When State of Decay 3 was announced, the Covid-19 pandemic was in its infancy, Gary Whitta was hosting an Animal Crossing talk show, and everyone was watching Tiger King. It feels like an eternity ago, and other than a trailer in 2024, it's the last we saw anything substantial from the project. Today, that finally changed, as the game has risen from the dead with the promise of "a series of alpha playtests" starting next month.
Xbox Game Studios lead Craig Duncan said we'd be seeing more of State of Decay 3 this year, and he wasn't lying. In a two-minute video published on the official State of Decay YouTube channel today, series co-creator Brant Fitzgerald says "most of the team" at developer Undead Labs "has been doing updates for State of Decay 2." That's interesting, as you'd think after six years the studio's main focus would be on the next game. "The rest of us have been creating cool [censored] for State of Decay 3," he adds.
