I Shall Remain has been reviewed by Indie Gamers awarding it an 8.

Tl:dr – I Shall Remain is a survival game like no other on the market.  A combination of Diablo meets Baldur’s Gate with a post-apocalyptic setting makes the experience deep and fairly satisfying. Rare weapons, equipment breakdown, a constant battle against hordes of zombies and other undead abominations gives the player plenty to kill and run from. Only a few visual issues take away from the experience such as the HUD overlay and lots of icons with no effective in game way to determine what they are without pausing. Once you get through the beginning hours where the game can be fairly unforgiving, the pace evens out and becomes a pretty enjoyable experience.

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Geeks with wives have some impressions of I shall Remain to share with us.

I’ve spent a couple of hours in I Shall Remain, an indie release from developers Scorpius Games. My overall feeling is that it takes more than two hours to hit a point where you are truly comfortable with this title. Released for the PC via Steam on August 24^th, the game has been in development for the past 3.5 years, including a good chunk of time in Steam’s Early Access program.

There are quite a few rough edges that make me feel that this title is not for everyone. At first glance, it will make you think that is similar to Diablo. It is a barely isometric action RPG, but this is not about point-and-click to move your character. Yyou use your keyboard to do that. That control scheme has a slight impact on combat, especially in boss battles. It makes some of the challenge just effectively moving your character around a cluttered environment while managing weapons switches, grenade throws, dropping mines, and running away from bosses that have ranged weapons or very long reach. I unintentionally glitched out of having to fight the first boss and defeated the second, but neither fights were easy and some of both got frustrating at times. The environment can definitely be used to help defeat a boss, as they can be cordoned into single approaches and tight corridors where they cannot get to you very quickly given the size of the two I have seen so far.

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Scorpius Games releasd a new hot fix patch for I Shall Remain on Steam.

Nearly a week since our last update and a new Hotfix is in. We wanted to make sure some of the issues I Shall Remain players reported this week (thank you very much) got fixed as quick as possible. The doctrines issue is gone now, we have a new map in and this will tie the Staten Island quest a bit better as part of the main story, one or two crashing issues have been solved and our unique weapons have special inventory images. Dismantling weapons is also easier now.

The sixth major update of I Shall Remain is here with an even longer list of changes than listed below:

Note: Since a lot of logical changes have been made to Doctrines and Weapons, it is suggested to start a new game in order to have it working correctly (the game won't crash but the doctrines and weapons won't do what people were used to have them doing)

Key features in the I Shall Remain Sixth update.

- Ellis Island map extended and updated
- Two new maps are in (Holland Tunnel Subway and Alphabet City)
- Doctrines have been revamped and updated, 28 new doctrines have been added (128 in total now to shape your character)
- New doctrine effects (avoid explosives, max encumbrance, pierce armor, more scraps from weapon dismantling)
- Weapons have levels now, the level influencing their characteristics (damage, repair cost, most of the weapon effects, serum cost)
- We can now upgrade our weapons by spending scraps/serum (Enhance ammo, Increase rarity, Increase Level, Add random weapon bonus). This opens up new possibilities to upgrade and improve your weapons
- Weapon Enhancer loot items added (these represents an effect we can apply on a weapon, from range to damage or inflict weakness). This opens up endless possibilities to customize your weapons
- 10 new Infected mutations added (Regeneration, Burden, Drain, Osmosis, Enrage, Rejuvenation, Acute sense, Aura, Armor, Crowd), each with its own logic to improve the infected behavior and statistics. We have now 22 mutations the Infected can have in any combination)
- Added "Unique' rarity. 8 new Unique weapons created, all given as quick-events rewards. Some of them have special names :)
- Large texture overhaul. Recreated many textures and adjusted others. Generally higher resolution, new normal mapping and sharper details overall
- Main and secondary quests and content added and updated (new quests from Andrea, Thomas, Jim, Chain, Jay, Cathy)
- 12 new music pieces are in
- New teammate - CJ Hodges (Sibling and Commander abilities)

Rock,Paper,Shotgun takes a look at the Early Access version of I Shall Remain.

Each Monday, Chris Livingston visits an early access game and reports back with stories about whatever he finds inside. This week, being a terrible apocalypse pal with top-down zombie ARPG I Shall Remain.

Scorpius Games updated I Shall Remain a few weeks back in-case anyone on site is still playing the game here is the information from the Steam forums.

I Shall Remain' third update comes a bit early this month, and brings a lot of new features, updates and adjustments. Starting with 2 new maps, three new graphical themes, teammate abilities and commands, five new infected mutations and tons of improvements and fixes. A lot of customer suggestions/detected issues found their way in this update as well.  Thanks again everybody for your participation, bug detection and suggestions, everything makes a difference.

Scorpius Games released a new hotfix patch for I Shall Remain on Steam.

I Shall Remain ver 0.8.1.1 Hot Fix

Halfway through the July release and another HotFix is here. There have been some silly issues with two of the newer quests we wanted to fix, some of the shadowing issues to remove, missing textures bug to squish, improve stability and add the auto-save feature. There's a long list of fixes and features below, some of each being suggested by the community.  Thank you for your valuable feedback in the forums and by emails, everything makes a difference.

It has been two years since the last update for the Action and Survival Role-playing game I Shall Remain has been reported on our site. The developer Scorpius Games are now on Steam Early Access, and have released a new june update video.

I Shall Remain is an Action and Survival Role-playing game developed by Scorpius Games. Situated in an alternate history at the end of the Second World War, when Nazis managed to release a deadly virus over US territory, the game tells the story of two brothers and their intricate relation with the apocalyptic world rising in the leftovers of the Z0M81 Pandemic ravage. The presentation takes the form of an old movie recording where the player is invited to take the lead and discover the truth about the infection and the future of the human race.

I Shall Remain is a story driven game, uses a dynamic real-time Day/Night system to put everything in context, and a Weather system to enhance the mood and influence the way you play the game. Together with our Discussion/Dialog system and the way decisions are implemented define an important step towards being as realistically as possible.

A new trailer has been released for the zombie action/RPG I Shall Remain showing off the current state of the game. Here's the accompanying blurb from Youtube:

New trailer for June 2012! Reveals many of the improvements the game has made since the prologue and hints about the game's story. It features voice work for the John Carney character by Michael Rosenblum and music "When Angels met Me" from the Atmostra soundtrack by Zdravko Djordjević and Johnathan Ochmann.

...and the video itself:

I Shall Remain, the zombie RPG we've tracked for a bit, has released a free "prologue", which seems to be another term for demo/tutorial. The nearly 1Gb file is available from IndieDB and here's the press release:

I Shall Remain (ISR) PC Game has been released!

I Shall Remain is a top-down view zombie survival RPG that forces you to use teamwork and make leadership decisions in order to survive. Features include sandbox style maps to freely navigate, a complex RPG system with many different ways to complete the game and impressive graphics, storytelling and sound.

The game will be released in parts, each building on the previous release. This first release is the prologue to the game, and is a free download on Desura. The game is the debut game production of Jacob Way, who has been producing this game for over a year now during his off duty hours in the Marines.

For more information, please visit the game's Desura page at http://www.desura.com/games/i-shall-remain or its website at www.ishallremain.com

Jacob Way, the Producer of the Zombie Survival RPG, I Shall Remain, talks about how to kickstart a creative project using crowdfunding based on their recent experiences:

Kickstarter had a relatively high sucess rate that was very attractive. We believed it could one, help fund our game's development, and two help spread the message. Our game, I Shall Remain- just had a rough time on Kickstarter. At first it did great. In the first ten days we raised almost $1300.00 dollars for it. Then the pledges ended and never came back. Our Kickstarter page ultimately did not bring in enough money to reach our $12,000.00 goal. It wasn't all for nothing though. We learned a lot about marketing and we hope by sharing this knowledge we can help others be sucessful.

So, why did we end up with a flop?

Read it here.

Jacob Way has uploaded a new gameplay video for I Shall Remain. Enjoy:

Jacob Way, Producer for I Shall Remain talks about several ideas that popped up during production of the game and the need to prioritise them in the light of development resources:

Some more ideas that were to be or not to be:

Drivable vehicles in the game demo → not to be due to time constraints. Though they will be there for players in the full game.

An incredibly complex single player story → we turned this down in favor of free roam with a series of 'story' missions. This in the end will free up man hours for the multi player platform.

Zombie virus travels in clouds, after zombies are killed the remaining virus particles lifts up into the air and flies away to an unknown location. → (shh!! ) This one's on the back burner. You might notice the zombie bodies disappearing into a black cloud in the demo. Now you will know what this is.

Read it all here.

Jake writes in to introduce his project I Shall Remain, an indie "zombie survival RPG" currently in production. No doubt the subject will instantly draw comparisons with Dead State but this is a more combat-oriented experience based in a freely explorable city. Looking at the screens (which look quite nice), there seems to be a fully developed stat and skill system, although Jake acknowledges combat is central.

The official site is here and they have a Kickstarter page here to encourage funding - although the development is well underway, so this isn't one of those pipe-dream projects.

Here's the feature list:

• A huge city to freely navigate. Hundreds of objects to interact with.
• Recruit, equip and maintain men and to fight with you.
• Use vehicles to navigate through the zombie crowds.
• A compelling story of a young Marine written by Jacob Way.
• Astounding visual art, sound effects and music.
• Designed by a team that is dedicated to the game's  players and their ideas.

You'll find some videos and screens here and I'll embed one five minute video: