ABSTRACT

One of the core features of State of Decay is permadeath. You are trying to survive in the zombie apocalypse, and your decisions matter because when characters die, they are gone forever, and you will never see them again. That isn’t exactly true. While watching people play the original game, we learned that pretty often players started the game over from scratch when they lost one of their bespoke starting characters. As the new game began, players found the characters they had lost alive and well.