State of Decay 3 lives on after studio's separation from Xbox, with a closed beta promised for this year

State of Decay 3 lives on after studio's separation from Xbox, with a closed beta promised for this year Shambles. Undead Labs has announced that a closed State of Decay 3 beta is coming sometime in 2026, weeks after the studio separated from Xbox. The zombie infested threequel has been available to a limited number of people via a series of closed alpha playtests that began this April, but the doors to the apocalypse are swinging ever so slightly open with closed beta playtests set to begin before the year ends, the studio revealed in a new Xbox Wire blog post. Should you want to spill your own guts to the team, you can register interest for the upcoming State of Decay 3 beta before the game launches sometime in 2027 on PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S.