ZERO Sievert tasks players with surviving against mutants, bandits, and deadly doses of radiation in multiple randomly-generated maps that unlock as you complete missions. Fighting teeth and nail is a requirement to leave with your belongings, as the game’s enemies won’t let you go so easily.
The game is an incredibly tough experience by default, even on the easiest setting, but features a very customizable difficulty system that lets you create a more forgiving or hardcore experience by adding things like extra items and more player health or permadeath and item loss on death.
ZERO Sievert wears its inspirations proudly, feeling like a demake of Escape from Tarkov and the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. series, evidenced by one of the game’s biggest features, which is its in-depth weapon customization mechanic, letting players break down guns part by part and customize them freely, creating fully original loadouts.
ZERO Sievert recently hit its 1.0 release and is available on Microsoft Windows (through Steam).
You can read more about the game and check out its trailer below:
The world has ended. ZERO Sievert charges you with scavenging equipment across multiple areas, all set in an atmospheric fictitious post-apocalyptic Eastern Europe setting. Your base of operations, the bunker, is filled with traders, modding stations, and areas to make your own, providing you with progression across your excursions into the wild.
Once you’re out in the wilds of the wasteland, however, the situation becomes a lot less secure. Across the five biomes of the game, you’ll initially be armed with little more than a gun and a bottle of water, after which point it’s up to you to recover items, take out bandits, and most importantly, get back alive.
And be warned; the nuclear fallout may have impacted some of the local wildlife…
A wasteland to explore
Procedurally generated maps make every journey different, with ever-changing hiding spots, loot locations, and layouts. With over five maps to explore, be sure to adapt and learn each one’s secrets to get in, get out, and get better.
Full weapon modification
Hunt in a way that suits your playstyle, with over 35 unique guns and 150 mods that can be combined to make you the biggest threat in the wastes of ZERO Sievert. Create a weapon that suits your style or focus on stats to become the ultimate hunter.
Looting and questing
Multiple questlines guide you through the world of ZERO Sievert. Through talking with a range of characters you’ll slowly unravel information and lore about the world that’s been left behind. Alongside this, there are more than 100 different items to loot which can be used to craft new items, upgrade your own base, and trade.
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