ZERO PROTOCOL
Fair · Shooter · 2024
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $11.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 3.8h 4.6h to 100%
- Value
- $3.16/hr
- Reviews
- 83% of 635 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 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
In this immersive sci-fi thriller, you will experience the atmosphere of classic 3D games as you solve puzzles, follow an intriguing non-linear storyline, and engage in battles with monsters.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 512 MB graphics card with WebGL support. 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 40 percent, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. Among the games that feel like it, Resident Evil 7 Biohazard ($19.99, scores 74) beats it on value, while it beats Backrooms: Lost Tape ($15.99, scores 42).
More about ZERO PROTOCOL
Steam's global achievement data puts 25 percent of players at this game's ending achievement. The median game this site can measure sits at 15. Of the 374 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 5 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written September 2024 to August 2026.
The drop-off
55% start to 25% finishSteam counts a larger share of its players at the ending achievement than it does for most games this site can measure. Steam global achievements
Players
- Players online
- 1 when we last checked, on Sep 28, 20:55 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Quick, simple and kind of tedious most of the time. The enemies are really really bad. The sprites do not telegraph their attacks properly, meaning you basically just have to keep distance and unload, issue is, a lot of enemies are put right behind closed doors, behind corners and so on. The enemy placement is honestly scummy most of the time. The atmosphere is great, the story COULD be great, if it was expanded on...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
ZERO PROTOCOL scores 53/100 on the BANG Score (fair value) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/2840250/zero-protocolReviews 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.