there but there is no purpose of existing in the game, there is no military loot zones, or key cards to go use to get loot. All the houses are full of useless stuff and the map has the buildings too separated. It took me 3 hours to find someone who doesn't carry nothing in their inventory. I understand there is only 2 developers working on this but can you guys give us some quest to follow? like go get keycards from the houses to loot guns at the storages. Make the maps smaller so there is more PVP. I got kicked out of the servers every 5 minutes.

Some gamer's will like it and some won't but for me it's ok. For these types of games why do devs make certain mechanics not fun? Like for example if your character doesn't find food and water within a few mins of game play your dead. If the infected hear you sneeze...dead. You spawn in some where and your trying to get your bearings...dead. Oh no the infection is air born guess what? Since when do some zombies have supers? Like super speed and teleportation.

It is a Early Access game keep in mind. Great Survival game with Base Raiding and PVP with also a choice to do solo PVE. Cant beat it for 20 bucks Def Buy If you like dayz and rust. While playing the game i found The movie night of the living dead the actual movie. i then found a TV with a dvd player. Then i hooked it up to some power Now i am watching the movie while i am in my base Wonderful.

I bought this game off of all the good reviews and buzz. Frankly, it should be called "Wardrobe Reorganisation Simulator" coz that's what I seem to spend most of my time doing. Constant fetch and carry, lugging stuff to and from you car, and trying to sort it all out. Occasionally you kill a zombie. About as much fun as moving house!

I really hope they use the money they're now earning to hire people to develop this game because the whole gimmick of "there's only 2 of us" doesn't work when every system in your game is janky. Would love for this to be updated into a fun, responsive and immersive Zombie game but unless they hire people who are good at this that won't happen until at least 2098 if ever.

(READ BEFORE BUYING!!!) Unfortunately, they are charging $20 for the early access. i know there will be bugs but this game isnt even playable, saves dont work, the game freezes and soft locks constantly, character and zombie designe are hella bugged out, even most weapons are invisible or dont work. these problems are for a early alpha not early access. this game shouldnt of been released yet given how half baked it is. please dont buy this. there are better things out there worth 20 bucks.

At first glance, it looks like every other zombie asset flip. But I am impressed how much it goes deeper. Things that would simply be cosmetic in other games have functionality here. I was surprised to find a functional washer/dryer for clothing that uses detergent and needs to be connected to water and power. Sinks can be filled with water, and the water gets dirty if you wash yourself in it. If your friend hasn't washed in a while, you will actually get a whiff of their stink anytime they come near you. The vehicles all have parts that can be replaced. They have air conditioning, working radios, and even a dome light. If you forget to engage the e-brake, it may roll away. I think there is a way to tow things, but I haven't figured that part out yet. You even have to change the oil on your car when it gets dirty. Electricity and water isn't just magically in a house. There are actual distribution sites around the map that provide services to regions, and you can shut off an entire region. I don't know why you'd want to do that, but you can. The grid stuff looks very promising already. There are already some interesting medical features in the game, like insulin for diabetics and a framework for different types of wounds and diseases (even tuberculosis!). The level design is also very good. Initially when I looting around houses, most homes were just copy pasta. Then I found some of the darker locations like mass burial sites. Yes, every zombie game has those "FEMA' camps, but this one does a good job making it creepy. I realistically expect this game to be in early access for a few years. I have a feeling it may actually leave early access one day.