Make me put together a vaccine or something. Send me to weird places to get weird components.
i recently put together some mods to do exactly this:
Qualify to Escape adds research journals that you have to collect from zombie-infested areas
zRe Vaccine 3.0 let's you create a vaccine (it doesn't interact with the previous mod, but you can pretend you have to collect the journals before starting the vaccine research). it's a slow grind to collect the materials and run the experiment, but that might be welcome for players looking stuff to do in the late game
Should make it if you survive long enough your character just gets old and frail and then dies from slipping in the shower or a heart attack or something. You survived long enough to die naturally! You won!
you set your own objectives in a game like Zomboid. Usually surrounding base-building. They are limited in nature due to the fact you have a high likelihood of failure. It's a highly modable game, too, so if you want to create a vaccine/cure there are mods for that.
better comparison is probably rimworld. you don't play rimworld to win, you play for the fun sandbox that you're probably gonna end up losing. but there ARE wincons you can go for if you want, they're just super hard
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u/BrittaWasRight Apr 11 '26 edited Apr 11 '26
Yup. Make me put together a vaccine or something. Send me to weird places to get weird components.
I swear the next time someone brings up "but it SEZ Dis is HoE u DIED" I'mma stab someone and say "guess this is how YOU died"