Romero's Aftermath

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

Mixed · 66%Mixed · 66%2015

The verdict

Aftermath was a free DayZ-style zombie survival game that many remember fondly, but it's shut down and no longer launches. Don't install it; nobody can play it.

Great for

Nostalgic former players reminiscing; nobody else, since the game can't be played now

Main risk

The game is shut down: the launcher fails and there are no servers

What players love

Beloved by nostalgic players, better than Infestation

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 positive reviews

“The best survival game of all.”
Steam review · translated · 2375.7 h played ↗

“it's better than infestation!”
Steam review · 391.6 h played ↗

Fun with friends and a friendly community

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“I had amazing times working hard to gather gear just so I could go out with friends I met in game and attempt surviving the harsh world of PVP as a team.”
Steam review · 137 h played ↗

“The pve community has always been cool and open to helping out new players”
Steam review · 400.6 h played ↗

“Aftermath was really fun, due in part to its community who seemed to be up for a great laugh a lot of the time.”
Steam review · 5.7 h played ↗

Free to play without being pay to win

Mentioned in ~1 in 8 positive reviews

“Free to play, but not pay to win imo.”
Steam review · 8.6 h played ↗

Crafting, liberation events and PvE/PvP servers

Mentioned in ~1 in 9 positive reviews

“PvE servers: much needed. Sometimes I just wanna kill skinnies without the worry of getting ganked.”
Steam review · 60.2 h played ↗

Huge open world and loot

Mentioned in ~1 in 13 positive reviews

“Open world ( HUGE FRICKING WORLD )”
Steam review · 20.4 h played ↗

“I like that the game is completely open world, that you have the ability to climb on and interact with pretty much all of the surrounding area.”
Steam review · 20.7 h played ↗

Runs on low-end PCs

Mentioned in ~1 in 25 positive reviews

What players complain about

Game is dead: servers shut down, won't launch

Mentioned in ~1 in 4 negative reviews

“it is now unplayable”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

“Project is closed! No updates, no servers! On download it endlessly tries to update the client and that's it.”
Steam review · translated · 2.5 h played ↗

“after trying - unsuccessfully - to launch this game on two separate days and running into an updater error and finally it not being able to launch at all, I'm giving up on it.”
Steam review · 3.3 h played ↗

Clone of WarZ/Infestation by shady devs

Mentioned in ~1 in 5 negative reviews

“This is Infestation Survivor Stories/WarZ with a new name and new map.”
Steam review · 0.9 h played ↗

“They basically copy and pasted their Infestation games, and made this.”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

Poor graphics, animation, combat and dumb zombies

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“The combat system especially; as long as you're roughly facing a zombie from anywhere from a foot to seemingly 10 feet away, just swing your fists or melee weapon and you'll be sure to hit them.”
Steam review · 0.3 h played ↗

“Horrible FPS Terrible graphics Terrible AI Open epty world filled with useless junk”
Steam review · 0.8 h played ↗

Developers abandoned players; paid content lost

Mentioned in ~1 in 6 negative reviews

“The developers destroyed this game. They will only take your money and time only to end the game out of nowhere and delete everything you aquired.”
Steam review · 4905.2 h played ↗

“No refund even for paid subscription members”
Steam review · 24.6 h played ↗

Rampant hackers and weak anti-cheat

Mentioned in ~1 in 7 negative reviews

“CHEATERS!!!! Good grief, probably every third player in this game is a cheater, and a very brazen one.”
Steam review · translated · 66.3 h played ↗

“would be a great game if the game actually had a decent anti-cheat.”
Steam review · 269 h played ↗

Pay-to-win store, crates and overpriced items

Mentioned in ~1 in 11 negative reviews

“I can sell a compass I managed to scavenge for $13. To buy the same compass from the store costs $1540.”
Steam review · 4.4 h played ↗

System requirements

From the Steam store page

Steam Deck: Unknown

Minimum

OSWindows 7 64 bit, Windows 8.1 64 bit

Processori5 2.7ghz

Memory6 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA Geforce 660

Storage4 GB available space

Recommended

OSWindows 7 64 bit, Windows 8.1 64 bit

Processori7 2.4GHZ

Memory8 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA Geforce 970

Storage6 GB available space

OSWindows 7 64 bit, Windows 8.1 64 bit

Processori5 2.7ghz

Memory6 GB RAM

GraphicsNVIDIA Geforce 660

Storage4 GB available space

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