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State of Decay: YOSE

2015

Should you play it?

Make your stand against the collapse of society in the ultimate zombie survival-fantasy game. Explore an open world full of dangers and opportunities that respond to your every decision. Recruit a community of playable survivors, each with their own unique skills and talents.

What works

  • Engaging survival and base management gameplay
  • Meaningful character progression and permadeath
  • Open world exploration with many locations
  • Immersive zombie apocalypse atmosphere
  • Included dlcs add content and replayability

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive missions and tasks
  • Technical bugs and glitches
  • Limited building customization
  • Lack of multiplayer/co-op mode
  • Some ui and control clunkiness

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Plains of Pain

  • MISERY

  • State of Decay

  • Warhammer: End Times - Vermintide

  • State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition

  • Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG

Less leadership-focused

Games that feels like State of Decay: YOSE but with less leadership over others

  • The Walking Dead: Saints & Sinners

  • Dying Light 2 Stay Human: Reloaded Edition

  • Welcome to Princeland

  • Borderlands Game of the Year Enhanced

  • Remnant: From the Ashes

  • Hellsweeper VR

More status-driven

Games that feels like State of Decay: YOSE but with more focus on status and recognition

  • Fallout 76

  • Killing Floor 2

  • Once Human

  • Warhammer: Vermintide 2

  • Borderlands 2

  • SURV1V3

More competitive

Games that feels like State of Decay: YOSE but with more competition against others

  • Ironsight

  • Military Conflict: Vietnam

  • SCUM

  • Tom Clancy’s The Division® 2

  • Dying Light

  • Arizona Sunshine® VR 2

Less intimate

Games that feels like State of Decay: YOSE but with less focus on close relationships

  • Human Host

  • Cepheus Protocol

  • Night of the Dead

  • Serious Sam: Siberian Mayhem

  • Generation Zero®

  • Dead Rising 3 Apocalypse Edition

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

State of Decay: YOSE: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Cooperation, Fellowship, Intimacy, Leadership. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Leadership, Survival, Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026