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Well, it has joystick support… So there’s that.

There doesn’t seem to be anything native, but running it through steam can make use of its controller support for most keys.

Default though, the game is built for a keyboard experience.

It was the reverse for me. Went through a few Cataclysm versions (e, f, g), each with their own style, and Zomboid was mentioned by other players from time to time. Someone gave me an earlier GOG version to try and it’s interesting to go through both similarities and differences.

If you do end up playing Cataclysm eventually, maybe try the different graphical tilesets available. Each style can make the game feel better or worse, subjectively. Also, I mostly used the keyboard while playing. Honestly, don’t even remember if you can play with a mouse anyway…

I liked the turn-based style of Cataclysm DDA over this real-time one. Because it was less realistic.
I had more time to think and less time to “oh shit, I’m dead.”

But I like the tutorial here because it tells you clearly you’re going to die a lot, in silly yet believable ways.

It’s a shame. Once upon a time, Ubisoft helped and sponsored many a young tentative developers and held classes for game development.
Whatever the reasons and end result, they inspired dreams back then.

Well, the pre-production is real. Remains to be seen whether production and post-production will be real as well.

Because many “players” are refunding after a fap, which is logged and reviewed. Also, suspicious or new transactions are often flagged and reviewed. So a lot of such side content is being pushed in front of the banks and payment processors by horny clients who unwittingly expose their kinks.