Night of the Dead

A little bit of Scum. A dash of Orcs Must Die. A healthy serving of Project Zomboid. And a whole lot of fun.
Not a perfect game by any means. Still bugs and the occasional crash to iron out, but the combination of survival, exploration, crafting, base building, trap building, a touch of RPG and a friggin Zombie wave (horde) every bloody night makes this game one of my favourites ever! There is a neat story element to it and the tutorial/quest list is really extensive. It might be a few years old but the devs are still working on it to improve the experience and gameplay (which is a huge plus these days!)
Definitely worth a look.

This game has a very Project Zomboid feeling character creation, but once you drop in you see that it's very much based on 7 Days to Die. The most major difference is that 7 Days is based on building with a blocks system, and this game is not at all. There's plenty of building, it's just different. While 7 Days does have traps, this game has TRAPS. There is a zombie horde every night instead of every week, and the traps you get access to very early on like the pendulum trap will still be helpful into the end game. It's like zombie tower defense. It's pretty fun at first but I admit, it does get a little old having to run back to base every single night just to deal with it.
I will also say, this game is janky. It's early access so that's just going to happen, but on several occasions I ran into floating fire.. as in, a wooden part of a base caught fire, it was either put out or burned down, but the fire just floated there and burned me ever after. There were also many, many times where I would strike a tree or rock while trying to gather resources, and it would just disappear without giving me any. (I learned later, from a friend, that I could shoot the disappeared tree or rock with a pistol to make it appear again, and it works.. go figure.) This was the most common problem I ran into.
All that being said? It's actually good. It needs fixes, it needs more points of interest. It needs more items. It needs a much, much better endgame. (It's not so fun looting a building when you already have massive stacks of everything that drops, and the equipment cabinets aren't special because you already have lightsabers..) The biggest grind is stuff like copper, oddly enough, and LEAVES. Finding a tier 6 weapon means basically nothing once you've already got it, but spending real time chopping hundreds of bushes, trees and rocks is an unavoidable reality. The farming system is also rough.. even when you get tier 3 farm plots, don't expect to really be able to make many beneficial things with it that you couldn't more easily buy or find elsewhere. Meat alone can get you through this game, and painkillers are cheap. Oh I could go on and on..
For what I payed though, and the near 60 hours I got out of it, and the potential to come back later after a year or two of updates and try it on hard mode or something? Yeah. I'd say it's a good game.

First of all, I am not a professional zombie survival player however I was enjoying this game so far. It has a great start
and you are not getting lost in this game. The walkie talkie, thank god, brings a life into this game. The movement of the
player is well made and for me it feels very smooth to play, love it.
+ 31 Gb install. Not much. It is ok.
+ The Menu is well made. Simple and good looking.
+ The game runs very stable. It is very smooth. However, it depends on the system. Got a 4070 ti and it runs like butter.
+ DLSS and DX 12 support + Lumen! Lumen is one of the most important things these days to get the perfect area lighting effects! I love it since "No one survived".
+ You have a lot of options to adjust the game behaviour (you can edit these when a savegame exists and before loading the game).
+ You can create your own character. It is very detailed.
+ It is very scary. Jumpscares ahead. A lot of zombies can suddenly appear over the corner.
+ A lot of freedom to build.
+ Items have different rarity and are modifiable.
+ You can upgrade your buildings and structures.
+ Waves!
+ Funny traps
+ Big Map
+ Story
+ Wolves, birds, deers and rabbits to hunt. Walkie talkie buddies explain that these animals can mutate!^^
+ Good voices coming with the walkie talkie.
+ Tutorial is well done.
+ Lots of Quests.
+ Third Person / First Person view, in my eyes one of the most important things in survival games to have both options. Well made!
+ No game crashes so far!
+ You can level up you character and adjust the stats.
+ Newbie friendly.
+ Zombies stop chasing you when you run far enough. And it is not far. Thanks for this. Very important. Not like "No one survived".
+ It is not that frustrating. Thanks developers!
+ Updates for the game still exist!
- Zombies are not very responsive. They only react if you looted something and not during looting.
- Zombies are not very noisy. It is hard to detect them.
- You cannot change/adjust your body.
- No modding
- Graphics look a bit outdated. However, I saw the upcoming changes and I would love to see the upcoming graphics changes.
- A lot of clothes have been removed but will see the upcoming updates this quarter.
- You have long tracks to get to something.
- Trees and Stones do not appear over time again. You have to explicitly activate this in the game options but it increases the difficulty? Something i do not understand.
This is what I have to tell you guys about the game now. Developers you did a great job on this however you have to improve the zombies
because this is one of the things I struggle to stay at the game as it is. They have to be more aggressive and more responsive. You have
to show us hell on earth! Screaming zombie hordes at far distance running towards you can be so exciting. The distance for the sound should
also be like they were coming closer and closer. Also when you adjust the game in the way that zombies would walk instead of run.
This game has a lot of potential and I hope it will be more exciting in the future. But please don't take to long because the attention span of people
won't hold on that long to reach a big player base.

as i enter again on my 400th hr in the game. im so happy that the devs continue to improve and add more content to the game. Bug fixes and optimization. At my 1st steam account i played the game on its very early stages, where i gained around 400+ hrs base building and testing out stuff. Bad optimizations and bugs. But now as years go by for the game, it has significantly improved a lot. compared to a lot of Zombie Surival games i played. That eagerness to build stuff, bigger and bigger bases as you defend from the hoard gives me the break in my daily life. I rarely have a relaxing experience when i play survival games, but not this game. It give you a certain accomplishment that your build held up on the rushing hoard. This is one of factor why i love this game. A good community that helps new players, a dev the listen and appreciate there player base. A constant improvement and update to the game. Its really one of the best game on my list.

One of my favorite games ever. I'm a solo player...
Cannot wait for the missions to be finished!
Notes to devs-
-It's not clear if I can still leave the island or not. e.g. I've finished the main quest line and am not sure if that's it and now im just fighting waves...until more content is added. How do I unlock the harder custom difficulties, after googling it appeared there used to be journals so I spent time in game trying to determine if those still exist.
-It's unclear that I need to progress to areas to unlock new building capabilities. I had many quest items that needed a wrench and spent hours trying to figure out why I couldn't make the bench to make one. ( apparently I had to go to the pool area to unlock the workbench for that )
-Please change all "build" to "possession" or create an "exists". I frequently would do many things ahead of them appearing in the journal. It may be worth showing all quests but greying those out that have dependencies so I can see what I should or should not do in advance.
^^^-->>> put a huge disclaimer that the game is best enjoyed if you follow quests
-I can craft turbocharger, etc but don't know what its for so im questioning if I missed visiting a certain area to unlock additional cars
-Do mines regenerate? I'm out of magnesium and gold and it's a lengthy process to find gear to upgrade to then recycle into these materials or find the money to buy them.
-- I don't know how to activate sandbox if that is still a thing or what commands exists, can you index them and add a help command for console line
-Pls make glass breakable, just do a sloppy replacement of the texture with a new glass break object on hit detect :D
-I have the mutant substance but am not sure what its for
-I have the microchips but am not sure what they are for
-The last two books you would get are swapped in the journal, you get a at b and b at a

Addicting. A replacement for 7 Days to Die with a bit more jank.
Melee combat could use a bit of work. Guns could use a little bit more 'oomph'

The wife and I picked this up a good while back and played it quite a bit. It was a hoot. We had great fun foraging and building bases. At one point the balancing got a bit off due to adding giant monsters pretty early on before you could have any base structure that could stand against them built. We dropped out for a while, which turned into quite a while. (last played in 2021). I have no doubt the issues we faced have been addressed and the game is still a lot of fun.
We'll drop back in at some point and give it a go again. It really is fun.
Mostly I wanted to jump in and give a positive review to counter the folks in the "Downvote if they offer DLC during early access." crowd. That's a childish stance.
The DLC is vanity items. They don't effect game play. And the people working on game logic and code are not the same folks working on clothing or skins. Different people, different skill sets. There's no harm in letting the deep-rooted fans have some spiffy skins to buy to help fund the team while it works towards completion of the main game. It also helps with player engagement to keep those hard core fans playing so there's an audience for people wanting to team up. That's a healthy thing for the game.
Don't be short sighted and absolutist. Downvoting a gem of a game because someone can pay $5 to get a white collar shirt and vest is just silly.
The game is fun, that's what matters.