State of Decay sequel would be on Xbox One

After the significant success we reported earlier, Jeff Strain told Polygon that a State of Decay sequel would be on Xbox One.

If we do a full sequel to the game, it wouldn’t be on currently existing hardware. We don’t know what the future of State of Decay is right now, the IP, the franchise… Clearly if there’s a full sequel, it would be on Xbox One. But I can’t comment beyond that.

The first State of Decay DLC is not very far anyway, and it will be a pure survival sandbox mode, as explained by Strain. Microsoft will decide if the content is free or not, however.

The game is basically a giant simulation of zombies versus humans. The narrative we tell gives you some context and drives you through the experience, and there is a beginning, middle and an end. I think people take between 15 and 25 hours to play the entire game, and we found that after the end players are immediately restarting. Every playthrough is different, but the story is the same every time. After they finish the game they just want to experience the game in pure sandbox mode, focusing on roaming the world and not worry about completing the story. We’re going to make that happen.