New Hosted Game! Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven — Part Four

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Originally published at: New Hosted Game! Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven — Part Four - Choice of Games LLC

Hosted Games has a new game for you to play!

Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven — Part Four continues your story as you survive in your new haven, a rural junkyard, in Central Colorado. Continue your story from earlier parts, or skip right to the new chapters with a new original or pre-made character!

It’s 20% off until February 12th! And to celebrate, Part One, Part Two, and Part Three are 40% off, and both sets of Stories from the Outbreak are 33% off!

With five brand new chapters and another 1,000,000 words, Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven is now more than 2,700,000 words in total! That’s 70,000 words each time you play Part Four alone, and more than 210,000 for the full game. Given the number of paths from beginning to end, you can have a unique story every time and still never see all there is in Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven! Also new in this update: full color character portraits!

  • Grow your group to as many as 26 characters, with 17 of them as romantic options. Propose to your romantic partner and even get matching tattoos.
  • Be the leader of your group and improve the junkyard. Build new structures, such as a hydroponic farm, radio room, windmill, and zombie pit, or set up reinforcements to defend, such as a minefield, camera security system, and flamethrower. Choose to let others lead and have more time for your own activities.
  • Continue to expand your skills and train your group, including your (optional) nephew or pet.
  • Begin your research into the Zeta virus to cure the zombie-making disease or even take over the virus for your own use.
  • Explore new areas such as a Central Colorado University, a strip mall, a campground, and the abandoned town of New Breckenridge.
  • Encounter groups of survivors, both new and old. Forge alliances or raid them for their resources. Trade items, including unique weapons and gifts (to give to other survivors).

Jim Dattilo developed this game using ChoiceScript, a simple programming language for writing multiple-choice interactive novels like these. Writing games with ChoiceScript is easy and fun, even for authors with no programming experience. Write your own game and Hosted Games will publish it for you, giving you a share of the revenue your game produces.

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So it begins (again).

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Oh shoot! Gotta get my zombie on.

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My day just got better

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The steam release got delayed? At the store it says: not available yet.

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Yup, looks like a delay might happen.

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Man, this sucks. I’ve been waiting for a few hours now for steam release. It’s already evening where I live…

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Y’re not the only one

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It’s now availible for me on Steam.

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Sorry for the delay, folks! Part 4 is live on Steam now.

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Thank you for the release. I just purchased it!

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Congratulations Jim!!! Super excited to play when I get off work and relearn my dozens of ZESH characters.

To the COG staff… please… I beg. It is 2026. Follow the wisdom of cogdemos and add a back button. Please. It would be SO fun to explore all four parts of this game with that.

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Omg​:sob:!!! I am so excited, it’s been too long since I’ve stepped into the Zombie Exodus world. Congrats on the release!

Riley, here I come :heart:

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Massive congratulations Jim!!!

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Congratulations! I’m a bit newer to IF’s but Zombie Exodus: Safe Haven was one of the first I bought and I’m excited to continue that journey.

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Thank you, everyone!

Thanks to the staff here for all their help. I started writing this game ten years ago!

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Just got Congratulations!

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Bought 3 copies. One for me, one for my girl, and one for my bestie. I love this game so much, in my opinion it is the best text-based game I’ve ever played. I have been waiting for this. Thanks for all the hard work JimD, have a well-earned rest. I’m off to join my apocalypse family. CHEERS!

Also, the update appears to have broken the ability to load checkpoints, at least on the Steam edition. Seriously though JimD, REST, it’s not a game breaking issue, you can save a checkpoint, the button to load a checkpoint is gone from the status page.

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I played several times as a tester, but I know I’ve barely scratched the surface of what Part 4 has to offer. This story, and this world, just gets bigger and bigger, and better and better. Congratulations @JimD!

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Is it visible for people in the iOS omnibus app? Or do I need to be on WiFi to see it?

Either way, I know how my weekend is gonna go.

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