Another combatant is preparing to enter the zombie survival game arena, and despite my general disinterest in this genre — and more specifically, the type of people games like DayZ and Rust tend to attract — I can’t help but be intrigued by what Survive the Nights has to offer. It looks to be more about surviving against its undead denizens, rather than other players. As the title would suggest, the world gets more dangerous when the sun goes down.

Thankfully, you’re resourceful, or at least you’ll need to be in order to survive the nights.

You can scavenge for supplies, including parts for traps that can be laid to ambush unsuspecting passersby. The extra level of strategy that’s been added to each encounter is what has me most interested in what largely looks like another game that’s trying to take a bite out of the tasty pie DayZ has been enjoying for some time now. That’s not necessarily a bad thing, competition is healthy, and with so many similarly themed games on the way (H1Z1, Miscreated) a simple copy/paste won’t do.

The debut trailer for Survive the Nights introduces a few neat ideas, though I do hope there’s even more to it that the developer either isn’t ready to show off yet or wants to save for later.

For more on Survive the Nights, feel free to follow it on Steam Greenlight.