The Last Stand: Aftermath

Fun Game.

Bought this game back in 2023, and after another play-through, recently, got 100% of achievements. It is a very fun rougelite, but can also be very challenging. Your upgrades and experience transfer every time you die (which you will, many times), and, as all new survivors have different equipment, you usually have to work to adapt for the next playthrough to get further and further. Even after defeating the final boss, the game is still not over, as you still need to get to the end more times for more upgrades, bonuses, and for the story. Can definitely say this game is well worth the money.

Good rouge like game
Plenty of challange
In some places it is quite clunky and buggy but not a biggie.
I enjoy every single minute of it. 60 hours flew by very quickly.

This is a glorified flash game, but it does the basic loop really well. I would have loved a more involved crafting / upgrade system, as well as a whole host of balance refinements, but overall it's a great time.

I think survival fans will like this one a lot. You are not a hero... you are infected and about to die. Your only hope is to go on a trip to find a cure or something meaningful outside.

You pretty much need to choose a route from A to B while the infection is spreading inside your body. If you die, it's game over, and you have to play it again as another survivor. The skills you unlock and upgrades still persist even after death, so it will get less harder on each new run.

I find this game formula to be quite addicting and would love to play more games like this.

It is a simple game but solid. Don't expect to get huge hours out of this one and you'll enjoy your time. There are some finicky parts tot he game but nothing rage inducing.

[This game is going to take time for me to complete it]

this game is quite enjoyable and have interesting fun if you play it.
our character will die in this game, but we can come back with a new character plus the experience and supply from all the character that we used in this game (so its kinda like an expandable expedition for us to 'finish the game').

definitely give it a try

[Gonna improve this review either later on or after i 100% the game and also other completed ones)

great zombie game

Steps when you play the game: *NOTE- You don't have to read this, just get the game it is so fun even though i have only put 3 hours in it right now that does not mean that i don't like it, PLAY IT. Anyway steps below*
Choose volunteer,
kill things and get fuel
get low from infection and close to the end of the map
get beaten by zombies (you are still alive, just at 1 hp)
die
switch volunteers, they have a plastic spoon (Its the best out of two other people)
repeat the cycle
have fun

This game caught my eye due to the sale, and i remembered playing the old flash games and said what the hell, what do i have to loose, and i didn't. as a matter of fact i feel like i hit the jackpot with this game, i personally just cue music and play it since the story is light it makes it easy to just play it brainless. tho the game itself does have challenges i'm not saying its easy you will die a lot so get used to it. there are some small bugs but if you get past that great game. multiplayer i feel like would be a nice experiment for the future i would like to see, but that's just me

The game was very interesting and action packed

Great one of a rogue-like games , i had fun playing it , hardest achievement require 5 more repeating to clear the run which I dont want to do because of bugs in this game.

The problem of bugs , some are not problematic , but some can cause you frustrated such as sometime single enemy become invisible and come out of no whereฒ Throwing frag grenade and it disappear then it boom out of no where causing death , this end your run easily in high difficulty , fter you play for 45 min to 1 hour for nothing ,,

Great zombie game. Its like playing SOD, but with different perspective. Best if we can get The Walking Dead story but with this gameplay.

Really cool zombie roguelite.

Had a lot of fun with the looting fuel and navigation systems.
Combat was good, crafting was decent, story was interesting if a bit formulaic for zombie survival.

Its a good time

It's Fun! You really Have to learn to play this one it is not like the Other ones at all still Fun!

nice game...

actually very fun. don't remember if i played the original on armorgames but this is a great game when you have a bit of time alone.

Less than 10 minutes in, already a return. First, your character is RNG created so you feel no identity to it. There is no explanation, no tutorial. I ran just a little bit from the starting point, and there is no indication of what I'm supposed to do next. Completely trapped in an area with no obvious exit.

I have no idea how this game was well rated.

Very Tunguska feel, from above, very atmospheric and thrilling.

If you ever played the og flash games, this game feels amazing to see show up in Steam, and it feels even better to play. If you haven't, it's still got some fantastic roguelite mechanics, great shootin, and takes from Day Z and Project Zomboid to great effect.

He's behind me isn't he

good game

Post-apocalyptic roguelike. Controller friendly.

very fun im abit dumb and die, a idea to the devs (if you see this) make the home base upgradable and have cool stuff

This blends the conman games of the past with modern sensibilities very well. The RNG is the enemy, as it always has been.

So far loving this game. Very underrated title as I only found out about it after looking up Last Last: Union City. no run feels the same and I am only learning more and more as I progress through the game. Very cool!

Nice!

Unsure of why its happening but the game is unplayable. After the dialog screen it goes black, the sounds of the character come through from pressing action buttons but theres nothing on screen. After numerous attempts to delete save files and verify the files i eventually got a blue screen and my laptop restarted. There's mixed solutions that work for some but not others on reddit, which sucks because i was really looking forward to play his game but couldn't even get into the start.

you kill all the zombies in the current screen, walk a couple of meters and searching a store bulding, coming back out, ALL zombies are back already?! How the hell should you reserve ammo and weapon durability with that? it also feels a bit unfinished and aiming is useless.

quite common to have the players being stuck in some areas.

What an absolute breath of fresh air this game is. Very old school, both in mechanics and pricing. There are no microtransacations, skins, DLCs, whatever. The price you pay is just for the game and it respects you enough to not continue to try to drain you.

A single player game with a very clear and addicting game play loop, you'll know within the first 60 minutes if this is the game for you or not. And there's a free demo available, so why not give it a try?

It took me ~40 hours to beat the game once, and then an additional 10 hours to get 100% achievements. And I'm still playing it. For $25 at full price, that's a lot of game. There are really not many single player games that can give you an infinite amount of fun without additional updates, especially in this genre. But this is the diamond in the rough.

Rouge-likes are generally not my thing. However, this game does a fantastic job of making you feel like you're always working toward the end goal, even if you die within minutes of starting. It also does a great job of making fairly believable lore reasons why you must play the game this way. These are two things that I think most other rouge-likes don't do well, or as well enough as this game.

On first playing, it seems like beating the first area is the entire game. But, you soon find out there are 3 additional areas, all with new enemies, mechanics, places of interest, and items/weapons. Honestly when starting out, the first area seemed like it would have been good enough as a modern game. I was very surprised to find out there were more areas. When first playing in an area, there are several lore-related events that take place to keep things fresh, but to make repeat plays faster, these areas are skipped.

And the game isn't over once you beat it. To get the full story, you need to beat the game 5 times. And don't worry, there are plenty of unlockables and things to make playing the game 5 times interesting. In addition, you level up enough and unlock other abilities making it much faster to play through the game.

Despite saying it isn't Steam Deck compatible, it worked fine for me. However, I do use Windows 10 on my Deck, so apologies if it's a SteamOS issue. The other problem is that the Steam Cloud transfers your configuration between devices, so you'll need to lower graphics settings on the Deck vs the PC if you want any relevant battery life. I consider this a fairly minor issue.

Speaking of, here are other criticisms that again, are fairly minor in the grand scheme:
- Given the random generated aspect of the maps, you'll occasionally come across loot spots or other special interests that are unreachable. In my time with the game, it didn't happen often enough to really ruin the experience, but it did happen.
- If you are moving fast in an area, you can occasionally get an invisible enemy. Luckily this seems to be the lower tier enemies any time it happened to me, but it was sure confusing the first time.
- While I enjoy the simplicity of not having to move the camera, with it instead looking through walls, it could occasionally be difficult to tell what was behind the wall. In 90% of cases I feel like it was displaying the information clearly, but the rest of the time I'd spend running into something I couldn't really understand.
- There are no cutscenes or voice acting, which is surely a result of being a low budget game. Likewise, there is music, but it is very subdued, and there are not many tracks.
- If you play enough lower budget zombie games in the Unity engine, chances are you've seen several assets this game uses (animations, models, sounds, etc). Now, I am playing this game 4 years after release so I guess it's hard to know what came first, but it certainly makes the game seem a little "cheap".

Overall, the industry needs more games like this, and I hope the developer saw enough support with this release to keep going in this direction. I did buy it on release, but shame on me for waiting 4 years to play it. I would rate this game an 80/100.

PS: I have to give a big shout out and thanks for the accessibility options. You can increase the UI size and enable a color blind mode, among other things. These are two settings I used and was very thankful for. You don't see these things in every game

I loved the last stand flash games, but this beautiful looking game suffers from absolutely awful fundamental design

Some examples showing their dumb design choices:
- Meta-resources (knowledge) that make you permanently stronger. One of the upgrades is a way to get this exact resource faster. Why would you not get this first. Why is this a thing.
- Enemies do barely any damage to you, except one bloated shrimp that. if he explodes or you touch his toxic farts, basically ends your run. Enormous difficulty dissonance between seemingly normal enemies
- Progression feels slow and each death feels inconsequential with most of it being run-only purchases or slight stat boosts, more of an action game than the roguelike it's trying to be
X

tldr; game sucks and is not worth your time, play fortnite instead.

I didn't play that much but I overall didn't care for the systems in the game like infection where you lose health bars to get 1 of 3 perks (mutations). I believe infection goes up as you play or it does when run into something that can give you more infection. There are antidotes or whatever but they only stop the infection from spreading (you don't lose more of your health bars) for a little bit.

Plus they have permanent upgrades for your survivors that you can unlock which would be cool but you get them by going to a radio somewhere with intel you collect. I believe I found a decent amount of intel but never ran into a radio to use (or you have to reach the end).

I played the tutorial which is basically get swarmed by a ton of zombies and dying. I did like 3 stops/areas the second one I entered a basement where there was a fat zombie that sprinted at me exploded which then gave me 2 or 3 bars of infection making it so I only had 3 health bars left in the run.

Could the game get better as you play, sure. BUT I don't really want to go through and keep trying to see if I can find a radio during a run to get permanent upgrades or deal with the infection system.

I hope the developers are checkin the reviews, if you do Con Artist Games, this game has an exceptional potential of becoming the next level of where you have left THE LAST STAND DEAD ZONE.
Instead of being an infected volunteer trying to get to the end of the map it can be a normal survivor building his base, gathering materials pretty much like Dead Zone was, You have all the elements pretty much to do it, i wonder why you decided to follow the current approach of the game that has no replayability at all. Once you manage to reach the final stage in the lab and kill the scientist that's it. A solid 100-120 hours of gameplay.
I know maybe PvP (the way it was on Dead Zone) is going to be hard to implement in the aftermath but everything else can be done. Raids in hard areas, hordes attacking your base, base improvemtns and installations, a team build up (maybe a turn base mechanic like XCOM).
It saddens me to see this game dying when i know it can become a great title and a worthy successor of the previous ones.

Bit tricky to understand all the game mechanics at first but gets good once you gitgud!

Too difficult to really be fun, you get two structures in and dead. Restart, three houses in and dead. After a bit I wonder why even try?

Couple this with an insane load time (like two full minutes from press Launch to playable, wtf?) and I've just got other places to be.

Almost good, but in the end... just not.

Everything in this game is miserable, your weapons last 5 seconds, no ammo, you have to find the serum all the time (but you can also have to find the batteries for the serum...), no saves, poor game design making you pause the game to get something from your inventory all the time (making the gameplay super slow)....
It's a waste of time. Please, don't buy it. There are tons of other zombie games on Steam.

very fun and addictive HOWEVER the bursting fellows have a deceptively large range that always seems to just barely hit me as i dodge away and it's so punishing and makes me want to end my real life every time

Phenomenal game, progression goes very smoothly, exploring and crafting is intuitive and fun and even the challenge after the main quest keeps one engaged.
I dont particularly care for the story but there is a pretty generic one with a twist of sorts.
The gameplay is where this game shines immensely, highly recommended

It's an alright game, but it has many flaws. The biggest one - there is no multiplayer. The second flaw on the list that also has to be noted is mutations. I get that developers were trying to introduce new mechanics into the game, that would make this game more unique and not just another zombie shooter, but in my opinion, it only ended up breaking the flow of the game. It is hard enough to gather resources and survive, let alone try to dig up the antidote every time you require one. The mutations should have been optional.

There are some other minor irritating flaws, but close to zero people will actually read this review, so why even bother going into details about it? It is still a good game to have in your library if you own a Steam Deck.

-Uses way to many resources-
Found this strange so tried to launch this offline and does not run.
No internet connection should be required. Again strange.
Fix offline and Optimization.
Not a terrible game, but for the same price you can just get State of Decay 2

Amazing! Would be better if there was physical armor and outfit customization and loot system.

Its a fun new way to play zombie games, control and graphic are great, and the story will keep you playing for hours

got it on 65% sales, not bad for that price

Fun game! Really chill zombie game.

Survival shooty zombie game

This game is actually amazing, I think the big draw-back is that its not co-op.

this game is definitely a bit buggy & a bit disappointing but overall a great idea... bit wonky in the implementation... 7.7/10.0 there's no great SoundTrack here but a fun grind system: HEHE improvements... like jumping through a window behind a zombie should warrant a HUH?! response, it would be funny... also, i saw my character defy gravity by standing at a 35 degree angle... in the first or 2nd hour of playing (the Michael Jackson lean... but backwards.. so that was a bug that made it look like im playing as a barbie)

it happened when i tried to do an Execution of a zombie on the floor.



-in the first map.. i could run from the car to the boxes with the 4 zombies... from the intro map, but i couldnt run back, got stuck on the invisible map.



-which brings up another point, so much of this game feels like an invisible maze (edit: ergo i speak about making cool map borders, maybe with focus, i speak on this more later on..when i talk about putting glowing blood on the end of the explorable zone), and the maps are pretty small... so far i do need more loot but i only just now bought the 25% boost to Ammo in my first 4 hours of playing.



visuals aint bad, cool upgrade system

= i think it needs a higher performance rate though, or maybe my PC is just getting old, not sure which, read other reviews to figure that out.


-stamina feels like it depletes too quick in the first hours of the game, so that's kinda harsh.



-tutorial could use a bit more info, like telling me the knowledge upgrade system is back home, for a few minutes i thought it was outside, lol, derp. but also how to unlock recipes, i thought i had to use the fire then found out most are from Supply Bags (yellow)



= edited: Focus Mode could use some improvement: How long the focus lasts or how long it takes to recharge? i dont even think they showed me the focus bar... so the tutorial is very basic, TBH.... anyways, it's a very cool addition to the game, but i wish it would last a few seconds longer, like 5 to 10. considering in a panic situation of 5 or 10 ferals coming at me, you really need that extra Oomph! (maybe later they boost it or Stamina does, nothing so far though)



-could use more highlights on the zombies & where you can walk on the map... it feels like the glow indoors activates a bit slow ...sometimes, so when zombies are in buildings, watch out.



-developer must have changed the zombies over time, because from the animations... they move fast and have aimbot like feature for swinging at you, luckily like i said, i think they nerfed it so the zombies miss a lot And response time to attack you is slow often (which makes more sense since their brain is supposed to be rotted). sometimes they hit you with a good jab tho & rarely it misses..(i still need to test if i can kite them to avoid the charged attack or quick jabs). those jabs... keeps the game interesting and sometimes annoying, lol... because they hit you from 2 meters away, which your own MC can do too... which makes me feel like Mike Tyson (dashing) but also seems a bit far fetched.



as fun as the combat is there is a lot to be desired... i feel, slowing down the entire game by 10% could solve these issues, like you often hit 1 to 3 times extra after the zombie is already dead or knocked down, because there's a tiny lag on the response time and the aiming system in punches feels a bit off, like the cursor slightly controls it but then why isn't that indicated with highlighting areas?



-they have the chance to make the MetalGear Solid alert sound or something like Shadow Tatics: blades of the shogun ...style to improve the games functionality, so this does feel unfinished as a game.



+lucky there are not many bugs



+the bugs are very minor, nothing game breaking... except the Opening scene where i couldnt run back to the car.

+the core gameplay is very fun, you collect lootbags that give you yellow points to unlock items at home base for every Food Run into the towns, cities and compounds.



-Xray vision should be (mint) green though, like in the buildings



-would like it if items on the ground that can be looted shined gold or something from double the distance instead of seeing the E/action indicator... because it's good to see where the a useful item might be... (like Shadow Warrior... i kinda want that on all games, but i dislike how this game only alerts you to a Loot Chance when you are very close by and other times it's cool that you can see lootables from far but it needs something more like fire-flies or something like a gold blinking skin = in reality you would see that something is a bag or a box but in the grass here, it's harder to make out what you are seeing, is it a rock or a bag?)



-in the same way bloody bushes should indicate where the map ends or slightly glowing bushes and landscape. (just my ideas as someone who likes the game a lot but sees many things it could have added)

there are many tight paths that should be more blocked off where bushes meet (car) railings or gates.. it looks a bit odd to see this in a game but i guess i've seen it a lot in RealLife too... however i can still jump over such obstacles IRL. in the game it's a 3 meter long blocked off path...that makes the map smaller, and is therefore annoying.

- save function is a bit odd, and the opening scene i tried to play it through 4 times to see if i could defeat the horde, you obviously cant, lol... some audio saying ''it's okay, we're gonna be okay'' that would have helped to calm me and let me go with the story onwards... instead of replaying the segment like a perfectionist. 7.7/10.0 because the idea rocks, but a lot of functions should be added.

- zombies get stuck in trees and start walking in the air like 3 times in 15 hours, so that's something, i just need their Loot!

Fans of the classic Last Stand games will love this game. I highly recommend it to anyone that likes chill zombie slaying games. Also don't forget to roll if you're on fire! saved my life numerous times.