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Decision: Red Daze
Decision: Red Daze is an action RPG with a unique mix of survival and tower defense mechanics. Explore an apocalyptic wasteland, build a safe haven, and lead your team of specialists in a hopeless world, searching for a cure for the infectious disease that turns people into monsters.
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via SteamSpy as of 2026-05-14.
“It’s a good game, the reboot turned out really well, it’s worth the price and it’s pretty long.”
— a player, Steam review · 30 hrs played“I like the base-building, like in the last few decision games — the fighting and watching my peasant soldiers turn into hardened soldiers, scouts, or medics, or just building sturdy walls for cover. What I dislike, I guess, is the wasteland itself. It’s missing that humanity…”
— a player, Steam review · 37 hrs played“There are a lot of just weird decisions made in this game that just made it too much of a slog to stick with. The UI is genuinely terrible, and there's little to no options for you to do anything about even basic things. Options menu is legitimately one of the worst I've seen (a…”
— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs playedPlayer activity
Monthly average concurrent players. Live count fetched 2026-08-02 18:58 UTC · history via SteamCharts.
Latest official news
Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.
Decision: Red Daze is expanding its horizons!
We’re thrilled to share some exciting news – Decision: Red Daze has officially made its way to consoles!🎮🤩 This marks an important milestone for the game, bringing our intense action RPG and survival
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Decision: Red Daze—Update 5 Patch Notes
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Decision: Red Daze EXPERIMENTAL Patch 2024.03.27
Greetings, Survivors of the Dust Bowl! A new EXPERIMENTAL update is already here, and these are the key improvements: Resolved save slot clearing bug. Stabilized NPC positioning during peacetime. Addr
Decision: Red Daze EXPERIMENTAL Patch 2024.03.04
Greetings, Survivors of the Dust Bowl! We've just released a new Experimental patch, and here are the key improvements: All possible names from the pool are now available in the customization window a
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-13.
| Genres | Action, Indie, RPG, Strategy |
| Player tags | Survival · Action · Zombies · RPG · Open World · Action RPG · Singleplayer · Twin Stick Shooter · Base-Building · Tower Defense · Post-apocalyptic · Top-Down (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Steam Achievements · Steam Cloud · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * , French, German, Spanish - Spain, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese * |
| Achievements | 24 |
| Estimated owners | 20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy) |
| Official site | https://www.nordcurrent.com/games/decision-red-daze |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 or newer Processor: 1.8GHz single core Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Geforce GTX 750 / Radeon HD 7870 DirectX: Version 11 Storage: 2 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX compatible sound card