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In Project Zomboid, you’re not a glistening muscle-bound action hero or a “charismatic” woman armed with a shotgun-grenade-launcher-mine combo or whatever. Here, you play as an average person, with strengths, weaknesses, and most importantly, needs. This game is a true crossbreed of genres: your primary goal is to not die to zombie hordes looking for a snack (Survival-Horror), all while avoiding succumbing to more natural causes like hunger or thirst (Simulation) by scavenging the surrounding environments for essentials (Exploration). This is complemented by optimizing your daily life through learning new skills (Role-Playing), and the list goes on. The inspirations are many and blend well.
In Project Zomboid, survival hinges on swift prioritization at the game’s outset. Securing a weapon, food, and a safe place to rest is paramount, considering the day/night cycle management. Your character’s need for sleep and the potential scarcity of drinkable water add urgency. Scouring various locations is essential, but inventory management is critical; though collecting everything aids crafting, your human limitations restrict carrying capacity. Move strategically, searching logically placed items in houses: find food in refrigerators, books in libraries, and bandages in first aid kits. Cooking meat in ovens, closing curtains, or hydrating in toilets, if needed, demonstrate the game’s remarkable realism. Exploring a house might trigger alarms or attract zombies with breaking glass sounds, demanding a swift retreat. Importantly, every detail poses a threat, from glass shards to expired food, emphasizing Project Zomboid’s exceptional logic and human-centric approach, a departure from typical zombie game conventions.
You thought you only had to beware of zombies? The weather will quickly be added to the things to consider. Keep all kinds of clothes on hand to avoid getting too hot or cold or simply face the winter blizzard. The longer you survive, the more resources diminish. Running water or electricity will eventually cut off, so the food will rot faster… quickly find a standalone generator to address this issue. Learn agriculture, hunting, or even electricity.
I can’t cover everything about the game in this review; there’s too much to talk about—the player’s skill improvement system, base construction, various vehicle-related aspects, multiplayer mode… The game is constantly improving, and updates are always planned, plus the game has over 10,000 mods created by the community to enhance the gaming experience.
At first glance, I can understand that it might not attract your attention, but it’s the most complete zombie survival game I’ve come across. Through your gameplay, you’ll narrate the tale of your end… and only your end: you’ll need to survive, plain and simple, until you can’t.
I played this game for the first time solo, I enjoyed it but wasn’t something that really locked me too much, but, the game really shined when I played it with friends, one of the best if not the best survival game to play with friends, it can give you and your friends a good laugh (and sometimes break your friendship ._ .).
The game gives you a lot of freedom of what you want to do, either be it to just rush through the game by killing everything on your way, or play on a more recluse way, learning new skills and growing a base (either with new defense mechanisms or even growing food). The game also has a trait system when you’re creating your character where you choose between a really vast traits quantities, or sometimes you need to choose some “debuffs” for your character to be able to get newer or better traits. The game is kind of confusing in the beginning, you’re just thrown into the world (even with the tutorial sometimes activated, the game just leaves you to figure some things out for yourself). Also, the game is kind of unforgiving and forces you to make the best choices instead of just play like a mad man.
I’ve been playing Project Zomboid for years. Why? Because it’s the most realistic Zombie-Survival Game out there.
Everything you do ingame will have an effect: You made to much noise? Run! You cut yourself on a window? Hello infections! You ate an old fish? Ohohoho!
The Metabolism-system is very detailed: Hunger, thirst, infections, temp, emotions etc. You have to find a way to keep your MC physically and mentally balanced.
To survive you can to a lot of things: Create a hide-out, build a garden to grow your own food, plunder the city.
While you try to survive your MC will get better: Learning by doing and reading specific books.
If you are looking for a realistic Zombie-Survival game, this is it! (Try the Demo first, to see if you like the style and handling)
Project Zomboid is one of the if not the most detailed survival game that is currently on the market.
At the time of this review the game has been out for almost 10 years now so a lot of content is to be expected.
But Project Zomboid takes it up to another level.
When first starting the game it can feel both really overwhelming with the amount of traits and skills you get to choose at the beginning, Luckily most of these skills can be gained over the playthrough.
When you spawn into one of the four areas of the game you can pretty much go and do what ever you want to do. you can go and live on the road with a car, stay and secure a house or even build your very own and furnish it with what ever you can find in other houses.
There are a good amount of skills for all sorts of activities such as farming, carpentry and running away from the massive zombie hordes.
This game is not messing around and will throw you right into a town filled with hundreds of zombies that will come towards you if you make a little to much noise.
I recommend playing in some of the smaller towns even though the loot is less plentiful this is a good option for learning the game.
There are a lot of systems in Project Zomboid and a lot are not obvious, It really is learning by trial and error and following a guide series might be something you want to look into if you don’t fancy figuring it all out.
You can also play this game online either on a private server where you can play with your friends or a public server where most of the time you find looted broken houses so I would stick with private servers.
Multiplayer has its own changes and additions to the game, like inspecting a friend and looking if they are wounded and you can even help them out with some meds or bandaging their wounds. A downside about multiplayer however I find is that you can no longer sleep therefore you are stuck in the dark at night.
I definitely recommend Project Zomboid if you are a fan of survival games. There is a lot to do and it is not expensive.