John, The Zombie
Skip · Action · 2017
The verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 6, under the fair line, at $9.99.
- Length
- 5.9h
- Value
- $1.69/hr
- Reviews
- 58% of 225 positive
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Buy now or wait
Not discounted in any of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 1748 days ago.
- Next sale
- Winter Sale, Dec 17 to Jan 4
Sources: IsThereAnyDeal, Valve.
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
About the game
Welcome to Johnwood, a weird and mysterious place where scientists become zombies by accident, hardware stores sell frozen brains, people are hit by cars with no apparent reason and every citizen claims to have seen horses flying!
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA 9800 GT 1GB / AMD HD 4870 1GB (DX 10, 10.1, 11), 6 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 10 discounts in the 9 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 19 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended about 250 weeks ago.
It is pricier than 72 percent of its genre, and less well reviewed than 94 percent. Among the games that feel like it, Ultimate Epic Battle Simulator ($14.99, scores 38) beats it on value, while it beats Dude Simulator 2 ($4.99, scores 2).
More about John, The Zombie
Inside the two-hour refund window, 52 percent of the 117 reviews written there were positive, against 58 percent overall, and those are 66 percent of everything written about it.
The drop-off
70% start to 6% 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
What players say
No, it's not a regular zombie game, in this game, you are the zombie and you learn how to do things, yeah exactly, you gain new abilities from brains that you just ate, and it was a pretty good catch actually. You have to eat them even if you are not willing to do it, but don't worry about that, it's for the best, it's for John and John's cat. I know you, like me, will have a lot of fun playing this game and will...
2 more reviews, 1 not recommended
I appreciate this. We need more creative zombie games like this, Stubbs the Zombie and Dead Rising. It is really ROUGH though so only get it if you love this concept or are looking for a quick, trashy novelty to mess around in for a couple hours.
A funny, janky mess that's entertaining for a few hours, and then you've seen pretty much everything. John the Zombie is an interesting concept, because you actually play as the zombie. The animations, ridiculous carnage, and overall absurdity are comical enough to make the game entertaining for a few hours. Seeing a zombie ride around the map on a horse is certainly something I didn't expect to see. Unfortunately...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
John, The Zombie scores 6/100 on the BANG Score (a skip) as of Oct 19, 2026. The BANG Score rates what a game is worth for the money. Via Steam BANGERS. https://steambangers.com/game/741500/john-the-zombieReviews 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 Oct 2, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.