Here is about as spoiler-free a description of the game as I can manage: You as a modern-day protagonist find yourself thrown back in time to an almost-abandoned, seemingly ancient-Rome-adjacent city. It’s called The Forgotten City, and if any of the following cultural products strongly appeal to you then you should stop reading this and just go play it without any additional context: The Legend of Zelda (Majora’s Mask, specifically), Lost, the immersive theatrical event Sleep No More, the sort of vague pre-teen conception of “mythology,” or gossip. Recently, though, thanks to a full-throated recommendation from my favorite video game podcast, I completely fell in love with a game that is the definition of small: barely 10 hours long, made by a team of only a handful of developers, and originally conceived as an add-on to a much, much larger game. I’ve mostly found it comforting to play gigantic games - JRPGs (Japanese role-playing games) that can take hundreds of hours to complete - or open-world adventures where you can wander a fictional countryside and venture beyond the walls of your one-bedroom apartment for an hour or five. I’d played them steadily since I was a kid, occasionally becoming obsessed with this franchise or that throughout my 20s, but it wasn’t until I had nowhere to go, nothing to do, and nobody to do it with that this lightly pulsating rhythm beneath my day-to-day existence became a full-blown roar. What if the Dragonborn instead had to protect their family? It's all on the table with this gory, spooky zombie mod that has way more play to it than fans might initially suspect.It would be hard to overstate the degree to which I’ve become addicted to video games during the pandemic. The best one is the ability to barricade doors, though, which offers an extra bit of roleplaying potential for those who don't just want to pit a zombie horde against their Dragonborn.
There are some really nice subtle touches in this mod, too. The player gets to control how the zombie outbreak plays out, and in a sandbox world like Skyrim, that means untold amounts of chaos and violence. This mod offers a variety of different zombie outbreak scenarios, each with different settings that can be customized at any time. That's what 28 Days and a Bit 5 – Zombie Mutation is for. Sure, there are Draugr basically everywhere, and a few quests that are concerned with necromancy, but there's nothing like a full-fledged zombie breakout waiting in the wings, just underneath the surface of Skyrim's world. Another popular fiction trope that Skyrim only touches the edges of, however, is the zombie.
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