Zanki Zero: Last Beginning
Skip · RPG · 2019
Steam Deck PlayableThe verdict
SKIP IT.
It scores 37, under the fair line, at $59.99.
- Length
- 26.3h 91.2h to 100%
- Value
- $2.28/hr
- Reviews
- 77% of 698 positive
Watch this gameOne alert at a price you pick.
Buy now or wait
Discounted in each of its last 8 seasonal sales. Last cut ended 11 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
Explore the ruins, dungeons, and islands in this post-apocalyptic world through the POV of eight protagonists as they fight for survival and search for meaning in their never-ending cycles of life and death.
Minimum specs
Minimum on the Steam store: 4 GB of memory, NVIDIA@ GeForce@ GTX 460 or better, 26 GB of storage. Windows only.
The value story
Across all 50 discounts in the 8 years tracked, the median cut is 80 percent, about 6 weeks apart. Today it is at full price, and its last discount ended 11 days ago.
Value puts it in the top 37 percent of the games it competes with. It is pricier than 99 percent of its genre, and better reviewed than 63 percent. Jesus Christ RPG Trilogy ($9.99, scores 55) outscores it, and so does LISA: The Painful ($19.99, scores 80). Both sit among its closest neighbours.
More about Zanki Zero: Last Beginning
1 of the 343 Steam-purchase reviews sampled here comes from a buyer who refunded the game, sampled from reviews written April 2020 to July 2026.
26.3 hours to finish it, 91 to exhaust it. The completionist tail is 3.5 times the campaign.
The drop-off
69% 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
- Players online
- 11 when we last checked, on Oct 3, 11:53 UTC
Player counts from the Steam Web API.
What players say
Eye of the Beholder 1991 DOS-era gameplay meets post-apocalyptic survival. Surprise! There's also an anime-poisoned story in here that, much like the poisonous food ingame, can be enjoyed if you build up a tolerance to pockets of bad writing. This game is very, very experimental with what it tries to do, and is absolutely *NOT* worth $60. But conversely, you absolutely *SHOULD* get it on sale, since it usually has...
1 more review, not recommended
The mystery element was good. The gameplay elements seemed interesting as they were developing. I just stopped at 2.5 hours because the game kept hinting at creepy stuff with children, like characters being reverted to children and people being reminded that physically they are 10 years old, but mentally 25 years old. I stopped playing and looked it up and saw that was a theme according to several reviews and...
Steam reviews, mixed to its ratio and rotated daily. Opinions are theirs.
No data upstream: critic score (Metacritic).
Cite this score
Zanki Zero: Last Beginning scores 37/100 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/819020/zanki-zero-last-beginningReviews 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 28, price as of Oct 18. A number here look wrong? Tell me and I will check the inputs.