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ZED ZONE

Leven Liu · INDIECN · 2023-03-29

Steam

ActionIndieRPGSimulationEarly Access

Modes: Single player · Perspectives: Bird view / Isometric

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.

ZED ZONE is an Action, Indie, RPG and Simulation game released in 2023, priced at $11.99, with Very Positive reviews (81% of 3683 reviews) and an estimated 200,000 .. 500,000 owners.

154
playing now
81%
positive of 3.7k reviews
Very Positive
steam's rating (official)
200,000–500,000
owners (SteamSpy est.)
1
Nexus mods (1.1k downloads)
pending
deck/linux tier (ProtonDB)
Playable
Steam Deck (Valve)
SteamOS: Playable
$11.99
steam price (US)

154 players in-game as of 2026-10-15 04:00 UTC (census sample)

Trailer

ZED ZONE trailer thumbnail

Zed Zone — 3 Years in Early Access | Update Recap

≈1,000,000 YouTube results for this game's trailer search

Health check

Quietly active
  • · 154 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 8% of 27,841 Action games in the census by review count.
Estimated sales: 75k–168k copies

Review-multiple estimate from 3,736 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 9 of 18 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

354302026-09-15 14:00 — 127 players2026-09-16 22:00 — 31 players2026-09-18 05:00 — 74 players2026-09-19 13:00 — 133 players2026-09-20 20:00 — 48 players2026-09-22 04:00 — 67 players2026-09-23 12:00 — 92 players2026-09-24 19:00 — 49 players2026-09-26 03:00 — 53 players2026-09-27 10:00 — 90 players2026-09-28 18:00 — 44 players2026-09-30 01:00 — 33 players2026-10-01 09:00 — 91 players2026-10-02 16:00 — 134 players2026-10-04 00:00 — 76 players2026-10-05 08:00 — 173 players2026-10-06 15:00 — 202 players2026-10-07 23:00 — 52 players2026-10-09 06:00 — 145 players2026-10-10 14:00 — 280 players2026-10-11 22:00 — 142 players2026-10-13 05:00 — 215 players2026-10-14 13:00 — 273 players2026-10-15 04:00 — 154 players
Concurrent players, hourly average, last 30 days (census samples).
67214Apr 2023Aug 2026Apr 2023 — avg 672 · peak 2,532Jun 2023 — avg 76 · peak 216Aug 2023 — avg 37 · peak 93Oct 2023 — avg 29 · peak 107Dec 2023 — avg 49 · peak 110Feb 2024 — avg 38 · peak 114Apr 2024 — avg 41 · peak 117Jun 2024 — avg 27 · peak 77Aug 2024 — avg 22 · peak 46Oct 2024 — avg 29 · peak 75Dec 2024 — avg 44 · peak 128Feb 2025 — avg 21 · peak 65Apr 2025 — avg 21 · peak 53Jun 2025 — avg 29 · peak 90Aug 2025 — avg 22 · peak 58Oct 2025 — avg 19 · peak 56Dec 2025 — avg 14 · peak 34Feb 2026 — avg 24 · peak 70Apr 2026 — avg 20 · peak 52Jun 2026 — avg 52 · peak 114Aug 2026 — avg 73 · peak 160
Monthly average players (source: steamcharts.com) — history via steamcharts.com; live census sampling since Aug 2026.

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).

Twitch viewers

5302026-10-11 06:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 08:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 10:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 12:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-11 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 14:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 16:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 18:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 20:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-12 22:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 00:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 02:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 04:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 07:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 09:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 11:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-13 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 13:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 15:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 17:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 19:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 21:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-14 23:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 01:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 03:34 — 0 viewers2026-10-15 04:34 — 0 viewers
Hourly Twitch viewers (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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