CDKeys[cdkeys.com] has Days Gone (PC Digital Download) on sale for $9.69
Includes:
Base Game
New Game Plus
Survival Mode
Challenge Mode
Bike Skins
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Man, I finished this game on a ROG Ally X a few weeks ago. This got such mixed reviews, and while it is definitely derivative of other zombie media (walking dead especially), it is a fantastic game. The game director took the bad reviews way too hard, and lashed out in a really terrible way, but once you get past some of the repetitive stuff in the game, it is a really good story, and kept me engaged enough for over 60 hours. It is doubtful we get a sequel, but man do I wish there was one. There is nothing quite like having to run away and fight a 100+ zombie "horde" clearing out a camp! Don't miss this game if this at all sounds interesting to you. The cast is great, sans some cringe worth romance lines, it is otherwise a fantastic story, and overall good writing. Sam Witwer (Star Wars Force Awakens games, Battlestar Galactica TV series, Being Human (syfy series), and more), is fantastic in his role as the lead character you play as.
Sure does. Put 60 hours into it, all on the Steam Deck.
I bought this on a whim when it was on sale a while back. I played through trying to explore every corner of the maps as best I could. I really enjoyed it, and not sure how I missed this when it was new. I just checked on my steam deck - 74 hours. It did not feel like that long, at all.
The story is all over the place and to me felt like there were hasty rewrites to the second half of the game.
Additionally, the horde gameplay, which was hyped up pretty hard in the lead up to release, is a very minimal part of the game. There are 40 hordes to fight, but only three times does the story require it (and mostly towards the end of the game). The rest are optional and requires you to seek them out, which can be difficult to do. A good handful of smaller hordes can be reliably found at abandoned government camps, but the rest travel on a schedule. In my playtime, which seems to match others in the comments, about 60 hours, I fought maybe about 15 hordes, with 12 of them accounting for missions and the camps. I struggled to find loose wandering hordes, and I was trying to find them, as the horde mechanics are fantastic, to the point that I'm shocked that so much work and detail went into a mechanic they seemed to want to hide.
There is an arcade mode that hyper focuses on the horde gameplay, but even that kind of misses the mark, as you can't modify rules, so you're more than likely going to be stuck with a timer or other modifiers to keep the gameplay moving. Why? Just throw me in and see if I can fight off the horde! That's all it needed to be.
Anyways, despite my issues with the game, $10 is a great price. There is just enough interesting stuff going on to carry you through the campaign, but really, it's worth the $10 usd for the arcade mode alone, so you can experience the magic they had on their hands with the horde mechanics, and then lament when you realize it's never going to be utilized ever again.
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Additionally, the horde gameplay, which was hyped up pretty hard in the lead up to release, is a very minimal part of the game. There are 40 hordes to fight, but only three times does the story require it (and mostly towards the end of the game). The rest are optional and requires you to seek them out, which can be difficult to do. A good handful of smaller hordes can be reliably found at abandoned government camps, but the rest travel on a schedule. In my playtime, which seems to match others in the comments, about 60 hours, I fought maybe about 15 hordes, with 12 of them accounting for missions and the camps. I struggled to find loose wandering hordes, and I was trying to find them, as the horde mechanics are fantastic, to the point that I'm shocked that so much work and detail went into a mechanic they seemed to want to hide.
There is an arcade mode that hyper focuses on the horde gameplay, but even that kind of misses the mark, as you can't modify rules, so you're more than likely going to be stuck with a timer or other modifiers to keep the gameplay moving. Why? Just throw me in and see if I can fight off the horde! That's all it needed to be.
Anyways, despite my issues with the game, $10 is a great price. There is just enough interesting stuff going on to carry you through the campaign, but really, it's worth the $10 usd for the arcade mode alone, so you can experience the magic they had on their hands with the horde mechanics, and then lament when you realize it's never going to be utilized ever again.
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At this price, go ahead. must buy.