A crow on a power pole against a blood-orange sun, over a line of pines.

A co-op zombie survival game for PC

CarrionCounty

Hold what's still standing.

Loot a rural county by day. Get home by dusk. Hold your camp through the night.

In development · Coming to Steam

The game is in development. Everything shown here is work in progress.

Into the county

2:40 PM Overcast

The county

The roads are empty and the sky is the color of old dishwater. The county is still here: farms, gas stations, motels, small towns, the edge of a small city.

Carrion County is a co-op zombie survival game about holding places. You explore a rural American county after an outbreak, loot what's left, and find the encampments still standing. You earn them, fortify them with whatever's at hand, and arm the people living in them.

Every camp you hold joins a network you defend, supply and reach by road. The county keeps pushing back, and the dead come at night.

6:12 PM Dusk

A day and a night

Every day in the county runs the same four turns. What you do in each one decides what you have left when the next begins.

  1. Search

    Day

    Loot the farms, the gas stations and the motels. Follow rumors. Find the camps still holding out. Take the road, because there's no other way.

  2. Get home

    Dusk

    The sky goes rust red behind the trees. Reload the turrets, fuel the generator, patch the walls. Rumors say whether a raid is due.

  3. Hold

    Night

    More of them, and they run. A small lit camp against the dark, and the people you armed standing next to you.

  4. Count

    Dawn

    A quiet count of what you lost and what held. Loot the dead around the walls. Mend what fell, for less than it cost to build.

What you do

Six things the game is about, pinned where you'd find them.

  • Hold places that already stand

    A motel's row of doors. A farm's open yard. Every camp is a real place with weak spots of its own. You fortify what's there. You never start from bare ground.

  • The night comes for your camps

    Raids come as rumors, with a day and a time, and most often after dark. They hurt, they never erase. Damage shows, and a broken wall mends for less than it cost.

  • Defenses you keep running

    Walls, gates, traps, and turrets that lock on but need reloading. Generators burn gasoline. Nothing defends itself for free.

  • People worth arming

    Survivors are out there. Invite them home, give them gear, put them on the wall. They fight beside you at night.

  • The county pushes back

    Holding ground is ongoing work. Every camp you hold is another one to supply, reach by road and defend.

  • Better together

    Built for friends: up to four in one county, and more of the dead for each of you.

    Planned for Early Access

11:58 PM Night

No fast travel

No fast travel. Ever. The road is part of the game.

Every mile you drive is a mile you have to get back

Media

Captured in the game as it runs today. All of it is work in progress, and the final game will look different.

  • Game screenshot: The motel sign still lit, a survivor looking on. Last Stop, dusk.
    Last Stop Sundown
  • Game screenshot: Zombies working their way up through the pumps. Last Stop, dusk.
    Last Stop The pumps, dusk
  • Game screenshot: A few of them on the road, in no hurry yet. Last Stop road, late afternoon.
    Last Stop road Late afternoon
  • Game screenshot: One close, and the motel behind. Last Stop, late afternoon.
    Last Stop Late afternoon, up close
  • Game screenshot: Gas station and motel, a quiet minute. Last Stop, hazy dusk.
    Last Stop Hazy dusk
  • Game screenshot: An empty road through early terrain. Work in progress. The county road, golden dusk.
    The county road Golden dusk

Rumors

  • The dead are moving down Old Mill Road after dark. Don't be on it.Heard at the feed store
  • A trader's been seen out past the quarry. Says he'll take fuel.Left on a gas pump
  • A pack is moving your way. Maybe Thursday night.On the radio, between the static
  • Smoke over the ridge again. Somebody's still holding out.From a rooftop

6:03 AM Dawn

A note from the developer

Carrion County is one person building the game they've always wanted to play. It's a first game, so it's slow, and it's honest: what you see here is what exists today.

The game is in development, and everything on this page is work in progress. Things will change, and some of what's described is still ahead of me. When there's something to play, it'll come to Steam, and this page will say so.

Questions

When does it come out?

There's no release date yet. The game is in development. It's coming to Steam, and there isn't a store page yet. When there is, it'll be linked here.

What platform is it for?

PC, on Steam. It's built for Windows.

Is there co-op?

It's planned for Early Access, for a small group of friends in one county. The game is being built to be played alone first, and co-op comes once the core game is down.

Is the map the same every time?

That's the design: every new game lays the county out differently from a seed. The landmarks are hand-built and the same inside every time, so you can learn them. Where they sit, and the roads between them, change. It's being built now.

Is it a base builder?

Not from bare ground. You hold places that already stand, a motel, a gas station, a farm, and fortify them with what you can scrape together. Walls, gates, traps and turrets, and the people to man them.

Can I fast travel?

No. Ever. The road is part of the game.