God Save Birmingham Could Be the Next Big Survival Hit

As the Steam Survival Crafting Fest winds down, we wanted to highlight one more extremely promising survival crafting title that you might want to keep an eye on. God Save Birmingham is a physics-driven zombie survival simulator set in medieval Birmingham, England, where Judgment Day has arrived.

Judgment Day Has Come

A plague of flesh-eating ghouls and zombies has wiped out nearly every living soul, leaving you among the few survivors. While God Save Birmingham offers plenty of the familiar survival mechanics you’d expect, its biggest standout is its realistic physics engine. Almost every object in the world can be moved, thrown, or manipulated to help you survive.

Need to keep the undead out? Barricade doors with boxes, tables, or whatever else you can get your hands on. Want to slow down a horde? Toss junk into their path and watch them stumble over it. You can even pick up something as simple as a bucket and use it to knock a zombie off its feet.

Of course, those same physics apply to you. One wrong step off a ledge could send your weapon flying, while a bad fall from too great a height could leave you with broken legs. In other words, the environment can be just as dangerous as the undead.

The World is Yours

It’s up to you and your friends to scavenge the ruins of medieval Birmingham, search for food, secure clean drinking water, and find shelter inside abandoned homes while trying to survive an undead siege. Staying alive isn’t just about keeping your stomach full, either. You’ll also need to manage your mental state, as prolonged exposure to the horrors around you can push your character toward madness and despair.

At least there’s one silver lining, though. With practically no one left to stop you, the entire city is up for grabs. Want to claim an abandoned house as your own? Go for it. The world is yours, literally.

It certainly seems like God Save Birmingham has already started finding its audience. Since the last closed beta, the game has attracted more than 67,000 players, reaching a peak of 1,412 active survivors at once. That growing interest likely stems from the game’s recent co-op announcement, which gives players even more reason to dive into its zombie-infested version of medieval Birmingham with friends.