Zavod

Zavod

Skip · Narrative · 2025 · Early Access

The verdict

WAIT.

It has sold at a worth-it price before.

Today

$4.99Skip

On its price record

$0.63Worth it

Length
0.2h
Value
$24.95/hr
Reviews
92% of 440 positive
It needs 87% off ($0.63) to be worth it, though reviews keep it under BANGER.
Watch this gameOne alert at $0.63 or less.

Buy now or wait

Next discount: likely in the Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4, at about $3.49 (30% off). Calls like this were right 89% of the time in a backtest over 70 weeks.

Discounted in each of its last 6 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

Raising the score
Reviews92% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones Scored as 90% after the small-sample adjustment
Holding it back
Value$24.95/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Early accessUnfinished
Still in development, a small confidence discount until 1.0
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 333 reviews
Steam-purchase reviews sampled whose writer refunded the game. Nothing is docked
AI contentNone disclosed
From the developer's own Steam disclosure. No disclosure is not proof of none, so it does not move the score

About the game

The visual novel "Zavod" is an adventure that will take you to the industrial and factory everyday life of ordinary workers.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: DirectX 9 compatible. Windows only.

The value story

Across all 19 discounts in the 4 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 9 days ago.

Value puts it in the top 40 percent of the games it competes with. It is cheaper than 70 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 91 percent. Among the games that feel like it, GTTOD ($29.99, scores 63) beats it on value, while it beats Astrometica ($19.99, scores 31).

More about Zavod

Of the 333 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 1 comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written February 2025 to August 2026.

The drop-off

55% start to 23% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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

What players say

Sir a russian VN hit the market. Yes. It's well made. All scenes dubbed. Yes. It's USSR. Kind of isekai. No. He works on a lathe. He's broke. Yes. It's descriptive. I learned soldering. Yes. Lotta girls. A lot. No, no. It's peak, I'm afraid.
muffunRecommendedafter 17h8 found this helpfulearly accessRead on Steam

Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
Zavod scores 38/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/3487340/zavod
Embed the live badge

Reviews 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 29, price as of Oct 19. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperGendocik
PublisherGendocik
GenreNarrative
Released2025
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements12