State of Decay 3 just gave us a release year, and at least that's something?

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I'm one of the main survival game fans here at PC Gamer, so when showcases come around in the summer and winter, I'm usually assigned to cover a couple.

For years now, I've had standing orders to cover any State of Decay 3 announcements, and for years now, there haven't been many to cover. It was first announced way back in 2020, but Undead Labs has been mostly silent since then.

In fact, I'd pretty much forgotten about it entirely until today, when State of Decay finally showed some signs of life with a new trailer at the Xbox Games Showcase. And as I watched, I crossed my fingers that we might finally get a release date. C'mon! Just give us the digits already!

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Well, we got a few numbers at the end of the trailer, at least. State of Decay 3 is coming in 2027. No month. No day. Just the promise of a year.

Hey, I'll take it. In an industry where games are getting outright cancelled all the time, I'm just glad to see it's still twitching. Here's the trailer:

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Chris started playing PC games in the 1980s, started writing about them in the early 2000s, and (finally) started getting paid to write about them in the late 2000s. Following a few years as a regular freelancer, PC Gamer hired him in 2014, probably so he'd stop emailing them asking for more work. Chris has a love-hate relationship with survival games and an unhealthy fascination with the inner lives of NPCs. He's also a fan of offbeat simulation games, mods, and ignoring storylines in RPGs so he can make up his own.