Terminus: Zombie Survivors

Like any roguelite, you're subject to RNG, but my introduction was basically easy mode. Ran Firefighter and happened to find a gas station next to a library next to a park. Basically what I imagined to be a Goldilocks situation. This kind of led to a steamroll on the hardest ending because I was so well supplied. There's just one thing I wish was part of the game which would have completely influenced how long I continued to play future playthroughs and that's the construction profession. If I could just move furniture to a different zone and get a huge base setup, that's what I'd be pushing for and still be playing. Now everything just seems kind of dull. Don't get me wrong, this game was entertaining. If they made that change, I'd be back in it in a heartbeat. Just my personal preference though.

Wow... I'm am super impressed by this game!!! I just finished my first run and WOW!!! I felt extremely glad to give this game a chance! So, a little bit of background: I'm a grown, young man with a severe issue in 'gaming decline'. Don't know what that is? Well, I just made it up but it's something a lot of people go through. Basically, I've played video games all my life. When I was a kid, my tiny brain could be entertained by any game but now..? I have a depressing hard time attaching myself to games. When I tried Project Zomboid, I expected something awesome but instead I was very displeased with that game. Why? That's not important. What is important is THIS GAME! I won't lie when I first tried this game, I absolutely disliked it. I found it annoying and honestly difficult to get into. So, I actually took my time with it and boy did I learn how amazing the experience is! This game can feel extremely rewarding and also challenging at the same time which kept my interests high on it. Every decision you make could ultimately lead to either life or death. If you make the wrong move and lose your AP, you could very much kill off your playthrough. So what did I like about it? *Replayable: After your first run, you'll learn there's multiple endings to try. I highly recommend all new players try for the Terminus ending first because it's pretty straight forward and easy to get through as long as you take your time. *Lite-RPG Elements: So in a sense, there's some RPG mechanics in this game. You can craft, trade, and level up stats (though with stats, you read books to get them up). I wish there was more skills but I've barely scratched the surface so I can't say I've seen them all yet. *Extremely-Lite Base Building: Okay, I mean this as EXTREMELY-LITE. What this means is basically you're just finding a house or somewhere and making it a temporary base. You can garden and catch animals for food at your base so it's somewhat base building in my eyes. *Decision making: As stated earlier, every decision counts. Make them count! *Steam Deck Compatible: This game runs flawlessly on my Steam Deck as well! I mainly played on my PC because it's faster paced but it was extremely nice to hop on the Steam Deck too on the same run and continue where I left off! *Game is Finished but still receiving love: This game actually is COMPLETE but still receives regular updates. There's a new DLC coming out which from what I gather will expand the Terminus ending a little bit and continue that route a bit more. That's gonna be so freaking cool!!! I highly recommend anybody to try this. I'm the type of guy that likes to play however long they want on a playthrough and when it's time to finish the game, I can choose to finish the story *cough* Project Zomboid *cough*. If you're struggling with a similar case like me where games are slowly declining out of your life, please give this game a chance. It's highly addictive and you'll scratch that itch for awhile. Devs; looking forward to your DLC! I'm super stoked to get it! In the meantime, I'm gonna get another character going! Should I go sail off or fly away? Maybe get accepted into a safe house... Hmmmm.....

爱玩这个游戏纯粹是爱玩生存游戏而不是爱玩该制作组制作的游戏，游戏有大量反人类（亦或者说可以优化但就是不给你优化）的操作，包括但不限于 1.只有全部搜刮功能，没有一键将所有或某特定分类物品放入容器的功能，也就是存东西只能手动一个一个放，没有shift，alt转移的快捷键，要么一个一个点，要么拖动可以移动一整组。 2.制作物品必须放在背包，这个游戏合成表没有jei那么直观，需要打开c一个一个鼠标对着看，然后合成居然不能自动检测附近容器，哪怕我和容器在同一格，哪怕我直接把所有物品放在脚下，都不行，必须塞入背包。要么背合成表，要么一边找一边合成，不是我要踩一捧一，深海搁浅十几年前的游戏作者在早期版本就加入了附近物品合成功能，而这款游戏呢，难以想象这是我在26年买到的敢卖79的游戏。制作组玩过游戏吗？ 3.只有一个存档，21世纪的程序员会写不出多存档游戏？他都给了三个用户存档了，但只给一个游戏存档，纯看玩家不爽？单机游戏不给玩家选择权来了。 4.算是我急性子吧，每次过回合，空格等半天，球球了，求求你把我电脑性能榨干，我买u9275hx就是为了你榨干他，别给我省钱啊，走路可以设置秒到，为什么跳回合要等？幸存者回合和丧尸回合我又不能动，非要我看动画，如果在对战我不说啥，我在室内，室内无npc跳回合还要转动画，转啥呢，我都看不到有丧尸，窗外的丧尸你让他瞬间过回合该去哪去哪根本没有代码难度，硬看着右下角转圈，画面纹丝不动。 另外这款游戏还不能用变速齿轮，当然开发者没有义务适配修改程序，但是，我认为这游戏如果玩的时间长，原因只有合成花费时间太长，过回合无意义时间太长，整理物资无意义时间太长，无加速渠道，只能干瞪眼。隔壁tld纯粹走路模拟器，没变速齿轮真玩不了，但是能用啊，纯粹的体验游戏内容能玩几百个小时。 反观这款游戏两百个小时有一百个小时是干瞪眼，无意义的等待，无意义的反复整理，无意义的合成操作，工厂游戏能挂机，放置游戏能下线，这游戏只能看着，因为等三四秒就到你回合了，你操作一下又要等，对不起我太心急了，只能差评。喜欢一杯茶一包烟一局游戏一整天的可能喜欢吧，急死我了，(╯‵□′)╯︵┻━┻。 我很爱玩这个游戏，因为内容，但是操作根本不是人。

Love this game but for the love of god, please add steam mods support.

in SOME ways, it has zomboid beat, and other good zombie survival games. There arent enough fun and creative 2d zombie rouguelites, and I see some reviews say a survival aspect would be cool.. but I dont know how much fun that would be.. zomboid is specialized for that I believe. Where this game could be improved drastically is more involved combat, buffs, debuffs, diverse zombies (think classic left for dead novelty) and slightly more fast paced. This might mean an overhaul of reading system, or even some of the food/water system. It is a good resouce management system, reminds me of Zero Serviet, but what that game does well (not a turn based) is that you never necessarily have to scavned for it and its simply faster. probably a bad comparison. Great game! Art is awesome! I wish I knew how to make it better: tldr: make game more exciting! more zip zoop bam bam, cooler! edge away from a lot of survival elements, get creative with it.

Alright. I've played through to two endings already in [i]Terminus:Zombie Survivors[/i]. The Terminus and Fortified House endings. I'm currently in the middle of another run where I've cleared out the Marina and got a boat up and running, but I'm still chasing around the map searching for the requisite skill books in order to actually use said boat, which will then unlock another ending. That is proving easier said than done though, lol. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3533442568 So, this is definitely a game inspired by Project Zomboid and plenty of other zombie related games, movies, and shows besides. The devs have done an excellent job here in thinking through how their zombie apocalypse would look like and the different ways in which survivors will tackle the apocalypse. The goal here being that, in three of the endings, you are definitely trying to escape the city, while in the other three, you are instead looking for ways to stay in the city and indeed thrive here. As such, the map itself is very large, with 100+ locations including a few unique ones such as Terminus itself, the Marina, and the Military Base. The generic locations are houses, fire stations, police stations, grocery stores, restaurants, pharmacies, libraries, tunnels, rail stations, parks, gun stores, gas stations, and I'm probably forgetting a few others. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3534100286 The gameplay is action point driven turn-based squares. Each location is unique for the purposes of determining how many squares are available on a local map. There are a lot of factors that affect how much AP you'll have on any given turn, but it boils down to how healthy and well rested you are or aren't. Everything, from movement to searching things to combat have different costs, and those costs are themselves affected by various things such as unlocked traits, your actual ability scores, and such. You always go first, then any survivors in the same area, then zombies. Rinse and repeat. Your primary goal in any of the six scenarios that can play out (as of now) is to accumulate books, weapons, food, clothing, water, medicine, tools, electronics, sleeping gear, and resources for crafting. You have meters for HP, AP, Satiety (hunger), Hydration, Energy, and Morale. Making sure you manage these is the core gameplay experience and everything has an effect on these, including the simple passage of time. If you ignore the latter four, you will start taking damage each turn. Well, except for Morale, which will give your survivor(s) Depression instead, which is a definite AP and accuracy killer. There is also at least one hidden meter: warmth/cold. Additionally, you also have an encumbrance meter, although finding and equipping various bags will reduce your encumbrance. And most of the available gear has a degradation meter, and most of those can be repaired. Some specific items can't though. You will initially choose from three survivor classes, but as you defeat the game and earn points, you unlock new survivor classes. Of all the classes, the most OP one is definitely the Student. Why? Because although you don't begin with as many ability points as a lot of classes, you do have the ability to read books super-fast, and books in this game are how you develop skills and abilities, and how you learn new skills. They're also how you learn new cooking and crafting recipes; and some are morale boosters. And finally, books also will show you where specific types of POIs are on the city map. Everything you do earns you experience points as well, and when you level up, you get to select one of three random skills or skill upgrades. All that said, all the classes are viable. It's just that none are as powerful as the Student can become, because, in addition to reading speed, it's the only class that can re-read books, and as such, it's also the only class that can max out every ability and skill. As a rule, at some point, you will want to find and repair a vehicle. Each uses gas, so gas stations are a must find as well. The city map itself uses a connected node system, and travelling between them has an AP cost. But using a vehicle basically eliminates that and replaces it with a gas cost instead. So, keeping your vehicle topped off and storing extra gas cans in the vehicle is definitely the way to go. You might find it advantageous to consider swapping vehicles and/or maintaining several. For one, some vehicles have a much lower cost to travel between nodes than others. Fire trucks, for example, have an outrageous fuel cost, whereas economy cars use barely any. But they also have limited storage. The most fuel-efficient cars might only hold up to 90# of gear, whereas a fire truck can hold a full 1000#. As with everything else in this game, you are really forced to make decisions with your vehicles. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3534100252 You will meet other survivors at various locations. Talking to them and building up the trust between you will allow you to recruit them. They then become fully playable (although you can choose to let AI run them instead if you want). Each also has its own profession, skills, and abilities. I've had a crew with five survivors, which was great, but three is probably the number to strive for. Whatever number you decide on, it increases your survivability while also increasing how much gear you can carry. I could keep on writing, but I'm running low on Steam's character limit at this point. In my opinion, this is an incredibly fun game. The city changes each run, so each new run is its own fairly unique experience, and this is definitely a game you could sink hundreds of hours into if you were so inclined. Definitely a must play if you enjoy zombie survival and/or turn-based strategy-oriented RPGs with some base-building elements mixed in. T:ZS really offers insane value even at full retail price, which is pretty low at $19.99. Worth a look for sure. [code]If you found this review helpful and would be interested in supporting my Curator group, [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32549618/]Robilar's Reviews[/url], it would be appreciated. Cheers.[/code] [code]Also follow [url=https://store.steampowered.com/curator/32732116-IndieGems/]IndieGems[/url] for more reviews like this one.[/code]

I am genuinely not sure where the high reviews come from. Everything is constantly decaying and you spend 16 hours just getting into and looking through a single house. Nothing in this game feels satisfying, logical or sensical. It's just constnatly, RAPIDLY decaying equipment you are trying to repair while starting to death, or you eat and everything you wear loses half it's durability in a matter of minutes. This game is no fun at all and 95% unrewarding maintenance.

我叫anna，是一个身经百战的幸存者，在末日来临前我只是一个普通的大学生。但是我经常在红薯上学习各种野外生存知识，所以我在末日里混得如鱼得水。这天我如常在野外打野，路过了一个住宅，里面有着丰富的物资，冰箱里面放满了各种食物，沙发上也有几包薯片，而整个住宅里面只有一个老登。这个老登一直叫嚷着：“我几天没吃东西了”，一边跟在我屁股后面移动，出于好心，我给了他一些临期的肉鱼奶果蔬，然后不知道为什么我的心里好受了很多，感觉士气都增加了不少。但接下来的几个小时里，他仍然不依不饶，跟着我走遍整个住宅，一直重复的说着我几天没吃东西了。我非常烦他，但我的人性告诉我不能对老登出手，这样的话我会感到非常痛苦，会失去人性。但我的能量已经不够了，所以我只好把门窗封好然后在沙发上睡觉。结果这个老登在四处晃悠的时候又把房门给打开，然后将丧尸放了进来，而那丧尸居然是非常强壮的丧失promax，两巴掌就将睡梦中的我拍死了。我在弥留之际选择了打开steam进行差评，并在下一个轮回中见一次饥饿的老登就杀一次。