Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape

I remember enjoying this game back in the day. As of this review, The game servers have been shut down. Shame really.

♥♥♥♥ game preservation i guess

I know almost no one will see this message, but I need at least 10 players to play with me. I don't want this game to die. If anyone wants to join, my Discord is: pedrokadus. Please add me there.

[quote][b]Note: Dead PvP game[/b] This game contains no meaningful single player content. There's no viably populated servers/active player population. This game cannot be played as intended.[/quote] This was an attempt from TinyBuild to break into the PvP shooter market with a slightly unusual concept of humans vs zombies, where players get turned into zombies. It failed, not least due to gamer concerns about the unethical business practices of TinyBuild (frequently engaging in industry harmful unethical anti-competitve activity by taking bribes from Tencent backed businesses to withhold their games from Steam but not other platforms). So understandably gamers conscientiously avoid unethical developers like TinyBuild. The game itself was an incoherent and unpolished mess, full of jank, questionable decisions aligned almost purely around future avenues for toxic monetisation... TinyBuild desperately wants to be a live service business. So, "Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape" is a dead PvP game. Why did it fail? It's video game autopsy time! [i]Almost every PvP exclusive game on Steam fails.[/i] Only a tiny proportion of them "go viral". This game failed for many of the same reasons those others fail. The chief of which is the developer thinking that their game will "go viral" without actually creating any reason for it do so. Competition amongst PvP centric games is extreme, and there's only a finite player base to appeal to. This game failed to reach any kind of critical mass and died as a result. Let's go into some of the reasons this particular game failed to appeal to gamers, despite the zero up front cost. First and foremost, there's no meaningful single player content. The developer gambled that other players would be an acceptable substitute for adding storytelling, level design etc to the Game. They lost that bet. Without a huge community of players or single player content to add a lasting value to the game, the game dies. Developers must learn that other players are not an acceptable substitute for adding content to a game. The graphics in this game are passable, but could be better. And while it's vital for any game to have impressive visuals (gaming is a visual medium, after all), there's more to a game than just the graphics. To be worth a gamers time, the game must match top tier visuals with top tier gameplay, and that's not happening here. This game is fairly dated at 7 years old... and even back then it looked old and busted compared to contemporary, professionally made 3D games of the same period. It looked bad then, it looks worse now. Now on to pricing and value for gamers. There's no initial download price, but the developer was charging $15 USD for this. Price barriers, especially on low quality products, can be a direct cause of failure. It seems like a nice gesture for the game to have no up-front cost anymore, but it also tells us that the game wasn't good enough to succeed as a paid product. This is also a bit of a slap in the face to anyone who showed enough questionable judgement to pay money for this... nobody got refunded. All other issues aside (any of which would disqualify this from being worth your time), this is a game that relies on other players for it to be viable, and because there's not enough players, it's not viable. I can't recommend anyone downloads this, it's basically dead.

Была прикольная игра (задумка, cтиль). Жалко что не получилось ничего у игры и сервера ВСЁ.

never even got play the game snice the severs are down, plus the games dead anyway

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