Project Zomboid
BANGER · RPG · 2013 · Early Access
Steam Deck VerifiedThe verdict
BUY IT.
A BANGER at $24.99.
- Length
- 59h
- Value
- $0.42/hr
- Reviews
- 94% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, 10 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $8.99. That was October 2014. Its cuts run 33 percent off as a rule. There have been 64 in the 13 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 93 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 98 percent. It outscores the games it most resembles, including Miscreated ($29.99, scores 11) and Night of the Dead ($29.99, scores 44).
7 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written in August 2026. That is fewer refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,416 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 2,770 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 64 percent of the 10,653 reviews written there were positive, against 94 percent overall, and those are 3 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 59 hours; clearing it takes 433, which is 7.3 times the campaign.
Still 22.9K concurrent players, 13 years in.
Valve rates it Steam Deck Verified, so it runs on the handheld without fiddling.
Players
22.9K players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
- Spawn in - Loot house - Loot next house - House alarm goes off - Panic - Run into neighbors house bathroom - Get absolutely ravaged by a horde of 20 zombies holding an orgy on the toilet - New Character I love this game.
Spawn, sturggle, learn, die, spawn again, die, die, die ,die. Because of previous deaths, you learn new lessons each time. Great game.
overall i give this game a 10/10 project zomboid is easily one of the best zombie survival games ever made. it doesn't hold your hand, and every decision matters. whether you're scavenging for food, fortifying a base, or simply trying to survive another day, the game constantly keeps you on the edge of your seat. every death feels like it was your own mistake you could have easily prevented, which makes surviving...
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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Project Zomboid scores 87/100 on the BANG Score (a BANGER). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/108600/project-zomboidThe BANG Score is one number for value, 0 to 100: price against how it reviews and how long it was built to be. It answers the money question and stops there; whether the game is for you is still your call.
Reviews set the ceiling and price moves you inside it, so a cheap game that reviews badly cannot climb. Ratings from few reviewers are shrunk toward the middle, so 100 percent from nine people does not outrank 96 percent from ninety thousand. Length comes from HowLongToBeat where it can be matched, measured against a per-genre floor so a five-hour narrative game is judged against other narrative games rather than against a sixty-hour RPG. Where no verified length exists the score says so and carries a dock, because the biggest input is then a guess. The full method, including where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Aug 3, price as of Sep 24.
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