This means lots of guns, lots of shooting and lots of the same enemies thrown at you time and time again. The backstory here isn’t really explained, just that you need to defend the Talon engineer from hordes of undead until seven waves have passed. It’s a town management simulator, a light RPG and a survival game wrapped up in the zombie apocalypse.ĭaybreak casts you as a member of Talon an elite group of soldiers out to do something in the zombie-riddled world. State of Decay 2 gives you a tiny community of survivors and asks you to help them survive. What sets State of Decay apart from Dying Light, Dead Island, Dead Rising, the Zombie Army Trilogy and the multitude of other zombie shooters on the market is the community aspect. Throughout my time with Daybreak, I couldn’t shake the feeling that this isn’t what State of Decay 2 fans want. It’s a shame then that this look at the paramilitary armed forces of the zombie wasteland has stripped away so many of the things I loved about the base game, and replaced it with repetition. Playing through any zombie game you’ll often find yourself wondering what the government or the military are up to while people are huddled around campfires, listening out for an oncoming horde. State of Decay 2’s Daybreak DLC has launched and it’s a step away from the grassroots survival elements of the base game.

State of decay vs dying light