Much of the game centres around maintaining and improving your home base, and its occupants, as you try to survive the vicious new way of life in Trumbull Valley. With this as your new home base, you set out to help Ed and the other survivors stay alive and survive through whatever means necessary. Returning to the ranger station, your friend Ed is attacked and bitten, leading you to make your way to a local church where another group of survivors has holed up. Tanner Ranger’s Station, but sadly they swiftly perish after you’ve embarked on a mission to rescue embattled soldier Maya Torres.
You soon meet a group of survivors at the Mt. Undead Labs have now returned to Trumbull Valley, remastering the title for Xbox One while also intent on bringing the title to a new audience on current-gen and smoothing off some of the game’s rough edges.įor the uninitiated, you start the game as clerk Marcus Campbell who, returning from a fishing trip with his friend Ed, discovers that the world has gone to hell, with a zombie outbreak in full swing. Whilst it appeared amongst a raft of other shambling zombie titles, State Of Decay’s open world and emphasis as a survival simulation, rather than an arcade shooting range, made it stand out from the pack, particularly with its origins as a downloadable title.
State of Decay originally arrived as an Xbox 360 Live Arcade title back in 2013, before making the jump to PC a few months later.
