March of the Living

March of the Living

Skip · Roguelike · 2016

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 25, under the fair line, at $14.99.

Length
1.9h
Value
$7.89/hr
Reviews
71% of 536 positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.

Buy now or wait

Discounted in 4 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 350 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

Holding it back
Reviews71% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
Reach10K+ owners
How many own it and play it, by SteamSpy's estimates (an old snapshot), the biggest driver for a game with no ending
For context
Value$7.89/hr
Price per hour of game. This genre scores on player counts instead
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 40 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

Roguelike-like inspired by FTL and popular zombie fiction. Guide a group of survivors to a rumoured safe haven.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 2 GB of memory, 604 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS.

The value story

60 discounts in the 11 years on record, a median of 50 percent off across all of them, roughly 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 50 weeks ago.

It is pricier than 67 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 80 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Dead Age 2: The Zombie Survival RPG ($17.99, scores 40) beats it on value, while it beats FatalZone ($6.99, scores 17).

More about March of the Living

The press gave it 63; the people who bought it give it 71 percent. An 8-point gap in the buyer's favour.

The drop-off

14% start to 1% finish
050100rarestfirst achievement

A game like this has no single ending, so its score does not use the finish rate. The curve shows where players stop. Steam global achievements

Players

Players online
1 when we last checked, on Oct 13, 20:52 UTC

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

I want to love this game, and I think it could be pretty compelling after some balance tweaks to the weapons, and a lot more nuance to the encounters. More information when making choices. I'm not a hammer expert, but it really hurts my immersion when I miss hitting a slow, shambling zombie with a hammer. At night, with a 60% percent chance to hit, it's not crazy to miss an attack, 4, 5, 6 times, which really slows...
RustedNot recommendedafter 9.7hJan 2024Read on Steam

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

Cite this score

BANG Score badge
March of the Living scores 25/100 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/458000/march-of-the-living
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Reviews set the ceiling, and the size of the player base moves the BANG Score inside it. How it works, and where it is weak → Steam reviews as of Sep 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Critics vs players+8
Critics63
Players71
Metacritic critics · 536 Steam player reviews

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperMachine 22
PublisherCreaky Corpse Ltd
GenreRoguelike
Released2016
Players10Kowners, SteamSpy estimate
Achievements14