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Zafehouse: Diaries is a tactical game of survival, planning, resource management and problem-solving. Manage your survivors’ needs, prejudices and motivations and you might stay around long enough to be rescued.

Tell your story
A unique, diary-based interface records your actions, reveals the state of the world and provides hints and clues to help you.

Pick your battles
A sophisticated combat engine models all battles in the game, from a zombie slipping in through a bathroom window, to a swarm flooding into the hospital you thought was secure.

Know your survivors
Survivors have unique personalities and skills – use them wisely and the group will work efficiently. Left idle, they’ll explore, socialise, play games and tinker.

Relationships matter
Make sure you check in on your survivors and see how they’re getting along. Poor relationships mean they won’t work well together, and may even end up fighting.

Customisable
Add yourself and friends to the game and create mods using C#.

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0 comments by ScrewflyStudios on May 17th, 2013

Zafehouse: Diaries has been updated to v1.1.9. For this patch, we've focused on user interface and performance enhancements that should make playing the game a much smoother experience.

The biggest change is the addition of map annotations. This means you can now mark and add notes to any location on the map, just by right-clicking on it. Can't remember which locations you left supply caches? Now you can leave yourself little reminders.

Tired of moving survivor tokens individually? We've added in a mass-selection feature, which you can use by holding down the left-mouse button over the map and dragging. Include the tokens you wish to select inside the rectangle, release the mouse button and then just left-click on the location you want to move those tokens to. It works pretty much like it would in a real-time strategy game.


UI improvements and performance tweaks headline patch v1.1.9 for Zafehouse: Diaries.

For the diary, it's now possible to bookmark pages. Above the left-hand page of the diary you'll notice four small paper tabs. Hover near these and they'll drop down, after which you can click on one to bookmark the current open pages. By default, the bookmark name is the page numbers, but you can type in your own title if you want. To delete a bookmark, just right-click it.

The Movement screen has also seen several improvements. You can sort items based on type, and they'll be ranked from best to worst. Order selection has also been revamped with new graphics.

Finally, game performance and memory utilisation has been improved across the board. Saving and loading is now much faster, text rendering is incredibly quick and late-game turn resolution should be a lot snappier. Those are just the big-ticket tweaks; we've nipped and tucked a great many parts of the codebase.

As usual, all the patch notes can be found on the forums.

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Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Nov 22, 2012 Demo 0 comments

This is the demo version of Zafehouse: Diaries. Its stability and performance may not reflect the full version. If you notice any issues, please let us...

Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Zafehouse: Diaries - Demo

Sep 26, 2012 Demo 0 comments

This is the demo version of Zafehouse: Diaries. Its stability and performance may not reflect the full version. If you notice any issues, please let us...

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Prezombie
Prezombie Mar 27 2013, 10:54am says:

Suggestions: make the token on the photo more visible, completely opaque, maybe move to a bottom corner or next to the name to prevent it covering an eye.

More tokens! Each profession should have its own token, like a hex nut for a mechanic, the guitar pick for a musician, and so on.

The job assigning could be improved, showing the 'workability bubble' that is next to each name when assigning next to the job, so that I don't have to deselect and reapply one guy every hour to confirm that they're still going to work together well. Also, the bubble should be shown next to 'busy' names, just for completenesses sake. I would also prefer a lighter shade of grey for 'assigned elsewhere', keep the really dark for 'unable to do this job'.

There's no quick way to tell the star rating of an expidition, you need to drag, then assign a second through the menu on the right. I'd like an option to start and assign an expidition after selecting the destination on the map.

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Kitanode
Kitanode Mar 26 2013, 10:05pm says:

I can't seem to access the website to have a look at the manual.
Is it down?

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ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Mar 26 2013, 10:43pm replied:

Hi Kitanode - our host was having problems, but it should be back up now.

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kburton12
kburton12 Mar 22 2013, 4:14pm says:

hi every body im at part with this game

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ianmcmill
ianmcmill Mar 1 2013, 1:44pm says:

Don't know if I missed the idea or something but this game is boring. It is like an old browser based game. Excel style.

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mechwarrior24
mechwarrior24 Mar 27 2013, 3:33am replied:

Yes, you missed something. In fact, you missed everything.

Please, return to your mindless industry ruining shoot'em ups.

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mechwarrior24
mechwarrior24 Mar 27 2013, 4:53pm replied:

Well said, I understand your point. I simply found it silly that you made such a sweeping comment, but your reasons are sound. I agree the game can be somewhat tedious- it's only for a certain type of gamer.

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Shirby
Shirby Mar 27 2013, 4:04pm replied:

true +1

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a bit expensive for what it is, good indy small game

Oct 6 2012, 2:34pm by viandox2000

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