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FatalZone
Developer Midhard Games
FatalZone is an auto shooter with roguelike and RPG elements set in a savage world of zombies. Exterminate zombie hordes, collect resources, upgrade your camp, and level up mercenaries. Humanity must survive at any cost! From the Steam store page
198 reactions from 3 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky, Lemmy) · newest Sep 15, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
42
Mixed
79 positive · 109 negative
95% range 35–49%
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| Steam reviews | 79 | 109 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Lemmy * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
10 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
1,512 of 2,280 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Summary pending — the reactions are listed below.
Reactions
60 of 198 · most liked firstI tried over 20 Steam Next demos so that you don't have to!. And I've rated them all below. I'm very glad Steam decided to do a big promotional event around them- it helped point me toward a lot of games I would have never tried/heard of otherwise. Some of the good ones might not be good the entire game, but they were at least good in the demo. I would recommend trying any demo I rate 4/5, and maybe purchase the full game if you like it. Anything lower, and it's probably down to personal…
unlabelledView post →Alright. FatalZone is done and dusted. As much as I care for it to be anyway. I've spent a decent amount of time leveling up mercenaries, building up my town, have completed like twenty raids; and honestly, that's really all the game offers, so yeah. As far as bullet heaven/auto battlers go, this is one of the better ones from a gameplay perspective IMO. It does however have a couple issues that keep it from attaining greatness in the genre. First off, you do build up your town via resources…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decided to add more then 250 achievements for the 'full release' where diffuclty doesn't stack. Multiple people adressed this to the developers and they even replied to it, then decided to ignore all the feedback by not doing anything about it before 'abandoning' the game, leaving all achievement hunters including me with a bad taste in their mouth.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →By rule, any game that gets abandoned by devs within 6 months of release gets a negative review. There is too much missing from this game to recommend playing it. Other games are similar with better execution. This game started really well, excellent potential, but abandoning mid-development is so disappointing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Concise Game Reviews: "FatalZone" (Scroll down for the longer version) Game Value: ✅ Recommended for fans of post-apocalyptic shooters with a blend of roguelike and RPG elements, offering intense survival gameplay. Game Tags: ✔Shooter ✔Roguelike ✔RPG ✔Survival ✔Post-Apocalyptic ✔Base Building ✔Resource Management ✔Procedural Generation Genre Classification: A post-apocalyptic auto-shooter with roguelike and RPG elements, focusing on resource collection, base building, and mercenary…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →🧟♀️ #Giveaway alert 🧟♂️ Enter the chaos of FatalZone, an auto shooter with roguelike & RPG elements set in a brutal post-apocalyptic world ☠️ Fortify your camp, send mercenaries on deadly missions & fend off endless threats as you fight to survive in an unforgiving landscape #indiegame #RPG
unlabelledView post →It was an unfinished game 2 years ago and it is an unfinished game now. + Technically grindable - Very few unlockables - Massive power disparity between weapons - Very few mechanics to work with - Merc system doesn't affect gameplay enough (it's VS with DD roster management but merc's starting gear doesn't matter and you can reroll mutations cheaply enough if you aren't going for "perfect" rolls)
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ever since I discovered Vampire Survivors a couple of months ago, I've been looking for the next game similar to it. I've found Brotato, but FatalZone has me hooked. It was $4 during Steam Winter sale and it's so much better from a game mechanics POV.
unlabelledView post →AI slop in promotional material Also it obviously just isn't fun given I played an hour then forgot it even existed
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →There's very little here. When compared to other games in the genre, there are very few weapons and classes, for instance. It seems like it's incomplete, but also seems to be abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Been playing since EA. The game has potential but dev seems to not really care about crashes or fixing persistent issues since EA through to release. At this point it's abandonware. Save your money and go elsewhere.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Ok, I don't usually write negative reviews, but this one got me disappointed. The game's fine if you're only looking for an hour or two of random chaos, but as soon as you start to try and plan anything, the game falls apart. 1. Some weapon evolutions make the weapon worse. Like the katana for example - you go from 7-8 quick strikes to 9 very slow strikes where the final hit gets 0.1% chance to kill everything on the screen. (Skip this if you already understood why this is bad) Explaining why…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Achievements are utter garbage grind, you don't get lower level achievements for doing higher tier runs - meaning you have to hundreds of runs just to get level achievements with each character (and there is only 5 maps). Mostly abandoned game
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Decent game with a critical flaw. You'll upgrade everything about 15 hours in, but you have to complete every stage at every difficulty with every character. Each stage takes 30 minutes, with additional time for upgrades and opening chests (so add 5 minutes) Then multiply each stage 6 times for the difficulty tiers, then multiply that by the 9 class types. It'll take over 157 hours to 100% the game and you completed most of it within 15 hours. As long as you don't try to 100% the game, it'll…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →many more autoshooters on the market that are much better than this.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly nothing but a huge grind fest with poor balance. Also it was abandoned mid 2024 so it cant be expected to get better. Too bad because it had potential.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →First update today since september, and the patch added damage stats for each weapon you can see after a round... yeah this is abandoned.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game immediately crashes if it can't connect to the internet. This is a single player game. WHY
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Cat got the Devs tongue.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Looks promising for a while, then turns into a surprisingly unrewarding grind fest.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wish I could give this game a positive review, but I can't. There's a lot to enjoy here—the gameplay is genuinely fun, and the progression system feels fresh. Instead of unlocking permanent characters to develop, you have access to permanent character archetypes, which you can then hire as mercenaries. Each mercenary can be outfitted with unique armor and weapons, making them distinct, and you can level them up through their own skill trees. But if a mercenary dies, they're gone for…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A cheap variant of vampire survivors, failed to provide any interesting elements and other reviews make it clear there is not a lot of actual options so the only thing it has going for it is enemy variety and there does not seem to be any offical plan to expand content.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The extraction mechanics in FatalZone once held promise, offering a sense of challenge and purpose. Unfortunately, it seems the developers either didn't know how to build on this aspect in earlier versions or were afraid it would alienate potential players. Now, it's been reduced to a trivial feature, as you can purchase any weapon or armor combination without much effort, removing any meaningful decision-making. Not that these choices were ever that impactful, as there’s a glaring lack of…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →personal opinion: fun at beginning, really quickly gets boring, because there is no content, and small progression
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Just no, got stale fast, especially with progression going worst instead of better like usual
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I don't like that concept of a "fatigue"(mutation) when you get it every time after the fight. The worst part is when you play you get distracted from the running zombies for which you get a bonus , so it happens because you(devs) haven't done a notable frame around the window of notification. In general, The whole game and game design don't force me to play it long and many times , therefore the buying of the game was not a right decision. 3/10 - there are many action rogue-like games better…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Very mid and very abandoned
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →one of the worst games i've played in this genre.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I would really like to give this game a positive review but I can't. So much of this game is legitimately fun. The progression system is fairly novel. Instead of having permanent characters that you unlock that you build up you get access to permanent character archetypes that you can buy as mercenaries. You can then equip those mercenaries with armor and weapons to set each character apart and you can even lvl them up with their own skills trees. But if that character dies, they are gone. And…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Dear devs, I've already played every map, on every single difficulty with every single character prior to the 1.0 release to get the achievements that were tied only to the last (legend) difficulty. And it took me about 50 hours. With the 1.0 release, you added over 200 achievements that are, for almost all of them, tied to lower difficulties. As such, could you PLEASE make them backward unlockable so that we don't have to REDO what we did to unlock achievements you should have added…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Disappointing Early Access. The devs didnt seem to have a clue what to do with the game and beside some small additions nothing really changed. So much wasted potential! In the end this is just another survivor like most uninspired ones with a little gimmick feature that barely scratches the surface of what it could have been.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most of your write ups seem decently done if you clicked with the game at all, but if you're going to continue to review things, you might want to do reign in your personal biases a bit. Low scores for games you didn't play or realize you don't understand the appeal of are pretty bad takes. Vampire Survivors was quite literally one of the hit games of the year when it came out, to call other games of the genre that are following on its coattails "not really a game" and saying people shouldn't…
unlabelledView post →not terrible, but it froze multiple times when opening, and I also got a loading loop after going for a long run, possibly losing any progress. It doesn't even work properly
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Sadly I'm going to say AVOID this game. The gameplay is FINE but the glitches and bugs that completely wipe your data or game crashes wasting 20+ minutes multiple times are too much. Each run requires 30 minutes to complete which is long but not terrible. What is terrible is when you are at the 25-28 minute mark and the game just crashes out of no where it is beyond frustrating. You lose any and all progress, literally wasting your time. The worst part is the devs appeared to have abandoned the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Unlocks are all by achievement, meaning you have to play with their poorly designed heroes with poorly designed weapons or you cannot unlock everything. Limited variety. Almost every 'evolution' is locked behind which main weapon you pick. Others will are gate kept behind achievement unlocks. Most heroes/weapons are bad. Then a few are totally OP. Recruiting heroes is RNG (Hero type) on RNG (Weapon Type) on RNG (Armor Type). You cannot look up what the weapons/armors do when leveled up…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Extremely lacking, grindy, and unbalanced. Once you know the only viable meta this game has, it gets EXTREMELY BORING. The 330 achievements this game have are mostly difficulty related and 30 minutes each (20 minutes last stage) for all characters which where the grind is. Like other negative reviews, the lack of content, abilities, unbalanced enemies/difficulty spikes, and even the lack of a simple basic story* is the final nail for the coffin for this game. Also this game can occasionally…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I want to like this game but 30 Minutes per Run is just way too much for the amount of grind for just one character who might end up dying anyways.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Fun but...way too grindy. Needs a hyper mode to compensate for making progress. I wont be playing this until some qol gets added. Will update the review to positive if devs make changes that respects our time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Got this in a $5.75 for 5 games bundle on Fanatical. Once you figure everything out, good luck putting the game down.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →not even bloatware, at this point, abandoned ware... Omg dont buy this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The achievements of this game doesn't respect your time.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Game was broken with 1.0 release, and it doesn't look like the developers are going to fix it. 99% of my playtime was when the game was still in Early Access, and I never really encountered any fatal errors or glitches there. I decided to revisit it since they released the final version and a whole bunch of achievements. At the end of my *very first run* I encounter a glitch that means I cannot actually end the run, and instead just see the "end game" statistics. This makes it impossible to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →grindy and unbalanced. Also not enough weapons for this kind of game imo. doesn't feel like a full release.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →September 23, 2024: I like this game and I'd recommend it if there wasn't a permadeath mechanic that deletes your character if you have a Fatal Exception crash. If I make a mistake and I get my characters killed that's one thing, but putting 28 minutes in a run and clicking to open a chest and having a Fatal Crash to find out my character was deleted when I load back up is not great. October 5, 2024: I did find that if I press enter to collect the chests rather than using the mouse to click…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The core idea of this game - recruiting, levelling-up and healing people who you lose PERMANENTLY if they die is cool Everything around it is less half-baked at best - it's grindy and it's just not fun. I'd avoid this if I were you - the developers cashed-out and left...
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not bad if you want to have a little fun, but be prepared to spend +300h if you want to get all the achievement the normal way, most achievements are like: using character X complete level Y on difficulty Z. and completing a level means surviving for 30 min fighting and you will lose the character if you die and all the progress (permadeath). It gets repetitive and can be pretty punishing.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →FatalZone fails to live up to other survivors-likes and both feels and IS an unfinished product! Made by RUSSIAN "indie" developers, this game had real potential if not for the dev's laziness and greed. It was quite a struggle doing research on them as they are perhaps ashamed to admit they are based in Russia? Nowhere do they actually state that info, you can only correlate it by tangential information like: legally-required address, (+7) country code, English/Russian languages offered on…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Demo ran fine months ago. Purchased the game today and ran into issues. Black screen on launch is as far as I got. I tried verifying files, reinstalling multiple times, searched the internet for anyone else having the same issue that fixed it, verified drivers on my end, and no such luck. Refunded better luck to anyone else buying the game its not bad for $5 if you can get it running.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not worth the money.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Worth picking up on sale if you want a fun zombie slaying bullet hell and aren't looking for more than 30 - 40 hours of entertainment since you can unlock everything relatively quickly and the meta is completely broken, which severely limits replayability. Take a look at Yet Another Zombie Survivors if you're willing to spend a bit more for something similar with more polish, depth, and replayability.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I enjoyed the game, well worth the price, many thanks
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Most of the game is fine for what it is, but it has some problems. To start, this game has very few items, and not having Banish is actually a problem. I've had several runs where I don't get my desired items well into 20 minutes of the run. Some of the starting weapons have clear disadvantages and are way harder to evolve over other ones, and generally feel worse to use compared to others. The last reason is that in the last 5 runs I've played since the newest update I've crashed twice, the…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Grind: The Game. From the first minute on. Add in the Darkest Dungeon frustration when you get unlucky and lose a char that you likes and trained via grinding. The in game resource (money) to get a similar merc back isn't the problem. It's the out game one: Time. YOUR time. Aaaaand - it's gone.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The game is dynamic and exciting, but sometimes everything feels too easy. I’d love to see more challenges and tougher situations.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Low on content, lots of better options out there in this genre. Achievements are a bunch of needless padding.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really enjoy like the early portion of this game. it feels good with fun weapons. However, you soon realize it's pretty one dimensional. Once you have everything unlocked, thousands of all the resources, and still have 250 achievements that are ALL "Beat X map with Y character on Z difficulty", the window dressing really wears off..
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game's configuration does not respect its players' time. Runs are 10-15 minutes too long. Seriously. Once you've unlocked a bit of the meta, the runs are so boring, repetitive, and easy (even on maximum difficulty) that you barely have to move. Character classes during early access were basically picking your starting weapon and armour. Sure, the classes had varied base stats, but they all played functionally the same. Then near the end of EA, they added class abilities. The abilities do…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very fun game. I died, but I survived.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A very mild thumbs up. It's fine, plays well enough, but it isn't earth shattering - just another Vampire Survivors clone but with a zombie skin and less interesting power-ups.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad achievement implementation. there's like 300 achievements just beating every map on every difficulty with every survivor. bear in mind each of these achievements takes you 30 minutes. and doing it on the highest difficulty doesn't net the lower difficulty ones. I know achievements aren't everything in a game but this implementation is so horrid and clearly made to keep you playing for as long as possible way past the time the game becomes repetitive.
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