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Tip of my Joystick - Find games by describing it.

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This community is to find that game you can't remember. Like it's on the tip of your tongue.

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Not specific, just want to know if this even exists: a city clearing zombie game (lemmings.world)
submitted 12 hours ago by Sunsofold@lemmings.world to c/TipOfMyJoystick@retrolemmy.com
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Has anyone made a zombie game where you actually clear/retake an infested city? Lots of games have you raid a city to build a base somewhere else, (7D2D, unturned, now Vein, etc.) or just do things in an infested city (Dying Light, RE, etc.) sometimes culminating in some sort of big climax that results in or implies the end of the zombie times, or maybe you just leave, but are there any that have that element of progression where you slowly take more of the map and the zombies aren't just randomly spawned in a radius around the player regardless of how many you knock down? The closest I have ever found was an old flash game from when those were a thing, based around worker placement and resource management.

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[–] RightHandOfIkaros@lemmy.world 4 points 7 hours ago

To be fair, calling Project Zomboid unfinished is like calling Dwarf Fortress unfinished. Zomboid's feature set in its current state for Build 41 is already much higher than the feature sets of a lot of "finished" games on the market, so even though the developers consider it unfinished, an average player could have a hard time seeing it as unfinished.

If an update dropped that said something like:

  • Fixed a bug where cats would get sick and die inside a home causing all of the home's inhabitants to die because the cat ate the eyelids of a fish that was swimming in poisoned wine 17 hours beforehand

That's the kind of update you expect from a game like Dwarf Fortress, Cataclysm Dark Days Ahead, and Project Zomboid.