Night of the Dead

it's a good game, but I hope they bring in a mode where resources respawn. I would much rather play this as an endless sandbox game than be forced to play through to the end of the story or run out of resources.

I have played this game quite a bit, almost 100 hours already, so I feel like I can give an unbiased review. This game is great, but needs some quality of life improvements.
The good:
Base building is fairly easy (when you can get the blueprint to fit EXACTLY in the right spot)
Upgrade materials do not seem to be difficult to find once you know how to get them (except copper ore)
Traps are a lot of fun to build together (when you can get them to fit correctly)
Exploration is fun, and a little dangerous, until you have a good crossbow and baseball bat
The world itself is nicely laid out, a bit small, but that could change?
Nice variety of zombies, animals, and structures in the game. I don't feel like "oh, I have seen this room before" every time I go into a building. There are some repeated models, but that is to be expected.
The not so good:
Zombie pathing - if they do not have a crystal-clear shot directly to you, they will destroy anything you have built. This can make planning an elaborate set of traps frustrating because they will just tear through the walls rather than follow the path you laid out.
Lack of resources - once you get later into the game (post day 20), oil becomes increasingly hard to find (if you are using multiple flame throwers). Copper ore can be hard to find if you do not go out quite far from your base and hunt for it. It does add to the excitement, but getting jumped by a wolf, a bear, and 8 zombies out in the middle of the forest with no way to know where you died is not fun.
No death marker - when you die, you drop all your inventory, except for your equipped weapon. If you were out exploring and did not look at the map before you died, you lost your inventory, Start over.
No way to increase trap damage. Every night the horde gets bigger AND stronger, so you need more traps. Since you have no way of improving your traps, you just have to create more and link them together and hope the horde runs through them rather than tear them apart. I have started building on the roof of buildings and it seems to work fine. The zombies cannot destroy the walls or floors, so you have a better chance of forcing their pathing through your traps. It is not fool-proof, but it does tend to work for me. I have seen other people build mammoth bases in the middle of the forest, so it is not impossible, just can be problematic for people starting out.
Traps run out of ammunition - this would not be too big of a problem if some of them were not set so low. Compressor and guillotine have very few charges while others have 100. That means you have to physically run to that trap and add ammunition to it. In the middle of a day 20+ horde, depending on your layout, that may not be possible. So you tend to start using only the high ammunition traps and ignore the others because they are resource intensive. This can limit your base style or location.
Wishlist:
Other people/Interactions- you are alone in the world. I would like some type of interaction with others, whether it is random radio contacts, left behind messages, something to make you feel like part of the world and have purpose.
Inventory stacks of more than 99 for all materials in storage - for the love of God, please make this happen for all items. Let us use research documents and unlock it, but I have an entire chest full of "pieces of iron ore" and "piece of cloth" and "cloth". I still need more than one chest just for all the items and craftables in the game (currently at 10 chests and they are almost all full).
Better snap placement for the blueprints. I have to fiddle with the up and down, left, right, back up, get the camera just right, in order for the piece to place. Also, the foundation pieces will sometimes "auto-fit" a half-space off and leave a gap. When you try to place a trap door or other item that is exactly one floor tile in width, it will not attach. I would be much easier to build if we had at least two tiles of snap placement from one foundation/floor rather than having to build a brand new foundation/floor for every tile. Currently, I think only the bridge will snap on without an anchor piece. Maybe allow short fences on bridges?
Weather - would love rain/snow, and more ambient noise. It does make it easier to hear ducks, but it is very quiet overall.
Character creation/selection for single player game - currently only the woman is available in single-player mode, but you can go to multiplayer and host your own single player game to play as one of the male characters. You cannot find any new clothes in the multi-player game, or at least I haven't and I have ransacked the hospital, subway, and every house between the north and south.
Final Impression:
It is important to remember that the goal of this game is to escape the island. I am not sure how many people are actually playing to escape, because: you can do that on day 4 or 5 if you really hustled and be done with the game in a few hours. I had all the research and items done on my second play through by day 10 and that was with building an elaborate, completely useless, wooden scaffolding system around a building. . Almost everyone I know is playing the game like an endurance mode to see how many days they can survive which creates many of the "issues" within the game.
Overall, this game is awesome and well worth the $25.00 you can pay now to play it. It is fun, and you can build whatever and wherever you want. I just built a bridge into the top of the water cooler towers for a nuclear reactor. I have a nice trap door at the top of the scaffolding I have not tried out yet, but soon.
I will probably log another 100 hours on this game, easily, and happily.

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(Review written w/ 15 hours, Early Access Hotfix 7)
I want to start off by saying what this game isn't. Despite what it might appear to be, it's not an open world zombie survival game. Are there zombies? Yup. Are you supposed to survive? You betcha. Is it open world? Technically. But what this game really is is a treasure hunt hidden in a tower defense game. There is almost no survival elements (apart from a fatigue system that is very easy to manage with basic scavenging), and the point of the game is to find a series of items in order so that you can escape, thus winning the game. If you enjoy trying to optimize your time management or finding the perfect combination in a tower defense, then this game is for you.
I picked this game up because I stumbled across Kage848's videos on youtube the day before it released, and it grabbed my attention as a base building zombie game. I was surprised I hadn't heard anything about it before then, and when I tried to look up information I couldn't find squat. However, for some reason this piqued my curiosity even more and I decided to buy the game and give it a shot. I'm glad I did.
However, this game is still rather shallow in it's current state, but what is there is addictive in a way that's hard to describe. The building process is complicated and running between different crafting tables gets annoying, but at the same time you start to remember what each piece needs and stocking up on the required materials. You start to beat the system just like you beat the zombies, and its rewarding to see a base grow after struggling with the initial setup. I couldn't make it beyond night 2 on my first play-through, but once I understood the concept I started over and escaped the island on day 6.
If you do decide to give it a try, here's some hints to get you through the first few hours (since there's still virtually no information out there):
- Don't try to build a large sprawling base by yourself, you'll spend too much time and it's not needed. a 3x3 is plenty.
- a good gauntlet layout is key for large hordes in later nights, but when the zombies come in one at a time you should fight them with your weapon of choice outside your base. save your resources for later nights when the numbers become overwhelming!
- a good tip for your trap gauntlet (that worked for me anyway), is to build your traps on top of foundations in lanes, then place walls on the sides to box them in and limit wasted shots from your turrets. and don't use doors, ever. zombies get cranky when you start using doors.
- if you misplace something in your build, you can break it down for 100% of its cost with the hammer.
- your first priority for research should be your carry capacity, and your first upgrades should be for your resource bag. you're going to fill up very fast and waste a lot of your first two days running back and forth to drop off loot.
- stop and mine EVERY iron node you come across, regardless of what you're doing. you need a lot of copper in the end-game and its incredibly rare. You're best bet is to try to collect it as you go, starting as early as possible.
- pick a goal for yourself: if you want to escape the island, you should prioritize at least 1/3 of your day to reaching the items you need to leave. if you just want to see how long you can make a base survive the horde nights, you should spend that time looting as much as possible to keep your stockpiles full.

As a player of many survival sims, I'm always looking for the next one to sink my teeth into. Came across this gem while browsing the other day and took the plunge. Glad I did, because right out of the gate I'm liking what I see. I'm no game dev but for a 2 man team this is impressive. I'm gonna thumb it up.
For those curious about the overall state/opinion of the game and what it offers...
Graphics - better than a lot of similar titles currently on offer, such as State of Decay series, Survive the Nights, 7DTD to name a few. I'd say it's a solid 7.5 to 8/10 depending on what settings you configure it up with.
Performance - extrapolate from here, but I used an I9 10900k paired with a RTX 2060 and got 1440p 60fps stable (with some minor dips when loading assets), this was with <Medium> settings but with <Very High> texture setting. Ram usage was around 10Gb, Vram usage around 5Gb and CPU usage was typically single digits to teens depending on what I was doing. It's worth noting on the medium preset the game looks great. Ultra looks a lot better but the performance decrease wasnt worth it. No crashes among my current play time. If they can shore up some of the optimization it would make my 8/10 score a 9 to 10 score, all in time I suppose right? Some asset popping in is currently noticable when traveling in the world, probably my biggest nitpick here tbh as I am using a Seagate Firecuda Nvme drive. Overall, a solid 8/10 for performance in its current state given the title is in early access. Quick edit: online, unfortunately performance is considerably worse but playable. It's all over the place fps wise when playing online, why is this?
Edit#2 - adjusting to low, except textures/AA at max matches performance in single player, as of 8.31.20...
Sound - I'm somewhere in between 6.5 to a 7 here. Gun sounds could use some work, the zombie sounds are nice and there is enough ambience to get immersed overall.
Content - for day one, there's a lot to play with. There's pve, pvp, single and multiplayer. Go it alone, or get help from others, fairly big world to explore and lots of things to research and craft.
Value - I'm fine with the price, if things progress with the integrity it has launched with up through official launch I think we could have a solid game here for many to enjoy.
Final overall feeling on the score...
8/10, would recommend.

Although i didn't play single player i feel this game has a lot of potential. For a two man team, they seem to be listening to the community and working on the issues presented to them.
Likes
- The zombies are like every zombie game. but there is a range of different zombies, and the difficulties they present. The game is rather challenging on the higher difficulties.
Boss Zombie (Tall whitey, Orange Crawley, The Butcher), Mid zombies (Big Bob, White Cracked Head, Military Joe) These are all names that we randomly came up with. (They may have names already)
- The wave event, Every Night there is a Wave of Zombies. Which adds a Tower Defense aspect to the game. which is fun.
- the upgrading is very easy to get used to. trying to figure out what needs to be done first.
- The objective, finding the missing items using journals. gives you that exploration feel.
Dislikes (All small things)
- Map Marking, you can only use one marker for the map. (Kindof sticks when you want to mark multiple things)
- Map Coordinates, Trying to pinpoint the exact location when you have to scroll out to see if you are in the right tile is kind of a bummer.
- Game end. (If you escape the Island, Besides the credits it should give you an option to continue that server). While i understand you can save it. and just reload. maybe completing it and staying should earn a special item or something of that nature.
- Nerd Points (Achievements) Where are the Achievement points? Lol
Extras - My other concerns seem to be stuff they are working on. Dedicated Servers, the Team building, private messaging. I see many challenges with all of this but with the way they are handling it. i feel they will do a great job.
P.S - Legend Difficulty is NO JOKE. You want to talk about 10-15 Zombies per building, and 15-50 Shots with arrows to take one down.

Very quick review.... some compare this to 7 Days to Die and other survival games. It does have some elements very much like that but there is a horde EVERY NIGHT and it is more of a true TOWER DEFENSE game - so build accordingly and plan your time. Don't give up if the normal mode is too hard, try peaceful (still has zombies and horde night) or easy to give yourself time to learn the basics. Keep in mind this is an early access so things will change. The devs seem very devoted, listen to the players, and are actively working on the game, that is a huge plus. Great game so far - can't wait to see it grow.

The graphics of this game are good. There is a clock that shows each hour. Over day you spent the time exploring and searching for items. But when the time reach midnight a horde of zombies come attack your place. The horde comes between midnight and 3am.
Each night the horde become stronger. One nice element of this game is that you can defend your camp by traps. Traps works automatically when a zombie is around it.
There is also a research system. On the map you can find points, and those points you need to unlock more items or better abilities.
In Night of the Dead the zombies can run. But there are also zombies who jump or charge at you or more heavy zombies.
The craft system is well made. There are 3 craft stations where you produce items. On the map you can also find new clothes, but until now I did not found that many. But the map is huge,
I tried the multiplayer part with a friend and this worked fine. When you look at your friend while playing there is his name tag above his head. So when you are far from each other you can still see the name tag when you look at each others direction.
I liked playing the game and it is pretty challenging with the diffirent game difficulties.
In this link there is the multiplayer gameplay: