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Guide survivors through 1980 Walton City, scavenging, crafting and sneaking past zombies while managing a shelter and escape plan.
Released 09 Apr 2025
Sneak Past Zombies
Scavenge Ruined Walton
Move Between Shelters
Texas, 1980. Walton City has fallen to a zombie outbreak. Lead a band of desperate survivors from refuge to refuge by scavenging, crafting, and fighting in a relentless struggle for survival. Plan wisely, stick together, and — above all — keep moving if you want to make it out alive.
Developed by PikPok · Published by Boltray Games (China), PikPok (worldwide)
In 1980, a zombie outbreak overruns Walton City, Texas. You guide a small group of ordinary survivors through the ruined city as they search for a way to escape.
Scavenge buildings for supplies while avoiding or fighting zombies and human threats. Plan each trip, make use of the surroundings, and decide what to carry back as you move between shelters.
At each shelter, manage survivors’ hunger, exhaustion and morale, treat injuries, craft equipment and improve defenses. Recruit or leave people behind, make choices with consequences, and pursue different escape routes.
Players who enjoy the game often praise its oppressive 1980s setting, detailed locations and tense scavenging trips, where stealth and careful planning can matter more than fighting. Shelter management and the pressure of keeping survivors alive also appeal to many. Others find combat and injuries punishing, runs repetitive, or the story and management systems underdeveloped; these concerns are often discussed in the context of the game’s Early Access state.
Into the Dead: Our Darkest Days is a side-scrolling shelter survival game that tasks you with guiding a desperate group of zombie apocalypse survivors to safety. Craft weapons, scavenge resources, balance your group’s needs, and try to get everyone out of danger alive.
Texas, 1980. Walton City is a sprawling, coastal metropolis in the grip of a scorching heatwave and crippling economic crisis. Everything changes when an unstoppable zombie outbreak reaches US shores. Walton City is soon overrun by hordes of the undead, the few remaining survivors cut off from any chance of outside help. Forced to band together, these everyday people must chase their only chance of survival by escaping the city.
Gather a group of ordinary people who have been left shaken by the sudden zombie outbreak that has devastated their city.
Establish upgradable shelters to house your survivors and protect them from the zombie threat — but remember that no barriers can keep them out forever.
Keep moving from refuge to refuge to stay one step ahead of the encroaching zombie hordes. Every night, your barricades will be under their relentless attack. And if they break through, your survivors will pay the price.
Balance the physical needs of the group, like Hunger or Exhaustion, as well as psychological needs like Despair. Heal survivors from injuries like Broken Ribs and try to manage traumas like Nightmares.
Creep through the remains of Walton City to scavenge precious resources, risking the life of each survivor as they encounter both zombie and human threats. Stealth is key to survival.
Choose whether to run from a fight or engage in brutal combat with whatever weapons you can find or craft. Not everyone is a natural fighter, but desperate people will do anything to survive.
Convince others to join your group or cut them down and claim their resources as your own.
Test your humanity as you make tough decisions on who will live, who will die, and who will be left behind.
Inhabit the rich and atmospheric cityscape of Walton City, the once-bustling metropolis now an eerie ruin swarming with zombies.
Craft tools, weapons, and shelter upgrades to better equip your survivors for the struggles ahead, or give them a moment of comfort and familiarity in their dangerous new world.
Encounter a varying world which makes sure that every playthrough is a new experience.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS |
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| Controller support | PlayStation, Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
| DRM / EULA |
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| Website | Official website |
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