The Withering

The Withering

Steam Deck · unrated

CM Softworks · Zombies · Nov 17, 2019

It depends on what you're after.

At $9.99. It has been as low as $1.99.

49%
Mixed
372 player reviews
Low confidence · few reviews
Buy it if you like
  • Story and characters: 17 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Performance: 15 reviews raised it, mostly praise
  • Co-op: 7 reviews raised it, mostly praise
Think twice if you dislike
  • Combat: 39 reviews raised it, mostly criticism
  • Bugs: 12 reviews raised it, mostly criticism

Based on 372 player reviews · updated 6 days ago

What players think

The recurring themes across 234 analysed reviews: what players praise, what divides them, and what to know.

Why players love itThings to know
42% of themes are praise42% are divided16% are caveats
Story and characters
Players who bring up Story and characters mostly praise it.
- Play with up to 4 different characters in 1 team (excluding extra survivors you can get for the camp management part) which you can create at the main menu, and immediatly acces and deploy in your game, (You can start with 1 / 2 and gather resources till they knock out before you create more).
17 of 234 sampled reviews raised it
Performance
Players who bring up Performance mostly praise it.
The scaveging part is fun as that is the FPS part, but you also get a simulation were you build your base, look for food , harvest amterials.
15 of 234 sampled reviews raised it
Co-op
Players who bring up Co-op mostly praise it.
- Co-op feature coming up, mixed with more actually deploy missions (Or raids better said)
7 of 234 sampled reviews raised it
Monetization
Players who bring up Monetization mostly praise it.
The tutorial does exist and there is a few things you can readup on ingame, but it wont spill any real usefull information, so to begind with you are pretty much on you'r own about what to do (so pick explorer mission, crouch / stealth to loot crates close to zombies, loot police cars and ambulances, till u get a shotgun, it can 1 hit zombies at a safe distance, so its ammo friendly)
5 of 234 sampled reviews raised it
Optimization
Players who bring up Optimization mostly praise it.
So they will need to get that optimized other than that, of alot of Zombie games i Played this one is Top 2.
5 of 234 sampled reviews raised it

Theme by theme

Every theme is scored by what reviewers actually said about it, not just whether they recommended the game.

LovedMixedComplained about
Players love5 themes
Story and characters17 reviews
Performance15 reviews
Co-op7 reviews
Monetization5 reviews
Optimization5 reviews
Divided opinion% still recommend
Interface33 reviews
39%
Graphics29 reviews
48%
Gameplay27 reviews
63%
Multiplayer20 reviews
70%
Difficulty5 reviews
40%
Players complain% still recommend
Combat39 reviews
49%
Bugs12 reviews
67%

Ranked by how many sampled reviews mention each topic. A topic sits in a column by what reviewers said about that topic; the percentage beside it is how many of them recommended the game anyway.

Should you buy it now?

Crit’s read on the price, from Steam price history.

Prices have been lower

Currently $9.99. The lowest we've tracked is $1.99.

5 points recordedtoday · $9.99

The data behind the verdict

For the players who want the receipts.

Player review score
49%
Mixed
Playing right now
Achievements
20
total to unlock
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Average playtime
Not tracked yet

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