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Survival Nation: Lost Horizon

ActionAdventureIndieRPG

Developer Wenkly Studio Sp. z o.o.

Survival Nation: Lost Horizon is an open-world, top-down zombie survival game. Keep yourself and other survivors alive in a world gone to the zombies, upgrade your gear and skills, and keep civilization going in a world where humans are the top pick on the menu. From the Steam store page

49 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest May 4, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works

Audience score

67
Fresh

32 positive · 16 negative
95% range 53–78%

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Steam's own rating
Mixed
73 of 126 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)

What people are saying

Mixed reactions: praised for fun co-op and potential, but criticized for lack of content and updates.

Many players enjoy the game as a casual, mindless zombie shooter, especially in co-op, and see potential for future updates. Some find it rewarding to level up and kill zombies, and appreciate the active community management. [2][4][8]

However, many players criticize the game for being too easy, lacking content, and having been abandoned by the developers. Some also note it is a repackaged VR game with poor controls and animations. [10][25][27][28]

Praised fun co-op · potential for future updates · active community management
Criticised lack of content · too easy · abandoned by developers · repackaged VR game · poor controls and animations

Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 7, 2026. Method

Reactions

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  • Steam user Steam user …0099Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 1 h played

    Look, I know this is early access, but this 'aint it YET chief. I think it needs more time to cook before buying. I played for an hour, I don't want to miss my refund window. Below are just some things I tabbed out to jot down in a notepad while playing. Separated out into a few categories. But for real the TL;DR is I'd seriously wait a while before you buy this. Combat: Feather duster hits. Seriously I'm tickling these zombies. Running after a hit takes a LONG time. Why? Why is there an…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0780Steam reviews · May 9, 2024

    Zombies do NOT stagger when you melee them, so there is no way to not take damage when you are in melee range. To understand why such a baffling decision was made, you need to understand that this game is literally the same game as their VR title Survival Nation but instead of VR they slapped in desktop controls and sold it a second time, without making proper adaptations. In VR this is not a big problem, because you can reach out with your melee and back step easier.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2285Steam reviews · Dec 12, 2025 · 86 h played

    it would have been a good game if they didn't abandon it. they are the same team that's making humanitz which they are updating. this game hasn't been updated in over a year. Don't waste your money

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  • Steam user Steam user …0518Steam reviews · Mar 7, 2025 · 7 h played

    I posted a positive, detailed little review saying I liked the game and wished the developers well, but I've come to learn a few things since then. First, it's a repackaged VR game, and once you know that, all of the little quirks in the game make sense. I bought this for $9, and that's too much. I thought I was getting a fleshed-out Project Zomboid knock-off that was less obtuse, but no, it's a pretender to the genre. Even though this is EaRlY aCcEsS, I seriously doubt the devs (I heard one…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3351Steam reviews · Sep 4, 2025

    Its my own fault for buying Early Access games. Avoid them at all costs.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3515Steam reviews · Apr 23, 2024

    It's a fun game to play with huge potentials but would wait for more updates and enhancement before recommending the game.

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  • Steam user Steam user …9084Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 12 h played

    Finnally! A Top-Down Zombie Shooter with a Character Skill Tree System, Quest Modes and infinite potential. I'm loving these quests. This game is a gem that is better than any zombie game in this genre. I am excited for what the future has in store for this game and its community! Excellent work!!

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  • Steam user Steam user …9693Steam reviews · Sep 12, 2024 · 30 h played

    Ok i am several days into the game and still dont have a clue whats going on i have done all the tasks in the southern camp made it to the eastern camp and found nothing to do so all i am doing is running around killing zombies anyone else got a clue what this game is about

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  • Steam user Steam user …6256Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 1 h played

    While this game worked better is VR, as a stand alone top down game it's embarrassingly small and lacking content. the animations are scary levels of bad, they are just the default stock asset store reloads and they look ridiculous. your character does not hold any item properly, and it is sticking through their hand side ways. same with the melee weapons they are held wrong and swung wrong. Some of the weapons have their slide locked open and looks lazy. I honestly don't know how this…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3387Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 1 h played

    I don't know why the negative reviews are all about how this game is not up to their standards. Dude it's a 13.99 game, not a 69.99 game. Yea it's flawed but it's fun, mindless simple zombie fun. There are zombie games way more deserving of the negative reviews that actually retail for a lot more. Just enjoy a game for what it is; not everything has to be game of the year.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0363Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 3 h played

    The game is better than I expected it to be. My sweet girl and I played it straight for 3 hours from the release and we are still playing. And you guys should see how their community managers work on Discord, they answer all of our questions and take bug reports immediately. Such a good launch for an indie game company.

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  • Steam user Steam user …2709Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 2 h played

    Full Gameplay - https://youtu.be/pl9vHHMK5Fk Good game to play with friends otherwise its not much fun alone . The Graphics are also very mobilish , which makes this game look very weird when playing on PC The more zombies you kill the faster you level up , simple mechanics nothing new or unique . Not much variety in terms of enemies , You will face random hordes of zombies that will be assigned a particular level , the starting ones near your base will be level 2 and as you go further…

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  • Steam user Steam user …7927Steam reviews · Mar 20, 2026

    Are you seriously kidding me? A video game made in 2024 and there are no KEY bindings for the controls??? Come on man, at least state that we cannot rebind the controls on the store information page so that alot of us wont waste our time or money buying these games that we want to play only to download the game and when we try to play it we then realize that its impossible to play because the KEY buttons cannot be configured to our own preferences!!! Again its a 2024 created game and im fairly…

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  • Steam user Steam user …6752Steam reviews · Sep 4, 2024 · 25 h played

    just finished all the quest, need more contents

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  • Steam user Steam user …0156Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 3 h played

    I dont understand why this game have mostly negative review :o

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  • Steam user Steam user …8605Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 1 h played

    Pretty solid game, if developers still will be active and listening feedback from players like now, it can be great game. Worth to try if you are not focused on massive multiplayer

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  • Steam user Steam user …3833Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 2 h played

    really really bad and i thought humantiz had no content this company keeps bringing out games with lituraly 0 content its seems to be a recurring theme for this company making early acess games just to abandon them to get the initual hype money from steam people scamming them, tryed to play pvp server but litrualy had 0 quests no missions no extractions just a shoot em up with other players whoeveer has a better weapon if they want to release a good game then they need to tank about pvp aswell…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0024Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024

    runs great on deck

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  • Steam user Steam user …5963Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 5 h played

    Very Enjoyable! Let's be real.. what's better then slaying lots of zombies? Not much. Feels rewarding progressing your character, getting stronger weapons, and killing harder bosses. If you're looking for a fun casual zombie slayer I highly recommend, or if you are more of a competitive gamer there's also PvP. If you're debating, I say give it a try I think youll enjoy it also.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8090Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 1 h played

    no, just..... no

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  • Steam user Steam user …6826Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 5 h played

    The game has real potential but at the moment it is a little easy, too many resources, mini map with zombie positions e.t.c if you are looking for a survival experience this isn't it just yet but it does have a lot of positives, great interface, nice weapon sounds, good voice acting and quests to actually make it a game not just a sandbox, runs on steam deck. If you enjoy a more relaxing gaming experience then this will probably be spot on and if the devs see fit to offer a more 'punishing'…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3259Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 1 h played

    I was going to leave a review, but couldn't decide on which one to copy.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8501Steam reviews · Oct 11, 2025 · 4 h played

    Last update was 16 months ago. I mean it's not a bad game and i like the concept but i feel that it needs more work. I cant see if other people have servers or not and it would be nice to join off of randoms to chat and do quests with. Would i recommend? maybe. But i'd just purchase at your own risk. Though after a while it becomes repetitive and boring. If there was a maybe button i would click it. But whatever. It's alright.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3123Steam reviews · Jun 1, 2025 · 12 h played

    I only tried SP - MP says PVP, not interested in that. Fishing takes too long in this game, why does fishing need to be in every single game in the first place. It has some fun stuff, but the SP is just too simplistic, you should be able to expand your camp, crafting weapons & camp stuff, to defend your camp against hordes or something. When you complete the quests in SP, nothing left to do ... didn't even get enough schematics to upgrade a single epic weapon. For the price, i got it…

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  • Steam user Steam user …3081Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 1 h played

    Great game for steam deck.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8982Steam reviews · May 27, 2025 · 4 h played

    The game isn't very bad at all to still be a work in progress, and surprising enough that it isn't to bad about glitching. That is the exception for some encounters showing the the threat warning signaling where an infected is withing killing range with several seconds lag time before the game pops the enemy into game. Even though it's a little annoying when your being swarmed when that glitch happens, and it ends up almost right on top of you. However if you view the glitch from a very…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2121Steam reviews · Mar 6, 2025 · 17 h played

    This is something worth picking up if you want to kill a few hours especially if its on sale. I pretty much 100% the game in 16hrs give or take a few treasures still for me to find and found it worth my $5 (on sale at the time). There are some bugs that I came across but nothing game breaking. Very little zombie types or interactions. You shoot, they run at you, you kill them. Rinse and repeat. I believe there is 1 person left working on this so don't expect it coming out of early access…

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  • Kylie @kylie1969.bsky.socialBluesky · Feb 23, 2025

    Yesterday we started playing a new VR game called Survival Nation. It is really good, lots to do, including surviving 😉 killing zombies, helping out at the camp etc Overall, a good game with decent graphics 👍 #vr #meta #vrgaming #virtualreality #zombies #survival

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  • Steam user Steam user …2208Steam reviews · Feb 19, 2025 · 11 h played

    GPU CPU RTX 4070Ti Super 16GB Ryzen 9 5900X RAM OS 64GB WINDOWS 11 Gameplay The Play-loop is to run around the camp and take on missions and errands to further increase currency and skill points and build your character. You can upgrade and buy weapons and resources and also fish and hunt for food to eat or sell. There is no base building i have seen in the 10 hours i have been…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5501Steam reviews · Oct 9, 2024 · 10 h played

    Cool survival Game. Hope to see more updates.

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  • Steam user Steam user …1575Steam reviews · Sep 28, 2024

    I dont know what this game was like cause I couldnt get past developers loading screen. Finally got to wrk by creating another acct and put in family, share library. Alot of nonsense. Only way game will work for me anyway.

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  • Steam user Steam user …3003Steam reviews · May 6, 2024 · 3 h played

    Good game! Reminds me of "How to Survive 2." Fun with friends. a few bugs when writing this: The cooking menu hides the first item you can cook, and the fishing minigame seems a little wonky. Otherwise seems bugfree so far I'm 3.3 hours into the game when writing this. The food and thirst mechanics also decrease too fast and are kind of tedious, and the aiming is a little buggy, it would be much more accessible for my older friend if they mapped aiming and movment to the same stick, left stick.…

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  • Steam user Steam user …0936Steam reviews · Apr 17, 2024 · 5 h played

    So far so good but when playing co-op quests are not sharing when everyone have the same quest , only the first hit got the quest clear . this is no different from playing solo

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  • Steam user Steam user …0995Steam reviews · Apr 17, 2024 · 4 h played

    En si el juego está entretenido, pero lamentablemente el caminar se vuelve largo y aburrido, tener que caminar muchas distancias por que hay que ir a buscar 1 item y después volver a entregarlo para después volver al mismo sitio para ir a buscar un segundo item, la verdad se vuelve muy repetitivo el caminar tanto a los mismos lugares. en si el juego tiene potencial pero le falta pulido

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  • Steam user Steam user …3408Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 1 h played

    I think the game deserves a thumbs up because its pretty fun and sets out what it tries to do, I just don't think its my cup of tea right now, really. Too easy from what I can tell, no real goal. No challenge + no goal = lack of reason to keep pushing. I would like to think I'm gearing up for something big or different, but even in the description of the game, it basically just says "kill stuff to get stronger to kill stuff to upgrade to kill stuff" and I don't feel like the gameplay loop is…

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  • Steam user Steam user …5649Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 2 h played

    It's a cool game. Unfortunatly I had to ask for a refund because there are many commands that simply doesn't work with the touchpad, such as rotate the camera or throw things. If you'll play with a mouse or control I guess you'll have a good experience (hence the thumbs up), but if you use a touchpad, avoid it.

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  • Steam user Steam user …7939Steam reviews · May 4, 2026 · 32 h played

    Game is ok. buggy.. most bugs are fixed by restarting the game. one bug i'm getting that cannot be fixed and i cannot find a solution for... I'm 9/12 completed on the impressive explorer side activities and the metal detector stopped working. It will not light up on the remaining 3 sites..

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  • Steam user Steam user …2834Steam reviews · Apr 17, 2026

    seems like a game i could download on my phone

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  • Steam user Steam user …8444Steam reviews · May 14, 2025 · 1 h played

    I enjoy games like this but it's a bit choppy. Is there any way to prioritize performance even more during gameplay?

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  • Steam user Steam user …6696Steam reviews · Jan 27, 2025

    Has huge potential but needs way more polishing and implementation of new features. For now put it on your wishlist but maybe stay away if you are not into beta testing or EA development phase - the game is not ready yet.

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  • Steam user Steam user …8743Steam reviews · Oct 12, 2024

    after playing a really long time in VR for this game, playing this game on the computer without VR is really strange, the atmosphere is nothing compared to what it was like in VR, the quickness to each weapon is a little sluggish on this version then the VR version, if you can get pass the tutorial and into the actual story then awesome, for me I couldn't get pass the tutorial on how clanky the zombies were, aka in VR the zombies were fast when hit but not unkillable, in this version the…

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  • Steam user Steam user …9823Steam reviews · Sep 18, 2024 · 3 h played

    Terrible, Awful. Try catching a fish. Its like Stardew Valley, but way worse.

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  • Steam user Steam user …6711Steam reviews · Jul 17, 2024 · 29 h played

    great little game, great graphics and game play. Looking forward to updates and add on's

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  • Steam user Steam user …3896Steam reviews · May 23, 2024 · 1 h played

    Fun as hell, decent controls, nothing bad so far.

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  • Steam user Steam user …0794Steam reviews · Apr 23, 2024 · 3 h played

    good game but need to fix

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  • Steam user Steam user …5078Steam reviews · Apr 17, 2024 · 6 h played

    Great game, lots of fun so far

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  • Steam user Steam user …3117Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 2 h played

    Definitely worth a try for the price. The bones are all good and there's a lot of potential here. The gameplay is fun and fairly polished, albeit a bit chill and somewhat slow to start. The world could use a bit more "clutter" and detail to make it feel more lived in. Looking forward to seeing the road map. I'll post my feedback to the Discord after a bit more time playing as the devs seem very receptive, but overall it's good for a game in EA. If you're into games like this I very highly…

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  • Steam user Steam user …2728Steam reviews · Apr 16, 2024 · 1 h played

    I think it’s a pretty good package for the price. I’m not too far in but I played the demo quite a bit. There is some jank navigating the menu’s but I expect this to be improved since we are in early access after all. Shooting zombies feels good and the gun sounds are satisfying. I’d recommend but just keep your expectations in check.

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  • Steam user Steam user …4724Steam reviews · Apr 15, 2024 · 1 h played

    Bom joguinho pra passar o tempo com amigos, nada mais além disso até onde pude jogar. Espero que tenha bosses e desafios maiores conforme progredimos.

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