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There's a really good RPG in the guts of Dead State, the latest in a very long line of crowdfunded, early-accessed survival games. You just need to be prepared to carve your way through a lot of sloppy meat to find it.For one, you need to overcome any weariness you may feel towards yet another game based around foraging for planks and tinned food, while fending off the undead and diplomatically keeping a community of survivors from tearing itself apart. That's not to say there's nothing left to be mined from this idea - or that other genres are immune to repetition - but by Saint Romero's neatly trimmed beard, it often seems like five of these things shamble up every week.
The other big hurdle that Dead State faces is that despite now having officially left Early Access and launching as a full finished game, it's still creaky as hell. Admittedly, this is a criticism that is more and more relative now that we have million dollar blockbusters launching with code held together with spit and prayers, but anyone who plonks down the £22 to download Dead State on Steam will be forgiven for balking at the multiple rough edges sticking out all over the place.
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