Survival Nation GO Steam Charts & Stats

I posted a positive, detailed little review saying I liked the game and wished the developers well, but I've come to learn a few things since then. First, it's a repackaged VR game, and once you know that, all of the little quirks in the game make sense. I bought this for $9, and that's too much. I thought I was getting a fleshed-out Project Zomboid knock-off that was less obtuse, but no, it's a pretender to the genre. Even though this is EaRlY aCcEsS, I seriously doubt the devs (I heard one dev is still working on it...) are going to patch up an old VR game and make it a worthwhile purchase. Still, I like the game, and I want to beat it. I want to farm stuff to sell and buy good guns. I want to unlock the experience tree. Farming kills is fun. Unfortunately, from what I can tell, the game is broken and you're unable to advance past a certain point. See, there's a really bad bug that allows zombies to attack you from far away. You'll fire on them, they'll run towards you, you'll run away, they'll swipe at the air, and you fire on them before they start running again. Rinse and repeat. Well, that swipe sometimes connects even when you're nowhere near the zombie. It's annoying at best, and cheap at worst. There comes a point in the game where you fight three boss zombies at a gas station. Try the same tactic and you'll discover that their swipe connects every single time, no matter how far away you are. The answer is to either grind your character to absurd, unnatural (at that point in the game) levels and hope you can kill them before they reach you the first time, or get lucky. Now, keep in mind that any "run away" strategy doesn't work, because once you leave the area that the game designates as the arena, the zombie runs away, its health refills and you start all over. I do want to try the VR game at some point, but this bastard child isn't worth the headache unless you can get it cheap (< $3) and potentially game-breaking bugs don't deter you. If, by some miracle, they do fix the problems, I'll change this review back to positive.

This is something worth picking up if you want to kill a few hours especially if its on sale. I pretty much 100% the game in 16hrs give or take a few treasures still for me to find and found it worth my $5 (on sale at the time). There are some bugs that I came across but nothing game breaking. Very little zombie types or interactions. You shoot, they run at you, you kill them. Rinse and repeat. I believe there is 1 person left working on this so don't expect it coming out of early access anytime soon. However, I finished all of the content so not sure if there was planned DLCs or more zones/missions outside of what is currently looking like a little finished game.