Humanitz

The game opens with a beautifully desolate tutorial: you wake in an abandoned campsite, a faint radio crackling emergency broadcasts between static. The first lesson HumanitZ teaches you is that you are food. A single zombie is manageable. Two is a risk. Three means run. Where HumanitZ shines is in its relentless focus on the mundane horrors of survival. This isn’t a game about clearing hordes with a minigun. It’s a game about finding a can of beans, realizing your can opener broke, and using a rusty screwdriver to pry it open while listening for the telltale groan of a lurker outside.

It’s a game about the spaces between the action. The half-hour you spend organizing your backpack. The silent nod you exchange with another survivor across a field. The small, fierce pride of lighting your first campfire as the sun sets and the howls begin in the distance. HumanitZ

HumanitZ is available on Steam Early Access for PC. The game opens with a beautifully desolate tutorial: