Zafehouse: Diaries
Screwfly Studios · 2013 · Strategy, Simulation, Indie, Zombies, RPG
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About Zafehouse: Diaries
Features
- Deal with the volatile relationships of your survivors by strategically assigning them to tasks, siding with them on difficult decisions or seeding rumours about their past
- The undead aren't the only threat - negotiate, bargain, trade with or fight merciless lynch mobs, zombie hunters and bitten survivors
- Experience a fresh story each time you play as the procedural engine crafts new survivors, towns and content
- Built-in editors make it easy to add yourself and your friends to the game. Create your own survival horror story in your hometown
- Unique diary interface records each action, choice and disaster. Save your heroic story and share it with others
Zafehouse: Diaries is a fresh take on the zombie / survival horror genre. If you're sick of mindless shooters or generic-looking top down affairs that just don't get what the zombie genre is about, this is the game for you.
About Screwfly Studios
We're a two-man developer based in Australia, dedicated to creating deep, innovative strategy games for PC. Zafehouse: Diaries is Screwfly's debut title and the spiritual successor to the highly-regarded Zafehouse.
What Steam players say
Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.
Zafehouse Diaries is a text-based survival management game that players find engaging and replayable, with effective minimalist design and appropriately challenging difficulty that keeps players invested. The main complaints center on the relationship mechanics between survivors feeling contrived, occasional interface jank, and limited content like only one save slot and a five-survivor cap, though some players suggest the sequel offers a more polished experience if budget allows.
No matter what you do, your people will fight with each other. Really its more like dysfunctional relationship simulator.7 found this helpful
A text-based adventure-style survival horror management game where you are the one running this monkey farm! PROS + Cheap and compact + Generally fair but unforgiving difficulty + Minimalistic yet effective sound design + Clever, immersive TTRPG-inspired interface + Infinite replayability thanks randomly-generated playthroughs + Built-in editor to create your own custom survivours and adventures + Highly-engaging, if not downright addictive gameplay that perfectly encapsulates the tone and atmosphere of George A. Romero's "Day of the Dead" CONS - Only one save slot - Five survivour limit - Only three game modes - Occasional Fallout 1-level interface jank - "Zafehouse Diaries", not a particularly inspired title - Half-baked relationship mechanic that feels very contrived at times - Limited micromanagement options (e.g. no way to assign equipment to a specific character)3 found this helpful
good
I never got into this. I don't think it's a bad game or anything, it just wasn't my jam.
Mostly text based, also the survivors can be extremely dumb but overall quite fun. I read that the reviews for the 2nd game is "if you have this do not buy the 2nd" well my advice is do not buy this and buy the 2nd game if you are willing to spend a bit more for a more improved game.
Interesting and changes every time, tricky but not too difficult that you give up and not too easy that its boring
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