Choice of Zombies Demo

Making an original zombie game nowadays is about as easy as unifying gravity with relativity, except that your audience is much less inclined to make an effort in order to come up with constructive criticism. However, there are still a few ways to revitalize the genre, especially if the writers make good use of the characters and come up with some interesting situations.

Choice of Zombies is a text-based adventure game in which you play the role of a survivor during a zombie apocalypse. It’s nothing you haven’t seen before if you are a fan of the genre, but then again this game allows you to make your own choices every step of the way and shape the plot as you desire. Hence, it has some extra appeal, but it requires a lot of reading.

To begin with, it’s possible to customize your character’s abilities and view on life by making certain decisions in the beginning. Everything is left up to you, including the name, gender, and a few other things that affect your skills. Your personality also influences the way other characters see you, because you cannot be friends with everyone, unfortunately.

The ending is pretty open, fortunately, so it all leads to whatever result you pursue along the way. You can hone your survival skills and lead your friends to a safe spot, as well as focus on becoming a merciless zombie hunter with a knack for taking down entire hordes at once. Human interaction is important too, and you can get close to certain characters along the way.

Every ending is pretty fun, although it can take a bit of work to find all of them. Replay value is important in a text-based adventure, but it’s not that great if all endings are more or less the same. Thankfully, Choice of Zombies is great in this regard, because it truly feels like you have a say in the matter.

All things considered, Choice of Zombies has all the makings of a great CYOA game, but you really have to be a fan of the genre in order to get into the vibe of things. Other than that, the story is really engaging after everything falls into place.