Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG
Released Mar 2021
The successful indie survival RPG "Dead Age" is back with a vengeance! No other game offers this mix of role-playing, rogue-like, fast-paced turn-based combat and survival all in one. Inspired by Darkest Dungeon, Fallout 1+2, This War of Mine and The Walking Dead.
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Evaluation
Dead Age 2 launched on March 12, 2021 and received a series of post-launch patches improving skills, adding survival options, and fixing bugs through September 30, 2022. The most recent meaningful gameplay update (Version 1.1.7) shipped on September 30, 2022, adding a Revival Set system to soften permadeath frustration. There have been no major content updates or new gameplay features announced or released for Dead Age 2 itself since that date.
In July 2024, the developer disclosed that the original Silent Dreams studio went bankrupt due to financial difficulties, and the team reformed as "Silent Dreams 2.0." This new team's focus is entirely on a successor title, Dead Age: Survivors, which is a separate game currently in development. The August 2024 news post confirmed that the publisher (Headup) handled a console release of Dead Age 2 for PS5 and Xbox Series X/S — a port rather than new content — and noted the new team is working on Dead Age: Survivors, not on further updates to Dead Age 2.
The most recent post for this game (October 8, 2025) was a security patch addressing a Unity engine vulnerability — routine maintenance with no indication of new content. Both DLC items are released (a companion comic and the official soundtrack), and no unreleased DLC is listed. The developer has made no announcements of future content for Dead Age 2, and all post-launch development activity has wound down to maintenance-only patches. The game launched as a complete RPG experience, received gameplay refinements through late 2022, and the studio's creative energy has since moved fully to its next title.
Evidence
Developer disclosed that the original Silent Dreams studio went bankrupt. The reformed 'Silent Dreams 2.0' team is now focused entirely on developing the successor game Dead Age: Survivors, with no new content announced for Dead Age 2.
Version 1.1.7 shipped, adding a Revival Set system to reduce permadeath frustration. This is the last substantive gameplay update for the game.
Content
2 of 2 released · no outstanding content
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Details
Developer
Publisher
Headup
Achievements
117
Platform
Windows, macOS, Linux
Controller
full support
Steam Deck
Playable
Players
Single-player
About this game

Dead Age 2 is a unique combination of survival, management, Rogue-Like events, fast turn-based combat, classic role-playing game with tons of quests and a story in which your decisions directly affect plot progression!
Features
- More complex story with no knowledge of the previous storyline necessary: If you haven't played Dead Age you will still be able to follow the diverse story of Dead Age 2 without difficulty.
- Improved combat system (Final Fantasy X meets Darkest Dungeon): with fast-paced yet strategic battles and use of up to 24 skills
- Faction Reputation System: Increase your standing with the three major factions to reap rewards and improve trade
- 3D Base-Management: Assign tasks to survivors, craft items and expand you camp's capabilities for improved crafting options
- Compact Open World: Free exploration of the world map with 80 detailed locations to search for valuable resources
- Decisions with Consequences: Your decisions directly affect the story in a much more drastic way. Dead Age 2 has six unique possible endings
- Rogue-Like Elements: random 3D events with permadeath! If you die, you may purchase upgrades unlocked in previous runs for your next playthrough. Choose from 3 difficulty levels

10 years after the initial outbreak of the zombie apocalypse, the members of Jack's camp fled to Freedom City, where a cure for the zombie plague was developed. But the news brings more suffering than relief. New factions have sprung up in the region, in constant battle for dominance. The merciless Military, the shady Smugglers and the Independents made up primarily of civilians.
When an Independents' refugee camp was overrun by an undead horde, the few survivors struggle for food and valuable resources in an unforgiving world, always looking over their shoulder for gangs of looters and the flesh-eating dead.

While the big advantage of Dead Age's turn-based combat system versus tactics-based games is faster progression, the mechanics have evolved.
A character can now bring up to 24 skills to the battle. Change up your tactics mid-fight to instantly gain the advantage over zombies and hostile survivors. Place front-row combatants to protect ranged-combat allies from attackers, and deploy turrets, hunting dogs and tigers, as well as an array of new weapons.

Visit the outposts of other factions to trade and take on missions and improve your standing with them. Improving relations with the region's greater factions unlocks better equipment and plot devices. A negative reputation can lead to confrontation or even a bounty.

Your 3D base is your central hub of operations. Here, you assign crafting or building jobs to survivors, build and upgrade stations to improve defense and quality of life and unlock improved craftable items and higher yield of resources.
The new open game-world offers free exploration of the world map with over 80 detailed graphically depicted locations. Beside nature scenes, Dead Age 2 features new indoor locations like hospitals, bunkers, schools, malls and army supply stores.

Decisions you make while playing can have significant effects on the progression of the story involving the three survivor factions, romanceable characters, and bring you closer to one of the game's six endings!

Like its predecessor, Dead Age 2 features random events on the map resulting in a variety of consequences, but this time those events are depicted fully in 3D. Survival RPGs are especially dangerous. 3 difficulty levels and permadeath may result at any time in losing an ally for good. If your main character falls victim to the apocalypse you are forced to begin a new playthrough, for which you can purchase upgrades and advantages unlocked in previous runs.
Gain enough standing with the factions and you may purchase things like upgraded faction equipment for newly-created characters, as well as unlock unique endings. This gives Dead Age 2 high replayability!
Last evaluated Jun 26, 2026
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