In a game with shotgun-wielding dogs and copious chair throwing, it might surprise you that Death Road To Canada makes zombies feel like a threat once more. The age-old video game enemy is often just fodder for superior weapons and one-man-armies, but the undead of Death Road To Canada harken back to Romero's living dead. An unstoppable overwhelming force, a shambling wall of gnashing teeth and decaying flesh. There are never enough bullets. A few may fall easily, but your weapons will break long before you kill them all.

This effective and tense take on zombies, combined with Rocketcat's wacky humor and Choose-Your-Own-Adventure-style events, makes Death Road To Canada a cross-country journey worth taking.

If you've played the popular title Organ Trail, the basics of Death Road To Canada will feel familiar. Much like that game (and its inspiration Oregon Trail), your group is heading across the country, managing their supply of ever-dwindling food and fuel as they travel from a ravaged Florida to allegedly undead-free Canada. Starting off with a duo of randomized characters in a beat-up junker of a car, you move along the road, encountering text events and hordes between stops at trader camps and randomly-generated maps. Each character has unique traits and stats that define their personality, their stamina, their loyalty, their strength and skill with a gun, and so on, and those attributes will influence both how you resolve events and who you equip with what...