‘The game was in a Word document’: State of Decay 3’s 2020 announce trailer was just a concept, studio head says

The original announce trailer for State of Decay 3 was just a concept trailer, because work on the game itself hadn’t even started. That’s according to Undead Labs studio head Philip Holt, who revealed on the Sunny Games podcast that the reveal trailer shown during an Xbox Showcase in July 2020 was purely designed to announce that the game was coming, because at that time there was no game to speak of. When asked if the zombie deer that featured in that trailer would be appearing in State of Decay 3, Holt said they wouldn’t be in the game because the trailer was just experimenting with ideas for a game that hadn’t actually started development yet. Read More...

Apr 7, 2026 - 19:10

‘The game was in a Word document’: State of Decay 3’s 2020 announce trailer was just a concept, studio head says

The original announce trailer for State of Decay 3 was just a concept trailer, because work on the game itself hadn’t even started.

That’s according to Undead Labs studio head Philip Holt, who revealed on the Sunny Games podcast that the reveal trailer shown during an Xbox Showcase in July 2020 was purely designed to announce that the game was coming, because at that time there was no game to speak of.

When asked if the zombie deer that featured in that trailer would be appearing in State of Decay 3, Holt said they wouldn’t be in the game because the trailer was just experimenting with ideas for a game that hadn’t actually started development yet.

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