Z
Skip · Action · 2014
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 42, under the fair line, at $6.99.
- Cost per hourA
- $1.21/hr
- Reviews▼
- 76% of 1,484
- Genre rank
- Top 23% Action
Holding it back: Reviews
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 5.8h
- To 100%
- 6.6h 1.1x the story
- Achievements
- 25
Price and sales
- Sales
- 85 on record
- Typical cut
- 75% off
- Steam low
- $0.69 June 2017
- Sale every
- 38d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 6 now
- Cheaper than
- 43% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 67% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
51% start to 11% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
85 discounts in the 12 years on record, a median of 75 percent off across all of them, roughly 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 23 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 67 percent of its genre. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Battlezone 98 Redux ($19.99, scores 71) and Dungeon Keeper™ 2 ($4.99, scores 84) both outscore it.
More about Z
This site sampled 405 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 1 was written by a buyer who refunded it, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to November 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 65 percent of the 381 reviews written there were positive, against 76 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last discount ended 31 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
Well throw away nowadays standards, for the time when this originally released it's quite a complete game considering all the obscure crap from that time period, i love the RTS action and the silly jokes in the story. Overall a great experience to relive in 2026.
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
One of the best RTS of its time, and never really got expanded upon (Properly/Successfully). Good Mechanics that teaches the importance of pushing for map control over Turtling. Map Control = More Build speed = More units = more aggression = more winning. A Game very much based on Momentum, and not to stand still. Yet you still have to be tactical in your choices. Sneak around and damage factories, go straight for...
Probably better off playing the original through DOSBox. Everything is so sluggish. opposite of a tight old dos-game. Even the main menu has delays after clicking and is generally unresponsive. And what's up with the filtering? Who filters pixel art like this? Should be considered a war crime.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
“Z”, the classic Real Time Strategy Game by the Bitmap Brothers. Fans of this classic strategy title are in for a real treat. Everything is in here from the terrific comedy cut scenes to the frantic game play making this is the definitive version of Z.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, Intel GMA 950 GeForce 7 Series Radeon X1000 series, 399 MB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Z scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/275530/zReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.