A Free & Enjoyable New Zombie Apocalypse Survival RPG - VEIN

VEIN Gameplay with Splattercat! Let's Play VEIN and check out a game where you'll drop into the destroyed united states and attempt to survive for as long as possible against the hordes of undead.
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[@PretendCoding]

Didn't expect to get Matt's buttcheek bone lore, but here we are

[@ayochill9716]

Looks like Mohawks made a huge comeback in this town, that’s sick.

[@kapnkerf2532]

I wonder if the origin of the zombie outbreak was people using massive amounts of hairspray and gel infecting their brains.

[@joeyj6808]

Zombie virus attacks the hair first. I thought everybody knew that!

[@MrNorker77]

@@joeyj6808 Does that mean I'm immune because I'm bald?

[@spifet]

@@MrNorker77 No, it only means you will get the Omicron-zombie virus strain first

[@OwOUwUOnO]

I've scrolled past this game before, yet never gave it a try. I do appreciate that the devs have a vast amount of features already. I hope all works out well for the developers.

[@Davidbaratunk]

When you began with "I'm tired", I really thought you were going to say: "I'm tired of these post-apocalyptic zombie survival games". I wouldn't have held it against you, at this point they mesh together into an incoherent blur.

[@keith3761]

how could splat ever get tired of these games when he only plays them for 30 mins because he is PAID to promote them.

[@Dethmeister]

Then he says that zombie survival games rarely come out anymore. That's one of the main genres he's been covering lately.

[@karlosthehawk3730]

Would like to see a live gameplay of rich from reveiwtechUSA and spat that be a fun watch

[@timhaldane7588]

We've been there for at least five years already, my man.

[@elizabethtischler686]

Yeah I thought he was going to say it too lol!

[@TheWretchedOwl]

You know, when you think about it, checkers was a game made out of old chess assets, so maybe it’s not a big deal.

[@idontwantahandlethough]

but.. checkers is the inferior game, so that analogy doesn't really work all too well ;)

[@cappinteddy3228]

​@@idontwantahandlethough that's your opinion

[@ohdubwest7533]

This is one of the most epic analogies I’ve seen in awhile. Kudos to you 🥃

[@thehellyousay]

checkers is strategy, chess is tactics. more than a bit of a difference.

[@TheWretchedOwl]

@@thehellyousay yes, well, that’s irrelevant to the analogy, so… 🤷🏻‍♂️

[@Myrrath991]

Looks like that zombie you were shooting was actually in the grave but appeared to be standing up. That's why you were missing. You see it pop up just before you put the last two rounds in it.

[@zakjackson2610]

How forward of you to assume I don’t keep my weed on the floor. Where else would it go?

[@ColonelEviscerator]

Up in smoke.

[@matthewceppos6510]

Been here for years Splatt's little anecdotes about his life always make me giggle... the one about the bear and his mom always gets me... the cousin trying to bop him with a pool cue is just icing on the cake...

[@CaptApocalypse]

I almost bailed when you said "Dead Matter" until you said "it's free." That's a baller move for devs trying to keep the interest high without risking folks' money. Cool move on their part.

[@jackeltheripper5570]

Ima go ahead and just say this, gamers aren’t really going to care if your entire game is an asset flip as long as 2 things are true. 1) game needs to be fun 2) game needs to be reasonably priced as you did take stuff made by other people. With these things true I think it’ll work just fine. Plus ngl this seems already better than most zombie survival games off the get go.

[@opusfluke2354]

"I'm gonna Point Break they sky!" *memories flood back*

[@HeadCannonPrime]

Not enough games let you smell items.

[@heyitstoki]

Nothing better than watching splattercat on my lunch break and adding stuff to my wishlist. (I've had this game downloaded since it came out lol)

[@tuckus2003]

Looking really good for the team size. I’m definitely interested in what looks like a love letter to Cataclysm DDA circa 5 years ago. They need to add the other zombie types, the rest of the drugs, random map generation, have many more zombies around, atleast in the built up areas, flesh out a whole bunch of the placeholders, etc Thanks for the heads up Splat! I never would have found this. I to have a 12 year old exploit involving a bike, a row of mailboxes and the dark of night. Long story short I was lucky to walk away with only my upper lip split right down the middle

[@philurbaniak1811]

👍👍 I appreciate you coming into work after the late night! Game looks great!

[@spencercaron4806]

So stoked you are making a video on this!

[@ColonelEviscerator]

Oh man The Dead Linger, that takes me back. What a shame that was.

[@DrayvenWynd]

Absolutely, was a real shame, and ensured I'd never buy another early access game.

[@soldjahboy]

@@DrayvenWynd Despite the numerous successful early access games by the literal truck load... let's let one bad experience turn us into a sobbing soyboy.

[@bootskanchelsis3337]

@@soldjahboy I dont buy early access anymore for the same reason, The Dead Linger. Are you going to call 'me' a soyboy too?

[@soldjahboy]

@@bootskanchelsis3337 Sure may as well. Soyboy. Cry harder. Etc.

[@soldjahboy]

@@bootskanchelsis3337 Imagine being so precious that a $20 disappointment leads to 15 years of hurt feelings and fear.

[@msolomonii9825]

Splatty at a all-night party!, damn guy, i'm envious, and you say all the time you're too "old" for that kind of thing, good on you guy for havin yourself some good-fun! A zombie game that lets you doing the interactions you should always be able to do, excellent! I've always wanted that in these games, like why do i need to build some crappy "base" when here's a nice house, why don't I fortify it, and live in this nice place!?!

[@drakehennig6239]

I love the interactivity! Having systems in the game that work as expected makes me want to start playing even just to support the developers and get a head start for when the game is fleshed out more and may not be as easy to set up OP characters/bases

[@danjohnson887]

Just want to give Splat props for having the discipline to continue providing content even when he probably doesn't want to. TOO MANY full time content creators look for any excuse they can find not to produce. Then they complain about the algorithm and beg beg beg for likes and comments etc. I'm like, dude this is your JOB so do it! If you keep working hard it will pay off, like Splat here!

[@Mgrow]

Ooof... I felt that tailbone story. It's supposedly one of the worse pains. You're lucky you didn't blow or compress any disks at least.

[@irkanorphyn]

My gma broke her tailbone in highschool and spent the last 68 years she hurts sitting or laying down. I wish that on nobody.

[@johnme7049]

Thanks brother, I'm going to check this out.

[@brigandboy1425]

That tailbone story vaguely reminded me that I broke my own tailbone by doing a flip (unintentional) on a snowboard my first day out by catching the front edge. To be honest, the thing is still pointed off to the left.

[@Nekoyashiki-san]

Thanks for showcasing and good luck to the developpers! ^^

[@KingOhmni]

I too am a little tired. Dome about 360-80 hours in the wage cage the past month and half. 6 day 11 hour (on paper) shifts really take it outta a dude. But anyway. Shout out to the dog tired brigade who just wanna game but are too sleepy to really game. So they watch peeps like Splatt to see if there’s anything that grabs ones attention enough to stay awake.

[@disembodied2954]

I always thought if anyone was going to survive the zombie apocalypse, it would be Henry Hoover

[@djnever00]

I love your magical stories!

[@nobodyimportant369]

Gloom, despair, and agony on me! Deep dark depression, excessive misery! If it weren't for bad luck, I'd have no luck at all! Gloom, despair, and agony on me!

[@fledglingbodhisatva4821]

Extra points for ending with a Hee Haw reference 😎

[@Blackwingk]

For what it is, I really like it. The devs are trying to do their best. Definitely supporting this. Just one thing I personally felt a bit jarring: The way the zombies' knees have no collision with each other when they collapse. I'm no game dev but I think that would be easy to deal with. Really cool game though.

[@Spruehwuerstl]

Gunplay looks real solid in that one 😮 that is for free?! Thanks for showing us the game man 😊

[@Kawatora5]

This looks pretty fun, hope they keep iterating on the core. Great find. Thank you Splat!

[@jaidev777]

Reminds me a lot of 7 Days to Die, in a good way. IMO 7 Days' development direction pretty much kept changing the game for the worse with each major iteration. For example (if I recall correctly), you *used* to improve your skills by doing -- they changed the system so that you can no longer do that. You have to level up to gain some points, which you can spend into skills. They also changed the way looting works -- looting used to allow that there's a chance you might find something rare and or much better quality than your current stuff, now instead it's based on how much game time has gone by -- the longer the game, the higher-tier the loot regardless of what/where you loot from. Which is weird and linear. They also added quests which tend to involve, say, looting a critical item from a house infested with zombies, and so the devs wanted to script it in such a challenging way such as zombies hiding in the right places to catch you off-guard. Fair enough... except they achieve this by putting the zombies in closets. You wouldn't expect them to bust out of those, because well it makes no sense for brainless zombies to orchestrate standing around inside shut closets and magically waking up if you enter the area. Just the overall sense I got from these design decisions were they kept going precisely against the natural, organic direction in which people play. Anyway I digress, wish there was a better alternative to 7 days which did the good things without the bad.

[@Maniacman2030]

They changed it for the Lowest Common Denominator of patience and intelligence. To appeal to the lazy people and popular streamers. I hate when devs hamstring themselves for an audience that is only going to stick around until the next big popular thing comes out instead of building for an audience that will keep playing and slowly pull in more people.

[@salmongod9115]

7DtD has only survived on its mod community putting incredible effort into big overhauls. I think Fun Pimps are incredibly lucky to be carried by such a community, because their game is honestly shit. It pioneered a really good concept for a gameplay formula, but the execution on it is terrible. I don't know why a better team hasn't come along yet and yanked that carpet right out from under them. It's low hanging fruit. IMO, they should just stop even trying to develop content for the vanilla game, and just focus on supporting their mod community. Subquake, the guy behind my favorite overhaul mod, should really just go make his own game. He could absolutely show them up single-handedly.

[@timflanagan1919]

Zombie survival? Is this some sort of creative new genre? I could really see this becoming a popular genre someday..

[@goreobsessed2308]

I know right best shit I've ever seen here's hoping for decades more of it

[@toomuchcake]

I love watching your videos when I go to bed. They're chill. But I was not ready for the laughing fit the butt bone story induced. 😂

[@Tis_13]

Played VEIN months ago and I liked what I saw! Some things were buggy but I still played well.

[@khananiel-joshuashimunov4561]

In project zomboid, you don't actually need to forage for carkeys. Theres a 2d/3d graphics setting, and the key is really visible as a sprite conpared to as a model

[@davelee5843]

27:42 Grace Jones just ran up on you, lol!

[@anonimus370]

this gives me old school roguelike vibes. Sorta like CDDA, except ASCII graphics are replaced with basic assets. That was always the greatest strength and weakness of ASCII, super easy and cheat graphics, and back when assets like this were just being introduced this is exactly how I hoped they will be used, to make gameplay focus games.

[@666stonewall]

I'm only 5 minutes into the vid. Kind of reminds me of a 1st person Zomboid as far as you can search each zombie, the world interactions, etc. It seems to have some great potential idea wise.

[@TheVexinator]

Ahem. My, what a nice chopping saw you have! >

[@christian_gamer_guy6447]

I've searched 2 houses that had cars outside and found the key inside a container for the car.

[@BiscuitWaite]

Climbing zombies are just like running zombies, a true Kobayashi Maru. I don't know why that became a thing in the zombie genre. Zombies are terrifying enough, even if they're slow shambling Romero zombies because they. do. not. stop. ever. If the zombie apocalypse comes and they're the Snyder type, I'll just eat my gun right then and there. But I digress, I see what you're saying Splat and I have wishlisted the game but I'll hold off until they get some money to back them.

[@Parzival1702]

I really love this game. Its really got a lot of potential :-). I recommend playing this one and its free

[@omnicode]

Tailbone story was GREAT

[@roboninja1]

Looks interesting, I grabbed the demo. I like the more relaxed nature. I prefer games that focus on the survival aspects versus zombie hordes.

[@TheGrimjackfromCPT]

I'd assume that at some point you'd be able to urinate or add poison in a bottle and that's why the smell mechanic is in the game🤣

[@specrtre]

If the development process goes well this might be my first person PZ fix

[@lukusblack6442]

This actually looks like a blast. Downloading.

[@colby8104]

This looks like 💩. Go spend a few more dollars and play 7 days to die instead.

[@ttsymphonyg]

@@colby8104 Dude, that's not the point at all

[@colby8104]

@@ttsymphonyg enlighten me

[@archduke0000]

@@colby8104 you're not worth entertaining lmao

[@deadcan47]

@@colby8104 At least this has potential. Unlike the game which has been in alpha for 12 years now and still not even close to being finished.

[@dirtydeeds4free553]

I do enjoy good zombie survival games. Sadly, not many of them are good. 7daystodie is a game i love, but can only now play with friends, anout once a year. Would love to see well thought out games like zomboid, but in that beautiful first person mode. Hope it makes it, we aint got alot thats good that fits

[@Thundarius]

Hey, I broke my tailbone too! Twice!

[@argonaught]

I enjoyed your medical story about your tail bone, splat 😅

[@Zer0Morph]

This game has a lot of potential... A LOT!! 🤤

[@tinygriffy]

I like the FPS-Zomboid approach .. very much looking forward for a game like this.. at this point in time it plays like a broken record though.. 🙈

[@darthbader6506]

Looks good, kind of like Project Zomboid finally became Zomboid

[@EGRJ]

That bone injury tail sounds gristle-y. Sounds a little painful, like it vert-a-brae-t.

[@kabochsaygo6976]

Should be noted that as of date of this post. Steam has a free demo. So this is only a demo. The full game hasn't been released yet. Butt you can wishlist it.

[@joeyj6808]

You did it to me again, Splat. Downloading this bad boy right now. I hope you're making a bundle of $ on these vids, because yoy're a great hype man. Thanks for what you do!

[@IncognitoSprax]

THE GLASS FEATURE COMES FROM CATACLYSM DARK DAYS AHEAD!!!!!!!

[@josephn1180]

It looks like a first person view version of Zomboid, and that's not a bad thing.

[@mattstyles2498]

Ya it totally has the bloppers duuude.... Ok 90s Sonic😂😂😂

[@bencampbell5468]

Reminds me of "The Dead Linger", if anyone else wasted their money on that mess.

[@goreobsessed2308]

Made by part of that crew but it's free so worth messing with I suppose

[@dylanmcwhirter9844]

Looks intresting hopefully they can pull off something that they arevproud of

[@a.m.5439]

Nice

[@gcmanuel85x]

Very nice, found on steam "coming soon". Really lookin for DayZ singleplayer experience. PvP aint my thingy anymore, some Fortnite i can deal with.

[@TOVOTmarcolonna]

more good this than 7DTD

[@thehellyousay]

ah, you're back.

[@methunkhan5470]

is this avilable in tps?can u play as both male and female or just male??

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

Male, female, or a mix of the two(there's a slider). At the moment the clothing clips in weird ways on the female model.

[@shape901]

cool game 4/5

[@delphicdescant]

I went to go try it out and the demo is almost 50 GB? Wish these guys would trim the fat, considering how the game looks rn...

[@sashamakeev7547]

Damn i'd give a lot for a designer guy

[@ynobe2596]

Well can see there is a demo but where is it play for free?

[@ryanorionwotanson4568]

Hey splattercat, question, if i make a game that is a cross between terraria( world) and Carrion( creature) but the player is a giant worm, would you give it a try?

[@TheAussieLeo]

Free is my favourite price!

[@ThatWeirdDude40]

So, basically, from your explanations in the beginning, and what I've seen in terms of loot and mechanics, this game tries to be Project Zomboid, in a 3D, first person version, right? If the devs manage to get this done, it may actually be able to define the genre anew and kick even PZ and 7DtD from their eternal thrones.

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

I have some issues with the design of this game, usually some variation of the game not respecting my time. This crops up in different ways, but all give me some pause on the title. Supposedly simple tasks like cooking something on the stove can take 10 clicks as you scroll through menus and toggle stuff into the UI, the required resources for things are too specifically varied(which conflicts with the weight system as you generally abandon stuff), things having de facto time limits is irksome from your character accumulating stress into sickness and death if the game thinks you're "idling" in an area to things built in your base area requiring a black hole of upkeep materials that get mulched into the ether every 60 minutes, and even truly absurd stuff like having your character's stomach literally explode because you ate a second food item so now you die over the next two minutes.

[@salmongod9115]

You ever played Cataclysm?

[@joseywilds3133]

Looks like every other game tbh!

[@chrisstokoe3169]

Yeah been watching this for a while if it ends up like project zomboied it will be mint

[@mbielcik]

🖤

[@ShepardFTW]

if the game is fun I don't really care about the assets thing. From what I can see, they just need to make zombies and killing them more interesting/fun

[@goreobsessed2308]

I dont hate this its like a first person zomboid

[@gcmanuel85x]

Can you set the buildings on fire with zombies trapped inside ?

[@classicfrog80]

So, it looks like a Project Zomboid in first person view then.

[@Zeru.]

I can accept that you don't see your legs, but the fact that your character in the menu doesn't wear clothes makes it really immersion breaking for me. When I play survival game, I want to be immersed as much as possible.

[@XoRandomGuyoX]

Loot in the mirrors as you play, your character is just a floating set of hands.

[@hans_pixel-me5mx]

Yeah, still not 'there' yet. 🙂

[@TheDarthpsi]

FPS Project Zomboid. Damn its almost 50gb? o.0

[@insainbassist]

my problem with all these games is even when they're technically competent none of them really do anything to innovate so there's not really any draw to play them

[@solarlancer1]

Looks interesting, like a comination of 7 days to die and project zomboid

[@marks7502]

47 GB ?

[@cjhard2980]

it looks like day-z but single player

[@SurizDrago]

As soon as you said that trees could be chopped down, I expected you to start going to town on the house you were in. Disappointed. Would like to see a full range of interactions. Maybe the shovel digs?

[@gcmanuel85x]

Can you just claim houses as your first base ?

[@dkakito]

There was a zombie on the roof of the church... game is getting downloaded... Do we know if they have a Patreon or Gofundme or something?

[@prettyshortshorts]

So this game wants to be 3D Project Zomboid?

[@StrangerInAStrangeLand1999]

Holy smokes a 46gb demo lol

[@TheAzrai]

Jesus. That sounds like they included every free graphics asset bundle they plan on using, except they didn't cull any of the ones they're not actually using. Kinda lazy, honestly.

[@disseminate4]

@@TheAzrai There's actually just that much content in the game :P I think we're at something like 1500 items with 200 buildings and 80 weapons

[@TheAzrai]

@@disseminate4 I stand corrected! Glad to see you're trying to cut out repetition in buildings early. That's the one thing I notice in games like this quite quickly.

[@disseminate4]

@@TheAzrai Yeah we want to avoid the sort of "copypaste buildings with three pieces of furniture in them" that a lot of survival games suffer from

[@tootzmcgee7144]

I wish people would be less pissy about unity store assets. Not everyone is an artist and there are plenty of great game concepts that use basic assets. Rise of Gun uses unity assets and has a great gunbuilding mechanism. This sounds like a remarkably complex game for the budget, who cares if they didn't build all their own models from scratch, lets the game come out faster.

[@TheMrDewil]

It's just a visual perception thing, I guess. Game that has its own visual style is somewhat more memorable than one that use something standardized and ready to use. Like going to restaurant or making do with ready-to-eat meal heated in microwave. Both get the job done, but experience might differ. I'm not saying that unity store assets are bad or anything, you said it yourself, not every studio might have an artist to do that stuff, and I agree with that, but there are other things to consider as well. What I'm saying is that people are not pissy about those assets out of the blue, you know. The has been cases of, let's say, "entrepreneurial spirited" people throwing a bunch or random store assets together and calling it a game, and having an audacity to ask money for it. It kinda does leave some bad aftertaste, and makes you a tad more skeptical when someone else decides to take a shortcut, for whatever reason.

[@tootzmcgee7144]

@@TheMrDewil That isn't really a good analogy though. You can have really good meals that look awful or bland garbage that's presented beautifully. A game like this is a plate of texas bbq. It isn't about the presentation, you slab that shit down because the point isn't the visual, it's the seasoning and bark and all the bits that you can only savor by digging in. A good brisket look like a rectangle of meat but it tastes like a symphony. If a game is well designed and written and the maker can't afford an artist (or just doesn't care), then it should still be judged on its merits.

[@CMZneu]

I want to know how is this game anything else than project zomboid but in 3D?... not that there's anything wrong with that since project zomboid is great and maybe being 3D makes it even better who knows

[@lowkeyobsessedngl]

... so this is like... 7 Days to Die Lite right atm

[@TheJolietJake]

Looks like good ol´ H1Z1 before they made it to battle royale..