Zed Zone

Zed Zone is a survival game set in a post-apocalyptic world. You scavenge, craft supplies, build and defend a base, develop skills and recruit companions to help you survive. The game includes more than 200 craftable items, from food and medicine to tools and weapons.

Infected and machines

The threats you face include infected, mutants and machines, each with distinct traits:

• Juggernaut: an infected that behaves in packs and lives in symbiosis with its host organism.
• Breaker: an unstable, aggressive infected that can ram into you.
• Fan Blade: a mutant with signs of artificial augmentation; its origins are unknown.
• Army Zombie: an armed zombie carrying a full magazine.
• Flamethrower Zombie: a former soldier who fell defending the city.
• Firefighter Zombie: a zombie that sprays a harmful substance.
• Spider Robot: a four-legged machine that is not a spider.
• War Machine: a military machine.
• Giant Mutant Lizard: an oversized lizard mutant.

Build and supply your base

You can construct wells, furniture, storage containers, furnaces and workbenches, gradually turning your base into a place to live, craft and produce supplies. More than 10 electrical facilities and tools are available, including generators, refrigerators, electric fences and energy storage modules. Five types of building blocks are listed as coming soon: wood, stone, metal, glass and hay.

Crafting stations include the workbench for survival essentials and other items, a lathe for making parts, and systems for producing pharmaceuticals and experimenting with chemicals such as gunpowder, explosives and fuel.

Weapons and defenses

A gun-modding system lets you fit more than 40 weapon attachments across four slots: barrel, sight, stock and shell collector. Options include scopes, night-vision scopes, thermal sights, suppressed barrels, muzzle suppressors, tactical stocks and a Christmas-exclusive shell collector. You can mix attachments to change weapon performance and handling. The spray-paint system includes 8 built-in paints and lets you import colors and images; the game also has 8 built-in decals and supports custom stickers.

Defenses include wood and metal spike traps, electric fences, landmines, handmade landmines, high-explosive landmines and homemade barrel bombs. Machine gun, Tesla, laser and crossbow turrets are also listed as coming soon.

Skills and PDA support

The skill system has three training categories—Melee, Firearms and Fitness—and six progression directions covering blades, spears, crossbows, firearms and more. You can build your character across more than 20 progression paths and 60+ skills, unlocking skills through your PDA Terminal. The PDA can also provide active combat support with abilities and systems named Grapple, CAS System, Focused Laser Cannon and Western Gunslinger.

Companions

A dog can help you explore, keep watch and fight. You can feed it, treat its injuries and build your bond with it; training teaches it to follow commands. Collars, vests and saddlebags give the dog equipment for different purposes.

You can also hire human companions, including Rangers, Medics and Porters, each with different strengths. Fighters take the front line, Medics help keep the group alive, and Porters carry supplies. Commands include Stay Here, Hold Fire, Protect Me and Fire at Will. Companions can scavenge for loot, and you can recruit a scavenging squad or revive companions who have been knocked down.