The Game Census
John, The Zombie cover art

John, The Zombie

Minimal Lab · 2017-11-22

Steam

ActionIndieSimulation

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Third person

Releases: Nov 22, 2017 (PC (Microsoft Windows)), Sep 07, 2024 (Nintendo Switch)

Welcome to Johnwood, a weird and mysterious place where scientists become zombies by accident, hardware stores sell frozen brains, people are hit by cars with no apparent reason and every citizen claims to have seen horses flying!

58%
positive of 225 reviews
Mixed
steam's rating (official)
0–20,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
50/100
IGDB user rating (0 ratings)
$9.99
steam price (US)

Health check

Quiet
  • · 6 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~1/week).
  • · Review velocity down 25% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (26 reviews).
  • · Top 33% of 22,512 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 5.6k–14k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 225 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $0.99 at Steam (2020-06-25) · bundled 2×via IsThereAnyDeal

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
191920172026Week of 2017-11-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2017-11-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2017-12-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2017-12-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-01-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2018-01-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-02-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-03-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-03-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-04-01: 3 positiveWeek of 2018-04-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2018-05-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2018-05-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2018-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2018-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2018-07-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2018-08-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2018-09-01: 5 negativeWeek of 2018-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2018-11-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2019-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-03-01: 4 positiveWeek of 2019-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2019-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-07-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2019-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2019-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-04-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-05-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 positiveWeek of 2020-06-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2020-08-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2020-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-02-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-03-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-04-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-07-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-07-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2021-10-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2021-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-01-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-02-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-10-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2022-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-03-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 1 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 1 positiveWeek of 2026-09-01: 1 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Price history

$9.99$0.992017-11-232022-01-062017-11-23 — best price $5.992017-12-20 — best price $9.992017-12-27 — best price $2.992018-03-29 — best price $2.992018-04-19 — best price $1.502018-04-22 — best price $1.192018-05-02 — best price $9.992018-08-02 — best price $9.992018-09-19 — best price $9.992020-03-26 — best price $8.992020-06-25 — best price $0.992020-07-14 — best price $9.992021-01-05 — best price $9.992021-04-06 — best price $3.752021-04-13 — best price $9.992021-06-25 — best price $1.502021-07-09 — best price $9.992021-11-25 — best price $2.242021-12-02 — best price $9.992021-12-23 — best price $2.242022-01-06 — best price $9.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Completion

20
achievements tracked
70.3%
earned "Hungry"
13.8%
median achievement earned by

Global achievement rates from Steam.

Details

WindowsSingle-playerSteam AchievementsPartial Controller SupportFamily Sharing

2 supported languages: English, Portuguese - Brazil

Console footprint

PlatformPlayers trackedCompletionTrophies/achievements
Steam (Steam)3148%20

Players tracked by Exophase (achievement/trophy trackers) — a sample of the player base, not total sales.

Player tags

FunnyIndieActionArcadeSandboxViolentZombiesAdventureOpen WorldSimulation

Census log

Computed from census-recorded observations only — dates are observation dates.

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Similarity via IGDB.

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