Infection Free Zone
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!
Infection Free Zone is a early access, base-building and post-apocalyptic game
developed by Jutsu Games
and published by Games Operators.
Released on April 11th 2024 is available only on Windows
in 13 languages: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Portuguese - Brazil and Turkish.
It has received 11,984 reviews of which 9,161 were positive and 2,823 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.5 out of 10. đ
The game is currently priced at 19.99⏠on Steam and has a 20% discount.
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Windows
- OS: Windows 10
- Processor: IntelÂŽ Core i5-3570K
- Memory: 8 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIAÂŽ GeForceÂŽ GTX 680 / AMD Radeon HD 7970
- Storage: 5 GB available space
- Sound Card: Recommended
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For the last decade and a half, Zombies have been the de facto go-to monsters, replacing vampires, werewolves, goblins, and all matter of supernatural creatures in the public conscience. The Last of Us, Telltaleâs The Walking Dead, Left for Dead, State of Decay, Dying Light, Resident Evil, Project Zomboid, and They Are Billions are just some examples of the hundreds of games that use the Zombie as their archetypal enemy. Itâs fascinating how malleable the creature is to different kinds of genres, be it real-time-strategy, action, shooters, or survival-horror, chances are if youâre imaginative enough as a game designer, youâll be able to cram Zombies as an enemy almost anywhere. Infection Free Zone does almost nothing new with Zombies and with its mechanics. However, a stroke of genius, a feature so incredible it turns Infection Free Zone from a generic survival-management-strategy game into an absolute gem well worth buying into. That feature is the gameâs capability of letting you play anywhere in the world you want. Imagine Microsoft Flight Simulator but with Zombies. Itâs one thing to play in a fictional world, with fictional locations, but itâs a whole other experience to play in a known location, with streets you walk by every day, businesses you shop at, and parks where you exercise. If you want to be really nerdy, think of Infection Free Zone like this: Have you ever wondered âWhat would I do if a real-life zombie apocalypse happened?â and then proceeded to mentally design your plan? Infection Free Zombie is the âWhat would I do if a real-life zombie apocalypse happenedâ simulator. The game uses OpenStreetMapâs real-world data to generate its maps. Similar to Microsoft Flight Simulator, the maps arenât 100% accurate, but theyâll do their best to make it, at least believable. Buildings arenât one-to-one recreations of their real-life counterparts, but if you know the location, your imagination will fill out the blanks, I know mine did. Given this OpenStreetMap-based system, Infection Free Zone is a videogame that will be at the top of its game when youâre playing in locations you know and are familiar with. The game starts by challenging you to pick a location on the world map. Me being me, and since I live in New Castle, New Hampshire, of course, I was going to play my hometown. When choosing the playable area, my first question was: OK, hereâs where I live, where would I realistically be able to go? Well, since New Castle faces the Atlantic Ocean on the West, my best chance for survival might actually be having my back facing towards the sea, where no zombies could attack me. How does Infection Free Zone play? Well, itâs very much like a real-time strategy/city-builder mixed with survival and some horror elements. Itâs a mix that comes to its own when itâs paired up with this city creation system. Thatâs what I did on my first playthrough, got a base set up with my back turned to the ocean, and focused on what was ahead of me, no need to spend extra resources building walls and watchtowers. The game eases you in with some guided and basic story elements. During the day your folk are gathering resources and erecting fortifications and utilities. At the same time, your armed squads are scavenging, looking for food, medicine, weapons and whatever else they can find (Iâm not going to spoil any more). At night, the hordes come out and wander around the city, so itâs advisable that after 5 to 6 PM, everyone is back on the base and ready to man the defences. Combat is simple enough. Your units will fire at the horde, slimming it down, and it eventually fails. Let them get too close and theyâll damage the buildings youâve erected until they are basically useless and will be back again once you repair them. Each one of your squads can have up to 4 elements, and each can be equipped with a gun. These guns consume ammunition, so you better stock up before nightfall. This night-and-day system doesnât mean that things are uneventful for half of the time youâre playing. The zombie hordes will occupy buildings, and you might enter, because unless you saw them going in, thereâs no way to know where theyâre hiding from the sun. If the weather is cloudy enough, and the sun is covered, the infected will start roaming during the day. Raiders and other people roam the street, and youâll only know theyâre friends or foes once youâre close enough to talk to them. Again, basic systems, but they work and behave exactly as you would expect them to. The graphics are serviceable, at best, and downright horrible at worst, but I get it. A randomly generated map will never be perfect, and since Iâm playing locations I know deeply, it is rather easy to suspend my disbelief at what Iâm looking, at and imagine that that building isnât how it looks in real life, but thatâs the way I imagine it to be. I would love to see some more details about the buildings I adapt. Say I build a cookhouse, maybe the building will change slightly to feature a small chimney, barrels of stuff outside, and a wooden board on the door saying âcookhouseâ. Small things like that make the world feel more lived-in and end up being way more immersive. Imagine a living location with clotheslines outside, windows boarded up and figurines moving inside. Thereâs a lot to do to make things feel âlived inâ. Add this to things the game already has, and the world would really pick up a charm of its own. This is a lovely example of this: early in the game, youâll be tasked with acquiring the knowledge necessary to build an antenna. Where did Infection Free Zone send me? To my local university. Gather more weapons and ammunition? To my local police station. To gather food? To local groceries, I know and visit. Where to get medicine? To my neighborhood pharmacy. Just in case you havenât realized by now, I really enjoy the real-world Open Street Map map feature. Now that I lured you in with the great stuff, itâs time for some disappointment. Have in mind that the gameâs still in Early Access, so maybe, a lot of what Iâm about to write is going to be fixed in a couple of weeks/months: The unit path-finding is in dire need of some work. Iâm not one to usually nitpick this kind of stuff, but when your game hinges so much on the path your units take when walking around the city to either avoid confrontations or get into them, this needs to be fixed ASAP. The worst offender of this is the location towards which your units enter buildings. In more cramped locations, theyâll go all around entire neighborhoods just to get in, on the side, for example. It doesnât make a lot of sense, especially when the door for a said house is clearly facing the street, for example. The worst offender, to me, is how, for some reason Iâm not able to understand at the moment, is that the infected can go through some walls, but not others. This is very weird, and there seems to be no consistency in this. Sometimes they walk right on by, and your units too. Sometimes they donât. Itâs all really weird. I hope this gets fixed, as soon as possible because, as you can imagine, this is terrifyingly game-breaking in a game thatâs all about building your base against the zombie hordes. Jutsu Games, the developer of the game came out and said that the full story and all the factionâs events wonât be available on the Early Access launch. The same goes for map elevation, explosives, infected animals and a law system. These systems are still in the works but âdue to balancing issues we have decided to prioritize other systems and focus on the list above once the game is released in Early Accessâ When all is said and done, Infection Free Zone doesnât do anything novel with its systems, but what it manages to do is execute one unique feature extremely well, and the amount of gameplay variety that feature brings just by itself is going to be enough to keep me coming back time and time again. Verdict: 7/10
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After playing the game non-stop, it starts to lose its mystery. Your base becomes self-sustaining, and your main concern is holding off zombie hordes. This wouldnât be a problem if the game didnât suffer performance issues when too many units spawn. Two suggestions: adding an auto-scavenge system and fixing a bug where, after repairing a tower or gate, your selected weapon switches back to the revolver, causing unnecessary hassle. Overall, itâs a fun game to pass the time with lots of potential for improvement through updates, especially since itâs still in early access. That said, I wouldn't have bought it at full price, as the content runs out fairly quickly.
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After 200+ hours, The game is very enjoyable. IT IS still very much in beta testing. But the Devs are active and responsive to input. The gameplay is very adaptive to a variety of playstyles, I mean you can play ANYWHERE and they have put in some work to make the maps semi-realistic to the real place, and can be done or undone as you see fit. The math does'nt always math when it come to resources, people, etc. The squads are a bit clunky with pathfinding and interaction with bldgs, vehicles etc. But overall this game and the devs are headed in the right direction for a great game. The asking price for a beta is reasonable considering the devs have been delivering in a timely manner not only fixes and patches, but also features and gameplay, UI, and map upgrades. This is a decent game as-is, But in the near future I feel it will be great. I have spent far more energy and money on far less than what this game offers right now.
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To start with, these are not zombies! like all the reviews state. They are Vampire type creatures that come out at night. Reminds me of "i am legend". Really good game with excellent concept. Being able to raid your IRL home! what could be better! It does however get really difficult in the mid game. I did 8 hours on my best game and got obliterated by a HUGE horde! A few bugs here and there with easy bug feedback options but not enough to ruin the experience!
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Great game but for the love of god please make swimming zombies optional. So many amazing base opportunities ruined by zombies apparently swimming through the entire Atlantic.
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Online players
996
Developer
Jutsu Games
Publisher
Games Operators
Release
11 Apr 2024
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