Zafehouse: Diaries
Skip · Roguelike · 2013
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 21, under the fair line, at $1.99.
- Length
- 7.8h
- Value
- $0.26/hr
- Reviews
- 68% of 442 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4. Calls like this were right 83% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
How to read this
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About the game
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, DirectX 9.0c compliant video card with 512MB RAM, 379 MB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
73 discounts in the 13 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 7 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
It is cheaper than 96 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 86 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Dead Age ($14.99, scores 57) and Dead In Vinland ($1.99, scores 49) both outscore it.
The drop-off
12% 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
What players say
A text-based adventure-style survival horror management game where you are the one running this monkey farm! PROS + Cheap and compact + Generally fair but unforgiving difficulty + Minimalistic yet effective sound design + Clever, immersive TTRPG-inspired interface + Infinite replayability thanks randomly-generated playthroughs + Built-in editor to create your own custom survivours and adventures + Highly-engaging...
1 more review, not recommended
No matter what you do, your people will fight with each other. Really its more like dysfunctional relationship simulator.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zafehouse: Diaries scores 21/100 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/249360/zafehouse-diariesReviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base 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.