Dead Frontier vs Highrisers
Dead Frontier
Dead Frontier is definitely a game come true for players who love a simple, no-nonsense zombie-themed survival horror game. experience the thrill of living on the edge, of trying to survive, in a bleak post-apocalyptic world in this fantastic, top-down, semi-hardcore MMORPG! Scavenge cars, corpses and abandoned homes for vital supplies like food, weapons, ammo and medicine to stay alive. Go up against a huge variety of zombies in the dangerous Inner City zones by banding up with other players or trying your luck as a lone wolf.Trying to eke out a living in the zombie infested, post-apocalyptic world is not at all easy and only the toughest survivors will reign triumph. Are you tough enough to survive? Play Dead Frontier now and find out!
Highrisers
Highrisers is an “escape from the tower”-style survival-slash-resource management game that’s fairly similar to the first Skyhill game, except that instead of traveling to the lobby, your end goal here is to scavenge the resources you need from the lower floors to fix the helicopter on the rooftop so your team of 4 survivors (if none of them died, that is) can escape the tower. It’s basically a quarter of the plot of Zack Synder’s most recent and relatively controversial zombie flick, Army of the Dead, really… and like the film, the game is fun but it has its own caveats.And of course, there are the zombies… ahem… I mean, mutants that will attack your team and any fortifications you’ve put up if they spot you… so there’s that.
For what it’s worth, I really liked resource management-based survival games like Highrisers and I have had a pretty good experience with the game myself, minus all the issues I’ve pointed out. The game definitely has some good stuff going for it, but the dev team really needs to work on the game more to revamp some of the gameplay designs and also to fix the game-breaking bugs reported by their players. Only then I would be comfortable recommending the game. For now though, it’s probably wise to keep it in your wishlist.