Reviews

• gamedeal user

  Jan 16, 2023

  Ah, Dead Age 2 is back with vengeance! It is what store page says, but is it really? Again, we have "turn based finial fantasy combat perma death" without bigger changes in format from Dead Age 1. Combat did get some rework as well as camp management, but it was far too complicated for it's own good. However, there's a great quality increased compared to the previous game. Protagonist from DA1, is present in DA2, but we get a new character to roleplay as. Zombies aren't your classical dumboss walking around. They know how to use weaponry, that is not a gun, they can use special moves and so on. Also, we got more mutants in here. Pros: + Story continues and is better than DA1 + Improved Combat + Improved Camp management + 3 friendly factions and few unfriendly + Map divided into 3 zones + New and old NPCs are back + Choices + New enemies? + Losing character doesn't hurt as much + Nostalgia of flash games + You can actually get "infected" for a moment + Night 2 track Cons: - Only one combatant can start in front row - Reused content from DA1 - Most of combat skills are useless (basic attacks rlz) - Same format as DA1 but somtimes over-complicated - Minor visual glitches from time to time - 1 guard only, so it isn't too easy to defend... DA1 hero will help You out from time to time tho + barricade - The game is way too long to complete - Nuns and their abilities... Most of the game is You running around the map from point to point and doing (almost) exactly the same combat over and over again. A lot. A lot, a lot, A LOT. Some events trigger only on certain days, so You can't speed up much (or I did not find a way). Only few skills have any meaning, as the rest will do worse than 2 basic attacks. You have to proritize dealing with grenadiers, then stunners, heavy hitters and then clear the rest. Hound did save me couple of times. TL;DR: Coin per hour makes the game worth it price, but is it? You will see bigger part of the game content in first 5 hours. Then it is how much You like it to actually complete after first few gameovers. If You're unsure, wait for sale.
• gamedeal user

  Jan 18, 2023

  No flashy cinematics Cutscenes, no voice overs pure gaming. At first I was skeptical but after playing the game for a few hours it got me hooked up. Totally worth the money that I spent on it. Definitely enjoyable. Try it am sure most of you will end up liking it.
• gamedeal user

  Feb 1, 2023

  It has some good ideas. But the combat is just so bad. It says it wants to be like so many good combat games, and then manages to make something just underwhelming. The zombies almost always have a ranged attack, so it makes your gun feel pointless. Just close the distance and bash them down to save expensive ammo.
• Reaver

  Feb 5, 2023

  Well well, what a neat little find this game was! Started as "Mreh! Too hard!" After 3 hours? "Way too easy... I'm overflowing with resources" Weird ride. All in all I'm loving it as a hardcore zombie fan. Just never gets old for me. My only criticisms would be 1. Game dialogue is rife with typos and bad grammar. 2. Because this game isn't very popular, the info online is EXTREMELY limited. Lots of questions about how to get certain things. 3. Devs only seem to be responding to the negative comments which is a shame as I've read a fair few insightful positive reviews with some good ideas here that deserve to be answered. In sum, really enjoying it (19.3 hours in 3 days! Woof). But would love to know how to do more on it. There's only a wiki for D.A and not D.A 2. I want my Tiger!!!
• Willcott

  Feb 13, 2023

  I don't understand the big hate for this game. I mean, the only thing I do differently is put a relaxing music while I'm playing it and the depressive ambience settles in. I prefer a depressive relaxing setting for an apocaliptic world than a battle one, but that's me. The game is very cheap on promo and has so many things to do with all the quests that's it's worthy your cash. It's basically a very good survival camp simulator. Yes, it gets repetitive but which game of open zombie survival doesn't? Gather resources, explore, construct things, rescue survivors, improve your base, lookout for better gear, destroy enemy camps or diminish hordes. Your life at the end is basically that. If you're playing for an ending, I'd say you're doing it wrong. The difficulty I feel it was reduced compared to Dead Age 1 because there are now multiple tactical options for battling (although I felt that your battle formation is limited), so much balancing was done and you have so many choices that matters, you can avoid many conflictations entirely. People that die, they do that out of greed. I love the fact that you can now personalize appaerance and stats. Maybe next version you could play as a woman aswell? I know a lot of girls play games. The dev has been listening to criticism for what I've understood and there is no obligatory permadeath anymore. This game has improved compared to the first exponentially and you can feel the passion of the devs for this game. Didn't find any bug whatsoever.

  Recommended, good job devs!

• gamedeal user

  Feb 16, 2023

  More of the same from Dead Age 1. But nearly everything is improved, there is more exploration, more quests, better story, 3 factions to interact with, shops, base building, crafting and what's the most fun, tons of loot and turn based combat. I still recommend starting with first game before this one because in part two you will meet and interact with nearly 15 npc/survivors from first game. Game is also often on sale for like 5 bucks. I had funn in my 55h and there is still hardcore mode left to play one day with bunch of unlocks from normal mode. Big thumb up and waiting for Dead Age 3
• gamedeal user

  May 21, 2023

  Pretty fun for a while, but gets boring and repetitive fast. The balance isn't particularly good. Seems pointless to start with ranged weapons skills since bullets are so hard to come by at first. Pretty shallow overall. And the UI is frustrating. Like how in some cases the TAB key backs out instead of the ESC key, etc. Note: I played the first one too and for around the same amount of hours. Both interesting but since it's only ya or nay here (I'd give it a 6 out of 10 otherwise). It's not great at any particular thing. I think it's getting there. Will try DA3 if/when it's made. Just noticed: "Inspired by..Fallout 1+2.." So happens I'm one of the developers of Fallout #1 so it's nice to see, good to know :-)
• gamedeal user

  Jul 21, 2023

  The only zombie game where you can go into a papaya 😂 One of my favorite gaming experience of 2023! I enjoyed the first Dead Age and this sequel is even better! (I wish there was an option to remove grazing and blocking when attacking enemies, especially for 3AP attacks. Really unsatisfying when you do your powerful 3AP front-row blade attack and 2/3 of the enemies just block it or it grazes!!!)
• gamedeal user

  Jul 23, 2023

  On the one hand, this is the good jank. It's cobbled together from (what I presume are) unity store assets from the first game, and there's a bigger scope and some slightly more polished mechanics, but it's still the same small-numbers-and-resource-management zombie survival jrpg as Dead Age 1. On the other hand, Dead Age 2 is long, and a lot of it feels like grind. The game is an auto-saver with permadeath, and playing thoroughly and safely you might expect a 25+ hour runtime. This does encourage you to walk a fine line between overspending your healing items and losing characters, but also I had a party member get womboed from half health to dead 20 hours into my winning run, and if that happens to your main character and you haven't made a very expensive investment in a revival kit, that's 20 hours down the drain. The writing is also... not good. DA1 felt a little rough and a little translated, but still had some heart beneath that. DA2 feels like the strain of its scope and all of its possible branching plotlines kept it from being thematically about anything. Stories continue from DA1, but none of DA1's characters were all that memorable, and at one point near the end DA1 just forces you into a locked box where it can ignore your story choices for a while. It would have been a stronger game if it had tried to bite off less. There's also some bugs. Very few overall, considering this is a massively ambitious project by a very tiny studio, but a character who died randomly popped back up and was delivering dialog in my ending. In total, I'd recommend playing Dead Age 1 first, but if you liked that and you want to support big janky ambitious indiedev stuff, you should give this a shot.
• gamedeal user

  Jul 23, 2023

  the story is amazing!! I love all those politics and conspiracies!! you will "one more mission" to uncover the truth.. this is not an ordinary turn based rpg zombie game. the decision you make, the side quests you take will have consequences on your story.. the only downside: -no manual save; -can not retreat or run; -can not heal other character in battle.