I was playing
State of Decay just now. I got it for $5 during the Steam summer sale thing a few days ago. Up to this point, I'd put 8 hours into it, according to Steam. I was playing as
Marcus, the guy you start as. I'd just unlocked the
Pro Wrestling skill with him. I was finishing a mission and heading back to the
church. On the way, I saw a
zombie horde in the distance, so I decided to see just how awesome my new wrestling skills were. I waded into around 12 zombies or so and slammed every one of them to death while taking almost no damage myself. It was pretty cool and I felt like a badass. I continued on my way. Not thirty seconds later, I ran into a
feral zombie. About ten to fifteen seconds after that, Marcus was
dead. Just like that. Death, in this game, is permanent, unless you start a new game.
I immediately exited out to the menu, deleted my save profile, and then uninstalled the game. I will likely never play it again.
So... would I recommend this game? I don't know. I honestly don't. I was having quite a bit of fun with it for the eight hours that I did play it, so there is that. But then, as soon as Marcus was killed, I lost all desire to continue playing it at all. I don't know... I might reinstall it and give it another shot someday, but for now... nope. I'll just say this much: it's a survival horror RPG that takes place in a modern day zombie apocalypse. If that sounds cool to you, check it out. If, however, you feel like you'd react the same as me in a situation similar to the above, you might as well not bother, probably. That's all I have to say about that.