Project Zomboid
Last updated: 2026-01-01
- High replayability and emergent stories
- Engaging and immersive gameplay loop
- Extensive modding and customization options
- Severe bugs and instability issues
- Poor multiplayer optimization problems
- Unfinished and repetitive late-game content
Emotions
Frustration23%Excitement12%Satisfaction8%Disappointment7%Amusement4%
Core metrics
Core business metrics
Steam review mix, revenue model, and refund leakage.
Steam review stats
- Steam rating
- Very Positive (8/10)
- Total reviews
- 421,476
- Positive
- 397,04694.2%
- Negative
- 24,4305.8%
Sales estimations
- Estimated sales count
- 25,899,836
- Estimated revenue
- $517,737,722
- Game price
- $20
- Review → sale ratio
Refund leakage
- Refund-intent reviews
- 6590.79%
- Estimated copies lost
- 40,496
- Estimated revenue lost
- $809,515
Review pace
Statistical analysis
Sentiment vs playtime and velocity signals.
Sentiment × Playtime
review counts| Bucket | Neg | Pos |
|---|---|---|
| ≤ 2h playtime | 6650.8% Avg playtime 1h | 6350.8% Avg playtime 1.1h |
| > 2h playtime | 4,5565.4% Avg playtime 166.4h | 77,82593% Avg playtime 210.5h |
Velocity
review pace| Avg/day | 18.9 rev/day |
| Last 30d | 284.1 rev/day |
| Quarterly | 1,613.9 rev/qtr |
| Days covered | 4,419.7 days |
Audience segments
Who is reviewing
Buyer mixes, lifecycle phase, and Steam Deck signals.
Buyer vs key activations
Share of review volume
83,681 total
Organic purchasers63,34175.7%
Voted up: 94%
Key activations20,34024.3%
Voted up: 92%
Honeymoon vs endgame
Based on hours played
83,681 total
First impression0-2h2,1432.56%
Voted up: 62%
Mid game2-10h13,53116.2%
Voted up: 90%
Late game10-20h10,03112.0%
Voted up: 94%
Endgame20h+57,97669.3%
Voted up: 96%
Steam Deck monitor
Deck vs global sentiment
Deck satisfaction
90.2%
Global baseline 93.8%
440 Steam Deck-tagged reviews out of 421,476 total.