Infestation: The New Z
Skip · Multiplayer · 2016
Steam Deck UnsupportedThe verdict
SKIP IT.
The reviews do not carry it. What it costs you is time.
- PriceS
- Free to play
- Reviews▼
- 54% of 33,901
- Genre rank
- Top 100% Multiplayer
Holding it back: Reviews, DRM
Time and effort
- Achievements
- 69
Players and genre
- Online
- 125 now
- Better reviewed
- 6% of its genre
Price and player charts
The drop-off
22% start to <1% rarestA 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
The value story
The value story
It is less well reviewed than 94 percent of its genre. Mortal Online (free, scores 2) outscores it, and so does Z1 Battle Royale (free, scores 1). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
It is still busy. 125 players were online when we last checked, on Nov 5, 23:45 UTC, across 35 days of weekly checks.
More about Infestation: The New Z
Inside the two-hour refund window, 19 percent of the 702 reviews written there were positive, against 54 percent overall, and those are 32 percent of everything written about it.
Buy now or wait
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
About the game
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, NVIDIA GeForce GTX 465 / ATI Radeon TM HD 6870, 15 GB of storage. Windows only.
No data upstream: length (HowLongToBeat), critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Infestation: The New Z scores 0/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Nov 8, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/555570/infestation-the-new-zReviews 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 Nov 4. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.