World War Z
Fair · Shooter · 2021
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
NO RUSH.
Fair at $29.99. Buy it if you want it.
- Length
- 7.4h
- Value
- $4.05/hr
- Reviews
- 82% positive
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Minimum on the Steam store: 8 GB of memory, AMD R7-240 / GForce 650Ti / Intel 630, 50 GB of storage. Windows only.
World War Z is a heart-pounding coop third-person shooter for up to 4 players featuring massive swarms of hundreds of zombies, focused on fast-paced, gruesomely spectacular action.
What drives the score
How to read this
Every input gets a grade, S to D, read from the buyer's side. The score is multiplicative, so an input only counts as raising when it sits near the top of its own scale. Anything with real room left is holding the score back, because that room is the gap to 100. ▲ marks a lift, ▼ a drag or a dock, ? an input we do not have, • a fact this genre's score does not use. The exact weights stay secret.
The value story
The lowest price on record is $7.49, set in March 2026. Its cuts run 67 percent off as a rule. There have been 30 in the 3 years tracked, about 5 weeks apart. Today it is at full price. The last sale was about 6 weeks ago, and on this game's rhythm the next one tends to arrive within 5 weeks.
Value puts it in the top 18 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 88 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 65 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Codename CURE (free, scores 67) beats it on value, while it beats Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army ($14.99, scores 60).
Steam's global achievement data says under 1 percent of players ever finish it. On a 7.4-hour game, that is a lot of paid-for hours most people never see. Of the 800 Steam-purchase reviews this site sampled, 38 come from buyers who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written March 2026 to September 2026. That is more refunded reviewers than 8 in 10 paid games this site has sampled to the same depth, and among the 725 games in its genre sampled this deeply, 50 have a larger share. The typical game sits near 5 in 1,000, so the score docks it. 2 of the 38 refunded reviewers were past Valve's two-hour window when they wrote the review. Inside the two-hour refund window, 49 percent of the 2,311 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 9 percent of everything written about it.
Finishing takes 7.4 hours; clearing it takes 47, which is 6.4 times the campaign.
5 years after release it still had 1.7K people in it at once.
The drop-off
82% start to <1% finishMost players never reach the end. On a 7.4-hour game, that's a lot you pay for and may never use. Steam global achievements
Players
1,663 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
World War Z is a great multiplayer shooter. I enjoyed it very much. Pros [*] Play with other players or with AI bots [*] Jump into games at any time without waiting in a lobby [*] Extensive skill trees to upgrade your weapons [*] 8 distinct character classes [*] Deep upgrade trees for each character [*] Horde mode [*] Both PvE and PvP modes [*] Impressive zombie swarm technology with hundreds of enemies on screen at...
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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World War Z scores 65/100 on the BANG Score (fair value). The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/699130/world-war-zThe 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 14, price as of Sep 24.
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