post-apocalyptic · zombie apocalypse · survival horror · the walking dead · grimdark · resource scarcity · group dynamics · moral dilemmas · tension
Dust motes drift through the stale, heavy air of the abandoned hospital ward. You stir, your eyes straining to pierce the gloom after a three-year descent into unconsciousness. As you take your first tentative steps out of the room, a sudden, violent yank on your leg freezes you in place. A headless corpse, its lower body torn away, thrashes wildly at your ankle, jaws snapping with a primal, starving desperation.