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For now I do not recommend Night of the Dead. My experience is that it is primarily a tower defense game with some survival-lite elements, crafting, and exploration tacked on. The experience feels far to 'arcade-like' with waves of zombies attacking you nightly presented UI warnings that make me feel like I'm playing rounds in an arcade game, not immersing myself in a zombie infested world gone wrong.

The world is beautiful and the crafting and building look interesting. It could offer an experience similar to 7D2D, but it falls far short and instead stumbles over itself with the tower defense angle. Where 7D2D does have a tower defense element, Night of the Dead focuses on it too heavily. The other elements that make 7D2D work so well, seem to get in the way of the tower defense aspect.

The other way the focus on tower defense works against itself is that the protagonist is supposed to be fleeing the island, but Night of the Dead has the player focusing on maintaining an elaborate and unrealistic trap complex to deal with the nightly waves of zombies that spawn out of nowhere. Additionally, the balance is currently far out of whack and needs manual adjustment in settings be playable with any chance at success.

If you're looking for something like 7D2D, for a change of pace, look elsewhere for now. Night of the Dead has a lot of potential to compete in that space, but right now I can't recommend it. The experience needs a lot more work and polish, however it could evolve into an incredible experience so don't write it completely off yet.

Nope, just nope.

The good
- Interesting Classes and skill design
- Open ended builds

The bad
- Poor graphics
- Clunky UI
- Poor performance. Unity engine for an MMO doesn't work well.

The Ugly
- Community driven: A small pool of "long time" players run the game community socially. You absolutely want to stay on their good side. Some are mods, some "ambassadors", and others just personalities, and they have the ear of the developers. It comes across as unprofessional and feels more like a fan service mod project than a real MMO.

Tree of Savior seems to be broken on both Windows 10 and Linux.

Fun hack-n-slash with a lot of replayability.

The game tries too hard. The dialog and narrative are cringe worthy.

Finding Paradise is a touching interactive narrative about life, love, death, and two scientists.

Progress is a bit slow, but the core game play loop is coming together. The atmosphere is gritty and grim dark.

SteamPlay issues have been resolved. The Steam version works as well as the GoG version.

The game is beautiful with stunning environmental visuals and chill ambient background music. It offers missions and lore based story play while also letting your freely explore and build.

Two years later and NMS continues to improve with remarkable updates including cross-platform multiplayer, improved base building, abandoned freighters, and now with improved world details, flora, fauna, and giant worms!

Years later and NMS still delivers. There are new and revamped systems, added depth, more building options, and more game customization than ever.

edit 2023: Still good.

Fun ARPG. Changes made in 2017 have improved gameplay, character building, and end game for non-raid players.