What people complain about and love in 2026
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Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive.
Indie, RPG, Simulation, Early Access · $24.99 · out since 2013 · from the Steam descriptionNew players struggle to learn Project Zomboid's many systems without clear guidance, which is the main reason inside its difficulty complaints, at 52% of them.
OneStar read 2,521 Steam reviews of Project Zomboid posted from Nov 2025 to Oct 2026. Of the 2,521 people who reviewed Project Zomboid in OneStar's sample, 28% complain and 75% praise it. The top complaints about Project Zomboid are difficulty (31% of complaints), bugs and crashes (13%) and gameplay and design (9%). In OneStar's sample of Project Zomboid reviews, 1% of reviewers say they're quitting. OneStar's report on Project Zomboid was last updated on Oct 29, 2026.
What goes wrong
Horrible, not beginner friendly at all. impossible to play. I have to mention that i bought this game for $6 off some Chinese website and its still not even close to worth it.
Put 40 hours into a save then the save deletes itself and then suddenly i cant even make another save and all my solo and multiplayer progress went with it.
It has a lot of things I like, but I ended up hating the combat, hiding, exploring - it is not made in a way I would enjoy.
UNPLAYABLE with a controller
Cool game but developers love to ♥♥♥♥ on modders (who are carrying the game) and pushing out mod breaking updates on a stable build without warning or uploading branches you can fall back on,...
What goes well
My favorite game of all time.
Besides my own issues, as a zombie apocalypse survival game, this is THE BEST ZOMBIE GAME EVER!
So much fun to play with friends!
Such a breathe of fresh air to have a solid development team that is releasing great content updates, bug fixes, and showing love all around - especially when other zombie game developers have...
Genuinely one of the best games ever made !
Reasons for quitting
The main complaint of the 19 reviewers who say they stopped or are quitting
What they use it for
345 of 2,521 reviewers said; shares are of them
Latest Version has really changed the game for me, before build 42 i wouldn't have recommended this game but now it feels way smoother and has more content and i would say it is very fun with friends.
Game is very fun to play alone for hours with mods, very punishing at the beginning if you don't know what you're doing, but it is fun learning how the game works and from your mistakes as you go.
Super fun and super crazy detailed. Manages to be a fun chill game for evenings after work alongside getting a scare from the zombies. Love it.
What they ask for
88 reviews ask for something
Who is saying it
The biggest clear differences between audiences; 6 more with a free account
TenureNew user: say they're quitting 4.9x as often as everyone (3% vs 1%).
Playtime at review200 hours or more: mention developer and updates 2.4x as often as everyone (25% vs 10%).
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