Zombieville USA 3D

Languages: English

Hours played at review time, across 61 reviews with recorded playtime.

positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up

The game is decent enough to play for the few hours it takes for 100% completion, but the dev should not even be allowed to keep it up for sale after abandoning it with such awful performance issues putting lots of unnecessary wear on players' hardware. This game showed lots of promise with six updates in less than a month after release, but there have been none since then so it can now be considered abandoned nostalgia bait. It is terribly unoptimized as it is averaging 85 FPS on max settings with a 5080 OC, which is less FPS than I get on Cyberpunk 2077 at max settings. GPU usage increases to 100% when in the upgrades area so clearly something has gone horribly wrong for top-end PCs to struggle with these mobile-quality graphics. Even though the Deck is powerful enough to run this at max rendering quality, it quickly overheats on any setting higher than the absolute minimum. A full charge lasts less than two hours when it should last at least four hours for a game like this. The developer continues to be active elsewhere on other projects but refuses to address any questions or issues regarding this game. There is no reason to buy this in its current state unless it is at least half off. Even then, there are plenty of much better games for the same price. Gameplay is accurate to how the originals would be if they were 3D. There is only one map and it gets boring quickly, as does the entire game since there are few enemy types and runs are repetitive with upgrades being the only difference. The shop needs a minimap or indicator upgrade to point to the nearest purple coin. Regarding the purple coins, only half of them can even be used and collecting all of them is only useful for the achievement and unlocking one of the best weapons in the game. There is no setting to change or even view controls which is a basic expectation for modern gaming. Some of the controls are awful and Steam Input is limited in how much it can compensate for this mistake. At high levels, there is money all over the ground so weapons on the ground can be difficult to see. With the right weapons and perks, players can survive indefinitely. It would be a pretty great game if not for the performance issues and lack of content.