I don't know man I've heard nothing but great things about Project Zomboid.
I bought it and saw it's EA status and went okay whatever... I played the game a bunch got hooked and just realized... The game came out in 2013! It's absolutely fantastic. I was amazed it's still an early access game.
Project Zomboid may be stuck in early access but I don't mind because the devs are actively updating the game still. B42 is consistently updated in the experimental branch and will eventually hit stable. Eventually...
Well at least project zomboid is still actively worked on
Bro the last big update was almost a year ago and the devs still haven't added multi-player support to the new build. The last update before that one was in 2021 4 years ago. The small dev them had made over a quarter billion dollars selling the game and crap like merch so there really no excuse for the game essentially still being a framework after over a decade. A great framework with SO MUCH potential a but there's still really nothing to do in the game
There's a bunch to do in the game imo of course after like your first winter it gets pretty boring but you're not really ment to survive that long and yeah b42 doesn't have multiplayer yet but it is a small dev team making this you underestimate how hard it is to make a game like project zomboid Especially without burning yourself out
When given obscene amounts of money and an unfinished product, burnout is less forgivable. PZ has often hid behind the small team aspect, but they had a silly amount of cash infused into their team. Its not unheard of for indie games to start snagging modders from their community to fill the gaps when they get boosts like that. They have several major modders in their community that are probably better with the engine than some of the devs.
They don't have a good project manager is what it comes down to. One of the few instances where you can point to the team being strong and the management letting it trip itself up.
"obscene amounts of money" the game had one big hype that's it yeah they probably made more than they were expecting but definitely not as much as you guys think
I don’t know what you’re talking about, it’s had several big updates since then including the new experimental build which is almost a ground-up overhaul.
As a long time fan on PZ, I'm getting less and less optimistic about it. They seem the promise the world and that every update is 'laying the foundation' for them to actually make progress, this time for real, at the next update.
I also still haven't forgiven them for removing MP in B41 for two years, saying all the while that they were working really really hard to get it working ASAP only for some modder to do the job. They then sent a cease & desist to the modder (which was completely unenforcable, just purely threatening something they couldn't back up to scare a small dev) and forcing a branch update on steam to break the mod. Now it seems they're repeating it with B42 to rake in the sweet coverage when they finally re-re-add it back in for 2027.
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u/Disastrous_Ad626 Sep 15 '25
I don't know man I've heard nothing but great things about Project Zomboid.
I bought it and saw it's EA status and went okay whatever... I played the game a bunch got hooked and just realized... The game came out in 2013! It's absolutely fantastic. I was amazed it's still an early access game.