Zombo Buster Advance
Fair · Strategy · 2020
The verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $4.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 6.7h 23.7h to 100%
- Value
- $0.74/hr
- Reviews
- 82% of 249 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in 5 of its last 8 seasonal sales.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
Grades run S to D, read from the buyer's side. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
About the game
Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defense game taking place inside buildings with interchangeable elevators. Deploy, swap and shoot like a boss!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, OpenGL 3.0 compliant with 512MB of video RAM, 1 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.99, set in March 2026. It has been discounted 11 times in the 3 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 75 percent, about 13 weeks apart.
On value it sits in the top 10 percent of its genre. It is cheaper than 63 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 79 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Atom Zombie Smasher ($9.99, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Infectonator: Survivors ($9.99, scores 17).
More about Zombo Buster Advance
Finishing takes 6.7 hours; clearing it takes 24, which is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to 13% rarestNo achievement in this game marks the ending, so there is no finish rate. The curve runs from the most-unlocked achievement to the rarest, and its shape is where players stop. Steam global achievements
What players say
Zombo Buster Advance is a tightly designed strategy game that takes familiar tower defense ideas and reframes them through compact, vertical arenas that emphasize movement, timing, and tactical flexibility. Developed and published by FIREBEAST, the game places players inside multi-floor buildings overrun by zombies, where survival depends less on static placement and more on your ability to adapt to rapidly shifting...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
Great game! It's far more fun than the screenshots might imply. The game is very well-balanced in every aspect. Troops, enemies, upgrades. Very addictive and lots of fun!
Nothing special! Kinda OK, but also kinda boring. Gameplay is a bit like Plants vs Zombies and you can move your units up/down with the elevator. Fun concept in itself, but it doesn't quite deliver. I would say this game is a middle thumb, but I still lean more towards not recommending it. There are several things I really didn't like: - Gameplay is very slow paced and you can't speed up time. - Frequent zombie...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zombo Buster Advance scores 58/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1302780/zombo-buster-advanceReviews set the ceiling, and price against real length moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.