Deadcraft, coming to PC and consoles this May, sees you both slaughtering the undead and crafting their brain-eating forms into portable weaponry.
Depending on your stance that’s either hugely innovative or massively grotesque, but given that one of Dawn of the Dead’s characters suggested eat the undead, it’s not a massive stretch for the zombie genre. If Dead Rising 4 had gone there, maybe it wouldn’t have been such an exercise in tedium.
Aside from moulding the dead into weapons, the other twist is that your protagonist is half-zombie which, as they alternate between top-down zombie slaughter and crafting, makes them more resilient than most. Yes, the apocalypse has arrived, with only pockets of humanity surviving, and while protagonist Reid hasn’t gone full Stubbs the Zombie, it’s up to you just how friendly you are to the human populace.
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There are a few other little touches that developer Marvelous Inc. is no doubt hoping will elevate Deadcraft above the competition. The good news is that you don’t have to wait till its May release date to discover if it’s up your brain-munching street because Deadcraft has a demo out right now. Even better, it offers roughly two hours of half-zombie vs full-zombie action, along with a taste of the crafting system.
You can download the demo on all platforms, check out the trailer here, and get your hands on Deadcraft when it launches this May 19th on PlayStation 4, PlayStation 5, Xbox One, Xbox Series X|S, Nintendo Switch and PC.
