

And unless you get to the point where you want to mess with console codes or otherwise edit the game yourself, you'll find that there are a handful of QOL items that make a DRASTIC difference in your gameplay and not having them because of RNG Gods is a huge pain. The AI is easy to exploit since it doesn't leave a POI so you can pick them off from outside of town after luring them to the edge. The only downsides being that even the largest maps have limits and you'll easily be able to take on all but the hardest of settings with ease once you get the game down. It's really a great game with a LOT to see and do. You can have a mobile base if you want so long as you're not afraid to risk it all when it blows. I say "build on" and not "customize" because you're putting storage crates and such on top. There are various vehicles that you can drive and even build on. You find items where you'd expect too- food in a fridge, ammo at military camps, etc, and leveling up gives you noticeable changes without making you a God compared to a fresh player. The maps are more grounded in that you FEEL like you're going to a city, or farm, or town. It's F2P and on par with 7 Days to Die, easily. But it's got a huge modding community, a great ceiling for things to want and do, and the guns' quality are very high. It has a larger learning curve, as it isn't obvious what to do to not die when you start, and the gameplay is simple. If you disagree, please let me know, and prove me wrong. I see its flaws, but I consider it one of the absolute best zombie survival games. Having an open world zombie survival game with vehicles, survivors, plenty of zombies that you can fight with great combat. While I am sidetracking, I genuinely believe that even though State of Decay 2 has great flaws or missing features, I still think it is a great game, and in the Zombie survival genre close to "Perfect" because the standard is so scaringly low. Honorable mentions, but don't fit the genre or neccesarily the atmosphere: Dying light, Dead Island, Some Dead rising.

Mediocre: Miscreated (Meh, not really zombie survival either),
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To mention a few good titles but still alpha and incomplete, State of decay, 7 Days To Die, Project Zomboid and Dayz Mod (Buggy, not a game, but definitely entertaining gameplay.) The standard for Open World Zombie survival games have always been down the drain.
