Is It Still Fun as a Zombie? A First Look at Disbond

Get infected, and you become the one chasing

Disbond is an infection game where players face off against one another. Everyone starts as a human, but after 20 seconds, one player turns into a zombie. Anyone who gets bitten turns next.

As a human, you look for a way to survive. Once infected, you chase the humans who remain. Someone you were holding out alongside a moment ago can suddenly be on the other side.

There are four human classes and four zombie classes. Humans use explosives and obstacles, while zombies have abilities such as faster movement and powerful jumps. I’m curious how much choice you’ll have after getting infected.

Hold your ground, or run for the finish

There are two main modes. In one, you hold a position. In the other, you move toward a destination.

The supplied footage shows players placing props to block passages and moving between high vantage points. Near the end of The Final Stand video, an objective tells the survivors to hold out until a helicopter arrives. I’d like to try both modes and see how defending a doorway compares with finding a route while being chased.

I also want to see whether a spot that looks safe as a human is still hard to reach as a zombie, and how much the game depends on individual shooting versus blocking a route together. It brings back memories of the mods I used to enjoy, but I hope Disbond will give me some new moments to remember, too.

The supplied map images have very different moods. There’s a snow-covered neighborhood, followed by a place where buildings and roads float in midair. These scenes bring to mind Galin’s wish to put fun ahead of realism.

What I want to find out when I play

“As a human and after turning into a zombie,
will I want to play another round?”

That’s what I’m most curious about. I’ll need time on both sides, shooting and chasing, to find out.

1. 01Whether getting infected gives me new things I want to do, and what makes the human and zombie abilities enjoyable.
2. 02How a round spent defending barricades feels compared with an escape round, and what feels familiar or different from the CS zombie mods I remember.
3. 03How easy it is to find a match and play with others when connecting from Korea. I’ll talk about that alongside the actual connection conditions.

More people are making games

It feels as though more people are going beyond playing games to making and developing their own. Some are projects one person has worked on for a long time; others bring together the tastes of a small team. Galin’s email made me want to get to know more of these games, one at a time.

There are more games to discover at Steam Next Fest, too. GameDiscoverCo counted 2,645 demos at the June 2025 event and 4,382 at the June 2026 event, an increase of about 66%. Those are separate figures from this October’s event, but that’s enough games to make choosing what to try a task of its own.

I’d like to pick a game that catches my attention and spend some time with it: hear what its creator found fun enough to build a game around, then share what it was like to play. Disbond looks set to be our first meeting in that series.

We’re getting ready to share our own games, too

At Game Sunakku, we’re also refining web games featuring the Snackgirls characters and getting ready to show them to you. So this email also made me more curious about how it feels to put your own game in front of other people.

We’ll introduce our games here when they’re ready. In the meantime, we plan to play games by other developers and share the ones that stay with us.

This introduction was written before playing, using the developer’s email and publicly available materials. We’ll share our impressions after trying the game. The images and gameplay footage were provided by the developer.