Project Zomboid is early access despite first releasing over 10 years ago - it's a 3/4 view zombie survival game that has a surprising amount of depth for the relatively simple interface and gameplay.
You spawn in a house, gear up with what you find, and try to reclaim the world. Everything is important to keep your character alive, do not stay wet for too long or you might get sick, be careful what foods you eat, make sure you have tweezers in your kit to pull out shards of glass if you climb through a window that you haven't cleared.
There is base building and barricading, there are multiple cities to visit including many fun POIs like prisons and malls and military encampments, it's really a game that you can lose hours with and never ever get to that point of "safe". The jump scares make sense and they will still shock you when clearing unknown buildings.
I have hundreds of hours invested in this game, not all of it idling time like some ...
