Zeno Clash
Fair · Shooter · 2009
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $9.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.8h
- Value
- $2.63/hr
- Reviews
- 86% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, 128 MB, Shader model 2.0, ATI 9600, NVidia 6600 or better, 3 GB of storage. Windows only.
Zeno Clash is an action/fighting game set in a punk fantasy world. The game is played from a first person perspective and the combat is generally up close and brutal. Experience a deep storyline set in a fantastic world.
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The value story
January 2013 is where it bottomed out, at $0.99. It has been discounted 77 times in the 14 years tracked here, typically at 80 percent off, with about 7 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 13 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 7 weeks.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 23 percent on value. It is better reviewed than 74 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Paint the Town Red ($19.99, scores 90) beats it on value, while it beats Zeno Clash 2 ($14.99, scores 42).
Critics scored it 77. Players sit 9 points higher at 86 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
Steam's global achievement data says about 2 percent of players ever finish it. On a 3.8-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 368 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 71 percent of the 354 reviews written there were positive, against 86 percent overall, and those are 16 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 3.8 hours; clearing it takes 9, which is 2.3 times the campaign.
The drop-off
46% start to 2% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 3.8-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
12 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
what a weird little romp. probably best to play on controller, i played on kb+m and the controls were agonizing at times, especially with the locking on.
i got this on a whim during the summer sale, and it was pretty fun ♥♥♥ insane story and goofy voice acting and dialogue beautiful visuals, unique design, and art style, the did good for a seemingly small budget the combat is pretty though it can be jank at times with the lock on and camera which is really frustrating when the enemies use guns so you need to knock it out of their hands speaking of which sometimes...
I've had a CD release of this game from probably around 2011 or so but for no particular reason never sat down to play it, despite the concept and screenshots on the box looking intriguing. Time to scratch this one off my backlog. Real weird and fun world, kind of like some punk-fantasy with pre-human earth stuff everywhere (humanoid megatheria and deinotheria as enemies, araucaria trees growing around, stuff like...
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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Zeno Clash scores 61/100 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/22200/zeno-clashThe 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 4, price as of Sep 24.
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