This Low Poly Zombie Survival Game is Amazing! (Surroundead Review 2024) 

indie game developers keep cooking 5 star restaurant level stuff while most AAA games consistently burning their kitchen to the ground

this is one of those games that *needs* to be multiplayer. most people would only want to play it under that scenario.

Im so sick of hyper photorealistic graphics with shallow game systems and features. This looks amazing.

so, basically Unturned but with all community-made improvements, and a fresh coat of paint. *Shut up and take my money.*

I've had a LOT of fun with this title - good to see you giving it a signal boost.

dude this game is one of my favorite zombie survivals of ALL TIME fucking love this game!

I'm a simple gamer and love seeing channels review these nuggets tucked away where I'd never find them without the platform RU-vid provides you & those in this content field. For me if Survival Games had auto-sort/auto-stacking for "like items". If that makes sense, yeah? Like if I found 2 Rifles (same) why not let me stack them up to say 5 in my bag. It's not an IRL survival mode where I could not genuinely lug a 150lb ruck without fatigue setting in. I'm not a fan of "Inventory Manager 2.0" in Survival games. Love this and it's on my wishlist. Thanks for sharing!

Collecting cars was one of the highlights of State of Decay

One of the main things you do in a survival game is manage your inventory, so devs should pay attention to this as much as the gameplay itself, it always kills these games

Most games are extremely unrealistic where shotguns are concerned. In real life, they tend to be accurate to around 50 yards (depending on shell type and barrel length).

Awesome to see that despite how much games uses Synty Assets people can still make games that others enjoy. Most reviewers would say "it's reusing the same 3d models that most games uses" 🙂

I've been having a blast with this game for a month now, plus it gets frequently updated, totally recommended, it's a steal for the price

The only thing that bothers me with these low poly regurgitations, is they are all using the same asset packs that were sold earlier on Humble Bundle in the Unreal/Unity Engine Low Poly Asset series; with none of the assets changed or altered. Really makes these games feel super lazy.

Wow, a RU-vid review that’s to the point, on topic, and interesting? Subscribed. Please keep it up.

this game is fantastic for a game made by one guy. have a ton of hours in it. done just about everything you can in the game. is it perfect? nope, but its better than 90% of the crap AAA is putting out there. you cant go wrong with the price either compared to how many hours you can sink into it before you hit the seen it/done it all wall. dev puts out updates/content consistently, and is very active with the community. just a well made game by a guy who clearly cares about it. hit the nail on the head with the part where you say its a game, not a simulator. clearly the dev has the common sense to ask himself, is this fun or not while hes making it. good vid. ez like and subscribe.

Bad inventory system is the killer of many games.

They're using Synty assets which are some of the best polygon gone style assets you can get on the market 👏

Looks like I'll be getting this one.

*@BrokenCircle Thank You for this. I love these kind of zombie survival games, and I may have missed this if not for you!*

i start playing in the end of 2022 and the evolution of the game is amazing! the dev keep pushing new content, new weapons, more POI's, etc. for a 11€ game is an absolute gem! and you dont need to hold mouse to do a melee attack, you can disable that on the menu.

There's a lot of the mechanics in this game that makes me think of *"Plains of Pain"* - 3rd person survival, but procedurally spawned POIs and mobs. Also early days but it's got potential ;)

I picked this up last year and was really impressed with how fun it was.. not without issues but I expect after some updates it will be even better.

I been had this on my wishlist since it was released. Good video 👌

The bunny at 5:55 😂

You can see heavy tarkov inspiration especially with the inventory management system. Which personally I like a lot. But based on this I doubt they'll be changing the stack backpack option. I don't recall if you said there was a carry limit tho. Which, if there isn't then that's pretty odd and a lil broken lol

Thanks for the heads up on this. Will subscribe for your effort. Bought it. This video was in my 'RECOMMENDEDS'.

This was a very well put together review. Thanks for bringing this game to my attention.

Thanks for recommendation!

This and Deadpoly look identical down to the models and gameplay. Why are there so many games using these assets?

I got this game, but could only run around a park. I might have gotten it super early when ot first dropped. Im gonna re-download it and check it out tonight. You are showing WAY more than what I saw. I like not having a weight system lol. I thoufht this had one? Hmm, yeah, i need to play this again. I didnt go far enough into it.

This would make an awesome multiplayer, can you imagine a DayZ experience, item management looks the same, if this was multiplayer? Please for the love of dog, make this multiplayer

oh man I have NO IDEA how you got in my suggested, but this game is fantastic! I've been playing it since last year, and the Dev is really putting a lot of effort on it, updating, fixing and adding things. This is very very good, is a quite "boring" playing alone after a while, but the run is freaking amazing!

We got DayZ cartoon before GTA 6 💀

I have a love/hate relationship with the inventory system. I'll stack bags inside of bags inside of bags inside of bags... and then When I need something, I forget where it's at and it's buried like 5 levels deep in my inventory.

I love SurrounDead and played loads of it, got all the cars and weapons. If you like SurrounDead then you might also like Zombie Survival Game Online, it uses the same assets pack so it will look familiar.

Very good video man, keep it up!

The game look's great! Just waiting for the multiplayer update to drop. Then I'll buy it for sure!

WOW it has something state of decay needed, RAIN! It looks amazing too for the visuals...

I want to make my own FPS game like this.

I might pick this up, only thing stopping me is I have a list of about 10 games I would love to play that fall under the "dead" category in terms of playerbase. I use dead lightly, because this obviously has people coming back, but 200 player concurrent isn't going to convince any of my friends to pick this up. If it can grow it's playerbase in the future I'll definitely pick it up as it's cheap.

Nice review mate 😁👍

Thought I'd suggest you check out the alpha version of this game, where there were more features, but as it turns out it's a different game. This game is visually and mechanically similar to “Deadpoly” Absolutely similar graphics, inventory systems, even the same vehicles.

Hoping there's some sort of construction mechanic to create a base either from an old building or from scratch

No not that the real MW2 😂👏

Procedural generation, done properly, does look good!

So glad to see this game getting the attention it deserves. It is one of my favorites

The Artstyle of that game reminds me very strong to "Rise of Guns", where you build weapons in a Zombie Hideout Community. The Style of Zombies, Guns etc looks VERY similar, maybe same Developer?

Controller support?

Can this game be played with friends?

I just bought it recently and I think its a great balance between survival games and action shooters, I cannot recommend it enough.

The stars need to align for a good zombie game that’s not low poly or top down to come out.

Controller support? I have this wish listed for my ROG Ally, but holding out for controller support.

I am strangely reminded 7 days to die which a brutal survival game with crafting that can sometimes get on my nerves, I can understand some components are meant to be purchased obtained from lower end weapons. Even if the skill system is meh though it makes a lot of tools useful, still no scrap tier of tools. Though one type of storage I don't often see in some games is the type that is, "Its simple to build, even cheap, the storage is deep, however it will only accept very specific materials" type of storage which I always thought it was something Ark could benefit from.

The only thing that leaves me curious is if their goal is to create their own assets or continue utilizing POLYGON's Low Poly Apocalypse set.

You ever try project zomboid?Best zombie game ever, this one seems dope though

Why it not online like days ;(

Its good As a dayz player i will say its like Dayz + 7dtd in minecraft(Pixelated)

ugh that motion blur game looks like slightly less blocky unturned tbh

Just play Survive The Nights idk why everyone hates on it it's much better now

Have you reviewed Battlebit Remastered?

i’ve played too many horrible games using these assets, i cant do it again

was looking to see if you had any review videos on DeadPoly. Any thoughts on that game compared to this? Currently looking into purchasing it as well, but Surroundead has been amazing for me so far.

Wicked, I got Fargone for 3 quid so was ok but still buggy. Might give this ago untill Red recovers and gets back on it.

the thing about these low poly package games is that they can spend more time working on systems than art direction or detail, which is nice but i find these games really gross to play most the time lel

Cool thanks!

This looks like a version of state of decay

It reminds me of Unturned.

Been playing this for quite a while and can say that the dev is a godsend. He tends to add stuff that a good portion of the community wants instead of ignoring the community and adding what HE wants, I have an embarrassing amount of hours I’ve put into it

We so desperately need a survival game with a big budget that looks like 2024😢

Go indie people. Game like these will save the industry.

If it had destruction it would be boss

Why do the guns shoot "lasers"? Can you turn that off? Looks awful

Awesome game fully agree def worth a try

Is there zombie hordes or just one or two zombies?? Oh one or two zombies. I’m good.

Great vid thanks👍

Console release?

i love surroundead, but it needs a better gun/shooting system, i like to play first person, so i would like they did something like fargone. The second thing im waiting its coop/multiplayer

Good work

check out ADACA, same low poly style game

Thanks for this video! The game looks really cool i just don't get why the bullet based guns look like laser guns?! Instant turn off for me

deserved like and sub, nice video , would like to hear critics on my game when its in early access :))

These guys made an ios zombie fps that was actually fun asf

All those Synty assets unchanged 🤣 Supporting an asset flip, classic.

This game and project zomboid are king haha.

I like this game, but man last time I played. Wolves spawned in form NO WHERE and killed me. Plus there are SO MANY trees now you can't see Anything.. And the damn Storms.. every five minutes.. I stopped playing it for a while. ..

looks like unturned but different graphics

*Why have the Resident Evil style inventory?* *Bring on the mods..* LOL.

State of decay 2 and DayZ but low poly

I hate the raygun effect on shots

Good game sure ;)

Gaming in 2024 indie : Low poly, open world, crafting survival with the most basic UE5 templates seen a trillion times before AAA : Abysmal DEI infested crap

Does it have first person perspective (fpp)

Multi ?

Asset store the survival game lmao

take a look at Vein if you haven't already.

Bases? Building?

Cmon man I thought ravenfield looked alright

So 3rd person Zomboid 🤔

I wouldn’t have an issue with this, but dead poly. Is literally the same game. Like so much the same that if they’re not made by the same studio then someone might have a legal battle on their hands

Im not usually a graphics lemming, but man... these games that ALL have the exact same 'low poly' texture pack immediately screams asset flip/low effort and makes my brain's first reaction to dismiss as a cheap/lazy cash grab, people eat first with their eyes...