It's one of those junk messes that is highly addictive due to its open world/looting/surviving and tower defense nature and it's still on alpha stage despite being officialy released.
I will start off with the good ones:
-A good amount of different traps to set up your base and expand your creativity.
-Good RPG system that actually makes difference, numbers aren't artificial.*
-Huge variety of zombies and specials.
-Good gore.
-Good fighting.*
-Good bosses.
-Huge amount of sub-quests.
-Good looting due to the fact that almost every single thing is harvestable.
-Customization (like in general, weapons, difficulty etc)
-No forced always online crap.
-Singleplayer save can be transfered to multiplayer and vice versa.
-Not many game-breaking bugs (if at all)
-Ranged weapons are useful.
Let's move on to the bad ones:
-Terrible optimization.
-Bad graphics overall.
-Aesthetics are non existent.
-Companions are horrible, they always glitch somewhere, have horrible voice acting, and they repeat the same cringy dialogues. In fights they die in seconds even if you max their vitality, and in most dungeons they get stuck to a loop if a trap catches them. They could be somewhat useful if you could order them to do certain chores like riding an electric bike to provide electricity, but the only options you have is to either send them to loot synthetic objects, to not fight, to join other teams and to use ranged weapons. Pretty poor and worthless options. I left my 2 companions die and never return, eradicated from the game by letting them starve when they were downed. Now I level up way faster and everything is way easier ironically.
-Crafting system is questionable, too many different things required for simple walls, and too many interactions to get simple items. It gets annoying after a while.
-Animations are laughable. The game seriously needs more polish.
-*Fighting is good, unless you go in a dungeon (which is the most interesting place) or in close buildings. Why you may ask? Because for some reason the developers thought giving weapons collision and bouncing off walls was a good idea. You cannot execute a horizontal melee attack if the weapon doesn't have "room to breathe". And you guessed it, 99% of melee weapons have horizontal attacks. The 2-3 that don't are very bad both in damage and crowd control.
-*Stat numbers aren't artificial up to a point. After 80-90 strength for example, you don't deal more damage. Zombies takes the same number of hits before they go down no matter what. I currently have 144 strength, maxed out unique tier (best tier) melee with +78% dmg and +80 raw dmg passive (+345 base stats dmg) and I literally don't see any difference in killing zombies. What's the point? Yes I know, raw dmg without critical is nothing, but I have 50%+ critical dmg, something I didn't have at 90 strength btw... So why it feels exactly the same?
At first I thought that zombies' hp may scale right? yea..That was until I got my attention up to 74. Attention (if I remember correctly) gives you movement speed. I had around 40 and I was really fast. At 74 I thought I would no longer need vehicles. Guess what happens...Literally nothing, I moved at the exact same speed as before, or I got such an unsignificant amount that it didn't matter... But 34 points should make a difference right? It sure as hell made a huge impact from 20 to 25.
All in all the game is an asset flip with a lot problems but it still works and it still is addictive as all hell, I would recommend even at full price. Developers tried, they did good at fundementals but just got tired near the end and said "f*ck it, release it".
[b] Overall: [/b] 6/10
