Has anyone made a zombie game where you actually clear/retake an infested city? Lots of games have you raid a city to build a base somewhere else, (7D2D, unturned, now Vein, etc.) or just do things in an infested city (Dying Light, RE, etc.) sometimes culminating in some sort of big climax that results in or implies the end of the zombie times, or maybe you just leave, but are there any that have that element of progression where you slowly take more of the map and the zombies aren’t just randomly spawned in a radius around the player regardless of how many you knock down? The closest I have ever found was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.
In violation with rule 1. This is more a question for !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip but there has been many great answers, so I’m leaving it up.
Can be done in Project Zomboid.
It’s not the goal or anything; it’s a hardcore sandbox survival game where you are expected to die. But you can set it up so the zombies do not respawn making a set limit to them, and kill every single one in a city, or even the entire map.
With mods you can even make it so that you can eventually have a return to normalcy.
Adding on to this, you can still have zombies respawn, so long as you barricade the area the game shouldn’t spawn zombies inside.
I’ve not taken back a town or anything, but on one of my longer runs with respawns off you can clear out a pretty big area over time. It slowly goes from a zombie game to a life sim.
Cataclysm DDA. It’s a roguelike zombie survival game with an extensive crafting system. Not sure exactly if this meets your criteria, it has no new spawning zombies. You can kill all the zombies, but the city doesnt get repopulated with people.
In my current game i’ve nearly completely cleared the nearest city and have reclaimed a farmstead on the outskirts and installed solar panels and have livestock and vegetables planted.
I tried CDDA for the first time just recently. I get the feeling i’m going to need to learn a lot. Interesting that it has that element though.
You could probably accomplish this in Project Zomboid by messing with the sandbox settings a bit.
I haven’t tried Zomboid yet. I might have to move it up the priority list.
It’s surprisingly decent. I avoided it because I really don’t like isometric games and it seemed really janky for a modern title, but it was pretty fun once I got the hang of it. Unfortunately it’s not quite finished and missing a decent amount of features. The next beta adds a ton to the game but multiplayer isn’t stable yet and thus isn’t available without mods, which is unfortunate because the game is much better with friends.
If the game is the sort of thing you’re super into, it’s worth picking up now. Otherwise waiting for the stable beta 43 would probably be the play.
To be fair, calling Project Zomboid unfinished is like calling Dwarf Fortress unfinished. Zomboid’s feature set in its current state for Build 41 is already much higher than the feature sets of a lot of “finished” games on the market, so even though the developers consider it unfinished, an average player could have a hard time seeing it as unfinished.
If an update dropped that said something like:
- Fixed a bug where cats would get sick and die inside a home causing all of the home’s inhabitants to die because the cat ate the eyelids of a fish that was swimming in poisoned wine 17 hours beforehand
That’s the kind of update you expect from a game like Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, and Project Zomboid.
The thing I took issue with is the crafting system is NOT fleshed out in b41. I spent so much time gathering materials and leveling up tailoring, and now I can… Add patches to clothing. There’s hardly any equipment you can make for yourself, forcing you to scavenge everything. I know they added a ton in b42 and I’m hype for the stable, but right now once you hit a certain point the game feels hollow.
Multiplayer works great for me modless. It is absolutely available. When is the last time you played?
Multiplayer is not available in Unstable Build 42. It is unstable and requires mods to use in Build 42.
Still perfectly playable in Build 41 though.
Ohhhhhhhhhh, I misunderstood. Didn’t realize build 42 unstable was playable now, nice!
This is a good disclaimer for what is, at the end of the day, an unfinished project. It’s well worth it for me though, but then again I don’t mind playing solo.
I’d really recommend diving heavily into Zombie. I keep meaning to. Vein feels like the 1st/3rd person version of Zomboid, except that Vein is not nearly so feature-rich (yet).
My ideal would be a game that feels like the exploration and scavenging elements of The Walking Dead. I don’t especially need fast crazy zombies, but I do want them blend in with the debris of the world when torpid, furniture like bookshelves knocked over and possibly Zs hiding under there, etc. Can’t just walk into a bookstore and have easy sightlines through half the place and spot every foe before having to deal.
While I’m wishing, the group/colony dynamics of State of Decay 2, base building that at least lets me reinforce/fortify stuff and scrabble up some walls…
was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.
Rebuild 1/2 etc. has reclaiming the city block-by-block. (send your people to scavenge, kill zombies, claim building, or recruit survivors). Only management.
Decision is a top-down 2D shooter series where you claim zones (similar idea as rebuild I guess, more RTS-like elements? can’t remember).
Rebuild 3 is so good. I have finished it like 3 times 👌
I couldn’t remember the name, but Rebuild was the flash game. It had some elements I really liked.
And I have added Decision to my wishlist now. Gotta love some non-isometric top down shenanigans. Might hit the right spot if the other elements are good too.
I unfortunately do not know of anything like this but this is also appropriate to ask in !videogamesuggestions@lemmy.zip
Thanks for the suggestion. Crossposted.
I’ve also been looking for something like this for years. I think I played the same flash game you’re talking about and I’d love to see something like that again!
Rebuild 3 is on steam and mobile too, I think.
maybe infection free zone might be something to look at though its her much a strategy game unto them
Interesting. Adding it to the list.
There’s the Rebirth mod available for 7 Days to Die, which has a Purge varient where you have to clear the remaining zombies from all the POI’s. Ramsay recently released the 2.0 version, which I haven’t tried, but should be updated for all the changes that have been made to the vanilla game.
atom zombie smasher
more coutryside, but “state of decay” 1 and 2 fits the bill otherwise imo
