The Strolling Lifeless: Betrayal, a social deception-survival sport about zombies and worse (the “worse” on this case being non-zombified different individuals), is coming to a untimely finish. Skybound Video games and developer Different Ocean Interactive introduced right now that it has determined to halt improvement of the sport, which simply launched in early entry in September, and take away it from Steam fully.
“Regardless of the laborious work put into the sport, we weren’t capable of finding a path to construct the spirited neighborhood of backstabbers we initially envisioned,” Skybound wrote. “On December 11, we are going to start the method of eradicating the sport from Steam, and as of December 15 the sport can be shut down. All gamers who bought the sport will obtain a full refund.”
I assumed The Strolling Lifeless: Betrayal appeared prefer it had loads of promise after I first laid eyes on it in July. It bore a variety of similarities to Different Ocean’s earlier sport, the well-regarded Venture Winter (which we as soon as known as “the perfect bullshitting sim on PC”) however added the twist of a zombie outbreak. That added stress meant survivors would not have the ability to take their time and suppose an excessive amount of when deciding the best way to deal with one disaster or one other, and it additionally provided life-after-death playability for individuals who guessed flawed about who the in-house killer is.
However as Skybound stated, there simply wasn’t an viewers. A small spike of gamers in September shortly after beta testing started rapidly evaporated, and over the previous 30 days the common concurrent participant depend has been caught in single digits. There’s some disappointment from gamers within the feedback in response to the announcement, however for a sport that depends on a deep participant base for viability, numbers like that make it an entire non-starter.
Anybody who bought The Strolling Lifeless: Betrayal on Steam can get a refund by means of Steam’s regular course of. When you picked it up elsewhere, you will must contact buyer assist for no matter retailer you went for, and when you run into grief on that entrance you possibly can submit a ticket with Skybound assist straight. Skybound confirmed that everybody who bought the sport can be eligible for a refund, no matter time performed.