HumanitZ

Worth buying? What 300 Steam reviews say.Worth buying? Here’s what 300 Steam reviews actually say.

Mostly Positive · 74%Mostly Positive · 74%2026

−40%~~$19.99~~$11.99

US Steam price, checked 5 h ago

The verdict

A 3D Project Zomboid-style zombie survival sandbox with base building, co-op and deep settings. Skip it if you want polish: camera, controls, bugs and lost saves hurt.

Great for

Co-op groups and solo players wanting a more forgiving, customizable Project Zomboid-style survival sandbox

Main risk

Awkward camera and controls plus bugs, including lost saves, can ruin hours of progress

What players love

Great exploration, looting, crafting and building loop

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 positive reviews

“The balance between exploration, looting, crafting, building, hunting, fishing, survival and combat is great.”
Steam review · 94.5 h played ↗

“There is base building, a good selection of vehicles, and a large map with multiple towns.”
Steam review · 284.8 h played ↗

Fun with friends and on servers

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Have a dedicated server to play with my buddy and we play CONSTANTLY.”
Steam review · 48.4 h played ↗

“Easy to play by yourself, but even more fun with friends that work together to survive”
Steam review · 30.6 h played ↗

More accessible Zomboid-like experience

Mentioned in ~1 in 10 positive reviews

“it’s like all the fun of Project Zomboid without the tediousness”
Steam review · 15.8 h played ↗

“It's a lot less tedious but still has a lot of depth to it and can be quite challenging even just in PVE.”
Steam review · 163.8 h played ↗

“When Zomboid is too hard and you just want to chill, build a base and fight zombies while looting in a sandbox with decent visuals, you play this game.”
Steam review · translated · 241.7 h played ↗

Responsive devs and ongoing updates

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews

“almost every time I find myself on a steam community thread where an actual dev of the game answers the questions and helps players out.”
Steam review · 8.4 h played ↗

Horses, dogs, vehicles and survivors add flavor

Mentioned in ~1 in 14 positive reviews

“you can SHOOT A BOW FROM HORSEBACK with a PET DOG by your side”
Steam review · 95.6 h played ↗

“Great game, better when you get a dog, and npcs”
Steam review · 145.9 h played ↗

Highly customizable settings and difficulty

Mentioned in ~1 in 15 positive reviews

“It's a fun game with lots of options to tweak the server settings to your liking.”
Steam review · 48.9 h played ↗

“You also have a wide range of settings for the world, weather and interaction end of the game”
Steam review · 520 h played ↗

What players complain about

Bugs, lost saves and unfinished for a 1.0

Mentioned in ~1 in 2 negative reviews

“We build our base just to come back to nothing the next day because the world did somehow reset.”
Steam review · 50 h played ↗

“Plenty of smaller bugs and multiple and repeatable game-breaking bugs that will end your run.”
Steam review · 101.1 h played ↗

“I spent a whole day building a base and crafting. The game kept saving. Today I log in and it's all back to the start.”
Steam review · translated · 42.1 h played ↗

Awkward camera and controls

Mentioned in ~1 in 3 negative reviews

“The camera functionality is so bad it makes the game unplayable”
Steam review · 0.6 h played ↗

“Horrible controls, can't even pretend to get invested when my character controls like a tank game from N64.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

“The view: you see your own feet. So you always run blind.”
Steam review · translated · 9.9 h played ↗

Poor performance, crashes and lag

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“on the lowest settings youd be lucky to hit over 20FPS at 720P!”
Steam review · 122.5 h played ↗

“the full version runs at only 10–20 FPS, even in the main menu”
Steam review · 0.5 h played ↗

“FPS is stable until you enter a city, then it starts...”
Steam review · translated · 9.4 h played ↗

Developer bans over criticism

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“There is a developer/moderator (Derek, The Derektor) that has been banning people left and right simply because they gave constructive criticism about the game on Discord.”
Steam review · 1.9 h played ↗

“Dev bans people from accessing multiplayer (including private servers) for criticizing the game.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

Tedious inventory, storage and crafting

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 negative reviews

“There is no "Loot All" button. Terrible design.”
Steam review · 111 h played ↗

“Freakin carrots bro? Nah, one carrot per inventory slot.”
Steam review · 34.6 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unsupported

Minimum

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel Core i5-8600K

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia GTX 1060

Storage20 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel Core i7-9700K

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia RTX 2060

Storage20 GB available space

OSWindows 10

ProcessorIntel Core i5-8600K

Memory16 GB RAM

GraphicsNvidia GTX 1060

Storage20 GB available space

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