DREADZONE
Skip · Action · 2025 · Early Access
The verdict
SKIP IT.
The value isn't there at $24.99.
- Reviews
- 51% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 16 GB of memory, Nvidia RTX-2060 or AMD RX-6600XT, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
Dreadzone is a survival game set in a deadly quarantine zone. Scavenge for resources, craft tools, build shelter, and survive against dangerous animals, zombies, mutants, and other survivors. Explore the zone where desperation drives everyone to do whatever it takes to survive.
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.
- How long it takes to beat isn't in our data. The score is docked for the missing length.
The value story
It has never been cheaper than $17.99. That was September 2026. It has been discounted 12 times in the 14 months tracked here, typically at 20 percent off, with about 5 weeks between sales. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 3 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
It is pricier than 94 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. The games it most resembles do better on the same math. Breakwaters: Crystal Tides ($19.99, scores 6) and TerraTech Worlds ($29.99, scores 7) both outscore it.
This site sampled 800 of its Steam-purchase reviews; 78 were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written July 2025 to August 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 9 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 3,221 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 13 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 4 of the 78 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 35 percent of the 655 reviews written there were positive, against 51 percent overall, and those are 57 percent of everything written about it.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).
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DREADZONE scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip). Length is not in our data, so the score is docked. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3484300/dreadzoneThe 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, price as of Sep 22.
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