State of Decay

It’s unclear whether State of Decay 3 will still be available through an XBOX Game Pass subscription at launch following the changes to Undead Labs. Undead Labs has secured a new publisher and is no longer under the Microsoft umbrella, meaning there is no tie to XBOX’s first-party rulings on launching day one through the service. Related: State of Decay 3 May Not Release On Xbox Game Pass As a result, it’s reported that Undead Labs has no obligation to still release State of Decay 3 on Game Pass, and the terms of the sale mean that the previous agreement may not stand. However, as XBOX has alr

Kevin Patzelt – We’ve been working on this for a while and we’re aiming for a 2027 release. Players are already playing an Alpha version of the game and are having a blast. We’re going to be expanding our Alpha and then Beta list over time and we are dying for players to come play. We’ve got an audience that’s hungry for this game, the signups were fantastic, they’re going to keep growing and we want to get more.

Kevin Patzelt – Everything shown in the trailer is from the game. We did not use CGI. We have some fun camera angles in there, but it is 100% game capture minus our studio logo. Beyond that, there are a lot of over-the-shoulder shots. Whenever you see one in this trailer, it is a true 100% gameplay camera. We will be showing more of that over time, but absolutely wanted to include it in this trailer. We wanted players to start seeing what that camera looks like and how it will feel to play. The other thing I’d like players to notice is the quality bar of the moment-to-moment experience is high

Kevin Patzelt – State of Decay 3 is a much larger map than anything we had in State of Decay 2. The playable space for a player is about 4 times the size of a single State of Decay 2 map, and it is fully open to the player from the second that they join the game. There’s a much larger space for them to explore, expand in, and move through.