Undead Labs will announce a new game next week, but there's still a future for State of Decay

State of Decay studio Undead Labs has announced it will unveil a new game on Monday, and it's not a sequel to State of Decay. According to a spokesperson on Twitter the game is "not at all a zombie game", promising emphatically there will be "No zombies" and "no Microsoft". The latter is a reference to the game's console exclusivity, but I suppose you can take it to mean whatever you want.

As for the future of State of Decay? That's where things get interesting. Novelist J L Bourne appears to be collaborating with the studio on something related to the game, but whether it's a sequel or another expansion we don't know. All we know is J L Bourne loves State of Decay, and the creators of State of Decay love J L Bourne, as was demonstrated by a series of recent blogposts .

The studio has referenced a State of Decay sequel numerous times since the original's release, so it seems to be just a matter of when. As for now, the last major DLC pack came in the form of the Lifeline DLC .

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