It’s not that Zombie Survival is a particularly underserved genre — checking Steam will net you twenty games with ‘zombie’ and ‘survival’ both appearing in the title, with the category of the same name offering options in the hundreds. So, Into the Dead has some competition for the title of ‘most impressive zombie survival game ever’. I would argue, though, that it doesn’t have a lot of competition for that title.
Joining the surprisingly robust genre of sci-fi survival games about the Chernobyl exclusion zone, Chernobylite 2 takes the warped-landscape scrounging of the original and supersizes it, putting the player in the role of a mercenary working for an interdimensional colonial exploitation project.
HIGH Finding a machinegun just before I ran into an armor-clad behemoth.
LOW Finding out the hard way that it’s possible to drown!
WTF Is that a speaker growing out of a mound of flesh?
HIGH Tailored playstyles via the mix-and-match card system.
LOW Difficulty levels are either too easy or too hard.
WTF Why’d we have to wait more than a decade?
HIGH Tearing down a literal tower of zombies with a flamethrower.
LOW Getting rat-locked.
WTF I freeze when away from a heater for 90 seconds, but zombies in T-shirts are fine?
HIGH Streamlined design, cute graphics, solid premise.
LOW The Highway.
WTF Infinitely spawning zombies? Come on.
HIGH Death Bear!
LOW The Clone fight drags on and on.
WTF Is that Audrey II?
HIGH Meeting up with my buds to look at a tent.
LOW Forgetting which teddy I put the matches in.
WTF “I think my thing is cannibalism, guys.”
HIGH That’s a way more satisfying final boss fight than the original.
LOW Groups of more than two zombies can stun-lock like mad.
WTF I’m sad that the giant worm boss didn’t make the cut.
HIGH Detailed camp management.
LOW Lack of interactive elements.
WTF Zombies don’t notice anything?