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Build a survivor settlement on a real-world map, repurpose city buildings, scavenge with squads, and defend against infected hordes.
Released 11 Apr 2024
Defend Your Hometown
Repurpose City Buildings
Scavenge Familiar Streets
Choose any real region from the world. Choose your base of operations, then rebuild and readapt the buildings around you to create a self-sustaining settlement. Take charge of a group of survivors from your city. And when the night falls - Defend the zone from the infected!
Developed by Jutsu Games · Published by Games Operators
After a fast-spreading virus collapses society, you lead survivors trying to establish a safe zone in a real-world location. Choose a city or town and use its mapped streets and buildings as the setting for your settlement.
Assign residents to build, adapt buildings for shelter and production, and gather resources. Send armed squads to search nearby buildings and explore, where they may encounter infected or other survivors.
Develop your settlement through research, expand its defenses with walls, gates, and towers, and prepare for infected attacks at night. The story includes encounters with other groups, while research can lead toward a vaccine or cure.
Players who enjoy the game often single out the novelty of playing on a real-world map—especially in a familiar hometown—and the way that setting makes scavenging and defending a settlement feel personal. Reviews also praise the mix of base building, research, resource management, squad expeditions, and night defense, as well as story events for adding direction. Some players find the loop engaging for many hours, while others say its later stages feel repetitive or short on purpose and content. Frequent criticisms include laborious worker and squad management, awkward controls or pathfinding, and bugs.
“The Mad Virus” has spread throughout the world with the speed of jet planes. The infected are highly aggressive, fast and strong. In a couple of weeks, society collapsed. Cities are empty. There is no electricity, no water, and no food. Yet, there are a few survivors...
Type in the name of the city or town, download the map and start playing! Thanks to OpenStreetMap’s real-world data, you can choose any place in the world for your survivors.
Establish a new “Infection Free Zone” wherever you choose. Set up shelters and production facilities. Adapt existing buildings to new needs. Build new farms and power houses. Establish defenses with walls, gates, and towers.
Utilize your knowledge of the city. What is the best place to defend? Where were the grocery stores, where were the pharmacies? Where would you look for weapons? Remember that it’s dangerous to search the old buildings, there might be some infected lurking in the dark!
Each night, your settlement might be attacked by large hordes of the infected. Fight them off with every tool available - melee and ranged weapons, vehicles, walls and light. Research a vaccine or a cure for ultimate victory, or just enjoy rebuilding entire cities!
Your survivors will surely find other surviving groups. Some will be friendly and willing to trade, but others will be extremely hostile. There might be some fighting involved!
| Platforms | Windows |
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| Achievements | 33 |
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| Controller required | No |
| DLC / extras | 1 listed on Steam |
| DRM / EULA |
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| AI disclosure | - Some artworks have been made with the help of the Midjourney AI tool.- The Map Data in some countries has been generated with the help of AI technology to recognize satellite images. |
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| Website | Official website |
