Project Zomboid

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

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

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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.

My buddy Matt says please release Build 42 with multiplayer officially. He wants to get the boys back together.

A game that requires time, a clear mind, and a flawless plan. You mess up one thing and you're dead. Miss time a swing? Scratched or bitten. Fire a pistol with aim level 0? Ringing the dinner bell forthe horde. Fire game though.

It is really fun, but mastering it can take a while. The controls are a bit hard, but then again i am not that experienced at computer. Highly Reccomend. Really fun. Do sandbox for first playthrough though.

Really unique game, goes insanely in depth into survival.
Could play it for thousands of hours without getting bored.

The only bad thing is that there arent any achievements.

Incredibly addictive. I've logged 240 hours in 6 weeks (I never log hours in a game like this). It's open ended, you choose your own path, and incredibly sandbox. The modding community is extensive and the Devs update the game every 1-2 weeks like clockwork. They listen to community feedback and honor their community to the fullest, you just don't see that too often these days. I will say if you're planning to mod this game, I hope you have lots of RAM. 16gb isn't enough...

If I had to critique this game, I would say my biggest problem with this game is there's no end-game or ultimate goal. Sure you can max out your levels (massive grind) or you could set self goals like clearing Louisville (good luck) but that's all up to you to enforce that upon yourself. And achieving those long term goals ultimately gets you nothing in the end other than saying you did it. I wish this was treated more like a dungeon crawler like Hades instead of a solely sandbox survival game. It even starts each run by saying "and this is how you died" so logically that is the point. So why not get a score? Like number of kills, levels, rare items found, and time survived multiplied by negative traits. Then your score can can be added up in your account. Maybe scores can unlock new items for future runs or items to be used in multiplayer servers. I'm not a dev, just an idea.

My other critique would be the poor performance. Especially when its raining. It can be so bad that players consider rain a death sentence due to the lag and stuttering. I have a very high end desktop (7800x3d, 7900xtx, and 32gb ram) and this game is still a stuttery mess with my frame times jumping around constantly. And the issue is optimization because my hardware is barely being utilized, maybe peaking at 40% on the GPU and 30% on the CPU. This is annoying, but this is a small Dev so I understand the struggles here.

Last critique is no cloud save support. And this is because of how the game is optimized and uses memory. You might think "well that sucks, but I can just manually transfer my save to my laptop and continue playing on the go". And sure, you can until you start really exploring the whole world and have 40+ mods installed. My save file for my longest running save is over 400Mb, almost half a gig. And that save file is 10s of thousands of tiny files. Last time I transferred my save (not doing this anymore) it took an HOUR. Having a NVMe SSD like me doesn't matter when there's so many tiny files that need to be transferred.

I know it sounds like I'm railing this game, but I still love it and I think that just goes to show just how good it is. I'd say if you read this whole review and were wondering if this game is worth it, IT IS. It's not too expensive and will give you so much enjoyment, give it a shot!

My Favorite Zombie Survival Game Right Now

I’ll admit at first, I didn’t care about this game at all. Even though I’ve always loved zombie games, this one just didn’t grab my attention. I was deep into State of Decay at the time, which is a solid zombie game in its own right. But eventually, I started feeling like it was a bit limited. I wanted more freedom, more challenge.

Then one day, while I was watching YouTube, a video about Project Zomboid popped up. And holy hell… this game is insane. I couldn’t believe I had been ignoring such a gem just because the graphics didn’t look as flashy as other games. But let me tell you — this game is absolutely amazing. It’s fun, intense, and delivers everything I’ve ever wanted in a zombie survival game.

Here’s what makes it so great:

1. Total freedom — You can do whatever you want. You create your own story, make your own choices, and the game just lets you go wild.

2. Challenging in the best way — It’s super realistic. Injuries, status effects, and survival mechanics all make the game feel tense and rewarding.

3. Modding community is top-tier — If there’s something in the game that bugs you, chances are someone’s already made a mod to fix or improve it.


If you’re into zombie survival games, don’t let the graphics fool you. Project Zomboid is the real deal. It’s insanely good.

you need atleast maybe 20+ hours to understand 1/3 of the game mechanics, 10/10 would drink bleach again

It took 3 years to go from build 41 to build 42. That's just a staggering amount of time for an update this size.

Their own announced timeline has NPCs being complete in build 48, now only 18 years away!

This game has been in EA for 12 YEARS now, and quick math says the #1 most requested feature for the last decade will still need another 10+ years.

Unfortunately, I just don't have confidence in this dev team at this point.

For the most part the fighting mechanics are the weakest part of the game. The amount of times my character has done a push for the game to not recognise it, and the zombie just glitches straight into you. If its not that, its the character swinging above downed zombies, or struggling to figure out how to stomp on them. This is of course while the target is lit up green, meaning targeted. Developers seem more focused on putting more ways for the game to just kill you in, while the quality of life and general gameplay is GARBAGE.

I cannot recommend this game because i fear it will be in Early Access literally forever. As much as i have enjoyed the game for what it has to offer, I am left today disappointed because of the lack of progress made over a decade of EA. Yes the game play itself is hardcore, but the UI is clunky and hard to navigate. Sometimes my whole game will crash while navigating the build menu even. I also have grown tired of spending 95% of the characters life away from zombies/inside, cooped up doing burpees and sleeping for multiple real life hours just to stand a chance in combat. What has kept me playing this game, unfortunately, is not the base game itself, but online servers with mods included, because the amount of time you have to put into a character to give them viable stats is a harrowing task without stat boosters or a skill journal of some kind. i don't really have a rating for this game as its not finished. (also side note not a fan of all the "social media discourse" from certain dev/s concerning missing deadlines on multiple instances)

you probably know if you want this game or no so i will just say 3 things that can help someone to start

Probably the most realistic zombie survival game or one of them. Especially with mods

game good, survival good, mechanic good. two zombie chase is fine, 4+ zombie chase is kill
soundtrack good, graphic is runescape horror

Favourite game ever. Very complex but so much easier to understand than 7 days to die. It’s like playing a hardcore sims game with zombies. The mods make the game even better. Love this game.

i love it when naked people with a virus reach out to me for a hug. 10/10 game.

This is one of the most enjoyable game but it can get repetative and is only fun with others

i wake up in rose wood. zombies everywhere. i go to the school. i look in the lockers and find drugs. i gets high and die within 5 hours... best game ever 1000000000000/10 is that a dino on a skate board?

I've been playing Project Zomboid since almost its inception. Since it was a story based game, when you started as a husband and your wife was bitten (we now see that story only as a heritage background image). It's been more than a decade, I was in school, and I'm now a 30 years old adult, I love this game. I live my live and progress as this Project is growing. I've seen my little brother grow and get to love it as well. In fact he brought me back to it, just as I once showed it to him.

Love it and recommend it, game like no other.....

Somehow this game has slipped under my radar for a long time. Despite looking very simple, the game actually has an incredible amount of depth in it's mechanics. If you enjoy hardcore survival games, you might want to give this a shot.

i didn't think i would like this but after about 10 hours and learning how the game works i enjoy it. worth a try for sure

Make a build for 46 minutes, run around for 10 minutes then get killed and decide you don't want to play this game anymore

Start game, read books, level up. Die by swarm in house. start again. repeat. 10/10 recommend

The ultimate zombie survival experience, this is how you died. Nothing beats the sense of dread hanging over you as you come to terms with the fact that eventually the water will shut off, the power will cut out, and your generator will run dry. You'll go through your food supplies, the axe you used to use to collect firewood will wear and break, and your sanity (in-game only, hopefully) will degrade. Then it happens, you make a silly mistake and you get a scratch - hopefully a small one, it doesn't hurt much. It doesn't matter. The infection is going to kill you slowly and you'll become one of them. Was it all for nothing?

The game is extremely fun in multiplayer and the development is going in a nice direction too with exciting updates planned. There are tons of settings that you can customise as well for your own zombie apocalypse. You can make the zombies faster or smarter; you can tweak their bites or scratches to be more deadly; you can turn wound infections off if you like or you can change the amount of loot that spawns around the map as some examples.

Project Zomboid is a fantastic sandbox survival experience and well worth the money, I strongly recommend it.

Worst frame-rate i've seen in a game for a very long time. The graphics aren't mind blowing, it's a simple art style, i can appreciate that. I can't appreciate a game released in 2013, running this bad in 2025. Ok when you zoom in but when you zoom out, terrible, like 5-10fps. This is a survival game, visibility is everything. More disappointing than biting into a chocolate chip cookie and the chips being rat feces.

I wanted to love this game but there is so many little things and a few big things that get in the way of that.
You're expected to die a lot but its not fun to die at all. All the cool skills you develop are gone once you get bitten and it takes forever to build them up again on a new character. This means you end up playing essentially the first "level" of the game countless times while rarely getting to the others. It's really unbalanced for it to be fun and buggy enough to die from the game lagging :(

Great game, can't fault it at all, save for the annoying fuckfest that is server hosting. Only wish you didn't have to portforward and whatnot just to get a stable server running.

Best Game ever!

Its kinda like the sims in a Zombie apocalypse. And Version 42 is comming along nicely, have been waiting a while for it to drop and evolve but it's been worth it.

A True Survival game.

Most games in the survival genre don't put much empathizes on the survival part of the game. sure you have eat and sleep and fight but most of the time the challenge of survive is trivialized in a few hours or less.

In project zomboid you constantly feel the pressures of the survival aspect of the game. if your too sleepy you are weaker, if you exhausted you are slower, you can get sick from the weather, you have make you eat enough to keep weight up among many other factors you have account for. if you get injured you can't simple heal from a potion or food, you have disinfect, snitch or bandage your wounds also make sure to keep the bandages clean and with every zombie there is chance this one fight might be you last fight. The game constantly keep you alert and ready for anything truly a hardcore survival game sandbox and very much a one of kind experience

game's hard, pretty good, worth trying, truly a masterpiece.

You ever play a zombie game and think, "Yeah, this is fun, but it doesn't really feel like surviving?" Well, Project Zomboid fixes that... This game doesn’t hold your hand. It breaks it, infects it, and makes you amputate it with a rusty saw.

I spawned inside of a bar, got shiftface drunk off whisky, tried to drive a car and drove into a lamp post.
It was at this point I realized I was playing a masterpiece

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.

Long-lasting, realistic, and great atmosphere.

When i first played this game I was scared, confused, but eager to explore Project Zomboid with my new character.
Now when I play i'm still a little scared, not as confused and even more eager to explore Project Zomboid with my new character.
I may not be the best at surviving, but i love that this game keeps me on my toes and leaves me constantly thinking about how to keep my character alive.

I saw this game from YouTube and it drew me in completely, i was never one to think i'd enjoy a zombie based game at all, but Project Zomboid is one of my favourite games to play.

I 100% recommend you play this game if you love survival, zombies, base building, and hording canned food.

If you love base building and survival games - just buy the game already. This game has ruined every other game for me because I can't find anything else that scratches the itch that Project Zomboid does. There is a huge learning curve but I enjoy that. I enjoy the struggle of being bad and slowly creating a character that is unstoppable...until I make one little mistake and it's all lost. The community is always making mods that refresh the game and make each run a little different so it has high replayability.

one of those games where you have to accept dying a lot while learning to play to get into it, after that its real fun.

something that isnt mentioned on the store page is when your character dies and you continue playing with a new character you can find your previous character now as a zombie.

This may be fun for some people, but is frustratingly hard and un-intuitive for new players.
The idea is great, and the depth of the game is impressive. Its just not for me.

This is the most addictive game I've picked up in years! A really excellent game and it isn't even finished yet (although in a lot of ways it feels like a finished game!)

A post-apocalyptic life simulator. Civilisation may be ending -- and you can watch it end on tv or radio -- but that doesn't mean it's all over for you. This may be the story of how you died, but, with time, it can be the story of how you lived.

Originally I gave this game about 4 hours before giving up on it. Game mechanics are obtuse and the game is very difficult and unforgiving. But it is actually incredibly fun once you figure things out. A quick youtube video or two will help you get started if you find it to be too much like I did.