Atom Zombie Smasher
Worth it · Strategy · 2011
The verdict
BUY IT.
Worth it at $9.99.
- Length
- 4.2h
- Value
- $2.38/hr
- Reviews
- 90% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, 60MB OpenGL-compatible, 61 MB of storage. Runs on Windows, macOS, Linux.
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.
What drives the score
How to read this
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The value story
It has never been cheaper than $1.99. That was October 2013. Its cuts run 50 percent off as a rule. There have been 61 in the 14 years tracked, about 8 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 15 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 8 weeks.
On value it sits in the top 1 percent of its genre. It is pricier than 70 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 Rise of Legions (free, scores 58).
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 260 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to August 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 66 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, 25 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 6.0 times the campaign.
The drop-off
63% start to 1% rarestNo 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
Players
1 players at peak in the last day.
The chart appears once this game has been counted more than once.Player counts via SteamSpy.
What players say
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.
At this point, its a classic. I've never stopped randomly thinking of this game over the years. its worth your money and time.
Player reviews from Steam: the most helpful all-time, plus the newest that clear the same quality bar, with the hours each player had put in when they wrote it. The mix of Recommended and Not recommended follows the game's Steam ratio. Rotates daily. Opinions are theirs.
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Atom Zombie Smasher scores 79/100 on the BANG Score (worth it). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/55040/atom-zombie-smasherThe 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 Sep 4, price as of Sep 24.
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