Wow, I REALLY want to like this game.....but I simply cannot recommend it. Best will in the world to the two devs, but it's a buggy mess. I tried it about a year ago, it was rough but playable. Tried it again, and it's somehow much much worse. It's not a buggy mess: items randomly vanish from your inventory, the LOD on vehicles fails to load in at least 50% of cases, pop up is astounding....drive back to my safehouse and sit looking at a shed door and the shed contents for nearly a full 30 seconds until the rest of the shed loads in.
The game also has huge logic flaws. I searched ten houses looking for a pot, not one had one. They had food, some clothes etc, but not a single pot....which stopped me from heating SOUP even though I had two other kinds of pot. I was also not able to boil water without very specifically a kettle.....even after I eventually found a pot! Is it likely that in a zombie apocalypse people left food behind but religiously took their pots? no.
On single player, there is also almost nothing to do. The UI is absolutely abysmal, and crafting is about as painful as you get. The devs keep adding new features when they haven't got the very very basic core down yet. The game is obviously meant to be a 3D Project Zomboid (and it is, the mechanics are virtually identical), and it has huge potential....but it just isn't there yet.
Maybe if another 2-3 years if they keep at it they will get there, but given the sales of the game it's quite disappointing that they haven't hired more people. It really is a shame, as PZ in 3D is just an awesome concept....and clearly far too large a concept for a tiny team. Good effort, but a swing and a miss.
