Z.I.O.N.

Z.I.O.N.

Skip · Shooter · 2016

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 0, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
2.1h
Value
$2.38/hr
Reviews
39% of 327 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 6 of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 207 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
Value$2.38/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews39% of 327 reviews, scored as 44%
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds1 of 58 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

Z.I.O.N. - First-person shooter in a post-apocalyptic setting, where robotic creatures take over the planet and Z.I.O.N. group agents are trying to save the world.
Description from the Steam store page.
Minimum specs

Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, nVidia GeForce 610M 1 gb ram, 8 GB of storage. Windows only.

The value story

It has been discounted 76 times in the 10 years tracked here. The median cut across all of them is 90 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 30 weeks ago.

It is cheaper than 78 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 98 percent. It scores the same as GRAVEN, which costs $24.99. This one is $4.99.

What players say

I am 32 years old. My ex-wife and I have a daughter together, and we adopted our son together. Both are now 4 years old. When we were going through our separation, I felt lost and unhappy. I was self-destructive. One day, I was so angry with everything spiraling out of control that I punched a concrete wall in a moment of overwhelming emotion. This resulted in breaking my fifth metacarpal in my right hand-the hand I...
ZubumafuRecommendedafter 3.8hJan 2024Read on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic), achievement curve (Steam global achievements).

Cite this score

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Z.I.O.N. scores 0/100 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/466890/z-i-o-n
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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 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.

Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperVGstudio
PublisherVGstudio
GenreShooter
Released2016
Players150Kowners, SteamSpy estimate