Yet Another Zombie Survivors

So far this game is in the lower-mid range of survival roguelikes. It has a convincing atmosphere that isn't well represented, so it has that going for it. It runs and looks passable - also good. There are, however, quite a few things holding it back from being in the upper-echelon of similar games. First of all, there just isn't that much unique about it. You have a smallish number of classes, and get up to three of them per run. They're appropriately unique in their own regards, but they honestly have less customization options than analogous mechanics in other games. Take Deeprock Galactic Survivor for example. Here you have less classes (only five), but a HUGE amount of weapons with their own tree of unique upgrades, etc. That just doesn't exist here. Almost every upgrade you find are bog standard - faster attack rate, more damage, etc. The classes are also fairly boring, with skills that operate like less interesting versions of what you'd find in other games. The main thing, however, is that the games take a LOOOONNGGG time. Every map I've been on so far is TWENTY minutes long. That is a very long time for a single roguelike run. The maps and monsters, too, are just kind of mid. The small arena-like maps you're dropped into have very little character to them - flat, no foliage or buildings to navigate through. Pickups just appear magically from the sky, as do survivors to rescue. Monsters aren't bad looking (in fact, I like the overall graphical [i]style[/i]), but the variation in them is pretty lacking. In other words, you're stuck for twenty minutes at a time (unless you die, of course), looking at the same enemies on a boring map. The action itself is pretty good, with one main complaint - Unlike something like DRG: Survivor, where your run is based around up to five weapons that you find via upgrades, here you have a small three-man team moving around the map. That's a great idea, except it makes it very difficult to tell when you are and aren't going to get hit by enemies or projectiles. The damage is fairly punishing, so these unhelpful hitboxes can spell real (and sometimes immediate) trouble for a run. There is a red circle that makes your teams position on the ground, but it really feels like zombies and projectiles alike will actually hit your characters' models, even if they didn't actually collide with the red circle. All in all, I think they could poor some more time and design into this and bring it up to one of the better survival roguelikes out there, but we'll see what the developer does with it. I give it a tepid thumbs up for the time being.

This is a very fun game that you aint gotta think too hard. Extremely worth the price that they're asking

Helicopter goes BRRRRRRRR

Great game so far (as of 3 hours playtime). 9/10. I like everything and only have 2 issue: 1) Built myself a solid Tank character as a team member but as I progress he doesn't spawn during battle. RNG keep suggesting new random survivors to choose from. When zombie mobs got overwhelming, I couldn't wait for my Tank to spawn so had to choose a new member at level zero (which is very weak). My guess is the game was designed this way so we have to try/use other classes. I was going to do this later on anyways but as of now, I like to pick members with stats that I have been building up, especially for runs with higher difficulty settings. 2) Within the "Train Your Survivors" menu, there isn't an option to remove the assigned points from individual skill items. You have to select "Reset Points" to remove all assigned points then reassign each one. This method is not efficient. Give us the ability to manually modify each skill individually. Other than the 2 items above, I'm excited about this game (which is my first zombie game). It's fun, well designed, no technical issues encountered (so far), good graphics, good weapon effects, fast character progression, and many more well designed features. Highly recommending this game. Update: Never mind for item 2. We can right-mouse-click to remove points assigned to individual skills.

One of my fav games of all time, purchased multiple times across multiple platforms. YAZS is the true def of my interpretation of a "zombie apocalypse." Other zombie videogame franchises should take notes on how to be better by plagiarizing this game. As for the characters, there's a wide enough variety, strategy, and depth to keep playing. Next, each character is almost equally as good as the next, so mish-mashing your party with random charcters won't stir you too far off the grid. YAZS is intermediate difficulty, but endgame progression gets annihilistic hard: you WILL die trying to unlock harder difficulties. My only gripe, is that a certain character is much better at starting out than others and there's no roguelike game mode allowing indefinite play. If this game isn't in your library yet, it's gonna be by tomorrow.

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Сейчас, после выхода версии 1.0 и полного релиза игры, уже можно говорить об игре, как о полноценном продукте и оценивать его как таковой. Что игра представляет из себя, вполне понятно из тизера и скриншотов. С выходом версии 1.0 в игру подвезли сюжет, который раскрывается в процессе выполнения заданий (с сюжетными боссами), новую локацию и девятый класс - рейнджера. Добавление сюжета - безусловный плюс, хотя перепроходить локации ради выполнения заданий придётся довольно много.... Лаборатория, как финальная локация довольно неприятна своей спецификой и врагами. Новый класс по-своему уникален и безусловно имеет свой стиль, но в плане кпд - опять ни рыба, ни мясо. При этом у игры остались ровно те же самые минусы, что и раньше.... Баланс - основными дамагерами являются на мой взгляд танк и инженер - они способны выдать самый большой урон. На полпланки за ними - спецназовец и охотница. Призрак хорош, но он является бойцом ближнего боя, что само по себе становится минусом на высоких сложностях и последней локации. Медик и механик имеют свои плюсы и средний урон, тогда как пиро и рейнджер на мой вкус являются самыми слабыми (хотя пиро уже увеличивали урон в предыдущих патчах). Это означает, что в миссиях, где есть возможность выбора, он будет очевиден и заранее определён, а заходы будут копиркой друг друга. Сюда же в баланс напишу момент, что мало кто из персонажей способен потянуть начало игры на сложностях хардкор и босс раш 2-3. Самым простым вариантом тут является танк в силу наличия его фирменных дронов - они пассивно кружат и в буквальном смысле слова "выпиливают" всех противников в ближнем радиусе некоторое время, пока противники не станут значительно толще в силу эволюционирования.... Последние две локации тут особенно неприятны, поскольку вам еще и возможности движения здорово ограничивают. А Джаггернауты из лаборатории вполне способны снести группу одним-двумя ударами своего молота. Второй момент - работа на группу и сочетание классов, вокруг которого, казалось бы, должна строиться игра в командном варианте. Она фактически отсутствует, как и раньше - у каждого персонажа в талантах есть плюс к одному навыку при игре с представителями трех других классов (добавили всем третье сочетание). Также добавили небольшой бонус группе от присутствия персонажа. Это очень слабо и явно недостаточно для подобного варианта игры про "групповую работу". Итого, я бы поставил игре 7-8 баллов из 10 - поиграть можно, но есть варианты интереснее.

Good game. Whait a more content.