Project Zomboid!

(Image taken from Project Zomboid main site)

A game called "Project Zomboid" was brought to my attention a week or so ago from a friend on a forum website. The game takes old school style zombies (slow, dumb, and swarm you), and puts in rpg style survival elements. The game is currently only in alpha, but I'll be damned if what I've played in just the pre-alpha piece of beautiful crap demo isn't fun as hell.

I have a couple of minor playthroughs already done posted (although they are pretty informal, they show a little bit of how fun the game is, even in the extremely limited state the game is in now), so I'll just copy and paste them here for the sake of being lazy. One thing to note about the game, and one thing I actually kind of like, is how they setup how the game is supposed to play. You will die. There is no escaping death in this game. There is no secret magical cure. There is no rescue coming for you. You are going to die. No exceptions. The point of the game, is to try and live as long as possible, hoping for some way to continue life.

1st try -"I died before getting the soup, cuz when I was trying to make the soup zombies fucking PLOWED into the door. I only saw a few running around outside, when the door broke, fucking there were TONS. So I had a shoot out with a shotgun I found for a while, beat the shit out of zombies with a hammer, and then eventually died after I killed all the zombies. While holding a bowl of uncooked soup and a shit ton of other food."

2nd try - "I ended up not barricading the windows, but only the doors, so the zombies saw me while I was making soup and were banging on the doors hardcore. So I turned the oven off and went upstairs to listen to the radio. After that I just decided to barricade the room door and hope for the best. The trick that someone else said to stop the looter didn't work, and he still came in. I guess it's because I went to sleep. Either way, we had a quick draw, and he won."

3rd try - "When I was making the soup, I was standing in front of the stove to see the soup cook. The radio was going off upstairs, and then the wife talks to me as if I'm upstairs listening with her asking me if I turned off the stove.... I figured it wouldn't catch fire if I was there. So. Fire starts. I panic a bit, zombies start coming to the back door, I run up the stairs, start dragging my wife down the stairs to the front door. I un-barricade the front door, and zombies just PLOW in while I try to fight back with a hammer"

4th try - "Everything goes well. I turn off stove, go up, barricade door. Un barricade door, go back down, and the looter comes up. I put my hammer away cuz he tells me to. The long conversation goes by, and he starts talking about how my wife's leg looks like it was bit and is talking about killing her. I charge at him with the hammer and hit him out the window by the bed. I then spend the next 7 days running around town finding a bunch of food, pills, and whiskey. I also find an axe and a crap ton of shotgun shells. But I never found a shotgun. I go around town, I tried to make a molotov, but couldn't find any gas. I would of figured you could of just used the alcohol to make a little one at least. Maybe later. Either way, I end up going to the wrong side of town, because there are a bunch of zombies on the west side apparently. I try to fight a zombie with my axe, but he ends up injuring me (after I beat the shit out of 50 or something?). I try limping away to use painkillers and eat some food, but I just end up running into more and ended up dying in the yard where we were staying."

5th try - "My most recent playthrough, was pretty much the same, but when the radio was playing the news, I just went back downstairs halfway through, and was looking out the window for zombies in another room. I saw when the looter came in (I could see the front door open), and then I saw he opened the bathroom door next to me (all while still in the front room [it had a door but I didn't barricade it or anything]). Either way, he eventually walked up the stairs it seems, because he started talking with my wife. They have a little conversation that starts with him asking if there is anyone else, but she say's "Nope, just poor little old me" or something like that. It seemed like the conversation was leading towards him wanting to rape her, so I snuck into the room (I snuck up the stairs when they first started talking), and bashed the back of his head open with the hammer.
I end up dying pretty early in this run through, because I try to carry a lot of stuff back, but end up getting exhausted easily (since I'm carrying so much stuff). So I'm trying to run away from zombies, but I can only kinda power walk until I get tired. Then I start walking slow, and if I don't stop (because I'm carrying a lot), I end up walking even slower. So. I make it back to the house, but zombies start lining up outside and banging on the doors. I stay inside the house and the barricades hold for another day or so. I end up having a shoot out with the shotgun, but die a horrible death because there were just sooooooo many of them. I actually had another shoot out earlier in another house. I had attracted a lot of zombies with my flashlight (it was midnightish =/), and the house I went into didn't have a back door. That first shoot out was the beginning of the end though, because it just ended up attracting more zombies when I tried to book it home."

Needless to say, the game is really fun, even with the extremely limited alpha we can play now. I spent the measly 5 euros (~8 bucks in US Dollars) to pre-purchase the game, and have updates available to me when they come out (sort of like how minecraft works right now). They used to have a cloud server with the up to date game, but some crap happened with pirates and costing them server load money and they had to take the site down until they could implement a login feature for updating. Currently waiting on that to come out, but I honestly can't wait to see everything else in the game.

They have tons of features listed already in the game, as well as features they want to put in such as co-op multiplayer. I can't really say everything about the game here other than what I have, because otherwise I'm just going to end up copy pasta from their site here, so I'll just give the link to their site! I hope I made some other people interested in the great zombie game!

http://www.projectzomboid.com/