Envy the Dead
Kazakov Oleg · 2016 · RPG, Strategy, Simulation, Zombies, Survival
PC
Mixed66% · 178 📉 Recent reviews down 54%
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About Envy the Dead
Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, where you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.
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The game combines node-based exploration with random events, similar to games like FTL or Renowned Explorers with Tower Defense based battle mechanics. The characters are all randomly generated and they are all have different personalities, skills and traits.
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The game is extremely hardcore. Your characters can be injured, infected, killed in battles or in accident. Your supplies of food and medicine are limited, and someone in your group will have to starve so all your group can survive.
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During your travel, you can encounter hundreds of different events, in which you can find supplies, fight zombies or meet another survivors. Some events could require hard decisions with life and death consequences. For example: someone in your group was captured by bandits, and you must choose between leaving him to die, risking the whole group and getting him out or trying to trade him for some of your supplies.
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Battles are based on tower defense mechanics. You must defeat waves of zombies or groups of other survivors, usings skills and abilities of your characters, teamwork and defensive structures.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/453960/extras/How_it_works.png
The game combines node-based exploration with random events, similar to games like FTL or Renowned Explorers with Tower Defense based battle mechanics. The characters are all randomly generated and they are all have different personalities, skills and traits.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/453960/extras/Survival.png
The game is extremely hardcore. Your characters can be injured, infected, killed in battles or in accident. Your supplies of food and medicine are limited, and someone in your group will have to starve so all your group can survive.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/453960/extras/Events.png
During your travel, you can encounter hundreds of different events, in which you can find supplies, fight zombies or meet another survivors. Some events could require hard decisions with life and death consequences. For example: someone in your group was captured by bandits, and you must choose between leaving him to die, risking the whole group and getting him out or trying to trade him for some of your supplies.
https://shared.akamai.steamstatic.com/store_item_assets/steam/apps/453960/extras/BattleSystem.png
Battles are based on tower defense mechanics. You must defeat waves of zombies or groups of other survivors, usings skills and abilities of your characters, teamwork and defensive structures.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
A very rough solo adventure that features managing a small group of survivors after a Zombie outbreak. It isn't totally bad, if you look past all the glaring mistakes in spelling which give the impression that the game is going to be amateurish; but the UI for settings doesn't really tell you when an option is ON or OFF (such as the TUTORIAL) and going into the game itself, controls for your downtime actions (Scout, Eat, Rest, Craft or Train) are challenging to figure out, and leave you feeling that no matter what you do; its not going to be smoothly carried out. I didn't mind the characters and backgrounds that seem hand drawn, but overall, I spent far too much time just digging, re-reading and trying things again and again....just to get my first encounter completed. Too much effort for such a low return of entertainment. Thumbs down, sadly.5 found this helpful
REAL ADVENTURE1 found this helpful
Envy the Dead, developed and published by Kazakov Oleg, is a survival strategy game that attempts to blend roguelike exploration, tactical combat, and resource management into a single grim vision of a post-apocalyptic world. It places the player in charge of a small, desperate group of survivors struggling to endure in the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. Rather than focusing purely on action or base-building, the game emphasizes difficult choices, random events, and the fragile balance between life and death. Every decision matters—from where you travel to who gets to eat—and even small mistakes can snowball into catastrophe. It is a game that constantly reminds you of your vulnerability, and in doing so, it captures both the brutality and futility that define the end of the world. The main structure of Envy the Dead revolves around moving your group of survivors across a network of interconnected nodes, each representing a potential encounter, event, or battle. Some nodes may offer supplies, others could hide ambushes or moral dilemmas, and a few simply act as rest points before the next struggle. This system bears resemblance to titles like FTL or Slay the Spire, where each dec…1 found this helpful
Not Recommended1 found this helpful
think I got this for around 60p it isn't good, very little features and not a fun gameplay loop Hate to give a solo dev a do not recommend for one of their early games so I'll recommend one of their later ones that I enjoyed; Galaxy Squad
So bad
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