welcome to the forums, Im excited by this new gog in development addition. :-)


this game reminds me of This War of Mine with zomboids. how cool is that

Thankyou - and also thankyou to everyone else for being welcoming who I didn't reply to specifically <3

Absolutely love it - by far the best zombie survival game in many ways.
As to starting up, theres lots of options (including challenge and sandbox modes - the latter of which you can tweak the settings of). Theres also some introductory modes (such as a "week one infection" start). There WAS a tutorial a good long time ago, but due to some issues they removed NPCs - apprently these are set to return soon.


Edit: also, this game is VERY RARELY WELL DISCOUNTED. If you're on the fence, but have the cash spare... might want to consider both that, and the fact the price is likely to increase after its complete.

thanks for the info.... I just got it. wish me luck!

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Thanks for taking the step and bringing your game over to GOG. Hopefully more developers will follow suit.

It really is an awesome game, good luck! You're gonna need it ;)

thanks mate

Question to those who have tried both: How does this compare to Dead State? Seems like this is more of a survival/sandbox style game, with little story or dialogue? Is the combat any good? I like Dead State, but the combat got pretty boring and repetitive after a while. Also, how far along is its development?

I haven't played Dead State, but I'll try to answer anyway if you don't mind :)
It is a survival sandbox game with little story and zero dialogue (unless you play multiplayer or wait for the promised npcs). The combat is realtime and pretty good I think. It feels convincing. For instance, you tire quickly in the beginning, depending on your character, and you can easily be swarmed if you're not careful. But it remains satisfying, and even after 2000+ kills it's still fun to shove a zombie to the ground and stomp its face in. The thing is, it's really easy to get infected from a zombie bite, and even a scratch to a lesser extent. Thus it's only natural to take any combat situation very seriously, since even a small lapse in concentration can net you an unwanted scratch on your forearm, or worse a bite.

It's a game in which it is really easy to roleplay as well. One of my characters kept a diary, and I had the habit of writing in it each night before In I went to sleep. It really enhanced the experience for me.

The game is very far into development and there is enough to do to keep you busy for many consecutive days. If you survive for long enough then you'll probably try to build some sort of permanent base and prepare to survive coming winter months. Considering you can start anywhere on the gigantic map with its myriad of interesting places, and the fact that you'll probably die often in the beginning, you have here a game that will keep you busy for a long time.

The only real things still missing imo, multiplayer scene excluded of which I don't know much, are
* NPCs
* New animations (like wearing a backpack and sneaking)
* some better way of covering the large distances, like a bicycle
* completion of the map (not that you'll come even remotely close to exploring even close to, say, 10% of it in a typical game)

edit: on a more personal preference level, the only other things I would like is prettier water, preferably animated, and more ambient sounds. I might be wrong on the last one though, since I haven't played in a while, and not since build 31 I think. They've added tons of stuff since I last played. Perhaps I just forgot. It's the type of game though that really benefits from well done ambient noises, like zombies growling in the night (if they're somewhat close), rain on the rooftop (depending on roof type) lightning flashes and the like.

just watched the gog stream on this and it was an absolute blast with a partner. lots to do, landscape stays the way you left it when you die, like windows broken open, bodies on ground. it gets very desperate at times. You quickly learn to be quiet and watch lines of sight and take care of wounds fast. you are most definitely not rambo here but a normal person trying to survive. i like that

Can you save at any time?

To add to Matewis - Project Zomboid is dynamic. The world moves on whether your character is active or asleep on the couch (have fun with that). Since everything is real-time and it’s so easy to die, there’s always a frantic edge to combat. It’s scary. The zombies in Dead State feel more like a resource than anything because the rules operating them are upfront, easily quantified and you have all the time in the world to use them to your advantage (by say, luring zombies into a biker gang mwhahaha!).

Absolutely loved the dead state game and always kind of wished that it's map was on the sort of scale that zomboid is.

so its an easy yes purchase for me :D

thanks.