The Dead Await: Prologue

The Dead Await: Prologue

Shotx · May 1, 2023 · RPG, Deckbuilding, Crafting, Zombies, Card Battler

The Dead Await: Prologue is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Positive76% · 63 📈 Making a comeback 85%
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About The Dead Await: Prologue

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The Dead Await: Prologue is a deck-building open world survival RPG where you lead a caravan of survivors through a zombie apocalypse, managing resources, team sanity, and brutal encounters with both undead hordes and other desperate humans. Build custom characters with deep skill systems, craft gear and meals, upgrade your mobile base, and uncover the truth behind civilization's collapse through strategic card-based combat and exploration.



Welcome to the first taste of the world of The Dead Await! We're so excited about our game that we couldn't wait to share it with you. This special Prologue offering will give you an early glimpse at the world and mechanics of the game. Get ready for an incredible experience with our deck-building open world survival RPG!

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!
  • 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!

The Dead Await: Prologue — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

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The Dead Await: Prologue is a free prologue that blends deck-building strategy with zombie survival RPG mechanics, offering exploration, crafting, and card combat, though players note it feels brief and incomplete as an introductory segment. Opinions are divided: some appreciate the unique survival-management systems and atmospheric world as a promising foundation, while others criticize it as merely promotional material that clutters the storefront rather than functioning as a standalone experience.

Not recommended Jul 20, 2025
---{ Graphics }--- ☐ You forget what reality is ☐ Beautiful ☐ Good ☐ Decent ☐ Bad ☑ Don‘t look too long at it ☐ MS-DOS ---{ Gameplay }--- ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ It's just gameplay ☑ Mehh ☐ Watch paint dry instead ☐ Just don't ---{ Audio }--- ☐ Eargasm ☐ Very good ☐ Good ☐ Not too bad ☑ Bad ☐ I'm now deaf ---{ Audience }--- ☐ Kids ☑ Teens ☑ Adults ☐ Grandma ---{ PC Requirements }--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---{ Game Size }--- ☐ Floppy Disk ☑ Old Fashioned ☐ Workable ☐ Big ☐ Will eat 15% of your 1TB hard drive ☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it ☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data ---{ Difficulty }--- ☐ Just press 'W' ☑ Easy ☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master ☐ Significant brain usage ☐ Difficult ☐ Dark Souls ---{ Grind }--- ☑ Nothing to grind ☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks ☐ Isn't necessary to progress ☐ Average grind level ☐ Too much grind ☐ You'll need a second life for grinding ---{ Story }--- ☐ No Story ☑ Some lore ☐ Average ☐ Good ☐ Lovely ☐ It'll replace your life ---{ Game Time }--- ☑ Long enough for a cup of coffee ☐ Short ☐ Average ☐ Long …
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Not recommended Mar 10, 2026
"The Dead Await: Prologue" is isn't a game at all, it's just an ad for [i]The Dead Await[/i]. Talk about store pollution... Misleading marketing like this is an abuse of the Steam storefront and the "free" category. The product this is advertising, [i]The Dead Await[/i] is something that looks like it was made as a browser/mobile game but got published on Steam by shovelware pushers at indieio (they got hundreds of these shovelware games), a CCG zombie survival... thing... but that's not really relevant, because "The Dead Await: Prologue" isn't The Dead Await, it's just an advert for it! Incorrectly published adverts are harmful.. they take up visibility that should instead be afforded to ethical developers who do the right thing. And it makes it harder for us to find those ethically made games. There's a correct process to publish game demos and advertisements like this on Steam. You can see it in [url=https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/application/demos]Valve's Steamworks Documentation for Demos[/url] but either the "developer" didn't know about that (something they absolutely should before they even touch Steam Direct), or they deliberately and willfully bypassed this …
Recommended Jan 23, 2026
Positive: Free to play and instantly accessible — no purchase needed. Blend of deck‑building strategy and survival RPG set in a zombie apocalypse gives a unique demo feel. Includes exploration, caravan progression, crafting, trading and card combat elements for a varied experience. Atmospheric world that mixes survival tension with RPG progression. Negative: As a prologue/demo, content is brief and doesn’t feel like a full game yet. Some systems may feel incomplete or limited in scope. Story and quests can feel sparse since this is an introductory segment. 🏆 Completionists & Achievement Hunters: There is only 1 Steam achievement to unlock, and it typically pops quickly once you engage with the demo’s main objective. If you focus on progression and reach that milestone efficiently, you can get it in around 5–10 minutes, making this a very fast and easy completion for achievement hunters. Overall: The Dead Await: Prologue is a free survival RPG demo that combines deck‑building and open‑world elements in a zombie apocalypse setting. It’s brief by design but gives a good taste of combat, loot, and survival mechanics, with a quick achievement to unlock if you’re after completion.
Recommended Nov 10, 2025
i'm just here for the achievement.. and not to break my promise 8/10
Recommended Aug 2, 2025
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Recommended Apr 21, 2025
its one of the best post apocalyptic survival rpgs i ever saw. its realy nice menagement system. maps and missions. it would be better in my opinion to have 1- a huge variety of weapons - items 2- companion with unique skills 3- dungeon like explorable dungeons , places with loot and deadly random creatures inside. Developers u are my hope for future. i would buy your game anyway but if you have these 3 as a cherry on top it would be perfect.

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