For good or ailing, Useless Island 2 got here and went with out an enormous quantity of fanfare. At present, the sport has a Metacritic rating of 73 (7.7 from customers), which is fairly good, however not precisely boundary-breaking.

Nonetheless, for those who missed your probability to test it out when it was launched final yr, right here’s your probability to play it on Steam quickly: On April 22, to be precise. Yeah, just about on the one-year anniversary of the sport’s launch, you possibly can choose up Useless Island 2 on Steam, which, till now, was solely accessible through Epic Video games Retailer for those who needed it on PC.

Developer Dambuster actually desires to be sure to don’t neglect about its sequel, so to have fun the re-release (let’s name a spade a spade), the studio is providing reductions on the opposite entries within the collection.

Bizarre how zombie video games are nonetheless a factor nowadays

In addition to having the ability to wishlist the brand new recreation, Useless Island Definitive Version and Retro Revenge are presently 85% and 75% off, respectively. Moreover, Riptide is 100% free for a restricted time solely. And once I say “restricted,” I imply you actually solely have till tomorrow to select up a replica (the opposite two are discounted till February 20).

It was fairly a tumultuous growth cycle for DI2. Initially scheduled to return out in 2015 – and being made by Techland of Dying Mild fame – the challenge handed by way of a variety of studios earlier than Dambuster took the reins.

Contemplating the primary installment didn’t go away a lot of an impression, it’s stunning a sequel was even green-lit. By this level, you’d assume everybody would have been sick of the zombie style by now. Evidently not.

However say what you’ll concerning the first Useless Island, that trailer nonetheless packs a punch to the intestine to this present day. It’s only a disgrace the precise recreation content material didn’t match the advertising and marketing.