I asked some questions abut these games on the steam forums, but there are alot of fanboys. Has anyone played these? I am skeptical of alpha/beta games. I know I can't buy Zomboid on Steam yet, but its where I found it (I can get it on desura). Both are relatively cheap, so I take that in consideration.
State of Decay: XBOX game porting to PC. Still have to use xbox controllers. Ok with this, since I prefer an xbox controller. Several people posted that this game is loaded with bugs that basically for a restart. Its most unique feature is that the simulation runs even when offline. the bugs are disturbing since this is a finished product and a port. so if its buggy, it will stay buggy for the PC. I don't mind some graphical glitches here and there I saw pointed to, but if i have to start over just because I did missions in the wrong order, not sure I want to bother.
Project Zomboid: Beta game. most beta games have beter organized changelogs. The website for this focused on 'pretty', so its hard to see when they made changes and what they have done. I think this is important, because I am buying a game that is not yet finished so I want to make sure they are adding features (go see how disgruntled beta participants are with Towns). When I asked about this the fanboys pointed to 'steam integration' and 'translations' (to other languages) and key features. Why would I care about this? I care about content. Supposedly the NPCs are disabled since they don't work right. It has a mod engine. Its hard to tell how good it is. Some engines let people do more stuff than others.
are these games at a state worth buying?