
They often have personal missions to follow, a lovely touch that delivers more interesting quests than the escalating waves of zombies that the game’s story throws at you.

These characters have useful skills, but peccadillos, too: my leader is a coffee fiend whose bean skills keep everyone alert, but he’s also a depressive and grumbles a lot, lowering morale. Rather than playing as some solo Bruce Campbell, you regularly switch between members of a group. but State of Decay 2’s big idea is community.

Zombies have taken over the world, the desperate remnants of humanity gather together to stake out a new life. Easy as it is to look at yet another zombie apocalypse survival game and see only the generic elements, State of Decay 2 tries hard to stand out from the groaning, flesh-hungry crowd.
