Play This Now: Zafehouse v1.5

Zafehouse is a very simple game that was created as Kotaku's Game-a-Day event a while back, so the presentation isn't exactly going to blow your pants off, as the screenshot would suggest. But it is a game that I wish we would've seen more of by now: Zombie vstrategy. The goal is to manage a group of survivors until help arrives, and that means finding other survivors, gathering supplies and holding on to safe structures. It's turn-based in a way, where you split survivors up into raiding parties, and those assigned to secure structures, and then let it play out. Each turn represents an hour, with the objective being to survive for 60, and you fail if all survivors die or you lose control of all the buildings. Each structure provides a constant stream of supplies, whether it's medical kits, ammo or water, and the longer individual survivors last they gain perks. Zombies really take a back seat to it being more about party and supply management, but it's a fun and tough little distraction. Now where's my Jagged Alliance game with zombies?

Download, Zafehouse_1.5.zip (65 KB, requires .NET Framework 2.0)

-K.