Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
Indiana Jones and the Great Circle
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UNDYING - "KINGDOM"
Developer Vanimals
Clive Barker's Undying is a horror first-person shooter video game developed by EA Los Angeles and published by EA Games. The game's story was written by acclaimed horror writer Clive Barker. He also provided the voice of Ambrose Covenant, a character in the game. Undying follows the adventures of 1920s Irish paranormal adventurer Patrick Galloway as he investigates the mysterious occult happenings at the estate of… From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)
185 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 22, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
65
Fresh
120 positive · 64 negative
95% range 58–72%
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| Steam reviews | 120 | 64 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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Steam's own rating
Mostly Positive
1,493 of 1,890 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 185 · most liked firstUndying is hobbled by a series of strange design decisions and awful fetch quests: (1) Survive is the goal in a sense, but really this is a story-based game with multiple endings and critical information to get there (like visiting the RV Camp over and over again to progress that location) isn't a tracked quest. I had no idea what to do most of the time except to visit the same places over and over. The game will happily track completing useless carnival rides though. WHY? (2) One…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really tried hard to like this game. Great art style, cool story. But the constant time pressure ruined it for me (if never having enough time for anything is your cup of tea, feel free to ignore this post). I even tried the easy mode, which slows time by approximately 30%. But then I was drowning in ressources and zombies's died like flies - there just wasn't any challenge left. And I still felt that nasty ticking clock. So if you are like me and play to counter the stress in your real life,…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a "Yes, But..." review. [h3 ]Positives: - It is a great survival game. The progression and RPG elements being on your son instead of yourself is quite a cool mechanic. - The travel and exploration is great. - Lots of great little discovory mechanics that I don't want to spoil. Negatives: - The game's autosave feature overrides previous saves. I just lost 6x hours of gameplay because the game autosaved while my son was dying and there was no way for me to save him. This game…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First of all I just wanted to say that I have played this game before full release and after. Before the full release update; I loved this game, I loved the story, I loved the Idea behind it. However after release I managed to reach the point where the game starts breaking apart mid-game. Dialogues will be repeated over and over again, until the next prompt in the dialogue comes which will also be repeated over and over again, leaving you stranded in this circle of hell for several minutes.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm torn about this one because I REALLY want to love this game. I want it so much. It has tons of things I like: interesting story, exploration, advancement. But even on Tranquil (easy) mode, you spend whole days just cutting down trees or crafting stuff that doesn't really do anything for you. Of course, there's always some resource in short supply, so you end up spending a lot of time just running back and forth. And then, your crowbar or your kid's slingshot hits 20 zombies and oops…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game. The art style and premise are so lovely and incredibly powerful. But survival feels more like a chore rather than adventurous and thrilling. Combat is TERRIBLE and is the weakest part of the game. The amount of damage I've taken and should-be stuns and what not.. Stealth feels clunky as infected will see to glare right at you but you could sneak on by.. But you have to reveal yourself to get loot? Which usually ends in combat, which is horrendous. The sections of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →i would recommend this game but only to certain people with a lot of warnings beforehand. i would like to preface this by saying that i love this game a lot! if i didn't i wouldn't have bought this for myself and a friend. this game has a lot of potential and what it does get right it does really well, and i can tell that a lot of thought and care was put into most of the game. like Cody, i know that this might be a unpopular opinion but i don't think they could've pulled off the escorting…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Undying : By Triple F "Undying" by Vanimals is a heart-wrenching survival game that combines resource management and emotional storytelling, set against the backdrop of a zombie apocalypse. Rather than focusing on typical survival mechanics alone, "Undying" takes a unique approach by centering its story around Anling, a mother who has been infected with the zombie virus, and her young son, Cody. As Anling slowly succumbs to her infection, the game’s primary goal shifts from mere survival to…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First- I like this game. I could play it endlessly. BUT. It's a broken mess. There is no way to report bugs, because that feature is broken too. It makes me sad that the developers are letting Undying ROT on the vine. You have this separate Kingdom Mode, when really all you needed to do was enable Kingdom mode on beating Story mode. Some features present in Kingdom mode are annoying as hell. Water feels broken, because despite lakes and rivers and springs, nothing gives you water. Once…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Zombie apocalypse stories aren't about zombies. They're about people.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a decent idea, but they structured it all wrong. a video game where you are a mother in a zombie apocalypse who got bitten and is spending her last moments looking after and preparing her son to go on without her COULD be a really good idea for a story driven game, like a choices matter telltale game or something like that. unfortunately though, its just a regular zombie survival game with almost no story whatsoever. what a waste of potential. the game has its fair share of issues, like how…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Yet another zombie killing ,leveling, crafting, exploring game. A little harsh with the passing of time in-game but a good play(I installed a mod that let me stop the time so I can actually enjoy what was happening because it's a game after all not IRL)
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has so much promise and does not deliver. I feel this is common for Chinese games. The art style is great. The premise is intriguing. The first 2 hours of gameplay has this on full display, and this it just grinds to a halt. If this was early access I could excuse the poor translation. I could excuse the grind due to mechanics that are not balanced, but the game is pretty much abandoned now. Get it. Play the first 2 hours, and then use the steam refund. It's not worth it past that.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →unfortunately, this is just linear chinese slop with no real interesting narrative. the gameplay isnt terrible but also nothing groundbreaking at all. I came for an emotional narrative and story but it just turned out to be a sub-par gameplay filled time sink.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So, I really really wanted to like this game. But I can't. It has a good concept but the execution is terrible. Water is scarce, have no idea how to make the kid, Cody, to increase/learn new skills. Things get worse with moms health, but for Fs sake, its ramp up is ridiculous. I have restarted my game a few times thinking the reason the rain does not come is a bug, but its not. It gets more and more grindy and tedious. I just died from drinking fresh water from a bottle I was saving until my…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UNDYING is currently quite an unenjoyable title, despite the departure from Early Access. From someone who is into challenging games and likes most other difficult/hardcore survival titles, here are a few glaring issues that made me want to quit playing UNDYING: - difficulty modes feel very unbalanced. the main balance of difficulty is between the passage of time per day, and the health/damage of zombies and NPCs. Essentially, easy mode gives an appropriate amount of time to visit a location…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →God I really wanted to like this game, but even on the easiest mode I had a hard time progressing the story. The time flies too fast and the more I try to be a good mother to Cody the more I feel like I am punished for it. I wanted to enjoy a fun, story rich, survival game but there is just way too much to manage for me to have a good time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →its a awesome experiance EXCEPT for one thing....the music pauses anytime you do ANYTHING and its really annoying and ruins the atmosphere. dialog? no music. crafting? no music. its the ONLY thing that i hate so far
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →After I beat the game, I instantly called my ma and aunt to tell them I love them. Also ran up to my grandma and hugged her.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Motherhood: All love begins and ends there. ― Robert Browning
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It gave me aggravating memories of playing Ico but this is a decent game. The narrative is emotional and engaging, the main issue here is a tonal mismatch between the emotional narrative and the traditional grind of a survival/crafting game. If you prepare yourself for slow incremental progress then there is a solid survival sim here, just not quite what I was hoping for given the fascinating setup.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I saw a let's player begin this game and was instantly intrigued by it, so I got it and played when I had a few days off work. The things I enjoyed: -The crafting and bartering systems are fantastic. It encourages exploration (especially through the unsafe zones once you've explored the story locations). I liked that some locations have specific machinery to use fewer resources to make certain things, for the trade off of some time and gas. It does sometimes feel like some of the late…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this game, but unfortunately it's kind of boring. I really like the idea of choosing to teach skills to your child. It seems different from the usual type of RPG progression. However, when played out, you are really experiencing the same old RPG mechanics with more stopgaps. Leveling, crafting, upgrading - all of that feels less fun, more tedious than the usual RPGs. The story starts off grim and intriguing, but it quickly devolves into a pretty blank slate of generic…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →"Undying" is a game that blends survival mechanics with a deep, emotional narrative. Pros: - The game excels in storytelling, providing a poignant and heart-wrenching narrative of a mother in a zombie apocalypse, trying to teach her son survival skills before she turns. This emotional depth sets it apart from typical zombie games. - The survival elements in "Undying" are challenging yet rewarding. - The game introduces an innovative mechanic where the player teaches the child character…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I must say I'm pretty disappointed overall. I played the game on chill-mode and it was constantly stressful. The resources needed to maintain weapons eat up most of what you're able to gather, which means advancing your technologies at home goes super slow. The days aren't long enough to explore and gather enough - the small inventory makes it even harder. The break-in bugs don't help - you fix a window, go upstairs to check something, go back down and the window is broken again, which in turn…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is just pure bulls**t. I love hard games or game modes but this is just under cooked garbage. The premise is really good but the gameplay part becomes not a challenge that you want to overcome but a chore that you have to deal with..... First 20 in-game days were fine, after that the lack of balance and idiotic mechanics reared their ugly heads. Situations that really infuriated me: - explored over 10 unsafe locations in search of wood to make wooden planks, I found maybe 2 wood on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So it s been over one year of waiting, critical bugs will not be fixed, obviously. The last update seemed great but it did come with very very serious and game blocking bugs (check community space and the keyboard bindings, that s just one example) going to ask for a refund, game has become unplayable, i should have kept an old version to play the story mode. the idea was great, but that s it. everything else is rubbish. and wear sunglasses, you might get eye damage due to the google grade…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Actually pretty bad. It starts with an interesting premise, but quickly turns into a severe grind with balancing issues. I like the idea of teaching the kid skills and being able to rely on him later, but can't say there's anything else memorable here. The gathering and crafting start out nice, but you quickly run into the prohibitive costs of real progress. The locations start repeating fast. The writing keeps getting worst as you go on. The achievement expect you to play through the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played it on Normal/Adventure mode but it was in no way an adventure. Areas and objectives are repetitive. Too much RNG. Everything feels like a chore and it's very very very frustrating. I had enough of their BS when I reached Day 20 and I have to choose between two cards: Receive 2 debuffs everyday or Fight only with your hands throughout the game, losing -2hp every time you attack. This has to be the worst game I've ever played this whole year. I'd rather play the 10 year old game This…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really want to like this game, because it's an interesting setting, but the control scheme is utter trash. The combat is extremely unresponsive and rebinding the keys doesn't work with "Special" keys like shift, ctrl, etc. It feels very unfinished.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Revolving fetch quests and limited time to make substantial progress in a single day have killed it for me. Unfortunate, as the fresh, emotional take on the zombie survival experience felt promising.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I absolutely love hardcore survival games like "This War of Mine" and "Siege Survival: Gloria Victis", but Undying was a big disappointment. Every gameplay aspect feels rushed and unfinished. The game feels 60% complete top to bottom. During the day you explore, fight, gather resources and craft. You have a home base where you need to go at night to sleep. This gameplay loop is similar to "TWoM" and "SSGV", but that is where the similarities end. It needs A LOT more work in terms of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to like this one. I heard about it before it released into early access, but I wanted to wait until the final release so I could get the full experience. Full disclosure, I've got to the end game with 13/14 locations discovered. So I've not finished the game yet, but I feel i've seen enough to form my opinions. If I don't give up on the game, I'll update this review and I'm open to changing my recommendation if it blows me away. This is an indie dev and I am rooting for them. I…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Combat and stealth are annoying enough to not recommend, which sucks cause the game is kinda unique and interesting.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I no like the time limit. I wan everything but time limit. i wanna say this again but me hate time limit. time limit = bad I want to hit the time limit with a wrench then hit with the car. time limit time limit please go away. TIME LIMIT I HATE YOU. Not the heart thingy that happens at like 0:00 nah but the days. 56 days is just too short of a time limit. i wan unlimited time to just loot everything and see everything. so please kill the 56 day limit
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish I could write a positive review game has this different perspective on zombi game, and I like new things but after almost 39 hours of playing I can't recommend the game. Why? Well first thing is poor balancing if you play on normal or hard difficulty you are in for bad time its insane how much zombies get stronger in the mid/late game another thing is that the game is too long there is a too little meaningful story and too much filler nonsense
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This is a really unique game and I enjoy the style although it is SO TEDIOUS. I spend all my time just scavenging for supplies but killing the zombies breaks my weapons SO fast and repairing them uses so much of the items I scavenged for. leveling up the workbenches takes a ridiculous amount of supplies as well. I don´t think I will be finishing this game but since it´s so well made and it has cool mechanics then I think some people might like it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →UNDYING has a nice art style, controls well and good sounds. The fetch quests and limited time to make substantial progress in a single day really suck! I mean come on! The lack of good supplies and short days make the game very unbalanced. This could have been so much better! It's another disappointing zombie/survival game where the balance is askew. I'm going to give this a MEH
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →So this game has a lot of potential for expanding on the world. I really liked the skill trees separated into 3 different sections that grew independently and combat to an extent. The base building aspect was really nice, but it becomes a bit more clear that it's meant for a 2nd playthrough for you to be able to max out everything. Which leads me to difficulty. Medium is where I started and was almost finished with the game, but I ran out of time and was in a no-win situation so I started…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Great concept. It takes the tired and worn out genre of zombie survival crafting games and reinvigorates it with its themes of parenthood. Unfortunately, it should probably still be in Early Access. I experienced a few crashes and many systems are not explained. Many dialogue interactions are repetitive and require a lot of extra keystrokes to advance the same conversations repeatedly. The UI is functional, but sometimes elements are obscured. Many tasks require returning to distant…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I had a blast with this game and got super attached to the characters. Yeah, the pacing can feel slow at times, some folks might even call it boring, but those chill stretches really pulled me in. Just know this isn’t a hype‑filled, action‑heavy zombie RPG, so make sure that vibe works for you before diving in. Personally, I dug the steady progression and the fresh spin it puts on zombie games.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Poorly translated and overall low effort. I do LOVE the comment wall in the main menu though, that is an incredibly unique and amazing featured.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →as a zombies lover, I played alot of game like Dying Light 12, state of decay, dead island, 7days and etc, UNDYING is definitely giving me a fresh zom-b experience, not to mentioned they have done a good work on UI, art style and voice over. The is absolutely my first recommended zombie game !
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I played this game as a content when I became a gaming Youtuber for the first time. I cried a lot during the journey and I was so disappointed to never get to see the ending of Cody and his mom. I wanna know so I can sleep well! I have a son myself, and it would break my heart to pieces to put myself in Anling's shoes.. where there's no other relatives could protect my 6 years old son (or 8? sorry for forgetting Cody's age) and I, as his only parent, had to get bitten by zombie and also HAD TO…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is pretty good, but that kid is an IDIOT! He's constantly crying and wants attention, even in the same area he can get scared multiple times after you comfort him which is annoying. He is so stupid always shoving his face into the fight first, rather that staying back Also the auto-save is garbage, you might not make it home in time and have to restart the whole day, that's if you're lucky and do manual saves every day. That kid though... I'd shoot him myself, he's just TOO STUPID!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Broken game, it did work flawlessly at some point but one of the updates broke it so you can't order Cody to do anything anymore. It's not possible to rebind keys anymore either. Other players have reported the same issues as well. Honestly though amazing game so i hope they fix it. Has a very unique gameplay, it's basically like Walking Dead with how Lee teaches Clementine stuff like the gun/hair thing but here it's more focused on exactly that thing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game, but the controls are a bit jank and the game punishes you for the most minor mistakes. It has some good ideas but the execution was really poor.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'd like to start by saying do NOT buy this game if you're expecting a Stardew Valley + Project Zomboid hybrid. This game is lovely, but to me it felt like a visual novel with clunky combat and boring mechanics. Undying is a very story-driven game and the decisions you make can greatly change your chances of survival. I found myself invested in the exp. system for your son, Cody, but really disliking the general mechanics for tasks/chores needed for survival. I'm not a fan of how the game…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Pros and cons to this game Pros - the gameplay itself is fun, it's challenging, and you have to figure out how to not only keep yourself safe but your son. you also get to decide how much you teach him and im sure that affects the ending and also your own ability to survive since a lot of new skills are only learned by him. Cons - the writing is not good. Maybe it's just poorly translated? i don't know. but it's hard to read the dialogue of any character and not get a little frustrated…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →BORING - 80% of gameplay is resource gathering/allocating, to proceed with story you need to find resources, craft and all that crap. I have had multiple play sessions and altogether spent just 2 hours, so each session i coud not stay more than 15-20 minutes before i get "You need X amount of to repair this". The game isn't bad by any means. The constant resource gathering grind feels like a waste of time in real life. To eat you need to fix stove, to fix stove you need X, after you fixed stove…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This War of Mine but 3D and zombies. I'm enjoying this one a lot so far! It reminds me a lot of the crafting and exploration from This War of Mine. The mood also feels similar, but still unique. I played the demo first, and maaaaan, the full version is so much smoother. Some problems: - It's unclear when Cody can start to do something on his own, and it takes extremely long for him to learn. - You have to choose one of 3 debuffs daily, which is a cool system but it's not explained properly.…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I can see the work that went into the game. And some parts are really nice. The story is nice and there are some sidequests that want to be discovered. I really would have loved to like this game. Unfortunately it is horribly unbalanced and buggy. You are forced to sit through cutscenes, even if you have seen them before. During some special quests with the little boy Cody you are forced to hit ok two or three times after every step because there is some unnecessary dialog like "i have found…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Undying is an extremely competent zombie survival game. Tons of stuff to do right out of the gate, decisions that actually impact the game-play and the story, and the zombie infection mechanics are actually really interesting and impact your game-play depending on what symptoms you choose to contract. The translation to english is pretty wonky at times with spelling mistakes and subtitles not lining up with the narration sometimes, english voice acting can be hit or miss and the story isn't…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely repetitive and tedious. Just boring.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I wanted to like this game I really did, but the controls are so janky and the game punishes you for every single slip up. It has some good ideas but it was executed poorly. Game refunded.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I think i got this game as a bonus game from a bundle maybe 2 years ago. i never touched the game until yesterday when i wanted to try something new and was searching through my library on steam. i really didnt think UNDYING would be a game i would like but i was wrong.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I picked this game up because it looked interesting the mechanics behind it are neat and revitalizing to an almost "dead theme". ha ha seriously though this game is great but has a few quirks that are rather irritating. one such thing is the symptoms it starts off as manageable with only 1 symptom a day i can live with that but then you get slapped in the face with 2 symptoms a day that last 48hr+ if your unlucky you could end up with some pretty awful ones like "for each slot used in your…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Full Walkthrough: https://youtu.be/AgFQnSfX_Jo ★★★★★ Gameplay: Decent Graphics: Good Music: Good Story: Very Good PC Requirements: Potato Game Time: 9 - 14 hrs
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Rough English translation and needs polish but the art and story are good and the gameplay is engaging
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Really wanted to like this game, but the writing and the characters and the story was just bland It made it hard to care about why you were doing the things you had to do, everytime I played it it felt like I was just doing "progress for progress' sake" The game was competent besides that, it played well
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