Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
Worth it · Shooter · 2014
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $6.99.
- Length
- 4.1h
- Value
- $1.70/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, SM3.0 GPU with 768MB memory, mobile/integrated GPUs might not work!, 502 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $0.49. That was November 2016. It has been discounted 89 times in the 12 years tracked here, typically at 75 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 2 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 6 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 10 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 66 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 82 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Crimsonland ($13.99, scores 77) beats it on value, while it beats Greedland ($5.19, scores 60).
Steam's global achievement data puts 36 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 8. None of the 349 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 75 percent of the 610 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 29 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
36% start to 36% finishPeople genuinely stick with this one. Steam global achievements
Players
3 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
A very good top-down zombie game from a small studio. It is quite short, but very engaging, with a well-made gameplay system, a good variety of weapons, a well-balanced difficulty and a story that is enjoyable to follow. There is not much to criticize, especially at its price. Definitely worth playing. 100% Steam Achievements Time: 10 hours Completion Difficulty: 3/10 Playthrough: 2 Missable: Yes Guide Recommended...
Surprisingly good. One of the best games I played in years and I played through it in a single sitting. The final boss was very silly though.
There's nothing particularly wrong with the game and it does show up with deep discounts, but it's just not very interesting. The gameplay feels like a basic formula from 20+ years ago. The story is just some loose monologues between levels. The level art is more polished than average, but it's it's not enough to recommend. I think there has been just so much development in the top-down shooter space that this...
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Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now scores 75/100 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/281920/splatter-zombiecalypse-nowThe 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 Sep 20, price as of Sep 24.
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