inZOI
Skip · Strategy · 2025 · Early Access
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $39.99.
- Length
- 10.7h
- Value
- $3.74/hr
- Reviews
- 77% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 12 GB of memory, NVIDIA RTX 2060 (6G VRAM), AMD Radeon RX 5600 XT (6G VRAM), 40 GB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.
"Every life becomes a story" Create your unique story by controlling and observing the lives of 'Zois'. Customize characters and build houses using inZOI's easy-to-use tools to live the life of your dreams and experience the different emotions of life created by its deep and detailed simulation.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
August 2025 is where it bottomed out, at $31.99. 3 discounts in the 1 year on record. They run about 20 percent off, roughly 56 weeks apart.
Value puts it in the top 42 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 98 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 69 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Streamer Life Simulator ($19.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Internet Cafe Simulator 2 ($19.99, scores 27).
41 of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2026 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 2,864 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 192 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 9 of the 41 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 59 percent of the 3,864 reviews written there were positive, against 77 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
Players
1,039 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
I've never played Sims. I know, I avoided it like the plague for 30 years now but this I like. it looked more gentle, less pressure, more authentic to life than a cartoon. So i'm having fun living in my own little world.
i like it. like the sims, but more modern? id highly reccomend checking it out for atleast the 2 hour refund window!
Inzoi: Life Sim in Need of Polish - Early Access Review Verdict: Inzoi, the new life simulation game from Krafton, shows incredible potential and justifies its price point for enthusiasts eager to jump into a fresh take on the genre. However, as an Early Access title released on March 28, 2025, it undeniably requires significant work to reach its full potential and stand confidently as a true competitor in the...
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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inZOI scores 33/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2456740/inzoiThe 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 Aug 2, price as of Sep 23.
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