Super wide coverage of gameplay mechanics, but they're all so shallow it almost feels like it doesn't matter. Like, sure you can disassemble an entire car, or manually check the individual wind resistance of different parts of your body, but to what end? What do you gain from doing that? Usually, nothing.

This raises an interesting question when contrasted with Zomboid's explicit insistence that your life will not last. Is the game really shallow because lives are too short to get that deep into the mechanics, or are lives short to hide the fact that there are no mechanics that are deep enough to get into? And if it's the first one, why bother making the game so big?