Announced today during the Xbox Games Showcase event, the next game in the zombie-survival series State of Decay will be coming to Xbox Series X consoles. Titled State of Decay 3, the announcement trailer for the game included a short cinematic of a woman armed with a crossbow in the winter hunting a zombified deer. The setting for the cinematic appears to be in an arctic environment, but no further information about the game’s location has been revealed yet.
Primarily focused on its open-world gameplay, the original State of Decay and its sequel were set in zombie-filled towns as players build a community, add members, and search for answers about the zombie hordes. Acquired in 2018, along with other companies like Obisidian Entertainment and Playground Games, Undead Labs remains the primary developer of the series, following the studio’s last release of State of Decay 2.
Since its release in 2018, State of Decay 2 had hit 5 million players as of 2019 and had received number of updates, including DLC set in the original game’s first location. Along with consistent updates for the previous game, the team at Undead Labs has created an official State of Decay discord server for the community. The discord includes channels for questions and news about upcoming titles. No announcement date has been announced for State of Decay 3 yet, but the studio has announced that they are in development now.