Zombie Driver HD
Fair · Shooter · 2012
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 5.2h
- Value
- $1.92/hr
- Reviews
- 84% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 256 MB DirectX 9.0c compatible or better video card with pixelshader 3.0, 2 GB of storage. Windows only.
Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
The lowest price on record is $0.79, set in December 2024. It has been discounted 116 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 4 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 29 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SAS: Zombie Assault 4 (free, scores 61) beats it on value, while it beats Prototype™ ($19.99, scores 49).
Steam's global achievement data says about 9 percent of players ever finish it. On a 5.2-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. This site sampled 385 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 2 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written June 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 70 percent of the 955 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 35 percent of everything written about it.
5.2 hours to finish it, 19 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.6 times the campaign.
The drop-off
75% start to 9% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 5.2-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
5 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
A fantastic GTA clone with zombies, great gameplay, cool graphics and fun soundtrack. The story mode is good, but what makes the game better is the tournament / racing mode. I wish there were more games like this out there.
A somewhat measured "thumbs up" for this top-down, mission-based zombie driving game. The good: The premise is rock simple, but in a good way. Go out into a zombie-infested city, save people and blow up targets and return to base. Quite a few vehicles to collect and augment. Weapon augments are applicable across vehicles. The story snippets are compelling enough, hinting at government conspiracies. Depending on the...
At first, Zombie Driver HD seems like a lot of fun. The story mode has potential, and although it repeatedly relies on the same basic mechanics, it remains enjoyable for a while. Unfortunately, the story feels unfinished, leaving several questions unanswered. Slaughter Mode is a fun addition, but it becomes repetitive rather quickly. The final mode, the tournaments, feels like a rushed addition based on the idea...
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.
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Zombie Driver HD scores 56/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/220820/zombie-driver-hdThe 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 Sep 6, price as of Sep 24.
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