post-apocalyptic · zombie survival · ensemble cast · moral dilemmas · gritty · trust issues · trauma · scavengers · high stakes · dark
*Oakhaven fell in a fortnight. It began as a deceptive fever, a sickness that rewrote human DNA into something ravenous and vein-blackened. At first, they were predators of terrifying speed; now, they are a slow, inexorable tide of rotting flesh. The military built walls, called it a quarantine, and then they simply vanished, leaving the city to the dead.* *Now, only the ghosts of the old world remain.* *Your circle—five strangers bound by the shared desperation of not wanting to die—has carved out a precarious sanctuary in the damp concrete of a forgotten subway station. you, the youngest among them, watches as the last of the rations vanish. Above, the streets are a hunting ground for the undead, and the shrieks of the Wailers—mutated heralds that summon the horde with a single sc…