Project Zomboid

This game is basicly the best zombie apocalypse open world game

9/10

Project Zomboid is one of the most detailed and brutal zombie survival games out there. The depth of gameplay—looting, crafting, base-building, and surviving everything from bites to boredom—is incredible. The isometric graphics won’t win awards, but the atmosphere and tension are top-tier. It’s not just about killing zombies; it’s about dying slowly and learning how not to next time. A must-play for fans of hardcore survival.

设置就像是摆设，不光字体大小不管用，分辨率也被锁死，无边框下不管怎么改都是2160p
而且这不是某一种语言的问题，用英文也是一样
在适配这方面，可以说做的甚至不如大部分二十年前的游戏
哪怕是老游戏都可以通过更改windows DPI设置解决高分辨率的问题

一个连基本适配都做不好的游戏，内容做的再好也没有意义。
连字体大小都要靠mod解决，就是游戏本身的失败。

先不说很多mod根本就不生效，就算找到能用的mod，也只是字体本身变大，各种表格和图标仍然是通过像素单位进行计算，而且mod随时可能通过版本更新失效。

如果你用的是个超过1080的屏幕，那大概率是得不到一个很好的游戏体验。

甚至还有人给出的解决方法是调低windows分辨率，头疼砍头属于是。

Very solid survival zombie game. I'd recommend it to players looking for a semi-realistic survival experience that rewards tactical gameplay and knowledge of mechanics. While the core gameplay can be unforgiving, almost every aspect of the game is customizable, like zombie population density or the rate you gain experience.

Some long-time fans criticize the game's slow development pace, but I'd take those complaints with a grain of salt. If this game is up your alley, this game offers enough depth to keep you playing for hundreds (if not thousands) of hours before running out of things to experience. For the price of around 20 dollars, this game is an actual steal.

Project Zomboid doesn’t ask if you’ll die. It asks how long you’ll last. In a genre flooded with over-the-top zombie action games, this brutal, isometric survival sandbox by The Indie Stone stands alone—grim, grounded, and utterly uncompromising.

Whether you survive a week, a month, or just a single day, Project Zomboid makes every hour feel earned… and every mistake fatal.

At its heart, Zomboid is a true-to-life survival simulator set in a slow-burning zombie apocalypse. There's no goal beyond surviving as long as you can. No escape. No cure. Just you, your gear, and a decaying Kentucky town full of the shambling dead.

What sets the game apart is its depth and realism. You’ll manage hunger, thirst, sleep, mood, injury, weather, noise, and even boredom. Everything matters—from how loud you close a door to how bright your base’s windows are at night. Zombies don’t sprint, but they swarm—and the tension comes not from speed, but inevitability.

One moment, you’re looting an empty house for canned beans. The next, you’ve sprained your ankle falling through a window, drawn a horde by setting off a car alarm, and are limping through backyards hoping the bite on your arm isn’t what you think it is.

Project Zomboid is layered. You start as a fragile survivor but can grow into a self-sufficient scavenger, carpenter, or farmer. Skills like cooking, electricity, and tailoring aren’t just fluff—they’re essential for long-term survival. Want to fortify a base, rig up a generator, and weather the winter? You’ll need to learn how, often by reading books and practicing.

The game features a robust character creation system with positive and negative traits. You can be a sneaky burglar with asthma or a carpenter with a drinking problem—your build will shape how you play and how you die.

The game world is massive, hand-crafted, and eerily quiet. Towns like Muldraugh, Rosewood, and Louisville are eerily realistic, full of detail and danger. Every building is explorable. Power and water eventually fail. Seasons change. And the world doesn’t pause when you panic.

Zombies aren’t the only threat. Starvation, infection, depression, and even loneliness will erode your chances. The atmosphere is soaked in dread but never cheap horror. The scariest thing in Zomboid is the silence between problems.

As of the current build, multiplayer is fully implemented and thriving. Whether you’re cooperating to build a safe haven or playing on PvP servers where players are the real danger, Zomboid becomes even more unpredictable (and addicting) with others.

Watching alliances crumble or strangers betray each other is just as much a part of the experience as sharing soup in a boarded-up cabin.

Project Zomboid isn’t flashy. It’s not fast. It’s unapologetically slow, methodical, and bleak—and that’s what makes it brilliant. Every death feels like a personal failure, and every extra day you survive feels like a miracle. If you want a zombie game that respects your intelligence and punishes your complacency, this is the one.

It’s not about winning. It’s about how you die—and how you live before that happens.

A masterclass in immersive survival—Project Zomboid is the most authentic apocalypse you’ll ever (fail to) survive.

Rating: 9/10

This game has brought me so much joy, sadness, anger, confusion, and just about every emotion you can imagine. I've poured over 340 hours into it so far, and I can confidently say I’d recommend it to anyone who enjoys the zombie genre.

Yeah, there’s a bit of a learning curve (I started during Build 41), but once you get the hang of it, it’s incredible and even better with friends. Sure, the graphics aren’t ultra-realistic or anything, but that doesn’t matter when the gameplay is this good.

And the community? Absolutely amazing. If there’s ever something you don’t like or want to tweak, chances are there’s a mod for it, hell, there are mods that completely change the way the game plays.

So please, if you're even thinking about trying it: buy it, jump in (solo or with some friends), and don’t forget to press Q.

You guys should leave windows open and don't crouch it doesn't work, also generators are more effective indoors. Also Unfit and student driver are free points!

This game is popular for a reason. It fits a niche no other zombie game ever has. That being said, I do not like it. It has a lot of elements that I have been looking for in a zombie game but it is unintuitive and clumsy. It’s one of those games whose controls mostly consist of a sea of menus. Sure, it’s not like arma where every button on your keyboard has a function, but in my opinion, zomboid is just as bad. To me, when a game takes around 5-10 hours to get the hand of, there is something fundamentally flawed with its core gameplay design. If that’s your thing, go ahead and buy it. If not, steer clear of this game.

I want to recommend the game, but the development has left me incredibly frustrated. The development pace is glacial and when the updates do come out it feels like they are moving the goalpost. I don't understand the vision for this game. They have recently added realistic skills like carving and knapping to the game. Knapping is the IRL process of shaping stones. When are 90% of players going to use this? Why was development time used on this when updates are few and far between? Ive been playing with 3x experience gain and skills are still such a grind. Reminder that this is a zombie game where if you didnt see a zombie because of a bad vision cone you get bit and your run is gone. I thought npcs would be in the game years ago. You give the devs 12 years to cook and end up with KNAPPING.

Project Zomboid is hands-down the best zombie survival game on the market. It offers a surprisingly realistic experience and is supported by a vibrant, active modding community that adds endless replayability.

Even though it's still in Early Access, the game already feels more complete and polished than many full releases. It doesn’t come across as rushed or unfinished in the slightest.

There is a steep learning curve, but once you get the hang of it, the game becomes incredibly addictive.

Easily the best Zombie Survival gaming experience I've played. You aren't some over powered generic dude with plot armor, you're literally just a regular person. You could and will die from anything. You think the zombies are the threat? My brother in Christ, my first death I tried running from a large group in the easiest spawn location in the game and bled to death from a neck wound because I ran into a thick forest and a British pine tree sliced me like a honey ham.

Second death, I broke into a police car and stole a revolver with way too much spunk. Thinking I'm the big bad I started dumping trying to get into the armory at the police station. I LOUDLY missed all shots on account of my character having zero weapons training and going into a panic because I attracted half the damn towns population with all the shooting.

And I'll f*cking do it again!

NOTE: This was written for build 42.8, and there's always the chance that in the future everything here could change.

Game's great, just the right level of zombie killing ultraviolence and a highly customizable sandbox to mess around in.
At $26 CAD ($0.01 USD probably idk) it has to be the single best price-fun ratio game I've ever gotten.
Be warned however, the learning curve is steep, and you will get your ass slapped as you learn to play, and there's no shame in turning down a lot of the sandbox settings to make the learning process easier if you're just starting out.
It also gets regular updates and while they can take a bit to fully release, generally bring a lot of interesting new functions to the game or expand immensely on existing systems, and even when something is changed or added in a way that you don't like there's almost always an option to turn it off.
There's not a lot of games I've sunk over 1,000 hours into, and the fact that this is one of them should stand as a testament to the replayability and depth you can get out of it.
The only game I can think of that comes close is older versions of 7 days to die, which came out the same year as this funny enough, but while that game went on to actively resent it's playerbase for not playing the game how the devs wanted them to, and actively gimping interesting systems for no discernible reason beyond "UI issues", Zomboid has time and time again gone out of it's way to make many of it's more controversial changes optional through sandbox settings, while listening to it's community the whole way.
Even after all of this, there's still the workshop, where you can find things like working helicopters, tanks, completely revamped systems, custom music players, new sections added on to the map, standalone new maps, and more.

TL;DR, it's an exceptional zombie survival sim that lives up to the depth and complexity you'd want with that, without diving into CDDA levels of complexity, being outright addictive on par with the most potent of hard drugs.

your first day is survival horror. your first month is the sims. your first year is farming simulator

For those who enjoy games with in-depth mechanics, endless opportunities, countless mods, and, of course, zombies, this is one for you!

Game has been stuck in an Early Access hell for over 12 years with no ending goal in site. There is basically nothing to do in the game outside of finding a safehouse and surviving for a little bit and it gets boring incredibly fast. The updates are so incredibly slow that someone could get in a car crash and get sent into a coma and then recover and an update still would not be out. Such incredibly slow Dev time is inexcusable for a game that has sold as well as this and is a clear cut case of an indie dev without a deadline and so they expand their vision more and more until it is nothing but a mess. This happens quite often in the Indie scene because to an artist their creation is never good enough and they can only finish their work if they are given a proper deadline as it entices them to put their very best effort forward to accomplish a clear cut goal. However when you give them an incredible amount of support like EA games so often do when they get big they suddenly don't have that pressure of doing something in mind and instead try to do a million things at once and it extends the dev time to ∞, because it will never be good enough.

I highly advise against buying this game at this point as it will never be a finished vision and buying into it now expands that "never" even further. They have a cult of followers however which refuse to criticize the devs and that is even more of a reason to not buy this game.

Listen. I love this game. It's certainly a labour of love, and I can't deny the clear passion that the devs have behind this game. The thing is; its. so. slow.

If you are content with the current state of the game, I would recommend a purchase. There is still a lot of fun to be had, (with friends and mods really), but the game is in no way perfect. Since the 'release' of Early Access, (12-13 years ago(?)), this game has... not changed much. Sure, with B41, they reworked the entire game, porting it to 3D, I'll give them that. However, it (B41) was first publicly teased in 2015. Can you guess when it released? That's right! 2021... ah.
It has been over 4 years since B41 was released, and six months ago they released the B42 'unstable' branch. (After teasing it and delaying the date for literal years). Can you guess what they added? A minor lighting overhaul, some animals, some farming stuff, 'muscle strain' (making the combat MUCH harder for NO reason), reworked some zombie spawning... that's it. Oh, and blacksmithing. Can't forget the blacksmithing! Can you see the problem?
(They also added a weird fluids system, meaning that John Zomboid can eyeball the millilitres in a container up to 18 decimal places? What? There's quite a few examples of just weird additions that don't make gameplay any better like this)

Like I said before, if you truly are content with what Project Zomboid has to offer now, I would recommend the game to you. It is of my opinion that modders should not have to make up for shortcomings of the main game, but here they sort of have to, so they do. And, they do pretty well. If you have friends to play with, I'd recommend buying the game.
However, if you're in for the long haul? Don't bother. My advice? Pretend that Zomboid HQ blew up 3 years ago, and that no new updates are coming. Make the decision about purchasing the game in its current state from that scenario, because I assure you, it isn't going to change any time soon.

I don't want this review to be seen as hostile, or attacking the devs. Me, (and many many other players) are simply just frustrated with the lack of forward momentum. They have made MILLIONS off of this game. But from the update schedule, you'd assume that it's one guy's little self-funded passion project! The UI is jank. Going up stairs in this game is a death trap, because 'upstairs' doesn't render until you're on the last step. Gameplay is beyond repetitive.
There are, however, little moments of "huh, that's kind of good!". Drinking alcohol in this game makes driving INCREDIBLY difficult. It's really funny to grab a friend, find all the beers you can in game, have ALL of them, and have a race. There's a lot of world-building, and the lore is actually really interesting and cool.

Just... for now? There's better ways to spend $25 bucks or whatever. Go buy a game that's fully released. Keep an eye on this one though, but above all, be patient. God knows I can't.

Love this game, 700+ hours. The depth of the simulation is great, it's what I love the most. Wish this was open source to fix come of the basic things that have me leaving this !@#$@#$ game.

Devs need to fix the f*king save game corruption issue, not just between builds - 2 months in the same version and my games get corrupted at some point. I could work around this, yes, I feel devs should fix it. Modding is great but it's mostly fixing things that should be in the game as options if nothing else. In development for over 20 years and save games aren't robust. I'm gonna leave it alone cause it's killing me and come back in 5 years and see if save games are fixed.

My other main issue is dying for no effing reason, yeah the health emoticons may have indicated something, looked into log files but they are an effing mess too and inconclusive. Can't I just learn how I died? is that asking too much? for a game that starts with "this is how you died" I still don't know once I'm dead how I effing died!!!!!!!!! mabe another 50 years of development will help. Fancy bells and whistles are great, but if saves get corrupted on the regular and I can't always tell how I died, then I'm gonna go play 7 days or something. I've no hair left, still wanna play but can't, just can't anymore.

Every update adds more bloat you have to manage. The only thing left for them to add is manual breathing for your character not to suffocate.

It's just not fun anymore. At all.

Would recommend this game to everyone if I could but I know it does not fit for everyone. Very in depth and unforgiving at times and I love it!

Punishing and fun. Pretty epic ngl

It's funny how this is my 3rd account, I haven't been using it for a while and still I have more hours than most of those fanboys on the discussion Board that keep praising a game they barely play.
The idea of the game is of the game what I've always wanted to play, unfortunately the idea was killed by the developers that milked it and are still milking it instead of actually working on the development.
12 years and counting with snail paced development and the moment you start the game you cannot not ask yourself "12 years for this?"
Of course the game is not completely bad and shines in multiplayers (referring to B41, often on heavily modded servers) with the right group of people, otherwise it can easily become a nightmare.
At the moment of the review the latest unstable build (B42) has no MP and will be like that for a while, so no rush buying the game if you're interested in MP.

I'll update the review soon, but my message is DO NOT BUY THIS GAME NOW, consider buying it when it leaves Early access (by the look of it not before 2030 that could become EASILY 2032-2035) and even then read the negative reviews, you won't get the idea of the game from the 'good game' users with 10 hours on it!

I could go on for hours, but I just want to give this message now, I'll allow the comments, but when updating the review I'll delete the review itself to make a new one rather than updating the old one.

Let me get this straight: the more copies you buy the slower the development. Devs are literally sitting on tens of millions, barely investing in the development, so the more the sales, the fewer the reasons to actually put some real work or invest money in the project. One could argue if the money stops they could just leave (that's possible) or rush the 1.0 (that's possible), but it's not like after 12 years we're playing a top class technical masterpiece of a game, it's a game with barely an early-game and with a lot of bugs and issues from the UI to the gameplay...and in order to be enjoyed you have to use your imagination and invent some lore, give yourself a reason to love your character and reasons to make him do what he does, otherwise you notice how empty and pointless the game actually is.

These developer are the reason people can't trust Early Access anymore.

This game is the perfect mix of Combat, Survival, and the freedom to mod with the easy to install workshop mods as this uses LUA for modding

Dude, release the freaking game already.
They keep adding and adding stuff forever, and that path only leads to one ending: grind fest.
Build 42 is already looking like Cryofall: a grind nightmare ("I need object A, to build object B, to combine it in workplace X, to get a tiny amount ouf C, and combine it with D, to get F". Then F lasts 2 seconds and the grind cicle starts all over again.

Playing solo becomes boring quite fast. Playing with friends in a private server is fun (at least it was in Builds 41 and prior). Play in open servers is a squeaker nightmare with kids (or not so kids) that have played a zillion hours and kills you for a candy bar with no remorse.

Game is pretty boring for a little bit but once you survive for a little bit (few days) it’s like nutting for the first time. Get it now

Friend groups come back to game, everytime a stable edition releases we boot up a server, test it, mod the hell out of it,
Highly recommended, also warning:
YOU DO NOT TOUCH GRASS FOR WEEKS

Insanely good game, but can't sex other people and horses

One of the BEST multiplayer games on the market. Get a few friends on and spend hours just having a blast with surviving. Modding is where the game reaches its apex, all gathered around a Jukebox dancing at 1:30 in the morning as it snows outside is one of those gaming moments you remember for years.

Project Zomboid is an amazing game. I am not usually a fan of the survival genre of games, however project Zomboid sets itself apart from most games. With in depth game systems, and a detailed world design that rewards thoughtful, and organized play that makes project Zomboid a compelling package. Truly one of the only survival simulation game that is enjoyable, and I cant recommend this title more. 9/10 a near perfect title that is only going to get better over time. Plus a TON of mod support that enhances the game with even more replay value.

TIS continue to put tremendous amounts of work into this game after so many years, and I've always enjoyed it. Really makes you want to survive as long as you possibly can...

If you're looking for a realistic zombie survival game, this is the best there is in my opinion.

If there's something you want to change, there's probably a sandbox option for it and if you want to add something, it's probably on the workshop.

---{ Graphics }---
☐ You forget what reality is
☐ Beautiful
☑ Good
☐ Decent
☐ Bad
☐ Don‘t look too long at it

---{ Gameplay }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ It's just gameplay
☐ Mehh
☐ Just don't

---{ Audio }---
☑ Very good
☐ Good
☐ Not too bad
☐ Bad
☐ I'm now deaf

---{ Audience }---
☐ Kids
☑ Teens
☑ Adults
☐ Grandma

---{ PC Requirements }---
☐Check if you can run paint
☑ Potato
☐ Decent
☐ Fast
☐ Rich boi
☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer

---{ Game Size }---
☑ Floppy Disk
☐ Old Fashioned
☐ Workable
☐ Big
☐ Will eat 10% of your 1TB hard drive
☐ You will want an entire hard drive to hold it
☐ You will need to invest in a black hole to hold all the data

---{ Difficulty }---
☐ Just press 'W'
☐ Easy
☐ Easy to learn / Hard to master
☑ Significant brain usage
☐ Difficult
☐ Dark Souls

---{ Grind }---
☐ Nothing to grind
☐ Only if u care about leaderboards/ranks
☐ Isn't necessary to progress
☑ Average grind level
☐ Too much grind
☐ You'll need a second life for grinding

---{ Story }---
☐ No Story
☑ Some lore
☐ Average
☐ Good
☐ Lovely
☐ It'll replace your life

---{ Game Time }---
☐ Long enough for a cup of coffee
☐ Short
☐ Average
☐ Long
☑ To infinity and beyond

---{ Price }---
☐ It's free!
☑ Worth the price
☐ If it's on sale
☐ If u have some spare money left
☐ Not recommended
☐ You could also just burn your money

---{ Bugs }---
☑ Never heard of
☐ Minor bugs
☐ Can get annoying
☐ ARK: Survival Evolved
☐ The game itself is a big terrarium for bugs

---{ ? / 10 }---
☐ 1
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☐ 10

The gameplay is very interesting, the ambience for a table-top game is really great and immersive, but unfortunately there is nothing to do after having built a base. Sure you could clear out some random building, but whats the point if the only loot youll get is a rusty hammer that will break after killing 50 zombies and magazine number 53452. Of course there is mods that can help spice up the gameplay a little bit, but even then it is bound to get repetitive pretty fast.

The second problem I have, is not the game itself, but the devs developing it. The game has been in early access for 12 years (and maybe more since it existed before that on another platform to my knowledge), and in that time it feels like devs have done what other indie companies put out in maybe 5 years. And the most depressing part is they made MILLIONS off this game and still for god knows what reason have not increased the size of their dev team. It is truly mindboggling. Just to give you an idea of how slow the devs are, ive bought the game in June 2022 (almost 3 years ago), and in that time, they only "released" the unstable buggy mess that is b42 in december of last year. Oh and of course since then the only updates to that branch have basically all been bugfixes, (for 5 months). NPCs that have been promised as "soon" in like 2017 have still not been added (no, animals are NOT the npcs that were promised) and the only updates that have come out the last years are thursdoids that all go along the line of "oh look here we have made clothing not clip into each other" that have been posted each month. 90% of these feel like devs struggling to figure out what they are even doing, saying "big things are coming but we are not sure when". If you are more interested in the history of the dev updates id suggest taking a look at some reddit posts on the projectzomboid subreddit, it is funny to see posts from 7 years ago mentioning the exact same issues that occur now. For some reason the devs also seem to redevelop the entire engine and core mechanics every update, which in my opinion shows some real issues with the game's code (not to mention the abysmal performance for a game with that simple graphics.

Yes the game is fun with its atmosphere and gameplay. Yes you can customize the game to your liking. But it gets to a point where you can only customize so much until core issues like no late-game and purpose catch up. My best guess is b43 (which is supposed to have NPCs) will release earliest in 2030 at this pace.

In conclusion, I would not recommend this game due to its lacking late-game content and terrible development times that, at the moment, seem to never be going to be fixed. I will try to edit this review each year or so just to give a summary of what the devs have done (most likely nothing a lot of times)

Very fun and immersive game! honestly the best zombie survival game I have ever played!!!

Very fun solo and with friends but the late game does get kinda boring because it's the same shit on repeat.

This game is a most quality game I ever played. It's hardcore, survivor, realistic and a lot more. I died more than I don't.
10/10 recommend this game. Try to die is easier than try to live.

It's very difficult. Almost makes me feel moronic. Even sad one might say.

The best game ever.
Raiding Lousville is the greatest thing to do for first time after tutorial.

I've owned this game for about 8 years now, and nearly all of my playtime has been on the B42 (42.4-42.7) unstable branch. I really wanted to try and actually get into this game and try out the new mechanics, but it is just too frustrating. Want to build a forge? You'll need clay, and masonry level 2. I finally found a clay deposit with shovel in hand, to find out I also need a sack to put the clay in... why not just get the item? Want to level up your masonry? Enjoy finding as much stones as possible to make bricks for minimal xp. Want to build a wall out of those stone bricks now that you have some masonry levels? You can't. Need normal stones... Want to make a normal brick wall? Pottery level three just to make the brick. Just as a inexperienced player its incredibly overwhelming and not intuitive. Just resulted in the same issue I encountered many years ago. The later stages of the game take too much time, with very little reward. And yeah muscle fatigue is a bit too much. 6 strength 6 fitness, chop one or two evergreens and you wont be able to do anything for hours in game. Hopefully with some changes it will be a much smoother more enjoyable process, but after spending 200 hours on this I could not recommend it unless you have some previous knowledge of some kind, or are more patient than I, lol.

easily one of the best games i have ever played.
steep learning curve which death and mistakes will be your teacher.
one of the strongest modding community's I've had the joy to experience. everything from full class rebuilds, and mad max cars to amputee play though and horror themed whispering zombies.
the best and most active dev team I've seen in a long time, endless patches, updates and fixes for things that i know in the early days i saw and thought 'if only they changed this' and fixes for things most wouldn't even notice as issues but they saw as areas where they could do better.
this is one of those games that each death does teach you, like don't go on grass at night. but it will make you a better player, honestly by say 300-500+ hours death is a rare blip that you'll kick yourself if it happens and laugh off. and i know you might see 300-500+ hours and think fuck that, but i cant think of any game that I've been able to easily put this many hours into and still be excited for each and every patch that comes out.
there so many ways to play with friends or solo, build a base, clear a town, live as a nomad in a car/rv, go 10 years later and spawn naked while swearing off all loot, fish and forge while making shoes, clothes and tools from scratch.
one of the things that also keeps me tied to this game is the zombies, and i don't just mean the art or how they act but even the depth of the spawning mechanics which is a beautiful little rabbit hole, it makes it so when clearing an area and sealing it there a strong sense in pride, its not one where you just clear a zone and bang zombies are back there for no reason like a lot of survival zombie games.
only reason why im not playing the game right now is im waiting for the 42 multiplayer so me and my friends can experience all of this new build in one go together.
great great game.

I love this game I play it with my family every now and my entire family loves to play this the 4 player co op is a bit buggy but I think that is on my end I highly recommend this game

This game has actually destroyed my taste for any other game in the genre...its such a good game. Its like a symphony...it has its massive powerful edge of your seat moments..and low calm times where you forget zombies exist only to go back out and get bit fighting 1 zombie cause you are sloppy fighting because youve been trying to place garden gnomes in your base just the way you like. You start throwing mods on this game...shoot. You can play alone and dig it. Multiplayer is crazy good and the potential for RP players (Im not) is crazy. The team who made this should be proud of themselves. They should hear the fans but at the end of the day this spawned from them and I hope they continue to make a game THEY love and others who share the same interest will also LOVE...rather than a game that appeals to everyone and everyone LIKES it just fine. Sorry this is so long...but this game is so good and I really am glad Ive had the chance to play it. It will be locked in the vault in my head with the rest of the the Games Ive loved since I was a child. Keep up the good work.

Hate these bitchass zombies and their stupid ass sneaky moves and the jumpscares damn it.

I LOVE THIS GAME at first it is hard to survive but dont leave the game early

gets paper cut
gets infected
dies
respawn
repeat
10/10 love the game

I cannot recommend this game, after almost a 1k hours with the new build I don't know where the devs are going with this game anymore. I feel like they're trying to replace the "fun" part with the "tediousness" part, as unfortunately many modern games do nowadays, and I don't like it. Mods and custom esoteric sandbox settings are not any good answer to the frustrations of the default gameplay experience for the new and "casual" players, I feel. I also feel that the devs' target audience is game systems themselves and not players. I got my part of fun out of this game, but not without a lot of frustration and also writing bunch of mods for QoL for myself and reporting a lot of bugs which were never addressed for months.

A fun game to play with friends and terrifying by yourself.

Really good zombie game you get to beat your zombified neighbour with a rolling pin or a letter opener then raid their kitchen truly a zombie game of all time.

Amazing Game. I currently only have ~16 hours and its already great, theres a learning curve so expect to die of course. But once you get past the constant deaths and you actually start learning, its amazing

Dakilolpis
132 products in account
5 reviews

Recommended
65.0 hrs on record
EARLY ACCESS REVIEW
POSTED: 19 MARCH
Project Zomboid is one of the greatest survival games ever made. From its incredible depth to its brilliantly designed mechanics, this game sets the gold standard for what a true survival experience should be. It’s realistic, immersive, moddable, and most importantly, a hell of a lot of fun.

Every aspect of Project Zomboid feels grounded and believable. This isn’t just a game about killing zombies—it’s about long-term survival, resource management, and adapting to a world that wants you dead. Whether it’s dealing with injuries, managing food and water, or fortifying a safehouse, the attention to detail is insane.

The combat is engaging and rewarding. Every swing of a bat, every perfectly timed push, and every last-ditch escape feels intense and strategic. There’s no mindless button-mashing here—positioning, stamina, and awareness all matter. The fact that hordes actually feel like a real threat adds a level of tension that few other games can replicate. Survival isn’t just about fighting—it’s about building your future. Watching your character progress over time—gaining skills, becoming stronger, and mastering the apocalypse—is incredibly rewarding. The base-building system is flexible and fun, allowing you to fortify an existing house or create a fortress from scratch.

The world is massive, detailed, and full of life (or death). The game’s art style is simple yet incredibly effective, creating an eerie, immersive atmosphere that complements the gameplay perfectly.

One of the best parts? The modding community is insane. The game is already amazing, but the ability to tweak and enhance it with mods just makes it even better.

Unlike many modern games, Project Zomboid listens to its community. The developers actually care about player feedback, and it shows. This game is worth every single cent I spent on it.

The Only Downside? Car Lag
If I had to nitpick, the only annoying thing is the lag when driving fast. But honestly? That’s a minor issue in an otherwise flawless game.

Final Verdict: A Must-Play Survival Masterpiece
Project Zomboid is a godsend for survival fans. It’s deep, intense, rewarding, and endlessly replayable. More developers should take notes from this game, because this is how you make a true survival experience. If you haven’t played it yet, do yourself a favor and get it.

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It's fun for what it is. Reminds me of the 00's and flash games with it's isometric interface. After a time the game play becomes dull without goals. Very unstable, but enjoyable.