Zack Zero
Skip · Action · 2013
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 16, under the fair line, at $2.99.
- Length
- 3.9h 6.6h to 100%
- Value
- $0.77/hr
- Reviews
- 65% of 420 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 3975 days ago.
- 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
Zack Zero takes you on an action-packed platform adventure with incredible 3D graphics and the playability and entertainment of classic 2D games. Help Zack Zero save his beloved Marlene, kidnapped by the evil Zulrog in an effort to obtain the powerful substance that will allow him to travel back in time.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Nvidia 8600 GT 512 MB Video Card or AMD equivalent, 4 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
12 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 80 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 568 weeks ago.
It is cheaper than 74 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 87 percent. Among the games that feel like it, DEVIATOR ($6.99, scores 17) beats it on value, while it beats Pankapu ($11.99, scores 12).
More about Zack Zero
Steam's global achievement data puts about 5 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. On a 3.9-hour game, the hours short of it still count in its price per hour.
The drop-off
18% start to 5% finishSteam counts fewer than one in ten of its players at the ending achievement. Steam global achievements
What players say
Zack Zero, Bugged Hero The game looks awesome, especially for an indie title...but the basic gameplay and storyline are actually pretty bland. The worst part of the game though is that there are a lot of glitches and bugs...you can find yourself saved to an unwinnable save point, stuck in the back / foreground, or just have the textures go haywire on you. If you find it on a BIG sale (I picked it up 90% off), it may...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
This game is a smacking drop of fluid in a sacrificed raging lions behind lowering a skull inside it
Whoever hid this little masterpiece from me owes me emotional compensation. At first glance it looks like one of those old-school side-scrolling platformers your childhood remembers with suspiciously perfect nostalgia. You know the type. Run. Jump. Punch things. Collect shiny nonsense. Question your life whenever spikes appear. Simple. Except... Zack Zero isn't pretending to be retro. It grabs the entire golden age...
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No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zack Zero scores 16/100 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/234290/zack-zeroReviews 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 29, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.