Video Game / Undying

It's been four months since

the outbreak first hit...

...but it's felt like a lifetime.

In order to keep as many

people safe as possible the

military have turned subway

stations into refugee camps.

They plan to extract each

camp until they have

extracted every living person

in the infected area.

Today...

...our group is being extracted.

Opening Narration

Undying is a Survival Horror Video Game by Vanimals.

For four months now, a Zombie Apocalypse has been in full swing. The military has been keeping survivors in subway stations converted into refugee camps, which they'll extract from until the area's clear of uninfected.

Anling and her son Cody are two people living in one such camp, and today, they're scheduled to be extracted. However, during the evacuation, the tunnel collapses, bringing with it a group of zombies. One lunges for Cody, but Anling saves him in time, at the cost of being bitten by it. They manage to escape and make it home, but now Anling is infected, meaning that she'll be one of them pretty soon.

Anling will have to do everything she can to protect Cody, keep him alive and safe, and ensure he can look after himself when she no longer can.

The game was released into Steam Early Access on October 19th, 2021, and "graduated" into its full retail version on December 7th, 2023.

Not to be confused with Clive Barker's Undying.

---

Undying contains examples of:

• Apocalyptic Log: Letters and Newspapers can tell you about things that have happened before.
• Batter Up!: You can make and use a baseball bat to battle the undead.
• Crowbar Combatant: Crowbars are another weapons Anling and Cody can wield against the undead.
• Disappeared Dad: It can take a while to find out what happened to Anling's husband and Cody's father unless you explore the abandoned subway station in the city. Jacob Moore was asked to help the evacuation effort due to being a doctor, and stepped away from his family's camp in the middle of the night. That was the last time they saw him.
• Disaster Scavengers: Anling and Cody will need to scour the game world for items to help them survive.
• Eyeless Face: None of the characters in the game have any eyes.
• Item Crafting: Anling can craft items out of things she finds in the world.
• No Mouth: The character models of everyone in the game don't have mouths. The only exception is when the speaking images appear during conversations.
• One-Word Title: Undying, of course.
• Undeathly Pallor: The zombies in the game have green skin.
• Zombie Apocalypse: Most definitely, what with all the zombies in the game.

---