Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Each in the currency that store quoted — not converted: the gap between two rows is the publisher's pricing, not an exchange rate.
Reviews
482.1K
Review score
94%
9.4/10
Concurrent players
55.1K
read Sep 17, 2026, 15:00 UTC
Followers
609K
Steam group
Est. wishlists
~6.1M
followers × 10
🇺🇸United Statesshown above
$24.99USD
🇬🇧United Kingdom£22.49GBP
🇩🇪Germany€25.49EUR
🇫🇷France€25.49EUR
🇯🇵Japan¥3,150JPY
🇨🇦CanadaCA$29.99CAD
🇦🇺AustraliaA$34.95AUD
🇧🇷BrazilR$83.99BRL
🇰🇷South Korea₩26,500KRW
🇲🇽MexicoMX$324.99MXN
🇷🇺RussiaRUB 1,050.00
🇨🇳ChinaCN¥93.00CNY
🇹🇷Türkiye$12.49USD
🇵🇱PolandPLN 104.99
🇺🇦UkraineUAH 530.00
Every market we collect.
Charts
Chart position by market
daily · last 30d
Each storefront's own chart, in its own country — the closest public signal to sales where none is published. A country missing from a list is one we don't collect there, not one where the game doesn't chart.
Steam · Top Sellers
🇨🇳China7d#36
🇵🇱Poland19d#43
🇩🇪Germany
Discounts
What happened when the price fell
Every price cut of more than 20% we have observed, in each market that quoted one, with this game's chart position on either side of it. These are episodes, not a model: a sale is one event, and one event cannot tell you what the next one will do.
Project Zomboid is an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox. It asks one simple question – how will you die?
In the towns within the Knox Event Exclusion Zone our survivors must loot houses, build defences and do their utmost to delay their inevitable death day by day. No help is coming. Continued survival relies on cunning, luck, and the ability to evade a relentless horde...
Current Features
Hardcore Sandbox Zombie Survival Game with a focus on realistic survival.
Online multiplayer survival with persistent player-run servers.
Hundreds of zombies with swarm mechanics and in-depth visual and hearing systems.
Full line of sight system and real-time lighting, sound and visibility mechanics. Get spotted? Fire a gun? You’re in trouble…
Absolutely vast, and growing, map that’s loosely based on real world Kentucky. A huge area in which you explore, loot and set up your fortress.
Vehicles with full physics, and deep and realistic gameplay mechanics.
Tools and items can be used to craft weapons, barricade and cook. Build zombie-proof forts by chopping trees, sawing wood and scavenging supplies.
Deal with depression, boredom, hunger, thirst and illness while trying to survive.
Day turns to night. The electricity falters. Hordes migrate. Winter draws in. Nature gradually starts to take over.
Farming, fishing, carpentry, cooking, trapping, character customisation, skills and perks that develop based on what you do in-game.
Proper zombies that don’t run. (Unless you tell them to in the sandbox menu).
Atmospheric dynamic music that matches your Knox Event adventure.
Imaginative Challenge scenarios, on top of our regular Outbreak, Rising, Apocalypse and nightmarish Extinction modes.
Local split-screen co-op.
Full, open and powerful Lua modding support.
Xbox Controller Gamepad support on Windows. (Other gamepads can be set up manually)
Planned Features
The return of Kate and Baldspot, the initial story-driven stars of the Project Zomboid tech demo.
In-depth and varied NPC encounters driven in a persistent world, powered by a metagame system that turns each play-through into your very own zombie survival movie with emergent narrative gameplay.
Constant expansion/overhaul of the countryside, towns and city that have been ravaged by the Knox Event
More items, crafting recipes, weapons and gameplay systems.
Steam Achievements support.
This game across stores
2 storefronts
Combined estimated revenue
$300.6M
Sums Steam only; GOG publishes no volume signal, so the true total is higher by an unknown amount.
Matched by title — a reused name can pair the wrong games. * is a critic aggregate. Prices and positions are each store's United States storefront; Epic charts worldwide. Audience and Score too, except Steam's, which is worldwide.
Updates
Builds & patches
from Steam PICS
Latest build
24909800
updated Aug 26, 2026
Depots
9
content packages
Builds tracked
5
since we started
Build 24909800Aug 26, 2026
Build 24775755Aug 17, 2026
Build 24574865Aug 5, 2026
Build 24449119Jul 29, 2026
Build 22695648Apr 8, 2026
Build ids and update times come straight from Steam's PICS — the same source SteamDB reads. Patch history grows as we record new builds.
Engagement
Playtime distribution
Median 56.8 h
<1h
36
1%
1–5h
149
4%
5–20h
672
20%
20–50h
728
21%
50h+
1.8K
Reviews
What players mention
Themes across 3376 recent reviews and how positive each mention is. A keyword signal, not full sentiment analysis.
Gameplay & combat
73% · 223
Visuals & world
82% · 212
Value & content
78% · 167
Performance & bugs
Reviews
Player reviews (3,394)
Not recommended1h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
Ignore my playtime, I have played more outside of Steam.
I am completely convinced that everything in this game which could potentially be interesting is taken from C:DDA, and babyfied so that people who almost exclusively play hero shooters, Minecraft, and games from their childhood can play a bit of this on the side.
This is a game that immediately struck me as being made out of passion for things that are not video games, and, from what I saw online, it seems I was right. The only game they proudly claim fueled the design philosophy in any way appears to be The Sims. There is nothing about this game that is particularly well-designed, individual traits of its mechanics are middling at best, especially in how they interact with one another. I was disappointed to see that unique item interactions feel like rare gimmicks rather than something in abundance, which is what gives me a feeling that the game will only end up being wide as an ocean, deep as a puddle, as it were. There is no room to come up with creative solutions in a meaningful capacity, which pollutes any potentially intense moment of gameplay with the constant knowledge that you are playing a 'sandbox' game which limits you heavily, purely by the inventiveness, or lack thereof, of the uninspired developers.
What I mean to say is: being good at this game would just be accruing a collection of cool tricks that you learned on social media; there is no expression on the behalf of the player. You will likely never experience the thrill of being in a tight situation, only to save your sorry ass by finally figuring out how to interface with a system you previously couldn't get the hang of; you will only ever have minorly different variations of running away in a different type of line. It's less like playing in a sandbox and more like playing with the sandcastle some other kid made.
I do really appreciate the visual style, and the appearance of the UI. The atmosphere of the game is nice as well.
Multiplayer could be pretty fun, but I didn't try that myself.
I will try the game again when NPCs are added.
Media
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Reviews, worldwide (the counter carries no country): 326.86/day in the week to Sep 1 → 367/day in the week after.
Of the 12 markets with a position on both sides, 12 climbed and 0 fell. The same sale, the same day, opposite directions — which is why nothing here is averaged into a single arrow, and why one sale is not a trend.
For scale, across Steam · Top Sellers · Brazil over the last 30 days: the 26 chart moves that followed a price cut of more than 20% went a median of 7 places towards #1, and the 2,400 moves with no price cut behind them went 2 away. One store, one chart, one country — it is the only place we have enough observations to say even that.
Prices outside the United States have been collected since 6 August 2026 and chart positions since 19 July 2026, so a cut older than that has no market to compare and a market that joined later has no history yet. Nothing here is converted between currencies.
Hours played at review time, across 3.4K reviews with recorded playtime.
55%
· 123
Story & quests
78% · 113
positive critical· bar length = how often the theme comes up
Not recommended1h played4 found helpfulJul 2026
Игра просто вау, всё время играл на пиратке и задумался купить по скидке (450р), но после выхода "СТАБИЛЬНОЙ" версии разраб поднял цену, из-за чего я ахуел. Кто-то скажет, у тебя нет 1к на игру? Хаха, дело в том, что она сырая, куча недоработок поэтому она и находится в раннем доступе, много очевидных недоработок, куча багов: кривые анимации, постоянные проблемы с физикой машина+прицеп, постоянные аудио артефакты при запуске, проблема с созданием частных серваков, дисбалансные профессии, бафы и дебафы: которые либо слишком много тратят очков или много дают. И вот выходит "СТАБИЛЬНАЯ" версия в которой уже нашли те же проблемы за пару дней(добавились ещё и вылеты из-за модов совместимых с B42), ТОГДА КАКОГО ♥♥♥ ИГРА СТОИТ на равне с factortio, даже с традиционной скидкой в 40% = 660р вместо 450 покупать никакого желания нет, игре дают 2 дыхание мододелы, которые вынуждены делать моды которые будут не совместимы уже со следующим мини апдейтом - опять бесконечные вылеты, однозначный рефаунд
Only posting Not Recommended because this game has been unfinished for soooo long and I keep losing long runs/worlds to corruption and bugs. This is probably the best zombie type game, but dang man they gotta fix this game and finish it.
Recommended18h played3 found helpfulJul 2026
good
Recommended24h played3 found helpfulAug 2026
Amazing game, probably the best survival game in the world, shoutout to the YT @Aiekillu for all his videos on this gem.
Recommended23h played3 found helpfulJul 2026
лучшая песочница про зомби апокалипсис
Not recommended13h played3 found helpfulJul 2026
TL;DR: This is the only game on Steam where the reviews are the complete opposite of my experience. I don't believe such a niche game with outdated graphics, 13 years in early access, and lots of criticism from the community can have a 94% recommendation score on Steam. There is definitely something weird here.
BTW, this game used to give mods full system access for years because of poor programming choices, and it fixed it only 4 months ago.
Here are my thoughts on the gameplay. You can miss point-blank shots with a shotgun because you didn't read books for 8 hours and didn't waste your precious bullets training your aim on zombies. You also need to reload your gun for 2 days so reloading your gun doesn't take ages. It's too grindy and unrealistic.
When using a melee weapon, you need to kite backwards otherwise, zombies might phase through you and bite you from behind, which you can't really defend against. It makes so much sense to keep walking backward while swinging a crowbar, and your FOV is quite limited in this game. The developers didn't hear about peripheral vision, and objects disappear. For example, when part of a car is behind a tree, you can't see it at all, then it suddenly appears once you pass the tree.
But this game's biggest problem is that it's not fun because after you get a generator and make a safe base, you can start grinding books, and the game becomes too easy without any more goals left.
Not recommended461h played3 found helpfulAug 2026
The new stable version of B42 comes with some extreme hits to performance, especially when loading new areas. Massive stuttering on Linux/Steam Deck, and issues hosting games from a local system. I can't recommend until these issues are resolved.
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Active players
Estimated daily and monthly active players (DAU/MAU) modeled from peak concurrency.
