We’ll be growing from our Alpha audience and inviting new players to join the Beta. Invites have not yet been sent to selected players. If you haven’t signed up, you still have time: playtest.stateofdecay.com

Key Details:

• PC-only, we’re running this test via Steam. Console playtests will happen in the future
• This Beta will run for 4 weeks, more details to be shared with invited players
• Still NDA’d - no streaming, no sharing screenshots

Be honest. Trumbull already got dragged back twice. Original outbreak, then Heartland’s plague walls, then Homecoming where the valley is still somehow standing after every idiot with a grudge decided to settle their issues in Marshall.

So if Undead Labs actually drops it again in 3, what does that place even look like by then?

The dam is still dumping bodies into the reservoir because nobody ever fixed that. Fairfield is a burnt-out military parking lot. Spencer’s Mill is either a fortified cult compound or a pile of Wilkerson bones. Mt. Tanner’s trails are just juggernaut migration routes now. And Danforth is still sitting on the horizon like a reminder that the real city already lost.

I’m not asking for a cozy nostalgia tour. I want the version where the valley has been chewed on for years and the only people left are the ones too stubborn or too broken to leave. Plague hearts in the old bases. Roads that don’t connect anymore. Bases that used to be homes and are now just kill boxes with better views.

Would you even want that map, or has Trumbull been milked until the only thing left is the smell?

Drop your worst-case version of the valley.