Project Zomboid

[h1] LOVE THE GAME, HATE THE DEV [/h1] Has the best mechanics of any zombie survival game and will hands down take up more of my time to come. There is a learning curve and you will consider refunding the game. It is not the game it is your fault. you're running too much and making bad choices. The game is so realistic that you need to think through your actions and plan ahead every step of the way. Love the game [u] BUT [/u] This game is nothing without the moding community. This game will never come out of early access because they want to continue using the excuse of an early access game when they release unfinished updates. There may be an actual update once every 2-4 years, and it will feel like christmas and take the internet over for a short while, but it will have so many bugs that you will have to wait another year or so for the dev to fix the broken game. In that time mods will come out and you will rely on them and the dev wont fix any real issues but your mods will still be broken For those commenting, I have attached my specs now. I do not claim to have the best PC in the world, but with a setup like mine, the optimization for the game is lackluster. A game with these graphics suffers from poor optimization. it has been out for [b][u]OVER A DECADE[/u][/b] it has no excuse.

I know, I know. "600+ hours and you're voting no on recommending this game?" Sure, take that data point however you want. Build 42 is an unstable mess. Delivered years behind schedule by a team that makes huge promises they can't deliver, and still in a barely playable state. I'm posting this review after spending 20+ hours running a hosted multi-player rife with bugs, finally culminating in a game that crashed on load every time. This is with zero mods installed, an AMD Ryzen 7 9800x3d, and 32gb of RAM. After fifteen years of development it's really unacceptable that the base game is still in this state. Constant desync issues, lag, zombie target stuttering, vanishing vehicles, disappearing clothes, animation glitches that lead to player death (I've played hundreds of hours, I know the difference between a glitch and a skill issue). I'm even going to ignore the fact that Build 42 turned the "tedium simulator" aspect of the game up ten notches, because that's more subjective than the basic level this review is getting at. The game is too buggy to be reliable, and therefore too buggy to be enjoyable. It's been fifteen years. Fix your ****.

Buggy, and I understand its supposed to be see how long you live, but why can't it have a save feature. Like if I want to play and not have to start a new guy every time why can't I. Randomly dropped dead from bleeding out despite no inquires, couldn't stop it died and no way to fix it other then start new. One of the better survival zombies, but the game just feels like it hates it players and wants to punish them and waste their time.

the game is good the devs are toxic. horrible community management.