Survivalist Invisible Strain Steam Review

Survivalist Invisible Strain wants to be Project Zomboid. Project Zomboid is quit possibly the most detailed zombie simulator known to man, as well as extremely difficult. I happen to have bought Project Zomboid a few years ago and can confirm its greatness and difficulty.

Survivalist Invisible Strain is the sequel to a game called Survivalist, which I have never played, nor do I after playing this. The developer’s name is Bob. Well, Bob, your game sucks as it currently stands and will take years of patches to make it playable, if it ever gets there. Project Zomboid this is not. Where do I even start? First, the game is in 3d with fog and pop-in. The game is ugly. The maps are randomly generated, and you can’t go in anything, not even houses. You just scavenge from a menu. No rummaging through cabinets while sneaking around the zombies. Speaking of sneaking, it either works, or it doesn’t. What I mean is, either they don’t see you when you’re right in front of them, or they see you from half a map away. But wait, there’s more wrong with Survivalist Invisible Strain.

Combat in Survivalist Invisible Strain is terrible. You will die a lot, not necessarily because you are weak, but because you’ll miss a lot and the zombies will prompt a press A minigame. If you die and have a point of constitution, a randomly created settlement will pull out from death for one of those points. That’s nice I guess. Oh, and there’s a survival mode(random map, no story), and story mode. Except there is no story. The map is randomly generated and you get the same mission prompts in either mode. The title refers to a invisible strain of the zombie virus that can turn your mates, but honestly never got that far because the game lacks a clear purpose or reason to continue.

Survivalist Invisible Strain will take years to get good. Unfortunately, I don’t think that’ll save this because why play this when you have Project Zomboid for a few dollars more? Project Zomboid has been around for 12 years. But when I played it years ago, it was great then, its just gotten better with time. This gets a Garbage with a 2 back-end score.

Overall: Survivalist Invisible Strain is a low-rent 3D Project Zomboid knock-off that fails to deliver. It’ll take years to get good, years it doesn’t have.

Verdict: Garbage

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P.S. For a zombie game I actually liked Try Splatter: Zombiecalypse Now

Game received for free from the publisher.

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