Z.O.N.A: Origin
Fair · Shooter · 2025
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $19.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 30h
- Value
- $0.67/hr
- Reviews
- 84% of 588 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Next discount: likely between Oct 27 and Nov 9, at about $9.99 (50% off). Calls like this were right 78% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks. Its own discounts have started about 50 days apart.
Discounted in each of its last 4 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 9 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
Z.O.N.A: Origin is an immersive adventure in a harsh post-apocalyptic world. Dive into a captivating story, explore a stunning open world, avoid dangerous anomalies, and hunt for powerful artifacts. Every choice you make can be decisive in this unpredictable world.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, NVIDIA RTX 1070 / AMD equivalent or greater, 10 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
It has been discounted 23 times in the 2 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 35 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Against its own genre it lands in the top 36 percent on value. It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, SurrounDead ($11.99, scores 78) beats it on value, while it beats CONVRGENCE ($24.99, scores 46).
More about Z.O.N.A: Origin
This site sampled 387 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 7 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written August 2024 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 1,422 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 328 have a larger share. Inside the two-hour refund window, 63 percent of the 147 reviews written there were positive, against 84 percent overall, and those are 28 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
95% start to 2% 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
Players
- Players online
- 6 when we last checked, on Oct 16, 18:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
People often say into the radius is STALKER in vr, but to me this game feels way more suitable for that title It is janky at times (though so far it's nothing that affects the gameplay), but considering this game is the work of one man I'd say it's understandable, and after all games made by bigger studio are way more janky than this If you've played stalker or other extraction shooters before then you'll feel right...
2 more reviews
Too much grass. It's mostly a joke, but maps with lots of tall grass often have such poor visibility that they can feel unfairly frustrating at times. It eventually got annoying enough that I stopped playing a while ago. Overall, the game has a fantastic concept and does an excellent job of creating its own unique atmosphere. That said, the progression and leveling feel somewhat lacking from a gameplay perspective...
Highly recommended! If you like Into The Radius, ConVRgence, S.T.A.L.K.E.R, or other looter shooters with a ton of replayability, this game is for you. Weapons customization is on point, there's always a feeling of high risk high reward. Money is scarce, and resources are too in ZONA. I still have yet to acquire night the very expensive vision goggles as it would break my bank so to speak. If you enjoy managing load...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Z.O.N.A: Origin scores 54/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The developer disclosed AI-generated content on Steam, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2539520/z-o-n-a-originReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.