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What changed
- Gameplay
- Security
- Balance
- UI and audio
- Fixes
YOU vs Zombies changes
🚨 ATTENTION SURVIVORS 🚨
The timeline has officially ruptured. The barricades have failed. The Ritual is active.
And for the first time ever, we’re unleashing the apocalypse on the public!
👉 Play the Demo Now
👉 Wishlist the game
👉 Drag your friends in and make them face the hordes first!
🧟 THANK YOU
Before we throw you all headfirst into the apocalypse, we need to say something important:
Thank you
To everyone who joined the playtest, broke the timeline, reported bugs, created horrifying little goblin heroes, got flattened by zombies, and told us exactly what was and wasn’t working - this demo exists because of you.
We’re a small team trying to survive the apocalypse same as everybody else and we really appreciate you all jumping into the bunker with us!
So keep the feedback coming. Keep posting your heroes. Keep telling us what made you laugh, what made you panic, and what moments made you feel like a badass while surviving impossible odds. 👉 Join the Discord, share your stories, shape what comes next, and hunker in the bunker with us!
👟 NEW HEROES. NEW ART. NEW FEET.
One of the biggest changes since the playtest is the game’s completely upgraded visual style.
Every single Ritual-generated survivor in the game was deleted and rebuilt from scratch using our brand new character pipeline.
That means your hero is going to look even cooler before they are torn apart by zombie hordes. And perhaps most importantly… EVERYONE HAS CUSTOM SHOES NOW 👟
Your heroes now arrive with snazzy kicks specifically engineered for:
Running from zombies
Panicking in graveyards
Kicking explosive barrels
Dying stylishly
🧪 THIS IS ONLY THE START
There’s still more chaos to come! So jump in. Break the timeline. The bunker doors are always open (which is probably a catastrophic security risk)
👉 Play the Demo Now 👉 Wishlist YOU vs Zombies on Steam 👉 Join the Discord bunker and survive with us More updates soon, The 10six Games Team 🧟
PS. WHAT’S NEW IN THE DEMO?
The demo includes a massive round of improvements, balancing, polish, and new content based directly on community feedback. Here are some highlights from the latest timeline repairs:
🧟 THE WORLD
Survivors now reward you with health pickups after rescue because apparently “saving innocent people” wasn’t enough motivation for some of you.
Failed survivors come back as zombies and yell at you about it
New dialogue and objective intro/outro lines added throughout the game
Zombies no longer randomly stand around reconsidering their life choices
New fog systems and atmosphere passes
Graveyard lighting improvements so you can clearly watch yourself get eaten in full cinematic detail.
Rural trainyard upgrades with freshly laid train tracks
Multiple visual polish passes across levels and UI. Humanity may be doomed but at least the menus look good
🧠 THE RITUAL
New tutorial screens to help fresh survivors navigate The Ritual
Keyboard auto-focus added during hero creation
XP pickups are clearer, easier to grab, and more satisfying
Better signposting so players stop accidentally ignoring incredibly important glowing objects
💥 COMBAT
New level-up VFX
Ricochet and Split abilities now bounce off thrown bones
Zombie hit detection fixed so they stop slapping you from several postcodes away
Hero speed values repaired after some timeline maths disasters
Boss fights are now tougher and more closely tied to your generated hero. (Welcome to your own personal hell.)
🖥️ STEAM DECK SURVIVORS
UI scaling and menu fixes so important information no longer attempts to escape the screen
Character creation screen repaired for portable apocalypse generation
Video codec support improvements
Better gameplay readability overall so you can more clearly identify what just killed you
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