[Review] Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
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gamingI picked up Quarantine Zone: The Last Check on an impulse purchase and thought I'd leave a few thoughts on it!
It's a sim game where you have to check people for zombie symptoms before letting them into the checkpoint. There's also some base management to it, as well as some little zombie shooting segments, but the sim part was what got me interested.
And the sim part is pretty fun! I've sunk quite a few hours into it. Very nice gameplay loop of checking symptoms, with increasing difficulty as new symptoms reveal themselves.
The base building is...fine? It's just very shallow and not challenging. I don't mind it, I just find myself wanting more complexity in it.
And finally, I find the zombie shooting bits (you have to defend the wall from a horde) to be boring and unwelcome but mercifully short, easy, and infrequent. Honestly, I wish they would have scrapped this entire thing and instead focused on putting more into the base management.
It's a little buggy, but receiving fixes.
I've only played the campaign so far, which I like, but I do worry that once I'm done with the campaign, there won't be much reason for me to come back to play the endless mode.
My verdict: good game, but maybe buy it on sale.
It's a sim game where you have to check people for zombie symptoms before letting them into the checkpoint. There's also some base management to it, as well as some little zombie shooting segments, but the sim part was what got me interested.
And the sim part is pretty fun! I've sunk quite a few hours into it. Very nice gameplay loop of checking symptoms, with increasing difficulty as new symptoms reveal themselves.
The base building is...fine? It's just very shallow and not challenging. I don't mind it, I just find myself wanting more complexity in it.
And finally, I find the zombie shooting bits (you have to defend the wall from a horde) to be boring and unwelcome but mercifully short, easy, and infrequent. Honestly, I wish they would have scrapped this entire thing and instead focused on putting more into the base management.
It's a little buggy, but receiving fixes.
I've only played the campaign so far, which I like, but I do worry that once I'm done with the campaign, there won't be much reason for me to come back to play the endless mode.
My verdict: good game, but maybe buy it on sale.