The Infected

30 hours of wasted time on this game... finding the quad bike? I think I've been to at least 7 villages and the big city, but it's nowhere to be found... finding technology pages... I've found 5, and in the end, I unlocked almost nothing. Everything in this game is complicated; it's drawn out like an 8-hour movie when it could be just as good in 2 hours. Clearly, the developers here want to make you sweat and stay in their game forever, but I'm passing on this one.

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Yes, I've tried it multiple times, but unfortunately, I still cannot recommend the game. The developer asked for feedback twice, which was provided, but he clearly isn't listening. When I bought the game back in 2021, it at least had a map where you could build properly, find resources from the start, and the "gameplay" (if you can even call it that) was much more intuitive. Now, the map feels empty despite the POIs. These POIs look different but contain exactly the same loot. Buildings are repetitive and set up the same way everywhere. There are giant rocks and boulders that simply block your path, and you cannot use them in any way. Orientation is a pain—you always have to check the map because there are no visible landmarks or anything distinctive; everything looks the same. And it rains constantly, which makes visibility even worse. Lakes and rivers are essentially obsolete—you don't need them anymore. There's no visible life left. I think you can still go fishing, but again, it's not necessary and no fun. (Throwing a fishing rod into an empty lake!?) You have to walk (!) with your cart across the huge map while having almost no stamina. Even if you set food consumption to low in the settings, it's annoying to constantly monitor your vitamin, health, stamina, and thirst bars. The character consumes water like a camel in the desert. So much micromanagement! When it comes to blueprints... man! I'm glad I've known the game for so long; otherwise, I'd have lost interest much earlier. You now need blueprints for simple and essential items like a drying rack. If you're lucky, you find them quickly—only if you're lucky! It's a gamble throughout. As a beginner, you have no clue what to unlock first or what you need to make progress. Like I said, I'm glad I already know the items—it makes it easier for me, but for new players... no! Overall, development is extremely slow because the single developer doesn't seem to ask for help. Progress in development, proper gameplay elements, interesting POIs and maps, as well as taking feedback more seriously would make the product so much better. The Infected is plagued by boring and repetitive tasks, complicated and unnecessary crafting, and a developer who is unable to handle it alone but refuses to get help to improve the game after so many years.

Overall, the game premise is great, but as it currently stands the play is very boring, and EXTREMELY tedious. Every single aspect of what you do must be micro-managed to the Nth degree. This game is very similar to the "Green Hell" game in mechanics, so those that enjoy it will probably like this one. Backpack and actions all work very similarly. Very little info is given to you about how to play, how to advance, etc. Some of the mechanics work, some don't. Crafting is tedious, requiring blueprint selections from a book...or from another book. Yeah, two different books you have to select from for whatever crazy reason. More details below if you want examples, but overall I feel like most of my played time was just a complete waste. I accomplished very little, because all I did was switch between needless tabs and books and run water and stone back and forth non-stop. The game simply isn't fun IMO, but you can see examples of issues below if you want more detail. I cannot stress the LACK of QoL improvements in this game, which is the BIGGEST factor in why I don't recommend this game. Very few actions are "fun", and overall its a very "boring" attempt to make the game ultra-realistic....in a game where you're fighting Zombie Vampires and logic is thrown out the window. I'll use getting clean drinking water as an example. You can collect water using a basin if it rains, or from local lakes/streams. And you have a canteen which holds 60 liquid, and a fire with a pot to boil the water clean which holds 200 liquid. So you have to walk to the basin and "use" it, then switch the tab in your backpack to where the canteen is, drag it to a specific spot on the basin to fill it, close your backpack, walk to your fire, "use" the fire, then drag the canteen to the pot on the fire to pour 60 liquid in. Once boiled on the fire, this will fill the canteen once, which will fill about 1/2 of your thirst bar, so you will probably need to do two of them, and multiple times per day when running around. So, head back to the water basin and do the steps over again to get another 60 liquid to add to the pot, making it 120/200 liquid now. So may as well fill it to get several uses, right? So head back to the water basin and get another 60, take it back and add it to make 180/200 liquid. Now, if you stop here you will have 3 fills. But if you fill it to 200/200, you will have a tiny bit extra. But since the canteen holds 60, after the last fill you will still have 40 dirty water in your canteen. Don't forget to manually dump it out before filling it from the clean water at the fire! Every aspect of the game is needlessly over-actionable like this. Why not make it where when I click the basin I have the "fill canteen option" instead of needless tab switching and dragging items? And why would crop plots not be "joined" so that if I plant 4 crops, I don't have to water each plot 3 times a piece to fill the water req? 4 plants require 12 trips for water when I plant them. 12!!!! Why can't I wash my hands at the water basin? Why must I manually fill the canteen to wash them? Why are there two different books for crafting recipes? Why can I click some of the recipes and craft them directly even though they require a bench, but others I have to look up, remember the ingredients, and manually add them to a crafting table to craft? Why are pre-reqs not shown on tech items? Its difficult to get a tech point, but it really sucks when you finally get one and then unlock something that literally cannot be made because of a pre-req item that must be made on another table that must be unlocked first. Sucks when you can craft a bow, craft a bunch of arrows, then find out you cannot use the arrows in the bow unless you make a quiver. And you cannot craft the quiver without a tech point used to unlock the butcher table, because you can only harvest a hide at the table. Why is there a shelf for literally every type of ore (lead, copper, cobalt, iron, and more) instead of one shelf that can just hold ores? Storage is super limited, and now I need to double or triple my base size just to fit storage for the ores? Why to I have to manually split stacks and add the exact quantity of 3 and 2, rather than throwing the fulls stacks of each 50 and 50 onto a table and selecting the item I want to craft? Why do I literally have to split those stands down to the exact amounts? Just do yourself a favor: skip this one.

The Infected used to feel like a very promising survival game back when I first played it. The mechanics were simple, focused, and enjoyable. Recently I returned to see how the game has developed… and honestly, it now feels like a collection of mismatched ideas thrown together, creating a confusing survival experience. The core gameplay loop has become extremely repetitive. The new tech blueprint system is unnecessarily grindy: instead of exploring towns to find meaningful books, you now pick up random white “tech points” placed in odd locations that make no sense. Who leaves important technology on a barrel? And needing multiple of these to unlock a single tech forces you to visit many scattered towns across the map. Merchants can unlock higher tech too, but now you need gold — so you’re grinding for your base, grinding for tech, grinding for gold, grinding for abilities like running faster… it starts to feel like a chore rather than a survival experience. The game originally aimed for realism, but this direction doesn’t match that vision anymore. Then there are the hybrid creatures — the “Vambies.” They attack the player but ignore the merchant sitting safely inside a wooden shack. What is that building made of, garlic‑infused lumber? Their design and powers feel out of place, like ideas from a completely different game. The towns themselves are extremely repetitive: same buildings, same layouts, sometimes only two or three houses. It feels like quantity over quality, as if the map was padded to stretch playtime instead of creating unique, atmospheric locations. 🔍 Comparison to VEIN (Why It Stands Out More) After playing VEIN, the difference becomes even more noticeable. VEIN’s towns feel handcrafted — each location has personality, structure, and a sense of place. Even though VEIN is still in development, its towns feel like real settlements with purpose, not copy‑paste clusters of identical houses. VEIN’s caves also feel more intentional. They’re dangerous, atmospheric, and designed to encourage exploration. In The Infected, caves feel like an afterthought: ore generation is inconsistent, and the layout hasn’t evolved much over time. VEIN’s caves feel alive; The Infected’s caves feel like placeholders. Where VEIN leans into world‑building and environmental storytelling, The Infected feels like it’s drifting away from immersion and realism. Why not create at least one surviving town with actual NPCs, merchants, and characters you can interact with or recruit? Poor Mike is lonely — he deserves some company. The Infected had a strong foundation years ago, but the recent direction feels scattered and unfocused. I hope the devs take a step back and refine the core identity of the game instead of piling on disconnected features. Comparing it to VEIN really highlights how much potential is being lost — VEIN’s world feels alive, while The Infected’s world feels copy‑pasted and mechanically stretched.

Just play it. Everyone's view is going to be different. I play games I like, not because of someones view of the game. This one of those games I continue to come back and play. A lot of games get passed by or over looked, because people are easily persuaded by someones view point. Just play it and make your own review about the game.

I feel like the game has some pretty good potential, but something about it just feels...stiff, or maybe even stuck? I'm not convinced that the devs are completely sure where they are going with the game and or where they want to go with it? I dunno, I would like to thumbs up, but I can't.

а мне нравится эта игруха - выбираю режим без зомби - чисто песочница и строительсьво в полном одиночестве - кайф) эта игрушка, как это не странно звучит - 3 года назад дала толчок для меня - благодаря ей , а так же медикаменозному лечению я начала выходить из депрессии, снова захотелось играть и хоть как-то жить эту жизь так что моя благодарность разработчикам, ну ихотелось бы дальнейшего развития и механик