Zombasite

About Zombasite

Zombasite is a survival RPG where you manage a clan of survivors in a world overrun by intelligent zombie parasites. Soldak Entertainment crafted this 2015 indie title with a focus on permadeath, resource scarcity, and chaotic co-op play. Set in a fantasy apocalypse, the game blends base-building with real-time combat as you scavenge for supplies, fight mutated zombies, and outlast rival factions. The world evolves dynamically, with the Zombasite parasite spreading uncontrollably, turning the dead into aggressive, skill-wielding threats. Available on PC, Linux, and Mac, it offers single-player and co-op modes. The core loop is tough but addictive: balance food production, manage clan members’ skills, and hope your team doesn’t get eaten mid-raid.

Gameplay

Zombasite forces you to juggle real-time base-building with chaotic combat. You command a top-down view of your clan as they gather resources, craft weapons, and defend against waves of zombies. Each follower has unique skills, some hunt, others fight, which you assign to optimize survival. Combat is frenetic: zombies swarm your base, and one hit kills a member permanently. You spend hours mapping out safe routes to scavenging sites, only to lose a key scavenger to a surprise ambush. Food management is critical, hungry survivors starve to death, resetting your progress. Multiplayer adds tension: a friend’s misstep can doom the whole clan. The game’s difficulty spikes sharply after the first few hours, but mastering resource cycles and zombie behavior pays off in longer survival streaks.

What Players Think

Metacritic scores Zombasite 66/100, with players praising its punishing challenge but criticizing inconsistent difficulty spikes. On PlayPile, the average playtime is 20 hours, though only 30% of users finish the game. Community moods lean toward “tense” and “frustrating” but also “addictive.” Achievements are tough: most players hit 75/100, but the final 25% requires elite survival. Reviews split: one fan called it “the closest thing to a true survival sim,” while a critic noted “unforgiving randomness.” The game’s permadeath design polarizes, some see it as thrilling, others as punishing. Co-op players report mixed success, with 40% of sessions ending in early losses due to miscommunication. Despite this, 68% of completers rate it a 9/10, citing its raw, unrelenting design.

PlayPile's Take

Zombasite is a brutal but rewarding survival RPG for fans of high-stakes permadeath. At $24.99, it’s a steal for players who thrive in chaotic, co-op environments. The 30% completion rate means failure is common, but the 75/100 achievement cap suggests most will find satisfaction in incremental progress. Skip this if you hate permadeath or erratic difficulty. But if you enjoy careful planning and rebuilding after catastrophic losses, it’s a darkly satisfying grind. Just be ready to lose friends to zombie bites.

Storyline

The dark elves have always played god by creating and enhancing underworld slave creatures. As they watched a horde of zombies destroy the huge demon city Kraval, the dark elves were tantalized by the devastating power of uncontrolled zombies, and desired to control and increase it. When they wove their dominating magic into a few captive zombies something went horribly wrong! They hadn't known the powerful necromancer, Ciglio, had created these zombies. To control his huge armies of undead, Ciglio permanently bound his zombies and their infected victims to him. This binding was so powerful, their loyalty surpassed his untimely death. In the dark elves' pride and lust, their magic twisted into Ciglio's binding, fusing into a new, uncontrollable creation, the Zombasite. Zombasite is a nasty, voracious, all-consuming Zombie Parasite. It doesn't just reanimate the dead into mindless zombies. It is intelligent, insatiable, and unstoppable—infecting and killing the living, spreading faster and in more ways, helping the dead utilize many of their original skills, and mutating the dead with new powers. Dark elf zombies are terrifying! So what does this have to do with you? You are the leader of a clan trying to survive the apocalypse. This is easier said than done. When a follower dies, they can't be saved by any means. The Zombasite is highly contagious and zombies are quickly ravaging the world's surface. Food is a critical resource that must be obtained. Vendors are rare and have limited supplies. Some of the stronger monsters have survived and are as dangerous as ever. Clans of humans and monsters are fighting over what few supplies are left. Even within your own clan it isn't safe. Humans living on the edge are even more unstable than usual. So yeah, survival isn't easy.