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Steam’s Most-Hyped Zombie Game Is Out, And It’s A Dumpster Fire
https://kotaku.com/day-before-steam-zombie-reviews-survival-horror-1851082164
https://kotaku.com/day-before-steam-zombie-reviews-survival-horror-1851082164
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"Quality content draws eyeballs. So do car crashes."
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28 Comments
NewPerspective@lemmy.world · 94 pts · 2y
The game is "The Day Before"
Droechai@lemm.ee · 4 pts · 2y
I guess a zombie game where you play the 24 hours before patient zero gets sick, like an evil medicine lab simulator who got a 24 hour deadline to produce the first viable zombie or get shut down by the evil investors
SLGC@lemmy.world · 77 pts · 2y
First I've heard of it lol
echodot@feddit.uk · 18 pts · 2y
Yeah well just because you haven't heard of it and no one's heard of it doesn't mean that it wasn't hyped, It just means it wasn't typed very effectively.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 11 pts · 2y
I accidentally heard about it a month ago and watched a bunch of videos about the studio and the game. Pretty interesting, and i was really looking forward to see how bad it is. I was kinda surprised how big the following of the game is, and most people i know have no idea that the game exists
ShadowRam@kbin.social · 49 pts · 2y
Most-Hyped?
Since when?
Breakyfix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 56 pts · 2y
It was the most wishlisted game on Steam for almost a year. It was the second most wishlisted at the time of launch.
It's all very sus, probably inflated by bots
SkyeStarfall@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 32 pts · 2y
Which is interesting because I literally have not heard of it before today.
And looking at the current list, I know about the 6 current top wishlisted games.
ABCDE@lemmy.world · 42 pts · 2y
Why is it "Steam's"? The article is as bad as the game supposedly is.
Breakyfix@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 17 pts · 2y
The 'hype' was the amount of Steam wishlists it got being insanely high. It's all very sus, probably inflated by bot accounts
SwiggitySwole@lemm.ee · 3 pts · 2y
I know a handful of people who thought it looked like an impending disaster and gave it a wishlist so they could see the early negative reviews pour in
GrammatonCleric@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Sylvartas@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Because it was allegedly the most wishlisted game on steam at one point
GBU_28@lemm.ee · 33 pts · 2y
Project zomboid is just fine
Ghostlight@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
Being called a dumpster fire is being very generous.
BruceTwarzen@kbin.social · 2 pts · 2y
I watched just some gameplay, and it's still better than i expected. So that's a plus i guess.
slaacaa@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
Huh, so turns out the game does exist - though it seems it shouldn’t
c0mbatbag3l@lemmy.world · 16 pts · 2y
The day before refund.
DigitalPaperTrail@kbin.social · 15 pts · 2y
tristan@aussie.zone · 10 pts · 2y
9800 reviews so far and only 15% positive
MrDodel@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
I almost clicked the buy button, glad I didn't.
x4740N@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
12ft.io/https://kotaku.com/day-before-steam-zombie-reviews-survival-horror-1851082164
rishado@lemmy.world · -5 pts · 2y
Zombie media is trash in general. If you're a shit writer, zombies are for you. Not surprised when that's the main selling point.
Toneswirly@lemmy.world · 22 pts · 2y
Zombies are just a sauce on top of the storytelling. Something is not bad just because it has tropes you recognize from other bad things.
Good Zombie Games are aplenty: Left 4 Dead Project Zomboid 7 Days To Die Plants Vs Zombies Day Z State of Decay (ish)
Rose@lemmy.world · 4 pts · 2y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma
Toneswirly@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 2y
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pedant
It was actually a format issue with lemmy. My comment had line breaks after each game name, like a list, but the format didn't keep. Now get off me nuts
rishado@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
Agreed but zombies make it too easy for shit writing to succeed. Zombies are slow, fast, smart, brainless, loud, quiet, strong, weak, all at the plot's convenience.
wahming@monyet.cc · 14 pts · 2y
There's a ton of quality zombie media, the subject has nothing to do with the quality of the authors.
Cybersteel@lemmy.world · 1 pts · 2y
The best ones are more about the human stories.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk · 4 pts · 2y
They seem pretty late to the party.