Why there are no animal apocalypse game, where instead of zombies you get angry animals?

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Heisenberg007 said:
Days Gone had *some* angry animals in its apocalyptic world.
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No I mean like, you are a survivor in apocalypse of angry animals. The city seems quiet, you look to the right and some pigeons are feasting on some corpse, yelling some insanity. You start to run for your shotgun left in car, suddenly hundreds of squirrels start raining from roofs(...)
 
If you like animal horror stuff you should try zoochosis on steam even if the genre is very different.

Edit: emphaty reaction? Why? :lollipop_squinting:
 
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Ainem Enamas said:
But it's only one element.
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Yeah I know. I guess it's because based on appeal and what gets bought humanoids are top priority. No one's going to buy a game where you only kill zombie dogs, chickens, and whatnot regardless if its serious or comical. Doesnt seem appealing I guess? Dunno.
 
The Cockatrice said:
Yeah I know. I guess it's because based on appeal and what gets bought humanoids are top priority. No one's going to buy a game where you only kill zombie dogs, chickens, and whatnot regardless if its serious or comical. Doesnt seem appealing I guess? Dunno.
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I meant animals attacking you in rage, and the rage transforms them to be like Doom's enemies, or God of War lore creatures. You run from a city, you look back - and there's thousands of angry muscular beavers chases you. They go through walls from their rage. You bearly make to your car, you start it up, while beavers screaming in background... some pigeon smashes through your car's window with rage and tears off your skin. Car starts to move(...)
 
Ainem Enamas said:
Yea, but here you are one of the animals. I mean a proper survival you with guns
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You don't usually see game about fighting animals unless it's hunting simulation.

And games when you have guns normal animals are barely threat unless they turn in to zombie monsters.
 
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Because humans are at the top of the food chain and animals are no match for us nor a threat to us in any way.

Like, at all.

"O no, a zombie beaver!!"

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Because the whole zombie idea only works if the humans are completely overwhelmed. A "Pets revolution" would be halted in 1-2 weeks tops.

And also, for the reasons stated in previous posts. A very bad idea.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
Because the whole zombie idea only works if the humans are completely overwhelmed. A "Pets revolution" would be halted in 1-2 weeks tops.

And also, for the reasons stated in previous posts. A very bad idea.
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Bad idea or no, I do have to argue this point.

The average person wouldn't be able to do jack sh against a rampaging bear. Nor a mountain lion. Or perhaps a swarm of venomous snakes. If every single animal went completely murderous overnight, and for whatever contrived reason, their rage was fixated entirely on humanity, it would be a stunning mass casualty event. It would have to be something quasi-magical to make sense, but hey, we're talking about an animal apocalypse setting, so...

Well, to start, perhaps some useless politicians might be safe in their bunker, but that wouldn't make it any less of an apocalypse. The military's really only good for dropping bombs on people. They couldn't possibly "save" every single town or suburb, or even every city. They don't have the numbers, nor the mobility. Nor are they actually very likely to try in such an event. They wouldn't, really. It would be very much a "circle the wagons" situation, where the military would establish containment zones. Which definitely wouldn't work, because it's not like swarms of thousands of critters are going to care about roads, and major roads are the only thing that the majority of combat vehicles can reliably defend.

If you're an average joe caught in town when this thing happens, you're hosed. Any building with a glass door and no other means of defense would be utterly useless as shelter, if we're assuming the animals are as suicidally determined as your typical zombie.

Zombies are just particularly clumsy humans, whose principal danger is their infectiousness, which varies with the fiction. An unarmed human is dangerous to another human, but not particularly dangerous to like, what, 75% of animals? Predators are vicious, four-legged, purpose-built killing machines. They're faster than us, they're stronger than us. If we had an Alfred Hitchcock moment, only it's not just the birds, there'd be legions of murder machines smashing through peoples' windows and tearing people apart. Not even Mr. Tons-A-Guns Prepper is gonna be able to do much about that, unless he's got everything set to live in his concrete bunker for however many years it takes for this thing to blow over (if it does). And that's if his introduction to this event isn't a pack of blood-crazed mountain lions crashing through his patio door in the dead of night. Then his house becomes a loot den for the survivors.

If stripped of their fear and self-preservation instincts, these creatures would be nigh unstoppable. The real world is full of actual monsters.

Does this have the legs to be a full-on "humanity's twilight" event? Maybe, maybe not. But as a disaster story, it could work. Especially if you jump between different characters.

**Okay, I don't know what I was doing writing up a design document here. I snipped it out, but my point still stands. It could make for a compelling, to-the-point single-player survival horror game. But they don't make those anymore, so. 🤷‍♂️

But, all that aside, I could have sworn years ago that I heard that The Long Dark was about some sort of atmospheric effect that screwed up the weather and turned the animals vicious. I even bought that game back in the day but I've never actually played it. That means, OP, that your game sort of already exists.
 
Angry_Megalodon said:
Because the whole zombie idea only works if the humans are completely overwhelmed. A "Pets revolution" would be halted in 1-2 weeks tops.

And also, for the reasons stated in previous posts. A very bad idea.
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If you include insects we would be toast. Even those politicians in their bunkers wouldn't be safe when billions of insects clog all the intakes.
 
The smartest group of animals that will listen to their leader and agree on something would be wolves and apes. Cats are fearful but disagreeable with their kind.
 
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