Praise Dead

There's a really annoying bug where the gold value doesn't update when purchasing an item, so it looks like you have more gold than you do.

The core idea is really good. The mix of auto battle and economy using zombies is neat. However, the game is also clearly not finished. If it were in early access in this state, I'd understand, but it isn't. I'll give some examples: You create your zombies using multiple organs. (Brain, Heart, Lungs, Liver and Intestines) But there is nothing special about any of them. A zombie made from 5 brains, 5 lungs or a mix can have the same attributes. Is there a bonus, when you use all different organs? Or a malus when you repeat organs? Well, if there is, then I never noticed... This is one of the most important features in the game and it is clearly not done. There are some serious bugs that you can use to cheese the game. Enemies sometimes drop demon parts, which can be used for bonuses. But once you have 4 of them, you can just abuse a bug for infinite gold. The same goes for zombie health and damage. So, yeah: Neat idea for a game, but in it's current state it's at best on par with a beta version. And yes, I realise, that it is very cheap, but it's still unfinished.

So much about this game appealed to me - the dark gory themes, the genre blending, interesting mechanics - but after only a little while Praise Dead's charm wore off and I found myself bored. It feels bad to leave a bad review because of that voice that still wants to like the game, but if I can't even to bring myself to give it another go for the sake of a more 'fair' review, I can't in good faith recommend it.

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[h1]從來不覺得當死靈法師開心過.jpg[/h1] 遊戲內容較少，樂趣只集中在開頭幾個小時，遺物數量也不支持更多的build變化，基本上每一局到了後期都能遺物全拿光。 是可以輕鬆爽玩幾個小時的小品，特價可買，本來是值得推薦的。 [h3]但把Endless Mode也算進來的話，就只能給不推薦了。[/h3] 每個敵人都10000%吸血、90%閃避、87%減傷的，是個什麼玩法？ 這個遊戲沒有命中率這個屬性，不管玩家有多高攻，打不中就是打不中。打中了秒殺不了，10000%吸血馬上就把HP回滿了。 因此所有武器裡只有配合遺物後能必中的弩有使用的價值，但那個攻速是真的感人…… 而玩家的活屍受到最多5個器官和2個裝備的限制，裝備提供的數值也不多，成長的深度很淺。 玩家能做的只有存錢換算HP（遺物效果），屯食物增加僵屍的傷害（遺物效果），拼遺物的50%復活率（遺物效果），以及靠攻擊和復活後的能力值上升把攻擊力和閃避值疊上去（也是遺物效果，上面說過遺物基本上可拿滿）。 又或者玩家可以把活屍的閃避推到80、90%，和對面來激情互閃。 結果，Endless Mode就是拼玩家的運氣，看看是玩家先利用不斷復活把活屍的攻擊力疊上去，再靠爆擊將惡魔秒殺掉，還是復活失敗被惡魔一隻隻打掉，有時候互相打空甚至可以把戰鬥拖到十分鐘以上。每一場戰鬥都變得冗長和沉悶，沒有樂趣可言。 隨機事件方面，Endless Mode的事件沒有奬勵，全是懲罰：扣能量、扣金錢、扣村民，還會天降神罰，把玩家的活屍統統殺掉！啊你老天爺這麼厲害不去殺惡魔，跑來殺我，你是和惡魔一夥的吧？更離譜的是，一定天數後還會出現將封鎖商店的事件，把教堂、武器屋、惡魔屋一個一個的封掉！ 在[b]「凡軀不及開掛，神通不敵天數」[/b]的情況下，我是越玩越感受不到樂趣。

TLDR: It's a nice little game and I give it a cautious recommendation. However be wary that it can get very repetitive and requires a lot of clicking. --- You play as a necromancer in a world in such a turmoil that you are a "good" guy. Using your zombies to protect a village you are trying to survive another day while managing various resources. There are three phases. First, you manage resources you have. You start by getting tax income from the living villagers you have and sometimes you also get an event. You buy new body parts, rebuild your zombies, buy new equipment and relics (passive items)... You can also buy some more general upgrades in various shops. You can also preview the next enemy wave and enrage them for more rewards. Second, you assign your zombies to work in various ways. Building barricades (you lose barricades upon losing a battle, if you reach 0 you lose the run). How effective they are is based on their stats AND randomised "activity slots" which offer a multiplier (at least 1x). So if you see that everything in the field has 1x multiplier this might not be worth it this turn unless you are losing villagers due to hunger. On the other hand, if everything in the mining slots is lik 3-7x you can mine a lot so you prioritise that. Third, the battle. In the first phase you previewed the wave and bought your body parts and equipment. In the second you strengthened you barricades and gained some energy for casting spells. Now you will fight. You set the order in which your zombies march in. You can also cast spells on both friends and enemies before the battle starts (faster attack, more health, decrease damage, deal damage). You then start the battle and intervene with your spells. After the battle you get some stuff depending on whether you won or lost and if the enemy was enraged or boss. Then you go back to the first phase. The artstyle is nice and sound design and music, while somewhat minimal, get the job done. First things first. If you bought the game for being an auto-battler (ie. wanted lighter game play or less clicking) you were mistaken. The battle phase is only a part of the game and it's relatively short. Everything else has to be done by you and it's all very mouse heavy. The only quality of life things there are are that you can enable RMB organ recycling when in one shop, RMG organ placement when building zombies (both of which mean you don't need to drag and drop) and backspace when building zombies disassembles them (hate this one because I activate it all the time when trying to rename zombies instead). There is not that many items or events (although there are quite a few). There are various difficulties and different player characters (sprite + some bonuses and starting items) and meta-progression. But after a few tries, unlocking the next difficulty and the next character (which I didn't use because I like the first one more and runs take an hour) I feel like there's not much to do. All the upgrades are passives and introduce very little new, only make some numbers bigger. And the starting items are few, generic (I am pretty sure you can buy them as other necromancers) and really impact the game only early. It just becomes a chore really quick. Not every game has to be either a masterpiece or a revolution. This one really needs some QoL improvements. New buttons I'd like to see: Phase 1 - Auto-upgrade organs so you don't have to search where to place every single one. - Mass recycle all organs in inventory except demon ones. - Mass recycle all organs in inventory. - Mass scrap all equipment in inventory. - Fill slots with demon organs (in demonologist shop, one button for each upgrade, takes in lowest rarity first)\ Phase 2 - Auto-assign zombies. (I don't care if it's not the most efficient way OR you could add buttons that could allow me to maximise something, say I want to prioritise mining so computer will assign zombies in such a way that gives me the most iron possible and leaves the surplus unassigned) - Rearrange zombies in an activity. (button next to each activity, reshuffles zombies place on that activity for the maximum gain) Phase 3 - Add different "stances" to rearrange zombies: Weakest to front. Strongest to front. Bulkiest to front. Bulkiest last. Unarmed to front. Unarmed to back. Ranged to back... Would these suggestion make the game easier? Not really. You can do all of those actions yourself. But it would make the game so much faster.

越更新越爛，連基本的金錢顯示都沒弄好，更新畫質也沒用，遊戲性也沒有更多元，還不如不要更新

内容太少了，花30秒就可以完全学会游戏怎么玩，30分粥就通关，堪称简陋。 无尽模式玩了几波后面直接演都不演了，强制事件清空你大半资源，强制你的僵尸死亡，然后拿脚填数字把你抬走，我就问你90%减伤、90%闪避、10w%＋吸血的怪要怎么打？

This is a very tentative 'recommended'. I like the idea, and in sale it's very fun for a few hours, but there's a few flaws that make it hard to recommend full price. - The music is very repetitive, basically just a few notes repeating themselves. - The combat is very basic. There is a lot of fun to be had constructing the zombies, but not so much using them in combat. - The game is very buggy, things I encountered: parts duplicating themselves after equipping, gold not updating after buying a part, my first run that I won didn't register as such, villager loss because of lack of food is inconsistent, sometimes you lose barricade while no demons got through. - There was an event near the end of the game where I suddenly lost all my zombies, gear and parts included. Not sure if this was intended, but losing everything after investing so much rescources just feels bad. - I just spend 15 minutes in a fight against a demon with 90% dodge rating and 1500% lifesteal. I think it would have taken at least 15 more minutes to actually kill it. Still, on sale it was 3,90, which is a fair price to me, just don't expect it to be a polished experience.

Really bad game, avoid at all costs, do not waste money on this and move on