Project Zomboid

It's a dream come true. An open-world, realistic and in-depth Zombie Survival simulator. Every building is enterable. Nowhere is off-limits. And everyone else is dead. This is not for those with short attention spans or a desire to play hero. This is time-consuming, realistic and unforgiving. Almost any mistake can get the player killed, or worse... What is greatest of all though is that this game features TRUE Zombies. Actual dead but reanimated Humans. Not crazy, acid-spewing mutants or sprinting, leaping crazies. In this regard Project Zomboid is totally unique. There is nothing like it on the market today.

Hello, Really, this is an amazingly fun game. Steep learning curve, but it's not outrageously difficult to grasp. I'm 42, I've been gaming since 1987. Few games hold my interest anymore, but I keep coming back for some PZ!! And we don't even have the 4.2 yet!! (1/13/25)

Recent build 42 release is awesome; I just hope that now the unstable beta is out devs will stop pushing patches to Steam before GOG. I understand there has been considerable pressure to get the latest update out but now that it is, please don't release subsequent patches until they is ready for ALL platforms/stores... Easy to focus on the negatives, though. Really enjoying build 42! Feels like things are really coming together now. Keep it up!

Project Zomboid is a very ambitious game. The developers have a passion for the game and clearly care greatly about it. It has the framework of a good game. But it just isn't a good game. I hate the fact that I hate the game. Why is PZ a bad game? Fundamentally, the game is boring. Even people who love the game will tell you once you learn to play it gets easy and you need to bump up the difficulty to have fun. The gameplay loop is pretty much, try to make a safe base early on, scavenge and skill up, and then fortify. At some point you'll die and start from scratch. You end up spending more time organizing your loot than actually looting. Past a certain point there is nothing new to find. The excitement of the game comes from dealing with zombies. But the game punishes you for fighting zombies and due to the numbers on normal, hiding/running from them is hard. The combat is terrible, truly awful. You will die countless times to missing a swing because you can't judge distance in the isometric view. The best weapon in the game is a fence; really, a fence is a better weapon then a pistol. Not because it does damage but because zombies trip on it. It is a rougelike, when you die your game is over. Just game over, no redos. And that's fine in a game like FTL which is 2 hours. You can easily sink 20+ hours into a run in PZ only to miss a swing and die. Leaving you with nothing. PZ is a timesink. You spend hours doing menial repetitive tasks, only to die due to bad luck or a mistake and all that time is gone. No sense of pride or accomplishment. Only frustration. Let me give you an example, I had a run that was really successful. I had sunk probably close to 20 hours into it. Then my character just died. Why? The game didn't say. Later I learned it was because he had eaten burnt food, which in this game is deadly despite not being labeled as dangerous. All that time, wasted. For a death most people would say was BS. The game is a literal waste of time.

For the same price as Steam, you should expect to get the same game, with access to the same mods, the same multiplayer servers, or at least the same updates within a day or two... Build 42 was released on Steam 2 weeks ago. Where are the offline installers on GOG? C'mon GOG and/or TIS, get it together - or lower to price to say $5...