The Dead Await
Shotx · 2026 · Survival Horror, Strategy, RPG, Deckbuilding, Party-Based RPG
PC
Mixed66% · 107
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About The Dead Await
The Dead Await is a deck-building open world survival RPG set in a zombie apocalypse. The world as we know it ended, torn apart by hordes of ravenous monsters. Humanity still clings on in the sea of blackened ruins, cold ashes, and man-eating creatures.
You're the leader of a caravan of survivalists whose goal is to figure out the truth behind the zombie apocalypse and, if possible, build the foundations for a new civilization! But be careful: Zombies might want to feast on your brains, but humans may very well prove the greatest obstacles during your long drive...
- Explore a vast world torn apart by a zombie apocalypse, from derelict cities full of loot and zombies to new settlements founded by survivors with opportunity and backstabbing abound.
- Gather food, water, fuel, and gear to survive the drive. Manage your resources to ensure everyone gets to the destination safely.
- Manage your team's sanity! Manage the impact of trauma, long-term effects of injuries, and, of course, resource scarcity. Zombies might turn out to be the least of your problems...
- Build the survivor you want using a robust attribute, skill, and perk system. Experiment with combinations and character builds, from a suave lockpicker to a mindless berserker and everything in-between.
- Paired with the character system is sophisticated card-based combat. Build up your deck during your travels, taking a team of rag-tag survivors to veterans with incredibly rare cards at their disposal!
- Gear matters: Give your survivors an edge with weapon and equipment mods - plus a good meal - and watch them conquer the wasteland!
- Build your group of survivalists to work as a team in combat!
- The caravan is at the heart of your journey to discover the truth. Upgrade it with workbenches, storage, and other features to turn it into a true mobile base.
- Swap out vehicle components to modify the caravan's performance. Engine, suspension, tires, all affect how you traverse the world - and your chances of surviving!
- Craft everything you need to survive, including the classic nail-mounted baseball bat. They don't make them like they used to, after all!
- With what you find in the wild, cook meals to give yourself permanent bonuses or a quick fix before a fight!
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
The mixed reviews make sense. It is a niche game. If you are not sure, pass or wait for a sale. If you like mixed genre zombie, card battle, survival hardcore games, can't recommend enough. Just check out the bad reviews. If you are like me and don't care that it's not perfectly polished, doesn't have the exact mechanics of games you played before, give it try.6 found this helpful
I want to like this one, but it is just unappealing, slow, and bloated. Funny thing, there is a faster movement button, its speed should be the norm, and then make it faster. There are too many looting types, so you constantly run back and forth to put them into storage or sell. The story is just survival and sandbox. Maybe later something happens, but it crashed on me and ate like 30 minutes of playtime, so I'm not too keen to find out.2 found this helpful
i like this game at initial stage, but later it get over-complexed and i have to give up And i find ton of issues which make me feel the dev have not play the game completely at least for once, which is not acceptable for me At early stage, it is item trading + card game, then when get to shelter stage, it become a factory game, where u can automate production + selling. Since i am not interested in factory genre, this is over-complexed for me and i decide to give up at this point (the existence of shelter factory make trading pointless, in pov of game design, i think it is a huge issue) some serious gamplay bug / issue also exist: if overweight "unintentionally", your resource can be gone forever ( i have encountered this several time) when u get familiar to trading, there will be a point that all trader will be either poor or no space (trader have finite space too) to take your stuff u will also have serious inventory issue since about 20%-30% of item cannot be stacked, which include letter (which contain either story or code for unlocking console), and in order to save space, u will have to throw those letter away, which is the 1st game i seen that allow u throw story item, …2 found this helpful
Was not ready for a 1.X release. Too many bugs and missed opportunities.1 found this helpful
Meh
THE ART IS TRASH GAMEPLAY boring loop of looting bad the only survival horror here is trying to survive the boredom when you play
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