You just don't spend this much time on a game unless there's a lot of love there. One of the things that comes across clearly when you read over The Indie Stone's blogs and forum posts is that this is a studio and a collective with a passion project. It makes the game a bit more approachable and visually appealing for players who tended to have avoided us in favour of more immersive FPS experiences.'Īt the time of writing, 31,000 people are watching Project Zomboid streams on Twitch: Not bad for a game that's still in early access. 'I think the biggest thing with Build 41 having more appeal over B40, apart from obviously a much more solid multiplayer, is the character customization, animation and combat overhaul makes a huge difference to how good the game looks and feels to play. My wife's been heavily involved in that scene for quite a while and it was obvious with all the survival and crafting that our game is a perfect platform for that kind of fun, so its something we've tried to lean into. 'We've seen a massive spike in interest in watching this kind of stuff on Twitch, with GTA RP being a huge thing where people love to watch their favourite streamers playing characters in serverwide stories etc. 'Players love to get together on RP servers and act as characters in the zombie apocalypse, live out their own Walking Dead,' says Simpson. Project Zomboid has always had some degree of popularity among streamers, with its multiplayer survival mechanics being an especially good fit for roleplaying fun. It's not just its newfound multiplayer simplicity, the combat has improved tenfold, and that helps better expose the immense depth Zomboid has to offer. Cut to today and we're both playing Zomboid together and it's better than ever.

We could've played Steam Remote Play, but we found going solo scratched the itch for the time being. It wasn't because I didn't want to play, so much as that Build 41, which was at the time only half finished in beta, was already so good that we didn't want to disable it to play online. Jacob Ridley, senior hardware editor: Last year I spent quite some time watching my good friend play Project Zomboid over Discord.

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