13 people found this review helpful
Not Recommended
0.0 hrs last two weeks / 1.6 hrs on record
Posted: 23 Sep, 2024 @ 4:59am
Updated: 23 Sep, 2024 @ 5:10am

I have managed to get all achievments and 3 cards (total 14 cents) in 1.6 hours, while i got this game on a 75% discount for 10 cents. I DO NOT reccomend this game for quite a few reasons.
1. Game is abandoned - Developer released last update in 2021, with promises of multiplayer and more content. Needless to say, No more has been heard from him.
2. Bugs. Surprisingly, there arent too much of them, but they are annoying. IF you open map and menu at the same time - game is stuck and has to be manually stopped via task manager.
3. Lack of care about items in the game - some items have proper description, some dont, some work some dont, flashlight just dies on loading game, mac10 for some reason has no auto firing but uses same ammo, and from my personal experience, all melee weapons deal same damage at same speed - so stone "hammer" you get in the start is all you need, literally, you chop trees with it, you mine rocks, you destroy buildings and kill zombies and its dirt cheap.
4. Graphics. DEAR GOD WHY IS IT SO UGLY???? Game while not lying about how it looks appears to be some students project assembled in 3 days or so, stock assets and some of them placed just out of touch. So called map shows how screwed up everything really is. Also, it just steals some assets from games such as rust, for example, the "furnace" is basically from rust.
5. Combat. Or rather whatever sloppy crap is masked as one. It is as unresponsive as it can possibly feel, only slightly improved by a hit marker. You dont even need to run - zombies just stand in attack animation and if you walk away they will miss. Why does a rabbit has more hp than a chiken if you hit them in melee? Why some animals just give you resources when you hit them and continue running, which is laughable, I managed to pull 3 bones, 2 skin and 2 meat from a deer until it died and stopped running away, while others just die and open an inventory of whatever is left of them?
6. "Survival mechanics". Food and water which god knows why and when decrease, no forraging only looting or farming, and farming is just corn. Well just gives infinite water, and apparently it packages our water in nice water bottles. Berries exist but only as a rare drop from zombies. Strings are annoying to get as you collect them from bushes, but not as annoying as wood, which you will need a lot of since it takes a WHOLE LOG to fry ONE PIECE OF STEAK! Leveling is one another mess since you cant even make a campfire untill level 2, but you get xp from just chopping trees, but this entire system only exists to stop you from crafting some items untill later. I have not figured out what radiation really does and I do not plan to as I am going to refund this mess.
7. "Starter game quests". Some of the most boring quest chains I saw in my entire life - first one is literally "mine 40 stone, chop 15 trees and get 40 sticks". Then it gets you to craft a campfire, a tent and a skull on a stick, sort of a marking point here. Then it just casually asks you to visit 3 locations far away from eachother, basically stretching gameplay past 2 hours for most players. If you approach it with a simpler mindset and figure how to kite zombies and run nonstop you probably can do that, and all off that work is for just steam achievements.

THIS GAME COSTS 40 cents without discounts and that is TOO MUCH. Only reason to buy is when you get a 75% discount or something because you can make about 12 cents from this game cards on sale and then refund it, thats it.

By the way, as I was writing game I figured out that this game is basically underdeveloped "Instinct: Survival". Same assets, same inventory, same mechanics... This just a scam apparently. That Instinct: Survival game was delisted from steam around 2020, and apparently dev bans anyone who points that out. Another reason to avoid, or to play for 1.5 hours and refund.
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