Undead Farmstead 2

New! Update 2.1 – Characters, dialogue, chickens

Hi! I'm Andrew and this is my game Undead Farmstead. I made this game for my wife Louise. She loves books, TV and movies about zombies but all the zombie games she’s tried are just too fast paced. The games she loves are more casual and character-driven, like Stardew Valley and Animal Crossing. So I decided to see if I could cross-breed casual farming with zombies. The result was Undead Farmstead.

You can download and play the beta version for free to get a taste right now.

This is the sequel to the original Undead Farmstead. That was a very simple game but version 2 is a big step closer to what I originally envisioned.

Gameplay

The basics of a farming sim are all here.

Find some seeds, plant them, water them each day, and then watch them grow. Seasons come and go, and this affects how quickly each of your crops will grow.

Harvest the crops for food. If you have enough food then craft more seeds in the greenhouse or trade them for other types of seeds to broaden your range.

Pick fruit from trees once it’s ripe. You’ll know it’s ripe when you see three fruits on the tree. Look after those trees though, there’s no way to replace them.

Gather wood to craft fences and gates at the crafting table in your house. Keep your things in the chest. Be on the lookout for chests elsewhere.

Your house is a good place to hide from those zombies. Zombies are attracted to sound. The more noisy things you do, the more zombies will come your way.

You can attack zombies but you can generally sneak around them instead if you tread softly. Keep an eye on the sound meter on the right above your energy and health meters.

If things get too hectic with the zombies, head back to your house and get some sleep. Sleeping lets you regain some of your energy and the zombies will have wandered away by morning.

That’s everything I have to say about Undead Farmstead 2 because I don't want to spoil any of the surprises. I hope you enjoy it… and tread softly!

Controls

W / A / S / D / Left-click — Move
Space / Right-click — Use, take, eat, open, close…
Left-click (toolbar) — Select inventory, use on second click
Tab & Shift+Tab / Mouse wheel — Cycle selected inventory
R — Rotate item when placing, e.g. gates
Esc / Click clock — Open menu

Install

I strongly recommend the Itch App as a convenient way to download and update the game. However, you can also download and run the game directly as follows.

Windows

Find the undead-farmstead-2-windows.zip file in your Downloads folder, right-click, select Extract All, then double-click on the undead_farmstead_2.exe file. If you see a security warning, click Run. You can also deselect the Always ask before opening this file option here if you want to skip the security warning in future.

Mac

Find the undead-farmstead-2-mac.zip file in your Downloads folder, right-click (Control-click) and select Open. You should see the file undead_farmstead_2 now in your Downloads folder. Right-click this and select Open. In the security confirmation dialog click Open. After this first time confirmation you can just double-click undead_farmstead_2 to start the game.

Linux

Extract undead-farmstead-2-linux.zip and then run undead_farmstead_2.x86_64. If you see an error relating to Vulkan then try running with the command ./undead_farmstead_2.x86_64 --rendering-driver opengl3.

Feedback

I’d love to hear from you! Please leave a comment here or head over to our Discord server.

Credits

Design & coding - ANDREW SMITH
Graphics - SHUBIBUBI
Fonts - SLAVFOX, ZEH FERNANDO
Sound effects - 15HPECHAM, ALI_6868, BIGAL13, KENNEY, PIXABAY, SHEYVAN, WDFOURTEE & ZAPSPLAT.COM
Testing - GRAEMEMK, MILLSTONEBARN, THE SHRIKE & LOUISE SMITH