Yet Another Zombie Defense
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
PLAY IT.
Worth it at free.
- Length
- 1.6h
- Price
- Free to play
- Reviews
- 87% positive
Minimum on the Steam store: 1 GB of memory, Shader Model 3.0 compatible, 51 MB of storage. Windows only.
Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.
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
Value puts it in the top 14 percent of the games it competes with. It is better reviewed than 75 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, CS2D (free, scores 79) beats it on value, while it beats Zombie Defense (free, scores 60).
Inside the two-hour refund window, 82 percent of the 3,808 reviews written there were positive, against 87 percent overall, and those are 50 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 1.6 hours; clearing it takes 4, which is 2.6 times the campaign.
It is still busy. 15 players were in it at once at the last check, across 81 days of tracking.
The drop-off
64% start to 6% 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
15 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
Unironically a good time waster from the xbox arcade days. A simple as a zombie defense game could be.
It's a nice game that's free and a great time waster. If you have some friends who are like "What we playin?" you can suggest this one. It's not too bad to get 100% achieves either, I mean it took me "4 hours" but most of that time was spent just running in the background as I ate hot chips and listened to Darth Vader Fart compilations. This game's fun with friends but very lonely if you're by yourself.
Doesn't work on Linux, even with up to date proton. Collision detection is horrendous. It made it a pain, to get the survive 10 days with no damage achievement, although I eventually got a strat that got me to day 18 before taking first damage. Had to use Windows to complete this game, that I was unable to resume since I switched to Linux 10 years ago. Have to go clean myself with a Brillo pad now.
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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Yet Another Zombie Defense scores 70/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/270550/yet-another-zombie-defenseThe 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.
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