Dead Age

Dead Age is a survival role-playing game set just after a zombie outbreak. You join a group of survivors sheltering in a camp, where food is running low, injured people need care and materials must be scavenged to keep the camp intact. You manage the survivors and defend them from undead hordes and hostile gangs while trying to stay alive.

Scavenge and survive

You make dangerous trips into zombie-infested areas to gather supplies, then craft survival gear or buy and sell equipment to keep yourself and the camp members alive. Survivors need protection, since you will need everyone available when the camp comes under threat. Daily events bring new dangers and situations where your choices affect the camp’s chances of survival.

Turn-based combat

Combat is rooted in classic role-playing games. You fight strategically, learn to use different weapon types and deploy bombs or traps. The game also features permanent death: if you fail to survive, you can spend medals earned in earlier playthroughs on upgrades that give your next character an advantage at the start.

Choices and relationships

Dead Age has a non-linear story in which decisions made during conflicts have consequences for what follows. You can save more survivors or leave them to die in order to gather supplies. You can also form romantic relationships with other survivors or develop rivalries that may set off disastrous chain reactions.

Survivors and endings

Each playthrough brings different random missions and survivors to meet. Your character’s unlocked pre-apocalypse profession lets you specialize in different jobs. Survive long enough and you can unlock one of the game’s six possible endings.