Welcome to Basingstoke

game is fun and all but why is it 35 dollars (edit its now 10 dolla)

I played for 80 minutes before card farming. The crafting system is neat, with nothing groundbreaking. The stealth system isn't well done, with enemies seeing you more often than they should. I do like the randomized level layout. The game doesn't encourage you to explore the surroundings, but it is required in order to find key cards for progression. I once threw a stick of dynamite, killed 8 zombies at once, only to come back and have 5 more show up. They weren't the snake-like creatures that spawn out of bodies. it was simply an open middle finger for me trying to be clever WITH THEIR SYSTEM. Be a stealth game, be a crafting survival game, be an action game. Just make up your mind when trying to hybrid genres. Be a crafting game with stealth and reward me for exploring. Shouldn't be difficult, yet it was. 4/10 Too frustrating to recommend, but a good class on how design went wrong.

surprisingly charming and polished game, props to devs still updating (or just finished updating) it, if it weren't for the name being previously impossible to find on steam search im sure this would've gotten more attention, im also gonna be an arsehole and ask for permadeath hardcore mode.

La ambientación es buena, pero me he aburrido muy rápidamente, esperaba algo más de acción pero parece que no va a llegar nunca. Lo siento, pero no me gusta.

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A stealth game that sees you make your way through a zombie-infested city using only whatever you can scavenge along the way. [hr][/hr] Welcome to Basingstoke sets you lose in the midst of a zombie outbreak, with you having to traverse different city districts to escape to safety. This mostly entails sneaking around while scavenging food and various junk used for crafting weapons, distractions and more to make your journey easier. The game is split into levels, each presenting a unique location and tasking you with crossing it in one piece. Death comes quickly, with a single misstep often being enough to get you buried in zombies. Dying resets your progress to the start of the level, which makes for a challenge, though I personally also found this quite frustrating, as it discouraging trying new things and instead pushes you towards playing things as save as possible. A limited number of found items can be stored in save houses in between levels, allowing you to start with them in the following level. The crafting system around these items is rather basic and felt rather unrewarding to me. I rarely managed to actually craft something, as there’s a very limited number of recipes available and certain materials just never seemed to show up in the random loot pool. Even beyond those limits, the items themselves are rarely properly interesting and are quite limited in how much you can use them, requiring a lot of investment for very little reward. In general, the gameplay mechanics just didn’t seem to click with me. The prominent stealth system is very basic and quickly became uninteresting to me. Fights break up the base gameplay but come with their own set of problems, most prominently the fact that they feel rather floaty, lacking impact, which isn’t helped by fighting items rarely being available and quickly running out. On a more positive note, I enjoyed the variety in environments, as the game sees you moving through sewers, crowded city streets and even outright battlefields. There are also a few different enemy types, making encounters more interesting, as they require slight adjustments in strategy to deal with. Still, I felt that the gameplay quickly grew stale, with the game in general becoming a drag in many areas thanks to their sheer length. There’s no narrative to speak of either, which I find to be a shame, as there’s little incentive for beating the game. Some additional features include collectibles, which have you search for hidden post cards or taking photos of the different enemy types. There are also some minor secrets to find, for what that’s worth. You can play through the game with a number of different characters, though these mostly feature different starting items and thus didn’t feel too interesting for me. There is also a separate horde mode, which tasks you with defending yourself from an endless stream of zombies for as long as possible but is just as held back by the gameplay as the main campaign. As for visuals, Welcome to Basingstoke does a great job, with a simple, clean art style that makes it easy to parse the current game state while still creating a believable apocalyptic setting. All animations are similarly basic and feel a bit cheap, while the lighting and particle effects are very solid, making for a great look overall. In contrast, the game’s audio is serviceable, creating a good atmosphere but not doing anything particularly special. [hr][/hr] In the end I can’t really recommend the game, as I simply didn’t have much fun with it in spite of its pretty presentation.

Basingstoke's answer to Shaun of the dead, grab ur greggs sandwiches and sausage rolls and Take car. Go to mum's. Kill Phil - 'Sorry.' - grab Liz, go to the Red Lion pub, have a nice cold pint, and wait for all of this to blow over