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Fort Zombie

ActionIndieRPG

Developer Kerberos Productions Inc.

Fort Zombie is a role-playing video game developed by Kerberos Productions. It was released on October 30, 2009. The game takes place on a version of Earth that is being invaded by an evil force which warps reality and creates zombies. Players control Ben Riley, a young man who has survived through the destruction and is setting up a haven in the fictional town of Piety, Indiana[1]. From Wikipedia (CC BY-SA 4.0)

112 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Oct 1, 2026 · last updated Oct 8, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

68
Fresh

75 positive · 36 negative
95% range 58–76%

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Steam's own rating
Mixed
103 of 155 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

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  • Steam user Steam user …3656Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018

    The infamous Let's Play from Revocane

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  • Steam user Steam user …0460Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018 · 4 h played

    This game meant everything to me when i was in middle school (Im 20 now). This was the first true zombie survival game and met my personal idea for the perfect zombie game and i lost many nights of sleep to this game. This version seems to crash alot but don't let that discourage you. Give it a try and im sure youll love it as much as i do. Was honestly surprised they added this to steam finally. Its been greenlit for years and the devs have been silent forever. But ive even been hearing rumors…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2434Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018 · 20 h played

    Is it janky? Yes. Is it buggy? Yes. Will it crash often? DEFINITELY Is it worth a buy? ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ RIGHT YOU ARE! This is THE definitive Zombie Survival game in the world, the features alone on paper make it better than any others. You NEED to take the time out to learn the game, get used to the controls, the way hit markers work. It's ALL NUMBERS. Real RPG Number Crunching. So get a build you like. (I recommend playing as Police officer and giving more points to Clubs) Take it slow And most of…

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  • Steam user Steam user …4071Steam reviews · Dec 26, 2018 · 12 h played

    My favorite piece of ♥♥♥♥ ever made It's unfinished, never will be finished Buggy as ♥♥♥♥ It's objectively ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ I still love it

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  • Steam user Steam user …8492Steam reviews · Nov 11, 2018 · 77 h played

    Fort Zombie is a wonderful glitchy masterpiece.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2268Steam reviews · Feb 27, 2019 · 3 h played

    The AI is atrocious, the game is honestly pretty ugly, it's crash and bug-happy, you do missions at night or get too many zombies in the scene (Looking at you final battle) and the game lags like no tomorrow. Does that make it bad? Hell no - you just need to know that going into this and know that no problem you face is getting fixed. Fort Zombie is an all-round pretty decent game for it's price. It's one of the few games out there like it that I can think of that isn't Project Zomboid.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0607Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018

    Of all the games I've ever watched Revocane play. This is one of them. My character was invisible 10/10 would play again.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1049Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018

    This game is janky, broken, and buggy as hell. I love it. I found my current community of degenerates from this game, way back when, watcxhing Revocanes lets play trying to work out how some of the traps work. They dont work, and they still dont work in this version the game is outright broken. It runs, and is playable, but its buggy as hell and alot of the features dont work. I honestly cannot recommend this game, but to me, it will always hold a special place in my heart.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6784Steam reviews · May 27, 2021 · 19 h played

    This game is especially wonky and needs getting used to, but has a lot of unique elements with everything leading up to a final battle and how you need to use your time wisely (kinda like Fallout 1 with the water chip). Its somewhat buggy and some special abilities of character's don't work and its hard too, actually really hard even on the easiest fort difficulty.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0442Steam reviews · Dec 5, 2021 · 3 h played

    Was on 4HP on a survivor mission I met a little girl and an 86 year old man, both of which denied my offer to join my group, left the safe area and died in 5 seconds outside of where they denied me. 10/10 would recommend https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M1ituTb3Y40

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  • Steam user Steam user …5482Steam reviews · Dec 23, 2020 · 30 h played

    The only negative I can say is they undersell the price of this sh!t. Stuff was my childhood. I'd easily pay $20 for this gem and I think the devs should value themselves as the grandfather of a genre perfect game or not.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4984Steam reviews · Sep 25, 2020 · 1 h played

    A great and funny game about zombies

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  • Steam user Steam user …9192Steam reviews · Feb 1, 2020 · 10 h played

    One of my favorite zombie games that went under the radar wish it had got the love it deserved but its still fun to play.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8331Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018 · 2 h played

    Welp.... you know the intro.... ITs gets up and killS!! The rest is history

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  • Steam user Steam user …2799Steam reviews · Dec 28, 2019 · 1 h played

    watched it on youtube so glad to play after all these years

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  • Steam user Steam user …2741Steam reviews · Jul 21, 2024 · 28 h played

    DO NOT BUY ITS BROKEN. When the game used to work it was fun, however I have talked to multiple people in a similar situation to me. The game USED to work for them but now we all get the same errors. Steam should take this game down until it's actually playable. I played this game for 20+ hours until months later it just stopped working and I have tried every fix possible.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1791Steam reviews · May 15, 2024 · 11 h played

    this is the best zombie game ive ever played and ive played a lot, which is funny if only this game got to be finished

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  • Steam user Steam user …4015Steam reviews · Apr 25, 2024 · 6 h played

    Fort Zombie is an ancient game from 2009. It's a whopping 15 years old at the time of this review. The game hasn't been modernised or updated to run smoothly on modern gaming PCs. Despite this lack of modernisation, it carries a pretty high price tag for such an ancient game. This seems to have been put on Steam as a nostalgia gouge, or just a cash grab to try profit from abandonware. Fort Zombie is the OG zombie survival game, zombie surviving before it was cool and mainstream. It's a 3D…

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  • Steam user Steam user …8214Steam reviews · Aug 24, 2020 · 14 h played

    Fun game, should make a sequel

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  • Steam user Steam user …3842Steam reviews · Jan 27, 2020 · 17 h played

    1000 / 1000 You can arm kids with army rifles or use them as bait while you scavenge Talk about realism

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  • Steam user Steam user …8231Steam reviews · Dec 11, 2019 · 1 h played

    Embrace the jank. If you can do that, this is a gem. Gunplay: intense(missing a shot on a nearby zombie is a butt clenching experience). Survival: intense(an early game wound can last the WHOLE game, goes with gunplay). Looting: fun(loads of goodies to find, and a keen eye is required to find them. Little is out in the open). If you can stomach the janky nature of this game you can have fun with this one. Having zombies flop when climbing walls, zombies dropping from the ceiling or flat out…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7017Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018 · 2 h played

    This game is great!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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  • Steam user Steam user …8631Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018

    I love this game. I just wish it didn't crash on me when trying to start a new game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4889Steam reviews · Aug 27, 2023 · 7 h played

    This rough looking and buggy game is a actually a fun little hidden gem. If you can get around the graphics and figure the game out you will have a great time. For $4 you cant really go wrong.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2656Steam reviews · Jun 16, 2023 · 10 h played

    Ive been trying like crazy to get it to work but....i think this belongs to the past now. it was a good game but not worth buying since it constantly crashes when loading into a map. rest in peace you good boy.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2633Steam reviews · Aug 15, 2020 · 4 h played

    I actually thought about this game today and decided to try and find it online again, I was pretty shocked to find it here on Steam. I loved this game when I was a kid, now being 24 years old the wave of nostalgia I felt was incredible. I would play this glitchy, goofy, fun game for hours and loved it. I still havn't found a zombie game that quiet matches this game. Games like Project Zomboid and Rebuild come close but this game will always have a special place in my heart. The game is old,…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9911Steam reviews · Oct 30, 2018 · 3 h played

    This game is awesome ahah don't expect a 100% polished game with no bug or issue a gentleman from the community got me the game the community is uber nice too and they have a Romero mod to make zombies more like Romero zombies ;)

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  • Steam user Steam user …2717Steam reviews · Sep 14, 2025 · 2 h played

    Like others, this game is a classic, a huge throwback, and a pretty fun classic blend of base defense, loot-shooter, RPG, etc, unfortunately, it is just straight up broken on new hardware. Windows 11, Nvidia Card, I've tried a bunch of things and it simply won't launch. I think this game is truly dead, and now a relic of the past, ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8104Steam reviews · Mar 15, 2020

    Just wanted to experience this janky old game after seeing it many years ago on Revocane's youtube channel. So many memories watching early LP'ers and this was one of my favorites :'-)

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  • Steam user Steam user …5158Steam reviews · Jan 18, 2020 · 1 h played

    Honestly works and runs way better than i imagined, wide screen support and even high refresh rate settings, very impressed so far.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8244Steam reviews · Nov 15, 2019 · 1 h played

    HONESTLY......... THE WORST GAME EVER

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  • Steam user Steam user …4366Steam reviews · Nov 1, 2019 · 19 h played

    Buggy but fun as heck...

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  • Steam user Steam user …1517Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2019 · 8 h played

    The title basically sums up this game perfectly. It's stupid and broken but somehow really endearing.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9531Steam reviews · Mar 1, 2026

    Years ago I had a potato PC that could run this game without it being a genuine headache. My friend TRIED to convince me to play it but I was like nah man this game sucks ass. Now years down the road I wanna play the game that sucks ass cause it sucks ass in a good way but it actually doesn't because it sucks ass so hard you have to perform surgery to get it to run, and in my case no amount of surgery seems to get this work of art actually functional.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2622Steam reviews · Jan 1, 2025

    This game is very nostalgic. It was arguably the start of a great genre. Its dated, but surprisingly fun. NOTE: to play the game, you must close steam and launch the EXE file (find it by browse local files in steam's settings page for the game) - it looks like they have a REALLY old version of steamworks that no longer runs and you'll get a fatal crash on startup (Achievement Not Found) if you run it while steam is open.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6397Steam reviews · Aug 9, 2022 · 12 h played

    This game hails from a golden age where factor was favored over form. The best way to describe this game would be: Runescape but with guns and survival elements. Combat hits based on dice-rolls depending upon character skill levels (finesse, blunt, rifle, etc). You can build traps and fortifications to slow down incoming attacks on your base. Clean inventory system, looting sucks but if it were easy, what fun would that be? Outfit your guys with weapons that are available to you, they will not…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9719Steam reviews · Aug 4, 2021 · 1 h played

    The worst game ever. Everything about this game is horrible. Nothing else needs to be said.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6213Steam reviews · Nov 4, 2020 · 1 h played

    Was antisipating this for years, i found it back on there old website and i gotta say this is a bust, lucky it's cheap, Way too many zombie spawns and you can't really kill with mele as it's useless. Guns are good but they only attract more zombies, the easy diffuculty feels more like a hard diffuculty, like as soon as you spawn in a misson horde of zombies? Avoid this one.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6846Steam reviews · Apr 24, 2020 · 39 h played

    THE ZOMBIES CAN SHOOT BACK

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  • Steam user Steam user …8477Steam reviews · Dec 4, 2018 · 2 h played

    It's back! There was no way to purchase this game for the longest time. My old pc ran this at around 10 fps when I was a kid and now I can play it easily :) Also just so people know this game has trading cards even though it dosen't say it on the store page :)

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  • Steam user Steam user …3989Steam reviews · Aug 28, 2025 · 1 h played

    don't buy until it is fixed, i tried to redownload this game and all of my anti-virus software came to life, this needs fixed before i buy this game again, the files has disappeared from the launch exe and disappeared and then became unplayable.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6229Steam reviews · May 13, 2025 · 3 h played

    Это одна из моих любимых игр никогда не заменит что либо не потому что плохо сделано а концепт This is one of my favorite games will never replace anything not because it is poorly made but because of the concept

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  • Steam user Steam user …5416Steam reviews · Feb 11, 2025 · 7 h played

    If I understand the situation correctly, this game no longer works unless you downgrade your computers directX physX driver stuff. The game does include the installer for the correct version but when you try to run it it says there is a more up to date version and just stops, atleast for me. Soooo buyer beware, game needs to be updated by devs for it to work out of the box again.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1302Steam reviews · Jan 7, 2025

    Absolute Dogwater, let's me equip children with spas-12's and use them to defend my base. 10/10 would buy this on desura again if it still existed lmao.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0415Steam reviews · Oct 10, 2024 · 1 h played

    Fort Zombie 1.0.7.0 [450a9c27-2bed-4430-9045-debda69458f9] Time: 10/9/2024 9:18:12 PM (UTC-07:00) Arizona Culture: en-US Unhandled exception encountered: Kerberos.FortZombie.Steam.SteamAPIException: GetAchievement failed. at Kerberos.FortZombie.Steam.API.GetAchievement(String name) at Kerberos.FortZombie.StatsAndAchievements.UserStatsReceived(UserStatsReceivedData data) at Kerberos.FortZombie.Steam.API.raise_UserStatsReceived(UserStatsReceivedData value0) at…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9531Steam reviews · Jul 3, 2023

    Won't run, crashes upon every start, but it was only 90c so guess I will just warn people that its not completely compatible.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6318Steam reviews · Jan 4, 2023 · 4 h played

    Remake or Fort Zombie 2 would be top 3 zombie games on steam 1000%

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  • Steam user Steam user …3977Steam reviews · Dec 19, 2022 · 2 h played

    This is my childhoods game, I was so happy to find it again but unfortunately it does not work on newer systems :(

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  • Steam user Steam user …8403Steam reviews · Jul 11, 2019

    My childhood memories :D

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  • Steam user Steam user …8329Steam reviews · Jul 4, 2019 · 5 h played

    Good old game before 7 Days to Die. Got this game back in 2012 and lost it since, glad it's back! A game where you choose a fort to take, build and survive the days until the end while you get supplies, survivors and ammunition. Some zombies are unique to others. Some carry guns, can charge and have slight different stats to one another. Adding a more strategic feel to how you should approach a horde as you can't just go in guns blazing. The game also runs on a sort of rpg character skills as…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7404Steam reviews · Mar 4, 2019 · 5 h played

    Nice idea, but nope, just to badly made

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  • Steam user Steam user …2136Steam reviews · Mar 26, 2026 · 9 h played

    Awesome game. Sadly, it no longer works on Windows 10+ without doing a lot of work.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8336Steam reviews · Oct 4, 2025 · 22 h played

    nothing, and i mean NOTHING i install or troubleshoot will get this thing to run NEEDS TO BE DELISTED FROM STORE

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  • Steam user Steam user …5091Steam reviews · Dec 15, 2024 · 13 h played

    I like RPGs and zombie ones are rare. The good ones are probably nonexistent. Unfortunately this game feels very unfinished.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2516Steam reviews · Nov 5, 2024 · 14 h played

    Ahh, the OG Project Zomboid. This game is near and dear to me. I've been playing Fort Zombie since its release. I remember getting the game back in the day on the Gamestop website. I luckily stumbled upon it amongst my browsing. I was one of the few people that made bringing this title to Steam happen. I contacted Kerboros via an email address on one of their websites that had been long abandoned back on 2018. Whomever it was that had replied back to me from the studio was very friendly and…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6991Steam reviews · Aug 5, 2023 · 1 h played

    the concept is there . its just boring as hell imo

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  • Steam user Steam user …3154Steam reviews · Dec 30, 2022 · 1 h played

    If you like this game, it would only be because you have nostalgia for it. There's nothing wrong with that of course, but for a new player like me this game really shows it's age in a bad way. DayZ or Project Zomboid would probably be a safer bet.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9442Steam reviews · May 8, 2022 · 12 h played

    WARNING if you are looking for a new zombie game this is NOT the game for you. This game is old, and buggy and unbalanced, and crashes all the time. BUT it is one of the first zombie games I ever played and I love it. So if you are a previous player and are buying it for nostalgic reasons its still a fun game but if you have not played it before I would not recommend it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2755Steam reviews · Feb 22, 2022 · 45 h played

    Really great concept, lacking in execution. If you can live with some buggy stuff and you love SURVIVAL zombie games DEFINENTLY give it a try!

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  • Steam user Steam user …3284Steam reviews · Feb 19, 2022 · 8 h played

    It's janky, It's buggy, It's messy, but is It fun? Hell Yeah! Don't try to look away from this game, this game has its own charm that no other games have. If you have been gaming on PC since 2000s, you may have heard about this game or have already watched the infamous let's play series from Revocane on YouTube. When I got my hands on playing for the first time, it's a bit clunky but in a good way and you can get use to it in only a few mins (if you have played other survival games with a RPG…

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