Atom Zombie Smasher
Worth it · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
WAIT.
Worth it today. The Winter Sale opens Dec 17, and it was discounted in 7 of its last 8 seasonal sales; 50% in the Winter Sale 2025.
Today
$9.99Worth it
Typical seasonal cut
$4.9950% offWorth it
- Cost per hour▼
- $2.38/hr
- ReviewsA
- 90% of 2,113
- Critics
- 75 players 15 higher
- Genre rank
- Top 2% Strategy
Holding it back: Cost per hour
Why
Watch this gameOne alert at $4.99 or less.
Time and effort
- Main story
- 4.2h
- To 100%
- 26.2h 6.2x the story
- Achievements
- 40
Price and sales
- Sales
- 62 on record
- Typical cut
- 50% off
- Steam low
- $1.99 October 2013
- Sale every
- 56d last October 2026
Players and genre
- Online
- 4 now
- Cheaper than
- 29% of its genre
- Better reviewed
- 94% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
63% start to 1% rarestThis site could not identify an ending achievement for this game, so there is no finish rate. Steam global achievements
The value story
The value story
Across all 62 discounts in the 14 years tracked, the median cut is 50 percent, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 4 weeks ago.
Its score sits in the top 2 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 71 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Door Kickers ($19.99, scores 92) beats it on value, while it beats AI War 2 ($19.99, scores 66).
More about Atom Zombie Smasher
Critics scored it 75. Players sit 15 points higher at 90 percent, which usually means a game that plays better than it reviews.
This site sampled 265 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to October 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 67 percent of the 144 reviews written there were positive, against 90 percent overall, and those are 13 percent of everything written about it.
4.2 hours to finish it, 26 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.2 times the campaign.
Buy now or wait
Buy now or wait
Last discount ended 31 days ago.
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
What drives the score
Grades: S best, D weakest
S is the best grade and D the weakest, judged as a buyer. ▲ raises the score, ▼ lowers it, ? is an input we do not have, • is a fact this genre's score does not use. How the grades work
What players say
A bit too little choice in what mercenaries you bring and a bit too random but the gameplay loop is fairly satisfying and simple.
2 more reviews
Tower defense and evacuation cross game whose charm holds up today. Not anything else quite like it!
I love this game so much, and I'm not entirely sure why. Something about the simplistic art style, the tight tactical gameplay, and the level of difficulty customization just hits right.
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
About the game
The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 60MB OpenGL-compatible, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
Cite this score
Atom Zombie Smasher scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55040/atom-zombie-smasherReviews 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 Nov 1, price as of Nov 7. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.