Base building and survivor management
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews
“The base building is simple, yet very enjoyable as well.”
Steam review · 68 h played ↗
State of Decay
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Very Positive · 84%Very Positive · 84%Undead Labs2013Survival · Action · RPG
The verdict
A tense open-world zombie survival game about managing a community, scavenging and permadeath. Skip it if you want polish, variety or co-op, or if you'd rather play the sequel.
Great for
Players who enjoy scavenging, base management and tense permadeath survival, and can forgive dated, janky design
Main risk
Missions and the loop turn repetitive fast, and the game is dated, buggy and crash-prone
What players love
Tense scavenging and survival atmosphere
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“the constant tension of survival vs. looting makes the scavenging runs really enjoyable”
Steam review · 61.9 h played ↗
Community management with permadeath
Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews
“When you loose one of characters, it hurts, this character is gone.”
Steam review · 19.4 h played ↗
Open world sandbox that keeps living
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 positive reviews
“The game is a Sandbox, things happen if you are playing or not.”
Steam review · 59.8 h played ↗
Better than the sequel / holds up as a classic
Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews
“Definitely way better than the sequel.”
Steam review · 125.1 h played ↗
Fun driving and combat against zombies
Mentioned in ~1 in 17 positive reviews
“Hooning down the road and slapping zombies from behind with the car door is the peak of this game.”
Steam review · 1.6 h played ↗
What players complain about
Developer resold patched version as Year One
Mentioned in ~2 in 5 negative reviews
“they released a new version of the game called "year one survival edition", which is just a patched version of the game with the dlc in it plus a few very minor gameplay additions, and dropped all support for their existing customers”
Steam review · 62.2 h played ↗
Crashes, bugs and poor optimization
Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews
“the constant crashing is just unbearable and makes it impossible to play”
Steam review · 11.6 h played ↗
Repetitive missions and gameplay loop
Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews
“But then you realize that you will be doing the previous 4 hours repeatedly until the end of the game”
Steam review · 7.8 h played ↗
Clunky controls and animations
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“Controls are sloppy and not intuitive at all.”
Steam review · 8.2 h played ↗
Dated, blurry graphics and poor resolution support
Mentioned in ~1 in 12 negative reviews
“everything is blurry and pixelated, detail is awful, and the menu doesn't even stretch to the monitor.”
Steam review · translated · 29.3 h played ↗
Shallow systems and weak story
Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews
“every one of those things is so shallow that the game devolves into running for your life more often than not”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗
System requirements
From the Steam store page
Steam Deck: VerifiedController support3 GB
Minimum
OSXP SP3
ProcessorCore 2 Duo 2.4GHz (E6600) / Athlon X64 3400
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon HD 2600 XT / GeForce 9600 GSO / Intel HD 3000
Storage3 GB available space
Recommended
OSWindows 7
ProcessorIntel Core i5 series or equivalent
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon HD 4750 / GeForce GT 240 / Intel HD 4000
Storage3 GB available space
OSXP SP3
ProcessorCore 2 Duo 2.4GHz (E6600) / Athlon X64 3400
Memory2 GB RAM
GraphicsRadeon HD 2600 XT / GeForce 9600 GSO / Intel HD 3000
Storage3 GB available space
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