New Medieval Zombie Survival Game Announced

Key Takeaways

• Ocean Drive Studios introduces God Save Birmingham, a medieval zombie survival game offering a unique twist on the genre.
• Players must use wit and strategy to survive in 14th-century England without modern technology or weapons in God Save Birmingham.
• The game offers a historical setting with physics-based mechanics for barricading doors and outsmarting zombies.

Ocean Drive Studios has announced its next title, God Save Birmingham, a zombie survival game that takes place in medieval times. Set to release on Steam, God Save Birmingham looks to offer a novel take on the tried and tested survival genre by putting players into the midst of a zombie outbreak in 14th-century England.

God Save Birmingham takes the concept of a plague in medieval England and pushes it further by turning this plague into a Zombie virus that has torn down most civilizations. The game is a far cry from what the studio is known for, as Ocean Drive Studio is most commonly associated with the tactical RPG Lost Eidolons, which is set to have a sequel released soon with a demo currently available. In the meantime, Ocean Drive Studio has been working on God Save Birmingham, and has recently unveiled this title to gamers with a short trailer detailing survival in a rural apocalyptic landscape.

God Save Birmingham looks to capture the hopelessness of a zombie survival game in a medieval setting. Players must survive in 14th-century Birmingham, England, as one of the last survivors of a mysterious zombie outbreak. Without any advanced technology or electricity, players will have to use every ounce of wit if they want to survive. While some other zombie survival games will find the player eventually decked out with machine guns, there will be no such endgame in God Save Birmingham, meaning that players must use every tool at their disposal if they want to survive. God Save Birmingham players may be able to acquire suits of armor, but that will do nothing to combat the need for food and water, which is just as much a threat as the zombies are.

God Save Birmingham Is a Zombie Survival Game With a Medieval Twist

If any zombie fans have ever had a dream of fighting off hordes of zombies while gallivanting as a knight in full plate mail, God Save Birmingham has the potential to be just the game. On the game’s Steam page, Ocean Drive Studios explains that survival relies heavily on mastering the game’s physics-based mechanics. By stacking furniture against doors, survivors can barricade them, or by luring zombies around environmental hazards, they can be made to trip and stumble on them. The player is equally susceptible to these tricks, however, so careful planning must be made if trying to use the physics of the game to the player’s advantage.

God Save Birmingham is looking to recreate a 14th-century version of Birmingham, giving players a carefully constructed historical setting to explore and get immersed in, setting it apart from other survival games that either take place in a fictional setting or place the player in a modern recreation of a real place. The game is expected to launch on Steam early access, but no definitive release date is given for this.