Infection Free Zone

i l o v e this game 10/10

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It's a ton of fun having to survive and build a colony in your neighborhood which you can select from the real world map and is very accurate compared to real life. Shops IRL show up as shops in game, pharmacies show as pharmacies and so on. The progress has a good pace which you can feel you influence to a great extent by your decisions. You often encounter various little stories or "quests", which have nice voice acting and contribute to the experience. I like that the game doesn't hold your hand, you are given objectives whose order isn't the same among playthroughs and you slowly go day by day, improving your colony. I'm enjoying the game despite some of its shortcomings, which are in my experience, mainly bugs and lack of QoL. I'd expect the amount of bugs to be severely reduced after this game being over 2 years out in EA, especially in pathing of your military units (squads) or infected randomly popping through your walls because for some reason the game doesn't consider the walls snapped together "well enough". I'm missing some QoL such as being able to assign units (squads) to hotkeys, being able to navigate them (let's say by double tapping that hotkey), being able to quickly hop to your base with a single button if you are zoomed out (currently it's a two step process) and so on. It's an RTS to an extent, so I'd expect some modern RTS QoL/features to be introduced. I'm missing some features such as being able to park your cars in the mechanics shop, being able to upgrade buildings (shelter to a house, wooden tower to a metal tower) and especially swapping gear between squads is currently very tedious. Overall I think the devs nailed a lot of things.