Zombie Exodus

Maybe I’ve seen too many zombie stories at this point but this game felt painfully generic. I played this game for three hours before giving up on it. I don’t know why, or if it’s even the game’s fault, but I seem to have a bug where it hasn’t recorded my time properly. My library and recently played section acknowledge that I’ve played Zombie Exodus for 3.1hrs but for some reason it’s only showing up at 0.3hrs on record. Regardless of that, I didn’t finish the game so make of this what you will, maybe act V is where it all comes together in the end but even if that were the case it wouldn’t be worth the hours you have to slog through to get to it. Tedious and unengaging, the only thing that surprised me was the supernatural schizophrenia and I don’t think that was handled well. If anything, the way this game handles mental illness is a bit tasteless. None of it’s characters talk or even act like real people, there were many moments where I was struck by how unnatural some of the dialogue was. It broke my immersion in the game over and over again. While the length of this story is impressive, many scenes overstay their welcome and there are a surprising number of fetch quests that bloat the runtime and are littered with arbitrary choices. During certain scenes you will have to brute force your way into the “correct solution” as you die over and over again just to redo your item management that, in hindsight, effected very little. These arbitrary choices also bled over into conversations. There are multiple occasions where a character will approach you and say they need to talk to you before you go out on your fetch quest of the day and if you try to speak with them, they’ll brush you off and say you’re too busy to hear it. I could go on but I feel that I’ve wasted enough of my time on it and I intend to remove this game from my account as I won’t be playing it again. That said, clearly this game has appealed to a lot of other people and if you’re a fan of Choose Your Own Adventure games you may still want to give it a chance despite my opinion of it. In which case, try the demo online first.