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Survivor Z – Roleplaying Game Review
Survivor Z is a Roleplaying/Entertainment/Strategy game from Big River Games Corporation, first launched in 10th February 2013.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 287+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Survivor Z Stand Out
Survivor Z starts out as a text based RPG, and transforms into a real world Massive multi player RPG that utilizes real world location data and hundreds of hours of cloud based content that keep players engaged longer than any game out there. New challenges added via the cloud and player rivalries will keep this game on the home screen of your iOS device.
From Ed Anderson, the creator of "ZDAY Survival Simulator", "Survivor Z" is a text-based Role Playing Game set 311 days after the ZDAY apocalypse has wiped out 90% of the world's population. Gameplay begins with an exciting strategy-based prologue, where the player has to make it home to the safety of their ZDAY bunker. Then, fast forward almost a year, running low on food and water, our survivor is forced to emerge, only to find that the world has changed. The population is decimated, and the dead roam the earth in incredible numbers. Every decision a survivor makes can be the difference between life and death, and even the most seemingly trivial mistake can mean doom.
Excellent Player resources and help from the developers can be found on player forums: http://forums.mongadillo.com
Gameplay in Survivor Z expands on the concept of its predecessor, "ZDAY Survival Simulator". While relying on the familiar text based model, Survivor Z introduces a vastly improved and incredibly robust game engine that gives the survivor complete control over their weapons, inventory, and armor. In addition, players can use their items in context to complete challenges, as well as find an ally with non-player character survivors in the game.
Survivor Z is the first game of its kind, combining the intellectual challenge of a text based RPG with the fast paced action of a board game. But Survivor Z doesn't stop there, in addition to being a very entertaining adventure game, Survivor Z adds another dimension by utilizing cloud based game content that will continually provide survivors with new updates and challenges, and uses location based services to transform the landscape around the survivor into the post apocalyptic world of Survivor Z.
Survivors will find real world location challenges like the Newark Cinema in Delaware, Restaurants in Portland, Oregon, and even the Buddy Holly museum in Lubbock Texas to name just a few, as well as hundreds of other challenges that can be found in any town in the country. Everyday coffee shops, fast food restaurants, hardware stores and malls are all transformed to become the backdrops for survivor strongholds, hidden troves of weapons and supplies, and dangerous traps set by rival survivors. No matter where you go when you are playing Survivor Z, you are in the realm of the undead, and no place is safe.
Once the player has fought through the fictional game content, the real work begins. The player can search real world locations to find new challenges, unlock new stories, and try and build strongholds to protect against attacks from the undead and rival survivors. Players fight to take and hold onto territory and resources as they struggle to survive. The more your influence grows, the more powerful you will become. Scavenge for supplies, craft fortifications and traps to protect your interests. It you against the world.
**Note: This game requires an internet connection to play, and location services to be enabled.
This Roleplaying game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Survivor Z is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 4th May 2021
Recent improvements include:
Defect fixes
Download & Availability
Survivor Z is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Great game please support the developer anyway you can.
We highly recommend this business! Their customer service is second to none. The product quality is consistently outstanding, exceeding our expectations everytime. We were completely impressed with their professionalism. Pricing is fair and transparent. Definitely value for money! Efficiency and punctuality are hallmarks of their service! Playin this game, while watching TWD, adds a tint of what it means to be a diehard, hardcore fan! How long can u survive in a real-life, post-apocalyptic zombie-apocalypse? Thison iPhoneand Steams Infestation: The New Z on Windows are the ONLY free games to test that.
We love this game, but Im stuck. We just downloaded the game a few days ago. We started playing and fell in love with the whole end of the world scenario. But our character has just come out of her bunker and Im stuck. Ive tried everything. Our only option is fortified van, or keep searching. Ive tried both but nothing happens. The game wont do anything. We messaged a few players for help but got no response. So, we dont know what to do at this point.
Its gotta be one of the best open world explorer games ever made with a twist of random storys every so often! Only down side is youll never have enough storys to play through and the devs have just about given up on the game crafting mercenaries is bugged (dont let the game go devs we love you make a huge comeback).
Love the game. Its one of those games you play for hours, forget about it, then find it and play for hours again. Only issue is when you move IRL and lose everything from your safe house. We wish there was a way to get purchases back.
We absolutely love this game and we spent money on it a couple days ago we bout one or two of the content pack along with the riot gear lv 2 and also the last swat one you can but. But we died and the items that we paid real money for are lost with the rest of our inventory. We want a refund on our items so that we can get paid to peacefully playing this game.
This was a great game and still could be if updated with new content and story.
Ok Im just gonna get it out this game has some flaws like how you know if something does a lot of damage or if you have everything to craft something but overall its a good game its just sad they havent updated it in a while because there could have been so much more.
Man we've been playing this game since highschool, we're 23 now lol we wish you guys didn't stop, or maybe even make something new, we'd love to see more on this type of game.
This is one of our favorite games, devs, please keep updating this game. Im confident that most players would love to dive back in for $2.99 with a new game with consistent updates and working tools, auto safe house item sorting, etc. This game was revolutionary in so many ways, best real world map, best storytelling, youre missing out on a lot of potential here. Contact us if you ever need advice with a new project Ive beta tested games for years (HOI4 mods and World Warfare & Economics) we also have skills in creative writing.
This game was amazing when it first came out. It was basically thats times Pokmon go.
Ive been playing this game on and off since we were 15, so about 7 years now. Ive gone through countless characters and accounts since then and Ive found two things extremely frustrating. The current, unable to login glitch (there goes about a 2 year old character) and that youre unable to restore purchases made? Thats absurd. Great game otherwise, wouldnt have played it this long if we didnt fall in love with it.
The offline version worked better this one you cant do anything.
We used to play hours of this game and now we cant login anymore! It keeps giving us login error.
Ive played this game a TON but now it just says trouble logging in Ive even reset our password, to no avail, when you click on the link for trouble logging in? It leads you nowhere but a broken page.
Ive been off and on with this game for years now, and it always sparks our interest and brings us back. We would love to see the revitalization of the game and continued updates. It seems like this game has long lost popularity and activity which is unfortunate due to the sheer amount of potential with this game. We try to make a purchase on the app every once in a while in hopes to support the creator and incite further development into the game even if we know its not enough. Cant wait to see if this game will continue to be worked on and Im hopeful that it does.
Holy Moses! Cant believe yall are still going! Keep up the great work.
Decent game, but various features don't work anymore such as clan chat and finding npcs. It's as if the creators don't care about the game anymore. Location spoofing is allowed too, so honest players will be forced into quitting due to certain players.
Im currently 16 and Ive had this game for years when we say years we mean like 6 or 9 years and the game is amazing and Im happy to see that they are actually updating it again cause they havent updated it for like 5 years but theres been 2 recent updates which is nice to see another thing we like is that its like Pokmon go but zombie survival and we hope they continue to add more updates cause this game has a lot of potential.
This app has the potential to take over Pokmon go and we hope it does there has to be a lot more things added in but for now itll keep you busy for a while.
In the latest update, Im unable to see our stats on the profile page. The boxes are still there, just blank. If the developers see this, please fix this issues so that we may check our food supply and water and etc.
We used to play a lot and then took a break. We were having some problems recovering our account. The developers website has their support contact info so we wrote them. The support is great, friendly, and fast. The game play is also amazing and novel. The real world map leads to our wife and we playing it on breaks in road trips and also searching for supplies in our neighborhood. Its immersive in a unique way. The text base fits perfect because you can apply a story from familiar places you already have pictured in your memory.
Dont get us wrong this game is amazing but it doesnt give m the option to create a safe house.
This game is above its pay grade. When its finished?!?!? We dont know! It has the potential to keep evolving! The fight scenes, the weapon, and cars. We wish we couldve been apart of this. Ive been playing for 5 years. We wish it was on Android at one time. Keep up the good work.
Hopefully youll respond, we only wanted too know if the Prison DLC was complete, it says that it comes in 3 parts we were just wondering if that mean 3 encounters or if Im going too wait for more too come. An answer would be nice. Thank you :).
Used to play this game almost all the time until the servers went down or something. We kept getting a message about Something being wrong. It finally works again! YAY.
We decided to re download it now and its actually working! So yay.
Idk if this game was discontinued or not but god do we miss it. Way ahead of its time before Pokmon go or any other gps based games.
We played this game way back when we had an iPhone 4 we eventually went away from apple and got a Note 4 but we recently switched back we used to love playing this game but from what we can tell it is now dead and its saddening to see from such a great game.
If your reading this, sadly the servers are gone. So rip this amazing game that ive sunk like $50 into because it was so good. Rip Survivor Z.
We absolutely loved this game. We had even gone as far as to buy a couple battle maps. Recently though the developers have dropped off the grid and we havent been able to play because maps wont load. Please come back devs.
We love this game! We want to be able to play it but it wont let us login in.
We cant log in or create an account help us.
To the developer you need an update to this game we really like it but of corse half the time Im connected to internet the games say we need to be connected and other bugs in the game we have experience.
Please make more updates! Or turn the licensing over to another company that can make more stories and items.
Our only problem is we can actually use the password reset, it never loads.
Update this game please, we love it so much but it needs more story missions and places to go. We are not hating on this game its just once you get to a certain point theres nothing else to do.
This is the best game we have ever played but the last update was in 2015 and a lot of the stuff is getting old.
Would love to see more updates to this version of the game.
We've been playing this for about 4 years and it has changed so much we would love to see more updates again.
We love this game great way to pass the time as far phone games go but it needs a update with more encounters we feel like we've done all of them plus the micro transactions also Idk if it's just us but we don't think we get rewards for taking strongholds like the stuff that's in them and we you don't get a reward we don't see the point also more crafting recipes and maybe a list of craftable things would be nice in game.
Good game but needs update and more content.
This is a great game and we play it every chance we get it's also pretty "realistic" except for the whole zombie thing. You should definitely try it out.
We really love this game. It still takes some time from us every so often. However we feel like it has stopped. There hasn't been any major updates as much as we love this game it feels like a dying horse. We would really love a fresh of breath air if you kept adding more features to this game! Hopefully this review isn't lost.
This is sooooooo Fun we love it but it needs a update.
This is one of the best "Go" games to have come out and basically the first one. The main thing that's wrong with it is it just lacks care and affection from the creators. We know this game is old and outdated but plz bring this game back to life.
We've played this game on and off for a while now and in that time that we have played the game we thought it's been really really good this is one of the few games and actually writing a review on but we think it deserves it.
Us and our friend loved this game and would play just about every day last year we wish they would continue development.
We've been playing for a long time. We have multiple accounts, but the last thing we remember was seeing the hunting lodge come out. That was certainly a lot of fun since we found the Rv and all of the other wonderful loot. For such a popular game with a good fanbase, where are the updates? Good lord, this is the only game we play on our phone, and after 3 days we're running out of content (per account). Ed and the team, you guys did a wonderful job and we hope you continue the updates.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 3.0.5
- Size: 54.23 MB
- iOS: 10.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Big River Games Corporation
Last updated: 4th May 2021 | Genre: Roleplaying, Entertainment | Developer: Big River Games Corporation