Ray's The Dead

Very fun and charming, with a wonderful art style, cute moments, and silly humor. A worthy successor to Stubbs!

Edit: After completing this, I change my mind. The game is buggy, controls frequently stop responding, nothing feels tuned. Man,it started out great, but the cracks in the foundation soon gave way to tedium and a desire for it just be over. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- This has been totally worth the wait. This must be the coziest zombie game ever. The art direction is top notch, making the world just drip with throwback zombie movie charm. The music almost steals the show, but the game play just keeps you locked in. This is quite simply the offspring of Return of the Living Dead and Pikmin. Braiiinnnnnss......

A really fun Pikman-like game that is all about puns and fun-zombie esthetic. As Ray, you need to gather your zombie army and find out what is really going on. The art is very fun and stylized, the narrative is solid, and the game features quite a bit of variety between fighting, puzzle solving, and maintaining your zombie horde. I have enjoyed the hours so far, and I am excited to play the rest of the game! The intro takes ~45 min depending on how much you stop to read all the fun tombstones!

This game starts easy and slow ramps up in difficulty. Its funny and fun to play.

Не так много игр, с чем можно сравнить Ray's the Dead, часто ли приходится командовать толпой миньонов, и, к сожалению, если сравнивать, то не в пользу маленькой инди игры. Рэю очень далеко до Pikminа, здесь нет интересных головоломок, да и тех очень мало. Рэю очень далеко до Overlord, здесь очень мало тактики и микроконтроля. Рэю очень далеко даже до Stubbs The Zombie, геймплей там был поразнообразнее... Однако Ray's The Dead находит в итак не слишком широко распространённом жанре, свою узкую нишу. А это очень достойно похвалы. Конкретно, игра не пытается притворяться чем-то большим, но с любовью к каждой сцене пытается оставаться простым развлечением, вроде воскресного утреннего мультсериала 90-х. У игры довольно милая история, приятный уникальный визуальный стиль как из мультиков Nickelodeon и очень простая аркадная боёвка (сплотиться и увернуться, блок, напасть гурьбой, повторить в разных комбинациях), с которой вполне справится и ребёнок, но которая не ощущается совсем уж монотонной. Игру выгодно отличает ненавязчивый юмор, в основном завязанный на каламбурах и почему-то отсылках к поп-культуре восьмидесятых. Некоторые не очень внятные и удачные, вроде пожилого Кунг Фу мастера с лемуром, а некоторые вроде пародии на Рыцаря Дорог хоть и слишком прямолинейные, зато очень смешные. Если не требовать от игры слишком много, она способна подарить несколько очень приятных вечеров, а это, на мой взгляд, уже не мало.

I Kickstarted this game years ago and although it took awhile to be released it was fun seeing the development of the game. Fun game play and fantastic music with an interesting story. Overall it's a pretty fun game and the creators behind it are amazing people.

Der Artstyle hat mir gefallen, cartoonig, in der Art wie die Deathspank Titel. Dir Musik war durchgehend auch super, passend im 80s Style. Die Geschichte war doch umfangreicher als ich dachte, mit der einen oder anderen Überraschung. Spielprinzip hatte unter anderem was von Overlord, Tinykin, Pikmin und einem Vibe Stubbs the Zombie. Stellenweise recht schwer wie ich finde, da es bei viel Trubel etwas unübersichtlich wurde. An einem größeren Display als dem vom Deck ist das evtl. anders.

Has the plot of a really bad 80s movie and is in love with interrupting what action the game has constantly for bad dialog. Also not a fan with how the energy mechanic limits how much the zombie horde can be moved around to try and keep them from dieing so much. Combine that with enemies with weaknesses to specific zombies that will otherwise only very rarely be attackable and the game can be frustrating to play. The gun enemies have a habit of mowing down the entire horde if you don't either stun them as soon as they get on the field or cower behind an object as they go through 3 rounds of attacks and have to reload. And the horde is often large enough that you have to burn energy to make them all actually fit behind that object to avoid those 3 rounds of attacks. You might get some enjoyment out of this if you're very stubborn. It's not terrible, but there's a lot of little annoying things that add up, and it's not especially great at anything. Besides music.

It’s a really fun retro-style beat-em-up/Pikman-esque adventure. The story is fun, and the characters are interesting.

Ok, so I have played at least 60 different games during quarantine and finally got around to playing this one. Let me just say this is probably one of my favorite games this year. From the art style to the music, this game was really great! The game plays like Pikmin but with a zombie take on it and I absolutely loved the settings. The characters were really great, I was actually invested in each of them and boy does this game get dark at spots. There is a mixture of humor within the game as well to keep it going and there are several references to 80s stuff which was fun to find. The gameplay was pretty clean with maybe one major bug where I lost control of my character after what seemed to have happened when I resurrected a dead person just when a cutscene was taking place. Other than that, it was excellent performance wise through the rest of the game. I found the combat to be really easy though until maybe 2 spots later in the game but I didn't have any issues controlling my zombie army. The game also throws minigames in between portions of the story as you go from the past to present and I like that addition. Quite frankly, I didn't want this game to end but I plan on playing it again to find all the batteries and graves so there is a reason to replay the game.