NEWS: Zafehouse: Diaries is out now.


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#.

Image RSS Feed Latest Screens
v1.1.9 - Item sorting v1.1.9 - Map marking Zafehouse: Diaries
Blog RSS Feed Report abuse Latest News: Zafehouse: Diaries v1.1.9 - Map marking, bookmarks and speed tweaks

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.

 alt=
Media RSS Feed Latest Video
Downloads RSS Feed Latest Downloads
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...

Post comment Comments  (70 - 80 of 100)
NovusZ
NovusZ Oct 7 2012, 6:20pm buried:

(buried)

so the whole time you look in a note book and make tough decisions? this should be a free game.

-10 votes     reply to comment
Jackman2334
Jackman2334 Oct 19 2012, 7:19am replied:

I see where you're coming from Novus, though the game CAN be like that, it's still very interesting and quite fun, immersive and lets you have fun! It really depends on what kinds of games you like and if they make you feel good about what you've done, bad or just don't care. Take the walking dead for example. No matter what you do, there will always be consequences for that.

+2 votes     reply to comment
Byowulf
Byowulf Oct 15 2012, 4:15am replied:

It depends on whatever tickles your fancy. I love a good concept and storyline (in this principal, you make the storyline.) It's a welcome sanctuary, away from the high-graphics, non-story games that are being mass produced on the assembly line, these days.

+2 votes     reply to comment
Taylan!
Taylan! Oct 7 2012, 3:17pm says:

Looks interesting but I'd like to see a free demo first. Any chance of that?

+2 votes     reply to comment
ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Oct 7 2012, 7:24pm replied:

Hey Taylan,

We do have a demo available here: Zafehouse.com

+4 votes     reply to comment
tgepp
tgepp Oct 10 2012, 5:34am replied:

Why isn't the demo directly linked in desura?

+2 votes     reply to comment
UrbanScythe
UrbanScythe Oct 7 2012, 2:35pm says:

How is this game different from other free versions ?

0 votes     reply to comment
ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Oct 7 2012, 7:27pm replied:

Hi UrbanScythe,

I'm not sure what you mean. There are no free versions of Zafehouse: Diaries, other than the demo: Zafehouse.com

As for what makes the game "different", I'd highly recommend the following blog post: Zafehouse.com

+2 votes     reply to comment
UrbanScythe
UrbanScythe Oct 7 2012, 7:34pm replied:

Well i played game that looked same on site with flash games.
Dont remember name but there was this diary too and i was sending survivors to scavenge and kill zombies + interface and everything looked same as zafehouse.

0 votes     reply to comment
ScrewflyStudios
ScrewflyStudios Oct 7 2012, 7:42pm replied:

I believe I know the game you're talking about -- I can assure you there's a lot more going on under the hood of Zafehouse: Diaries than a typical Flash game, as the blog post I linked to explains. We also support *extensive* modification via C#.

I should mention the original Zafehouse came out in 2008 (you can read about it on Rock, Paper, Shotgun here: Rockpapershotgun.com), so it's quite possible the game you're speaking of was based on that and not the other way round.

+3 votes     reply to comment
Post a Comment
click to sign in

You are not logged in, your comment will be anonymous unless you join the community today (totally free - or sign in with your social account on the right) which we encourage all contributors to do.

2000 characters limit; HTML formatting and smileys are not supported - text only

Track this game Profile
Icon
Zafehouse: Diaries
Platform
Windows
Developer
Screwfly Studios
Engine
Custom Built
Contact
Send Message
Official Page
Zafehouse.com
Release Date
Released Sep 27, 2012
Game Watch
Track this game
Share
Community Rating

Average

8.3

106 votes submitted.

You Say

-

Ratings closed.

Highest Rated (7 agree) 7/10

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

Oct 6 2012, 2:34pm by viandox2000

Style
Genre
Turn Based Strategy
Theme
Horror
Players
Single Player
Project
Indie
Boxshot
Boxshot
Twitter

Latest tweets from

It can take up to a few hours for tweets to begin appearing.

Statistics
Rank
491 of 13,020
Last Update
1 month ago
Watchers
398 members
Files
2
News
12
Reviews
25