State of Decay 2 Attracts Over 1 Million Players in Two Days

According to this Xbox Wire post, Undead Labs’ zombie survival RPG State of Decay 2 has attracted over 1 million players in just two days since its official release, which is honestly quite impressive, considering that the game is an Xbox One and Windows 10 exclusive. And if you’re interested in joining all those zombie-bashing enthusiasts, you can purchase the game from the Windows Store; $29.99 gets you the Standard Edition, while the Ultimate Edition will set you back $49.99.

Here are a few paragraphs from Aaron Greenberg, the general manager of Xbox Games Marketing:

As we close out our first week of the zombie apocalypse, we wanted to welcome and say thank you to the over one million fans playing State of Decay 2, helping break the million player mark, and answering the question: how will you survive?

Since Early Access for the Ultimate Edition on May 18 and the global release of the Standard Edition on May 22, we have had over a million survivors across the globe playing and creating their own zombie survival story. Throughout launch, there have been over six million combined hours of State of Decay 2 gameplay, and we’ve watched nearly 3.5M hours of gameplay across Mixer, Twitch and YouTube Gaming from over 41,000 unique broadcasts.

Watching players create new communities, forge friendships and test survival skills contributed to making State of Decay 2 one of the top-watched titles this week. Across player communities, we’ve seen survivors kill over 675 million zombies, throw over 6 million firecrackers and fireworks (survivors still find ways to celebrate), eat over 6 million bags of snacks, read over 2 million textbooks, and typically survive for about three days (with some players surviving for over an in-game month – a lofty goal to aim for your session this weekend).

After this exciting debut, we look forward to seeing the community continue to grow thanks to fans and Xbox Game Pass members sharing their stories and showing off their ultimate survival plan.

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Putting this giant open-world zombie survival sim in the hands of fans has exposed some bugs and issues – we’ve addressed and will continue to address them as we hear more from players. The team at Microsoft Studios and Undead Labs continue to work on updating the game to address these issues as our number one priority. If you are having any problems with the game, please check out our support page here.