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State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition

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66 27 April 2015

State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition is an adventure developed by Undead Labs, released 27 April 2015 on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).

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What State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition is

State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition is an adventure game developed by Undead Labs and released in 2015. It was published by Microsoft Studios. It is available on Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows). It runs on CryEngine 3.

The premise, in the publisher's words

State of Decay is a 2013 action-adventure survival video game developed by Undead Labs and published by Microsoft Studios. The game combines elements of shooters, stealth, role-playing and strategy games and the game challenges players to survive by exploring, scavenging, and fighting the undead. It places emphasis on how the player's leaderships skills fare against an onslaught of problems, such as diminishing survival resources, group trust and morale, zombie extermination, base defenses, and people's lives.
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How it plays

It is played from a third person perspective. Its themes are action, horror, open world and sandbox. It is a single-player game with no multiplayer component. Available modes: Co-operative, Multiplayer and Single player. There are 72 achievements to unlock.

How it was received

State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition holds a critic score of 66 out of 100. That places it above 27% of the 7,530 rated adventure games in our database, which average 72. Games released in 2015 averaged 69, so it scored 3 points below the year average.

What you need to run it

The minimum specification calls for Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / Athlon X64 3400, 4 GB RAM and GeForce GTX 470 / Radeon HD 5850 / Intel HD 4600. At 4GB of RAM, it will run on essentially any working PC — that is below what a budget laptop ships with today. Install size is roughly 4GB. Both tiers are compared side by side on the requirements page, and you can check your own parts against them without installing anything.

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What it launched against

State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition launched on 27 April 2015, within three weeks of Mortal Kombat X, Kerbal Space Program, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood and Crypt of the NecroDancer. All of them reviewed better. It arrived 2 years into the Xbox One's life, so it was built for hardware developers already knew well.

Released around the same time: Mortal Kombat X, Kerbal Space Program, Wolfenstein: The Old Blood, Crypt of the NecroDancer.

Cheats and codes

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State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition — frequently asked questions

When did State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition come out?
State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition was released on 27 April 2015 for Xbox One and PC (Microsoft Windows).
What are the minimum PC requirements for State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition?
At minimum, State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition needs Intel Core 2 Duo E6600 / Athlon X64 3400, 4 GB RAM, GeForce GTX 470 / Radeon HD 5850 / Intel HD 4600 graphics, 4158 MB available space of storage.
How many GB is State of Decay: Year-One Survival Edition?
The PC version needs about 4.1 GB of storage, going by the storage line in the system requirements ("4158 MB available space"). Updates can add to that, and console versions have their own sizes, which are not listed here.

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