Love zombies? You need to be playing Project Zomboid. What, you want more? Then how about the news that, with its latest Build 42 update, this Steam Early Access zombie survival game has smashed its all-time Steam player count record, the highest it’s been since the game’s Nov 2013 release.
Project Zomboid’s latest update isn’t just some bug fix, it makes radical changes to the game. It adds in a whole new animal husbandry system, the map’s bigger than ever and you can climb, or fight, your way up the inside of skyscrapers, to name just a few of the changes.
Now, after peaking at 65,505 concurrent players in 2022 (via SteamDB), Project Zomboid has rocketed to nearly 87,000 survivors. That’s just the simultaneous player count, too; chances are the total player count is much higher, and the game is number 75 in Steam’s top-selling games. It’s also available on GOG.
I dove back into Project Zomboid shortly after the update dropped and I’m having a whale of a time (if the whale had a taste for human brains). Granted, my progress is slowed by the fact that Project Zomboid has a permadeath mechanic (I’m starting from scratch) but I’ve not resorted to save-scumming. Yet.
With Project Zomboid reviews like “Murdered all my neighbors with a spoon, ran down the block and got swarmed by 30 zombies and died, would recommend,” how can you go wrong? You could end up locked inside a gun shop, a bizarre scenario one player encountered, but that’s hopefully a one-off.
Project Zomboid is available now on Steam and GOG, priced at £22.49, and it’s worth every penny.
