Z

z

great game

One of the best strategies I've ever played—if not the best. Unlike others, Z forces you to make decisions rather than just sitting in a dark corner, waiting for your resources to outgrow the opponent's. No, you have to move, face your fears head-on, and stay in constant motion.

It is brilliant in all aspects. It was incredible in 1997, and it still is in 2025. Thanks guys.

First time playing this game and really loved it!
The mechanics are fun and the game has an awesome challenging element to it.

Though I haven't played this game for very long, and I understand some of the complaints around this game it is still a fun straight forward simple RTS. No Based building or resource management but territory control is definitely the key to victory. The more territories the more manufacturing you have. I never played this game originally but it came up on my Radar when Evercade announced one of its newest game carts would have this game so I had to try it on PC before buying it on a console. I love all the personality around this game and the charm. Love LOVE LOVE the Robots in this game. Before going into it i expected battle droids from star wars but what I got was the commando elite from Small soldiers and I am all for it!!

Why does cutscene talking count as in-game music? I want music off but cutscene sounds on. Impossible. Too much work? Stupid settings.

8/10

Excelente juego

its kinda okay,but here`s the things:
- the controls is kinda janky,but the yt review said the dev wanna mimic the fell of arcade game,but it feel litte off in modern hardware,maybe better in old windows or dos.
- all veteran gamers says the game should have the standard skirmish mode vs ai in original release but there`s not skirmish in steam release
- no music or volume settings,just on/off.
- no setting to change the game speed like other rts on that era,and the game run slow like you played it at dos computer even on windows system (maybe even slower than old cnc games)
- the ui/ux is different and weird in my opinion compared to old ones (i know that from youtube).
- the hard ai is very insane and almost unplayable (maybe for me) but the normal and easy just works flawlessly with no cheating ai.

If you feel nostalgic then its good for the discount price for you,but if you want the skirmish mode just search the copy of the old ones on the internet. 6.5/10 now i wanna refund my money

I highly recomend this game to anyone with some attention span. The game is really good, even tho the controls arent best for new players and some small details the game is 10/10.
Sadly it doesnt have multiplayer :(

I couldn't play it neither in fullscreen or windowed mode bcs I couldn't adjust the screen resolution. I have to try and get a refund. Sad

Avoid at all costs. In it's current state it's buggy and unplayable due to screen resolution/scaling problems.

This game is a gate to my childhood. I used to play this a lot and is a simple yet fun RTS... just keep in mind that there are some frustrating things such as extremely bad pathfinding and some actions that should be done but don't.... sometimes is a thing of luck.. units behave worse than Starcraft 1 Goliath.... but.. is quite fun.. or maybe nostalgia has me

This is NOT the same game that was released on DOS and Win 95 back in the day.
* The controls are changed (for the worst).
* The general gameplay has ever so slightly changed.
* The game is significantly easier than it was.
* The AI in general seems dumbed down a lot.
* The interface has been changed for the worst.

And I'm fairly certain this version is just a port of pre-existing mobile versions.

If you love this game and want to replay it, this isn't the version you want. Make sure to get a game version from 1996, for Windows DOS.

The best classic game. Need a good remaster,not like this)

Divertido pra caramba... Eu joguei muito disso na minha infância.

For nostalgia enjoyers.

For anyone new controls are god tier bad, multiple displays fucks up mouse, couple crashes, instant 0 to 100 gameplay afk first 15 sec and it snowballs out your control but the simple gameplay is fun.

Throwing one dollar on sale reasonable, one can only hope it goes to the actually devs.

Fine game

A classic RTS from the mid-to-late 1990s. Does it hold it today? Somehow. The controls are a bit "special" sometimes but it is overall still a fun bout. The pixel graphics hold up quite nicely and the chaotic energy of the game is still alive and well.
Get it in a sale.

Good old game.

I had nostalgia for this game from a long time ago, and thought I would pick it up when I found it very cheap in a sale. I don't so much regret my purchase, because it was dirt cheap, but I regret my time spent with this game.
A lot of older games require some forgiveness, especially when it comes to things like dodgy graphics or ropey physics, but even despite that this game is unfortunately an exercise in pure frustration. This is due to two key problems:
1) Broken AI/pathfinding: It's not just bad, it's broken. Half the time you tell units to move somewhere they will either not move at all, or will decide to take an illogically long route to what at times should be a straight line. This is especially a problem when telling units to attack other units, because even if they are in range they will often (more than half the time) simply stand around, get shot and die.
2) Terrible inconsistency: Compounding the problem of units that won't shoot, you then have the issue that shots themselves (especially from tanks) are horribly inconsistent. Not only do the amounts of damage seem inconsistent (which alone is forgivable, to give an element of RNG to things), but the ability of a unit to hit another unit is wildly inconsistent. A heavy tank will happily destroy a light tank with a single shot, but sometimes the opposite will happen because the heavy tank will simply miss the light tank over and over. This is also true with robots against tanks, as robots will sometimes explode instantly, but sometimes seem indestructible. On top of all this, the problem seems to go into overdrive if you're not actually witnessing a battle, and I wonder if the game even calculates off-screen interactions correctly at all. When you set up a few guns as a line of defence, and then return a minute later to find an enemy tank has somehow appeared on the other side of them unscathed with your guns similarly untouched, you have to question what really happened.
I would like to see this game remastered or perhaps more appropriately remade, as I think there is room for a game of this nature that plays at this pace (the game is quite slow but the more relaxed pace has the opportunity to give way to more strategy), but as it exists now I can't suggest spending any time with it, not even for free with nostalgia.

All right! Yeah! Nice one! Yeah! Excellent! Yeehaw!
Single player version of the game. Very simple and easy to learn, hence very addictive. Shame there is no Multiplayer or Skirmish modes.

5/5 star

DONT WORK
ONLI WIDIO PLAY WHEN FINIS GAME ITC CLOSING

major res problem. my copy is totalled, broken. irreparable. corrupted. loved the game back in the day. a lot of people get lucky sorting the res, for me i fixed it, and broke some thing else. when realistically should not of been some thing i should of been dealing with to begin with. so its a no.

Good classic, but the remake could be better.