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Stories from the Outbreak
Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. Lead a group of survivors from the doomed city of Riga towards a ferry sailing across the North Sea. Scavenge for supplies, battle the undead, decide the fate of your team. What are you willing to sacrifice in order to survive?
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Very Positive (113) - 85% of the 113 user reviews for this game are positive.
Release Date:
Feb 20, 2024
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Coldwild Games

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About This Game

The year is 2020. A new virus – the New Death – has begun turning people into violent zombies. The government has collapsed, and a brutal paramilitary group has taken control over most of Latvia. The streets are not safe, and the police or army will not protect you.
You turn the radio on. The military is announcing that one last ferry will be heading out to Iceland from the western shore. Escape will be granted to those with enough fuel for the entry fee, and enough courage to attempt the journey across zombie-infested Latvia.



Stories from the Outbreak is a turn-based roguelike zombie RPG. The combat is heavily strategic, allowing customisation in team composition and character progression, and the game features dozens of trinkets that provide passive bonuses following the best roguelike design practices. Between combats, you must make decisions about traversing the landscape, and written events force you to navigate the moral complexities of surviving in a hostile environment.

Features

  • Form a team of survivors, each with unique abilities and personalities. Decide the fates of your team members as you go
  • A wide selection of trinkets and abilities allows creative approaches to strategy, and the random element of roguelikes keeps the game fresh through many playthroughs
  • Over 25 enemy types combine into hundreds of different encounters that will push your tactical thinking to its limits
  • Search for supplies and face moral dilemmas in an event system where your choices matter
  • Over 80 000 words of written content explore the lore of the Outbreak and the backstories of the various characters, and hidden surprises await even as you keep replaying the game
  • Late-game replayability is reinforced by unlocking new trinkets (permanent progression) and various challenge modes



In this brutal world, not all of the people are going to survive. Not every team is going to make it. This is how it is intended to be.

Mature Content Description

The developers describe the content like this:

The game features pixelated violence, including zombies with mutilated body parts. The written content describes heavy topics, including death, depression, violence, and substance abuse.

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    Minimum:
    • OS *: Windows 7 (SP1+) or later
    • Processor: x86, x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
    • Graphics: DX10, DX11, DX12 capable
    • DirectX: Version 10
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
* Starting January 1st, 2024, the Steam Client will only support Windows 10 and later versions.
    Minimum:
    • OS: macOS 10.13+
    • Processor: X64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
    • Graphics: Metal-capable Intel and AMD GPUs
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
    Minimum:
    • OS: Ubuntu 20.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and CentOS 7
    • Processor: x64 architecture with SSE2 instruction set support
    • Memory: 1024 MB RAM
    • Graphics: OpenGL 3.2+, Vulkan capable
    • Storage: 1024 MB available space
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