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ShooterReal Time Strategy (RTS)Role-playing (RPG)Strategy

Horror · Post-Apocalyptic

Dead Island: Epidemic's blend of MOBA-style team combat with zombie-slaying action was a bold move, pitting three teams of players against each other and hordes of the undead. The core loop revolved around scavenging for resources, crafting powerful weapons, and strategically capturing control points across the map. While the competitive player-versus-player-versus-player structure offered a fresh take on the zombie survival genre, the game's servers were eventually shut down, leaving its unique blend of action and strategy in the graveyard of forgotten games.

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On 7 August 2013, Deep Silver announced a new game titled Dead Island: Epidemic. As a MOBA (multiplayer online battle arena) game, Epidemic has three teams of players battling one another for survival while facing the hordes of undead that inhabit the series. On 19 May 2014, Epidemic was released through Steam early access, allowing players to actively participate in the final development stage of the game, reporting bugs and issues within the game so that the release is polished. Epidemic was a free-to-play title. In 2015, the game was cancelled during the open beta phase.

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