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Steam’s Most-Hyped Zombie Game Is Out, And It’s A Dumpster Fire
Submitted 11 months ago by Gork@lemm.ee to games@lemmy.world
https://kotaku.com/day-before-steam-zombie-reviews-survival-horror-1851082164
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SLGC@lemmy.world 11 months ago
echodot@feddit.uk 11 months ago
Yeah well just because you haven’t heard of it and no one’s heard of it doesn’t mean that it wasn’t hyped, It just means it wasn’t typed very effectively.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 11 months ago
I accidentally heard about it a month ago and watched a bunch of videos about the studio and the game. Pretty interesting, and i was really looking forward to see how bad it is. I was kinda surprised how big the following of the game is, and most people i know have no idea that the game exists
ShadowRam@kbin.social 11 months ago
Most-Hyped?
Since when?
Breakyfix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
It was the most wishlisted game on Steam for almost a year. It was the second most wishlisted at the time of launch.
It’s all very sus, probably inflated by bots
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
Which is interesting because I literally have not heard of it before today.
ABCDE@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Why is it “Steam’s”? The article is as bad as the game supposedly is.
Breakyfix@lemmy.blahaj.zone 11 months ago
The ‘hype’ was the amount of Steam wishlists it got being insanely high. It’s all very sus, probably inflated by bot accounts
SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I know a handful of people who thought it looked like an impending disaster and gave it a wishlist so they could see the early negative reviews pour in
Sylvartas@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Because it was the most wishlisted game on steam at one point
GBU_28@lemm.ee 11 months ago
Project zomboid is just fine
Ghostlight@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Being called a dumpster fire is being very generous.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social 11 months ago
I watched just some gameplay, and it's still better than i expected. So that's a plus i guess.
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The day before refund.
DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social 11 months ago
ooo boy, I don't remember the last time I came across a new game at that price point with "overwhelmingly negative"
slaacaa@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Huh, so turns out the game does exist - though it seems it shouldn’t
rishado@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zombie media is trash in general. If you’re a shit writer, zombies are for you. Not surprised when that’s the main selling point.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Zombies are just a sauce on top of the storytelling. Something is not bad just because it has tropes you recognize from other bad things.
Good Zombie Games are aplenty: Left 4 Dead Project Zomboid 7 Days To Die Plants Vs Zombies Day Z State of Decay (ish)
rishado@lemmy.world 11 months ago
Agreed but zombies make it too easy for shit writing to succeed. Zombies are slow, fast, smart, brainless, loud, quiet, strong, weak, all at the plot’s convenience.
wahming@monyet.cc 11 months ago
There’s a ton of quality zombie media, the subject has nothing to do with the quality of the authors.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The best ones are more about the human stories.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 11 months ago
They seem pretty late to the party.
tristan@aussie.zone 11 months ago
9800 reviews so far and only 15% positive
MrDodel@lemmy.world 11 months ago
I almost clicked the buy button, glad I didn’t.
x4740N@lemmy.world 11 months ago
NewPerspective@lemmy.world 11 months ago
The game is “The Day Before”
Droechai@lemm.ee 11 months ago
I guess a zombie game where you play the 24 hours before patient zero gets sick, like an evil medicine lab simulator who got a 24 hour deadline to produce the first viable zombie or get shut down by the evil investors