Feels like the game needs more time to cook in the oven.

Been waiting to give this game a try and needless to say it lived up to expectation! Nothing like wandering off the trail to find a group of survivors held up with turrets only to be ambushed by a HUGE horde of infected. 10/10

It's not fully finished yet. What the trailer depicts, that may be director mode, but sadly these developers just do the same thing over and over. Steam NEEDS to seriously ban or remove these games from their lists. But it is a business, and profit comes first. Not quality. Please, they are game developers. They've got to listen to the criticism. And it is driven by people who test these games. Firstly, the game has some pros.

Five pros:

1. Horde mode, and surprises. Sometimes, some scripted events are legit challenging, like running into that blood demon, or certain blood demons around the city. Even late game has still it's challenges killing those infected.

2. Tower defense-like elements. Well, it's not fully polished and it's sort of a pseudo-tower defense like game, and obviously not Project Zomboid in any way- but one of the key elements that makes this game mind-numbingly fun is your ability to kill the infected in a tower defense like way. But it has more cons than pros, so sadly- this is on a thin edge here.

3. Director mode is fun- well, if you have an open mind. I thought though it would take place fully in custom maps you can choose.

4. Map is very specific. Mechanics are mostly bug free, but still needs improvements, and most survivors are like aimbots. I myself would say that's a pro rather.

5. The story. Actually, this is somewhat... good and bad. Mostly- sorta good. Music's pretty good too, in some respects.
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5 cons;

1. The story. Yes, as good as it has it's moments, it's actually bad in someways. Not completed fully (shouldn't have any excuses for other than early access, and we should have early access remaining for a short period of time.), some people said it seems to be written by an AI, I'm not sure. Seems a bit likely. But there's a couple of loopholes, useless or not tied off dialogue that seems to be leading nowhere, some plot lines like mid-game you go to a prison.... well, ill leave it at that, and many other problems. It's so abrupt when you finish the main quest. No credits. Nada. They sail off into an island that's reminiscent of Dawn of the Dead's 2004 ending. Give this a couple of months. I don't recommend you buy it now. So much to type here, but time certainly is precious.

2. Tower defense mechanics. It's sorta a pseudo-tower defense game. If you're going to put the main objective to defend the school, why not have a horde that comes exponentially harder, and then also put in blood demons? Or more? Or even- where's the line that they can cross over? Why not have it flashing red? Certainly they thought of that, didn't they? If those zombies cross over the front entrance line just before the school's entrance, or roughly in between, all those wooden barricades mean jack besides for superficial purposes. And what's with the setup of some the scripted events, situations, stuff like you go into a building and it seems alright for some barricades and then hordes start appearing all over without notice, and no alarms have been sounded? Flesh it out, please.

3. The AI. while the command mode is... just there, but in some commands given, it works well. I've had trouble with issuing commands with my A.I teammates and this is NOT a multiplayer game. Don't even try thinking you can implement a multiplayer mode without first fixing the singleplayer mode/campaign's A.I. More dialogue is needed to make the environment alive. The AI don't really seem to liven up this apocalyptic world rather than just- "something's wrong", "what is it?", etc. That's simply gibberish.

4. Environment. This needs to be fixed, it's quite repetitive. TV screens and audio displaying the same thing and you keep hearing airport samples over and over again. Dunno why. Even news footage seems to do this. Why... the developers need to question themselves really intrinsically and introspectively of what they're doing. It's not a quick cash grab for us customers, and we are not going to be treated like that.

5. Finally... the elephant in the room. Why is this game 27gbs? I mean aside from textures and what not, it's definitely installing malware inside? Alot of people have said yes, some have rebutted that League does the same, but changing my power settings, that's not right. Somebody needs to clear this up from inside the team.

Look, it's hard. Most developers don't wanna admit their pride and admit they're wrong. It's alright. It's not a AAA company, and most developers see those big leagues and think they can do the same. But making a game that's got certain bad reputation with other's saying that the developers outright ban them from making negative feedbacks, or "constructive criticism", is really- let's not focus on the customers. Are you actually happy with this product if you'd play it yourself? I hope not. Things can be good, very good if they'd push the best they can to make this game a gem in the dirt, or rather a diamond amongst all the fake diamonds that we call the gaming industry. You can do it! Question is whether you succumb to it, or use it, to rise and deliver a fully, polished, functioning, malware-free, 98% bug-free product that people AND you yourselves, the developer team at KIOOP and the other name on the title screen... it ain't easy. But can you do it? Or ignore me, ban me, and risk further issues, and move on, to the next game you're developing and do the same practices. Until one day, karma bites back and the majority of your customers complain and they take action.