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State of Decay 3: How Open-World Survival Games Have Evolved Since SoD2

State of Decay 3 is coming back to a genre that looks much different than it did when State of Decay 2 launched in 2018. At the time, open-world survival games were still largely trying to figure themselves out, and while State of Decay 2 certainly wasn't the first game to ask players to survive in a world that wanted...

State of Decay 3 is coming back to a genre that looks much different than it did when State of Decay 2 launched in 2018. At the time, open-world survival games were still largely trying to figure themselves out, and while State of Decay 2 certainly wasn't the first game to ask players to survive in a world that wanted them dead, it did have a very specific way of doing so. Almost everything players did came back to the community they were trying to keep alive, which made even a quick trip outside the base feel like it could go wrong in a way that would actually mean something.

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