Play with Friends and Build Your Own Adventure in the Wasteland
Starting February 13th, developer Atelier will begin accepting new human survivors for their zombie MMO experience, Dead Maze. Join thousands of players withstanding a post-apocalyptic world. This is a sandbox, free-to-play game where groups can scavenge, build, and beat down zombies, and it’s coming to Steam.
Since Dead Maze’s closed beta, the developer has refined their MMO experience through bug fixes and plenty of new features. For example, the final release will include “The Raid,” a mode where players face down infinite waves of enemies because, let’s face it, no zombie game is complete without taking down undead hordes. Furthermore, as you’ll discover in the latest trailer (see below), players have innumerable ways to craft their own adventure. Through excursions into the western wastelands, you can find items and accumulate loot to your heart’s content. To be safe, you can take a buddy or several. Part of the fun is the endless customization, and another part is the ability to survive with others in endless post-apocalyptic gameplay.
Set in the Western United States, where humanity has been devastated by a plague of the undead, player cooperation takes center stage in Dead Maze, with thousands of players having to explore, scavenge, and work together to survive and rebuild society. Dead Maze features a unique visual style, with a colorful 2D isometric perspective and hand-crafted maps, showing destruction in all its glorious detail.
Features:
- Cooperation is key: in this game with no player versus player combat, you have to work together to explore high-risk, high-reward instances in a ravaged modern world. Scavenge for resources, craft life-saving supplies and fight off the ever-present hordes of infected.
- Face not only the undead, but also hunger, thirst, injuries and diseases. Ration your food and drinks, and monitor your health carefully through the in-depth survival mechanics.
- Establish your camp and build and furnish your own home with the help of others. Plant seeds and tend to your vegetable gardens or breed cattle to gain access to extra food sources such as milk.
- Watch out: the infected work together using an advanced AI design and will gather together before attacking. They come in many different shapes and sizes, from violently exploding infected capable of attracting even more undead, to bosses able to project more infected towards you.
- From kitchen knives to old undergarments, use any of the 500+ items to defend yourself and defeat the hordes of infected.
- Choose and change which archetype to play at any time thanks to versatile skills, gear and scavenged items, from being a healer supporting others, to DPS or powerful tank.
- A compelling story and strong cast of supporting characters will guide you at launch across a dozen different locations and 22 major quests. The mission to survive doesn’t end there, as the story will continue to be expanded after the official launch of Dead Maze with new missions and chapters.
- Much more content to be added after launch, including the upcoming map editor which allows you to create your own adventures, play through them with your friends, and share them with the whole community.
Be sure to check the Steam page when Dead Maze finally releases, and anticipate more updates to the game as time goes by. \
Happy gaming.
SOURCE: Press Release