Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition

Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition

Skip · Action · 2017

Steam Deck Playable

The verdict

SKIP IT.

It scores 42, under the fair line, at $4.99.

Length
0.5h
Value
$9.98/hr
Reviews
82% positive
Reviews or length hold it below the tiers even at a deep discount.
Watch this gameOne alert when it is worth buying.
Length
0.5h
main story (HowLongToBeat)
Completionist
0.9h
100% (HowLongToBeat)
$/hr
$9.98
price ÷ main-story length
Price
$4.99
as of Oct 1
Reviews
82%
1,942 reviews, as of Sep 26
Players
150K
owners, SteamSpy estimate
Released
2017

Minimum on the Steam store: 512 MB of memory, Compatible with DirectX 9, 102 MB of storage. Windows only.

Blackout Z' is a super fast top-down view shooter where you face ZOMBIES, SAWS and the DARK. Do you have what it takes to have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse with only your gun and an old flashlight?
Description from the Steam store page.

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$9.98/hr
Price per hour of game. It moves the score inside the ceiling reviews set
Reviews82% positive
Gates the score. Weak reviews cap it, and nothing reaches BANGER without strong ones
For context
Length0.5 hours
How much game you get. Hours feed the value per dollar
Reach150K+ owners
How many own it, by SteamSpy's estimate (an old snapshot). Context here: this game's score does not use it
MonetizationNot known
No monetization record for this game, so nothing is assumed either way
Refunds0 of 254 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

The value story

November 2022 is where it bottomed out, at $0.28. It has been discounted 77 times in the 9 years tracked here, typically at 51 percent off, with about 6 weeks between sales.

On value it sits in the top 24 percent of its genre. It is better reviewed than 85 percent of its genre. Among the games that feel like it, Cyberhunt ($4.99, scores 57) beats it on value, while it beats FatalZone ($6.99, scores 17).

This site sampled 254 of its Steam-purchase reviews; none were written by buyers who refunded it, sampled from reviews written March 2020 to September 2026. Inside the two-hour refund window, 83 percent of the 207 reviews written there were positive, against 82 percent overall, and those are 64 percent of everything written about it.

The drop-off

73% start to 24% rarest
050100rarestfirst achievement

No 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 online when we last checked, on Sep 26, 00:49 UTC.

Player counts from the Steam Web API.

What players say

Short, simple, and fast, but unfortunately there's just not much fun here. It's a poorly made top-down shooter and even for a quick mindless game it gets boring almost immediately.
SteveHybridNot recommendedafter 29h1 found this helpfulRead on Steam

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

No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).

Cite this score

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Blackout Z: Slaughterhouse Edition scores 42/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 2, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/729660/blackout-z-slaughterhouse-edition
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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 26, price as of Oct 1.

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Tags

Steam user tags as SteamSpy recorded them

Details

DeveloperNukGames
PublisherNukGames
GenreAction
Released2017
Achievements28