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In a zombie-overrun Kentucky sandbox, create a survivor, scavenge and fortify a home, manage daily needs, and try to outlast the horde.
Released 08 Nov 2013
Loot Zombie-Infested Towns
Barricade a Safehouse
Manage Daily Needs
Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
Developed by The Indie Stone · Published by The Indie Stone
Set in the zombie-infested Knox Event zone, Project Zomboid puts you in the role of an ordinary survivor with no fixed quest line. Explore towns and countryside, search abandoned buildings and vehicles, and decide for yourself how to spend each day.
Avoid or fight zombies while keeping track of hunger, thirst, fatigue, mood, injuries, illness, and other needs. Sound and visibility can draw danger, and wounds, exhaustion, or a careless choice can put a run at risk.
Scavenge materials to craft, cook, repair gear, and barricade or build a base. Develop skills through use, and pursue longer-term routines such as farming, fishing, trapping, and maintaining vehicles as utilities fail and conditions change. Play solo or in multiplayer, with customizable sandbox settings.
Players who enjoy Project Zomboid often praise the freedom to shape each run into a personal survival story, along with its tense atmosphere and detailed day-to-day systems. Reviews also value the range of activities and the option to play with friends. Other reviews criticize the steep learning curve, development pace, updates, or the lack of longer-term goals, so these experiences are not universal.
Project Zomboid is an open-ended zombie-infested sandbox. It asks one simple question – how will you die?
In the towns within the Knox Event Exclusion Zone our survivors must loot houses, build defences and do their utmost to delay their inevitable death day by day. No help is coming. Continued survival relies on cunning, luck, and the ability to evade a relentless horde...
Hardcore Sandbox Zombie Survival Game with a focus on realistic survival.
Online multiplayer survival with persistent player-run servers.
Hundreds of zombies with swarm mechanics and in-depth visual and hearing systems.
Full line of sight system and real-time lighting, sound and visibility mechanics. Get spotted? Fire a gun? You’re in trouble…
Absolutely vast, and growing, map that’s loosely based on real world Kentucky. A huge area in which you explore, loot and set up your fortress.
Vehicles with full physics, and deep and realistic gameplay mechanics.
Tools and items can be used to craft weapons, barricade and cook. Build zombie-proof forts by chopping trees, sawing wood and scavenging supplies.
Deal with depression, boredom, hunger, thirst and illness while trying to survive.
Day turns to night. The electricity falters. Hordes migrate. Winter draws in. Nature gradually starts to take over.
Farming, fishing, carpentry, cooking, trapping, character customisation, skills and perks that develop based on what you do in-game.
Proper zombies that don’t run. (Unless you tell them to in the sandbox menu).
Atmospheric dynamic music that matches your Knox Event adventure.
Imaginative Challenge scenarios, on top of our regular Outbreak, Rising, Apocalypse and nightmarish Extinction modes.
Local split-screen co-op.
Full, open and powerful Lua modding support.
Xbox Controller Gamepad support on Windows. (Other gamepads can be set up manually)
The return of Kate and Baldspot, the initial story-driven stars of the Project Zomboid tech demo.
In-depth and varied NPC encounters driven in a persistent world, powered by a metagame system that turns each play-through into your very own zombie survival movie with emergent narrative gameplay.
Constant expansion/overhaul of the countryside, towns and city that have been ravaged by the Knox Event
More items, crafting recipes, weapons and gameplay systems.
Steam Achievements support.
| Platforms | Windows, macOS, Linux |
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| Players | 1–4 |
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| Multiplayer | Project Zomboid supports single-player and multiplayer. Official store text states online multiplayer with persistent player-run servers and local 4-player split-screen co-op. Steam features list Online PvP, Online Co-op, Shared/Split Screen Co-op, and Cross-Platform Multiplayer. |
| Multiplayer & mods | The game has full Lua modding support and Steam Workshop support. Reviews indicate players commonly run modded servers and use mods in co-op or multiplayer. Reviews also state multiplayer can become awkward, buggy, or unstable with many mods or high player counts. |
| Controller support | Xbox |
| Controller required | No |
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| Website | Official website |
