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ZED ZONE cover art

ZED ZONE

Leven Liu · INDIECN · 2023-03-29

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player

Releases: Mar 30, 2023 (PC (Microsoft Windows))

A great catastrophe has come, and you, who are on duty, crash and trapped in a Zed Zone. There are zombies and monsters everywhere, In order to escape, by collecting materials, upgrading skills, building shelters, defeating zombie waves and mysterious mechs, chasing a glimmer of hope.

79
playing now
81%
positive of 3.6k reviews
Very Positive
steam rating
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
$11.99
steam price (US)

79 players in-game as of 2026-08-30 19:00 UTC (census sample)

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 79 players in-game at the last census sample.
  • · 183 reviews in the last 8 weeks (~23/week).
  • · Review velocity down 4% vs the prior 8 weeks.
  • · Current weekly pace is under 5% of the all-time peak week (1,340 reviews).
  • · Top 19% of 11,000 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 73k–164k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,650 total reviews — how this is computed.

All-time low: $4.79 at Steam (2025-12-18)via IsThereAnyDeal

12-month high $11.99 · on sale 11 of 21 observed days (census price snapshots)

Review momentum

PositiveNegative
1.2k1.2k20232026Week of 2023-03-01: 490 positiveWeek of 2023-03-01: 44 negativeWeek of 2023-04-01: 1,171 positiveWeek of 2023-04-01: 169 negativeWeek of 2023-05-01: 155 positiveWeek of 2023-05-01: 41 negativeWeek of 2023-06-01: 67 positiveWeek of 2023-06-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2023-07-01: 111 positiveWeek of 2023-07-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2023-08-01: 40 positiveWeek of 2023-08-01: 18 negativeWeek of 2023-09-01: 47 positiveWeek of 2023-09-01: 28 negativeWeek of 2023-10-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2023-10-01: 27 negativeWeek of 2023-11-01: 95 positiveWeek of 2023-11-01: 37 negativeWeek of 2023-12-01: 50 positiveWeek of 2023-12-01: 25 negativeWeek of 2024-01-01: 32 positiveWeek of 2024-01-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2024-02-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-02-01: 19 negativeWeek of 2024-03-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2024-03-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2024-04-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-04-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-05-01: 25 positiveWeek of 2024-05-01: 16 negativeWeek of 2024-06-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2024-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2024-07-01: 42 positiveWeek of 2024-07-01: 15 negativeWeek of 2024-08-01: 17 positiveWeek of 2024-08-01: 24 negativeWeek of 2024-09-01: 21 positiveWeek of 2024-09-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-10-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2024-10-01: 9 negativeWeek of 2024-11-01: 29 positiveWeek of 2024-11-01: 8 negativeWeek of 2024-12-01: 38 positiveWeek of 2024-12-01: 20 negativeWeek of 2025-01-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2025-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2025-02-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-02-01: 3 negativeWeek of 2025-03-01: 19 positiveWeek of 2025-03-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-04-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-04-01: 17 negativeWeek of 2025-05-01: 22 positiveWeek of 2025-05-01: 14 negativeWeek of 2025-06-01: 15 positiveWeek of 2025-06-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-07-01: 27 positiveWeek of 2025-07-01: 12 negativeWeek of 2025-08-01: 9 positiveWeek of 2025-08-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2025-09-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2025-09-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-10-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2025-10-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2025-11-01: 10 negativeWeek of 2025-12-01: 12 positiveWeek of 2025-12-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-01-01: 31 positiveWeek of 2026-01-01: 13 negativeWeek of 2026-02-01: 10 positiveWeek of 2026-02-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-03-01: 14 positiveWeek of 2026-03-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-04-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-04-01: 2 negativeWeek of 2026-05-01: 5 positiveWeek of 2026-05-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-06-01: 26 positiveWeek of 2026-06-01: 6 negativeWeek of 2026-07-01: 20 positiveWeek of 2026-07-01: 7 negativeWeek of 2026-08-01: 23 positiveWeek of 2026-08-01: 4 negative
Weekly review counts (Steam review histogram). Positive above the line, negative below.

Players online

136312026-08-07 00:00 — 38 players2026-08-07 08:00 — 77 players2026-08-07 16:00 — 103 players2026-08-08 00:00 — 43 players2026-08-08 08:00 — 118 players2026-08-08 16:00 — 95 players2026-08-09 00:00 — 49 players2026-08-09 08:00 — 127 players2026-08-09 16:00 — 98 players2026-08-10 00:00 — 45 players2026-08-10 08:00 — 81 players2026-08-10 16:00 — 73 players2026-08-11 00:00 — 36 players2026-08-11 08:00 — 68 players2026-08-11 16:00 — 84 players2026-08-13 00:00 — 37 players2026-08-14 07:00 — 56 players2026-08-15 15:00 — 83 players2026-08-16 23:00 — 38 players2026-08-18 07:00 — 39 players2026-08-19 13:00 — 136 players2026-08-20 20:00 — 42 players2026-08-22 04:00 — 86 players2026-08-23 11:00 — 120 players2026-08-24 19:00 — 56 players2026-08-26 03:00 — 61 players2026-08-27 11:00 — 85 players2026-08-28 19:00 — 46 players2026-08-30 03:00 — 113 players2026-08-30 19:00 — 79 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).

Price history

$11.99$4.792023-03-302026-08-032023-03-30 — best price $10.192023-05-13 — best price $10.192023-06-29 — best price $9.592023-07-14 — best price $10.192023-08-31 — best price $9.592023-11-21 — best price $9.592023-12-02 — best price $9.592023-12-21 — best price $8.392024-02-11 — best price $8.392024-03-14 — best price $8.392024-04-01 — best price $8.392024-05-15 — best price $7.192024-06-27 — best price $5.992024-08-24 — best price $7.192024-10-15 — best price $7.192024-11-27 — best price $5.392024-12-06 — best price $5.992025-01-02 — best price $11.992025-02-01 — best price $11.992025-03-12 — best price $11.992025-03-20 — best price $11.992025-04-25 — best price $11.992025-06-02 — best price $11.992025-07-10 — best price $11.992025-08-04 — best price $11.992025-09-29 — best price $5.392025-10-29 — best price $5.992025-12-18 — best price $4.792026-01-13 — best price $5.992026-02-27 — best price $5.992026-03-19 — best price $4.792026-04-27 — best price $8.392026-06-05 — best price $8.392026-06-25 — best price $8.392026-07-20 — best price $8.392026-08-03 — best price $11.99
Lowest recorded price across tracked stores, per day (census snapshots).

Details

WindowsFull controller supportSingle-playerFull controller supportSteam WorkshopSteam CloudFamily Sharing

12 supported languages: English, Simplified Chinese, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Japanese, Korean, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Portuguese - Portugal, Russian, Spanish - Latin America

Where its players are

Share of Steam reviews by language (top languages measured) — a proxy for where the player base lives.

Player tags

RPGActionSandboxZombiesBuildingCraftingSurvivalTop-DownOpen WorldRogue-like

Census log

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

Recent updates

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