Here to report that while Zafehouse diaries looks good and has a good premise, the execution is really poor. It is sheer luck with the odds stacked incredibly against you. Practically every action you take has negative reprecussions against you. Your survivors literally cannot stand in the same room for 1 hour without hating each other and breaking each other's limbs. Who on earth even does that?! What kind of horrible upbringing was the dev inflicted to if that's his idea of how people communicate. "I don't really like that guy. I know we've only just met 2 hours ago but I'm going to break his arm!". Doesn't matter what your character is. Frail grandmother? Throws an entire freaking medicine cabinet at a person. It's like you're controlling a party of 5 bipolar freakshows in a game where everything you do has a 50% chance of killing one of them for no reason.
It says it has a lot of replayability with randomly generated characters and random events, but so far I've only seen four events and all four makes you suffer regardless of whatever action you take. These merely repeat themselves constantly and have a chance of occurring in all your games. So basically if you get a random event, you lose. There are some minor ones where the loss isn't too big, but rest assured, every random event fucks you. My favorite is the event where you catch someone hiding his pain pills away. Either you let him / her sate his addiction (and he'll consume all your pain pills from now on) or he will break your arm. There's no other option. Classy.
As for the randomly generated characters. It really says something when one of the dev recommendations to improve the game is to mod in your own characters so it isn't so unbelievably pathetic. There are only like 7 existing characters in the game, and two of them are literally useless. As in, they are 0% skilled at every task. Librarians and musicians. At least the musician is talented at being a distraction whereas the librarian can't even do that.
So yeah. The game is really sadistic. It's also very simple. All it's difficulty doesn't come from complexity, knowledge, or skill, but merely sheer luck.
tl;dr: Zafehouse Diaries isn't really good.
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