With a bit more polish and a lot more direction, State of Decay could have been an undisputed classic-and not just among a devoted cult of followers. The game’s premise was always sound: like the best zombie fiction, it gives us a window into an egalitarian nightmare-fantasy, where debt and bureaucratic power are wiped away by a threat we can exercise six-gun justice against, largely guilt-free.įew other games strive to be a sandbox where those stories crop up organically. State of Decay’s continued lack of polish is sort of infuriating, and not just for the obvious reasons.
And while I’m still not feeling the fantasy as much as I’d like, the bugs sure are back in full force. The gear shores up your semi-safe headquarters. In State of Decay 2, you smack undead “zeds” around to loot the supply-rich structures they guard. Very little has changed in the half-decade since that original game. Assuming you could stomach the game’s many vicious glitches, that is. True State of Decay fans found the hunt for food and ammo was just a vehicle for ambient stories of post-apocalyptic survival. I remember a straight month where all they wanted to do was whack zombies from a third-person perspective, scrounge vital materials, and maneuver the valuables through menus to keep a playable squad of survivors happy.
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State of Decay will also be sold as an Xbox Play-Anywhere title, as well as cross-play support between Windows 10 and Xbox players. Additionally, the game will also be available to play at no cost to Xbox Game Pass subscribers at the game's release, as with all forthcoming Microsoft Studios titles. At Microsoft's E3 2017 Xbox briefing, it was announced that the game would release in Spring 2018.