I'm a huge fan of hard core strategy, tactics and survival games... perhaps, this would be a side effect of my age slowing down my reflexes. However, I've always been more interested in the more cerebral types of gaming rather than the twitch reflex sorts...

Project Zomboid is a game that I've been following for quite some time while it was in Early Access. However, as is my habit for all these games.. I don't play during the Early Access (I buy them, to support the developer, but I have no desire to be a guinea pig!). Well, Project Zomboid exited Early Access quite some ago... but it has been sitting on my to-play list for a very very long time as well....

An highly realistic Zombie apocalypse survival sim is just right up my alley in terms of games and game mechanics that I enjoy!

This is splash screen as the game loads up... oh yes, this is promising the hard-core experience that I so enjoy. Emergent story and the struggle against all odds... no hand holding!

First Death

Finding food (and weapons) is pretty high on the list of things to be doing as soon as possible... as is crafting materials to be able to fortify yourself. It's pretty overwhelming... being the only human in a town overrun by zombies...you really do get the impression that every hideout is only going to be a temporary shelter. I wonder how this game would play as a multiplayer... there is an option for it... I guess I should try and see if I can get my neighbour interested in the game!

Things were going pretty well... I had found a motel with a second floor with only one stairwell for access... I took up residence in the last room on the landing, and it made for a pretty defensible sort of place... A great base to go out hunting for food and that sort of thing.

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to find much in the way of crafting materials... but I did find pistols and shotguns... which made for a nice feeling of security....

However, one point of access means one point of exit... and after being woken in the middle of the night by zombies banging on the door... I had to quickly dispatch them with firearms... which meant noise... and then a flood of zombies... I made my last stand in the toilets... ran out of ammo, then finally broke all my melee weapons... and went down....

Second Death

On this run, I had much less weapons... but a great two story house to begin with. I had a much better scouting in terms of crafting materials... which meant that I could barricade up the lower floor windows and also the doors. I made this rope on the second floor to be the method of accessing the top floor (the bottom was impossible unless you bashed your way in...)...

Unfortunately, on one of my scouting runs... I managed to set off a security alarm... which brought a ton of zombies running in onto my position. No problem, I legged it back to home... however, to throw them off the scent of my base of operations, I looped past my actual base... losing the horde on the way, before heading home.

Unfortunately, one straggler zombie had destroyed my rope into the house... which meant that I needed to smash the barricades that blocked the access to the lower floors... which attracted the attention of a nearby group...

... down I go... and things were going much better this time....

I LOVE THIS GAME!

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