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We have over 150 beta keys of the co-op MMO 'Dead Maze' to give away

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Do you like MMOs but find the PvP combat to be the worst part? Dead Maze [Steam, Official Site] might solve that for you. It's a massively multiplayer cooperative game where you try to restore civilization.

While it is a co-op MMO, that doesn't mean there's no combat. It's a post-apocalypse MMO after a huge tsunami opened the world up to a serious infection, so the world is now filled with Zombies. In order to survive, you will need to group up, find weapons (there's over 500 possible weapons), craft supplies and establish a camp. Here's where it may appeal to many more of you: you can grow gardens of vegetables, breed animals and so on.

We've teamed up with the developer, Atelier 801, to offer Linux gamers a chance to test their brand new Linux build and give feedback on the game as a whole. It's not actually available in public yet, as it's going through a closed beta period. It's going to be free to play at release, with only cosmetic items for purchase.

Note: The developer suggested disabling the Steam Overlay for it to work properly. In my testing on Ubuntu 17.10, it worked fine with it enabled, but the overlay itself didn't work. So if you have issues, make that your first thing to test.

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Also, they have a Discord channel you can hop into to group up and provide feedback to the developer.

I've had a little time with it personally and so far I'm quite enjoying it. It feels a tiny bit like Project Zomboid, only with more cartoon-like graphics and a better interface (as well as being online-only). I also really like the story-based introduction to the game, wasn't what I was expecting from an MMO at all. I might actually quite enjoy this one.

As expecting from a beta, there are a few issues with the translations and a few smaller bugs here and there.

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trex91 Jan 5, 2018
Thanks I'll give it a try ;)
holisticboy Jan 5, 2018
Thanks! Looking forward to trying this!
cprn Jan 5, 2018
I think I took the last key. Downloading the game right now.
Ehvis Jan 6, 2018
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Tried it for about two hours. Still a lot of technical problems. The main one is that after about 45 minutes the game starts to stutter and you have to restart it. Also had a graphical glitch, placement issues of objects in your base and partially wrong language selection. I'm also not fond of the lack of graphical settings (window size is the main one) and key rebinding.

An for the game, it's quite a grind as is usually the case with mmo games. But it does give you stuff to do so you don't have to go out and grind specifically. For now anyway. A bit strange (to me) was the fact that it feels more like a single player game where other people walk around than a multiplayer game. Part of it is that it (at least until now) has a very linear quest structure and no real need for a party.
hoek Jan 6, 2018
Like always I am too late. Great :|
Joeyboots80 Jan 6, 2018
Missed the giveaway. Oh well. I can wait. This looks pretty neat. Will definitely check it out when it's out of closed beta.
holzi Jan 6, 2018
Played for about 2 hours and seems quite fun. But I also have the problem that after about 30 - 45 min the game starts to stutter and I have to restart it.
cprn Jan 19, 2018
Grinder. Sluggish by design (slow running, etc). Unresponsive controls. Feels like a port from mobile. Low fps. High-res problems. Really bad interface. Made in Flash!? Can't even chat without 3rd party account. Unintuitive gameplay.
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