Zpocalypse: Survival is a game about exploration and survival in a gritty post-nuclear zombie apocalypse setting. Your job is to help a group of survivors attempt to eke out an existence and build a place for themselves in a brutal world. You will need to scavenge for supplies and food, find and fortify a shelter, recruit other survivors to your cause, defend your people, and attempt to grow and expand, facing challenges every step of the way.
We have been working on developing Zpocalypse: Survival over the last 19 months.
You will recruit, train, and lead a squad of flawed survivors through broken cities and beyond. You’ll battle not only undead and human foes, but stress, disease, internal conflict and the dangers of a post-nuclear world. Uncover stories and journals from the past while learning more about the cause of the apocalypse, and pit the survivors against an array of foes with a real-time and tactical pause combat system.
You will have to tend to characters’ spirits as much as you do to their Hit Points. Zpocalypse Survival is not a game where every survivor wins the day with useful gear and a happy disposition. It is a game about hard trade-offs, endurance, and surviving as long as you can.
Do you have what it takes to survive in the destroyed world of Zpocalypse Survival?
FEATURES:
- The Morale & Humanity System – survivors’ personalities, their likes and dislikes matter! Contend with paranoia, aggressiveness, fear, irrationality, and a host of other gameplay-meaningful characteristics
- A sandbox world with full 3D environments and characters that you can interact with in multiple ways
- Real-time combat with tactical pause allows you to think strategically when the situation warrants it
- Classic CRPG and roguelike features, including meaningful permadeath, procedural environments, and incredible replayability
- A deep game world featuring tons of unique playable character backgroundssuch as the cop, the athlete, the white-collar worker and more
- Select your starting gear, gender, appearance, and more with our custom character creation
- Base building and defense – build a place to survive, rest and defend against the threats that come at night. Manage your survivors and their activities while you are out exploring.
Build someplace safe to survive, manage your survivors tasks while at base and help increase their morale by giving them some down time, defend against the horrors of the night from behind the safty of your walls, doors, and traps.
After something has gone horribly wrong in the bunker you are thrown back into the brutal world once again. Without someplace secure you won’t last long when nightfall sets and the undead become more active and aggressive. As you explore, scavenge and recruit more survivors you will be able to build a base anywhere in the world you please. Setup a base in the middle of town where you might attract more zombies but you will have a solid framework to build upon? Or go out into the woods and start from scratch, attracting less attention but having much more work to do in order to have a defensible position? Yet again your choices will drive the gameplay experience!
As you recruit more survivors to your cause, leave some behind at your base and let them continue to work on the base, research new things, train other survivors to improve their skills and rest from their physical and mental injuries while you take your squad out to explore . As night falls, make your way back home to defend what you have built. The undead are attracted to the light, noise and activity at your base. Did you spend enough time reinforcing the walls, setting up new traps, and arming your survivors for the almost certain undead hordes? When they come, and they always come, get all of your survivors involved in defending the base and holding back the undead for just one more day!
Use the light of day while it lasts, investigate the ruins of a destroyed town, avoid environmental dangers and scavenge for what you need to survive…
The undead aren’t your only adversary. The world itself is a dangerous place not to mention other potentially hostile survivors. However, in order to make it you must brave your harsh surroundings looking for supplies, gear and hopefully other survivors that might be worth recruiting.
Inspired by classic Roguelikes, you’ll work your way through the procedurally generated town in pursuit of your goal. Though once again with Zpocalypse Survival, party composition remains a crucial consideration! Do you bring your brightest survivors with you to try and find more gear leaving work or research at your base to get completed at a slower pace? Or maybe bring all your melee fighters who are proficient at keeping out of sight and quite to avoid as many threats as you can along the way? As always, your choices matter.
Some of the biggest hazards come from your own party. Infighting, breakdowns, and unpredictable behavior driven by stress and more will all effect your decisions on the best group of survivors to bring along. A need for revenge on the undead may cause a survivor to abandon the group in search of as many zombies as they can kill. A sudden deep fear of death may drive another survivor to panic and flee, leaving you to fend for yourself or worse attracting unwanted attention…
Real survival is not only about blowing up zombies or other survivors. It’s about scavenging and base building and just trying to make it to the next day. When you have to fight though make sure you have some friends with you!
Fast paced and strategic or slower paced and tactical, combat in Zpocalypse Survival combines real-time action with tactical pause design. Keep the action lively while in real-time dealing with the situation as it unfolds or take a moment to pause and consider your options assigning more tactical options to deal with the situation at hand. Party composition is crucial for avoiding combat when needed or setting up attacks while trying to reduce your own casualties. At all times, you must juggle the need to do damage with the importance of protecting your survivors and avoiding making the situation worse by attracting more enemies.
The post-apocalyptic world is a dangerous place but with our full 3D environments you have a lot of different options when forced to fight. Use distraction methods to avoid combat or setup the perfect ambush. Build traps to help keep the undead from overwhelming you. Barricade choke points to even the score with your limited ammunition and supplies.
As survivors progress they will learn how to fight against the ever present undead better while also learning how to work with their squad more efficiently. Learn to construct and manage the right combination of characters and abilities to become an effective fighting force or a stealthy scouting squad!
Permadeath gives extra weight to each decision, and makes sacrifices matter.
Every event affects your heroes’ morale and their humanity, or how they perceive you and the world they live in. What will happen when they reach their breaking point, or they don’t agree with your decisions?
Survivors in Zpocalypse Survival are not the zombie killing machines of other games to which you might be accustomed. While they are certainly tough and capable, they are also very human: they will respond emotionally to the horrors they encounter. They get stressed, develop phobias, have their own agenda, and deal with situations differently. Their abilities evolve based on their experiences in the world, back at base and through your leadership. On top of this, you will need to make sure you recruit survivors that can not only help you out, but won’t cause issues with your other survivors or drag down everyone’s mood.
Survivors’ morale and humanity respond dynamically to events in the world and back at base. Seeing your best friend eaten by the undead may lower your morale and unnerve one survivor, or may fuel anothers rage driving them to an undead killing spree. If the pressures become too overwhelming, they may start to lose their humanity, and they will become depressed, paranoid, panicked, sadistic, or worse.
Survivors with morale or humanity in the extremes, both low and high, will act out in a variety of ways that impact the play experience during combat, exploration, base building, and base defense. You will have to decide how to lead your survivors and deal with their ups and downs.
Consider the needs of your survivors carefully before sending them out to explore – the consequences of your actions could be severe, and are likely permanent.
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