Zombie Cure Lab
Skip · Strategy · 2025
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 22, under the fair line, at $24.99.
- Length
- 35h 150h to 100%
- Value
- $0.71/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 467 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 6 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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About the game
In a world overrun by the undead, build a lab to fight back with science. Manage survivors, gather vital resources, and turn zombies into allies. Defend your base and research the cure to reclaim humanity.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4GB) // AMD Radeon RX 480 (8GB), 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 27 times in the 4 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 77 percent. Among the games that feel like it, The Crust ($31.99, scores 41) beats it on value, while it beats Endzone 2 ($7.49, scores 17).
More about Zombie Cure Lab
This site sampled 393 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written December 2022 to August 2026.
35 hours to finish it, 150 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 4.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
90% start to 1% 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
Players
- Players online
- 3 when we last checked, on Oct 6, 01:52 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
O jogo é legal, uma boa jogabilidade e tem uma proposta interessante, mas, considerando o estado do jogo, bugs que existem há bastante tempo e o discord deles que, não só não tem postagem nova dos devs há meses, mas também tá entupido de spam, esse jogo tá completamente abandonado. Nem perca seu tempo.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I was really excited about the premise of this game, a combination of tower defence, research, and colinization. I ended up frustrated. The early game is cute and has a gentle learning curve. The late game is really buggy and missing optimization. I just cured my first human and the congratulations screen actually says "We are still in early access, more features are coming." I was looking forward to setting up a...
Please Update game. I love this game and I can not find more game same this game.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zombie Cure Lab scores 22/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/1620290/zombie-cure-labReviews 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 Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.