Award for Most Honest Title Screen goes to Zombieland, no contest. You click start and the thing practically shrugs at you, yeah, we spent the budget on... other assets. And you know what? Fair. The jank is the charm. It's got that unpolished itch.io energy where you can almost see the creator's sleep deprived face reflected in your monitor. The art swings wildly between surprisingly decent character close ups and backgrounds that look like they were sketched on a napkin during a blackout. But you're not here for architectural critique, are you?

The setup is 2020, virus, blah blah, but instead of moping around, everyone decides it's time for true freedom, which apparently translates to a lot of very questionable decisions involving whatever "100% apocalypse legal" substances are. There's this one scene early on with a survivor camp that's less about survival and more about a hedonistic free for all. The dialogue is so blunt it wraps around to being hilarious. A character will just deadpan the most unhinged fantasy like they're ordering a pizza, and the game dares you to be shocked. It's not trying to be high art, it's trying to see how far it can push its own rating. The zombies are mostly background noise, shambling props for the real horror show which is just people being the absolute worst, horniest versions of themselves. And I do mean explicit. Tentacles get involved at one point, don't ask me how, the apocalypse finds a way.

The sound design is basically a few royalty free groans and a looping wind track that cut out abruptly once and made me think my headphones broke. I wish the text speed options were more granular, because the default crawls but the fast setting practically teleports. The whole thing feels like a fever dream you'd have after watching a bad horror movie and eating too much candy. It's messy, it's crude, and it knows exactly what it is. Dare to play it alone, or invite company?