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Lifeless

Lifeless

Immerse yourself in the post-apocalyptic co-op world of Lifeless, where base building and crafting are key. Collect weapons, gear, and food as you embark on thrilling missions to level up in a vast open world. But stay alert—relentless zombies lurk around every corner!

Released Jun 16, 2016 Developer Desync Donkeys Platforms Windows ActionZombiesEarly AccessIndieSurvival
View on Steam ↗ $19.99 (US · as of 2026-05-14)

What players say

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37.6%positive521 reviews
Recommended · 0 found this helpful

“great”

— a player, Steam review · 1 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“[quote][url=https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_slop][b]Warning: AI Text-to-Speech[/b][/url] This game uses talentless, soulless AI generated text-to-speech instead of real voice acting. AI TTS is an insult to both gamers and to the voice acting profession.[/quote] "Lifeless" is an…”

— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs played
Not recommended · 1 found this helpful

“This game literally is lifeless and soulless, Why have zombie games become such terrible games, my favourite genre saturated in garbage. Dayz definitely has to carry some blame, buggiest low budget game that for some reason people play, set the bar pretty low.”

— a player, Steam review · 9 hrs played
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Latest official news

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Jun 03, 2025
Lifeless is Going Free-to-Play!

We're excited to announce that Lifeless will soon (as soon as possible) transition from a paid game to completely free-to-play! Why this change? Simply put, we don't financially depend on income from

May 29, 2025
Update 0.8.4, Fixes and Roadmap!

Hello everyone! We have a smaller feature patch, and some bugfixes for you today! First lets start with the bug fixes: Tomatoes no longer grow and result in beef CPU was incorrectly priced Shotgun upg

May 24, 2025
Update 0.8.3 Hotpatch 1

Hello! Today we did a slightly larger hotpatch to fix some issues: Re-wrote calculations for zombie health and damage Re-balanced armor on all wearable items Re-balanced all zombies health and damage

May 20, 2025
We're Back, Survivors!

We’re excited to announce that Lifeless is officially back on the Steam store and available for purchase again! Since re-enabling the game for our loyal previous owners, we've received amazing feedbac

May 13, 2025
Lifeless Update 0.8.3

Hello survivors! Update 0.8.3 contains the changes below. Aside from several dozen bug fixes and tweaks, these are the most note-worthy changes. Gameplay Updates Added "Crazy Tony", an interactible NP

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-14.

GenresAction, Indie, Free To Play, Early Access
Player tagsAction · Zombies · Early Access · Indie · Survival · Gore · Violent · Open World · Massively Multiplayer · Multiplayer · First-Person · FPS (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesSingle-player · Multi-player · Co-op · Online Co-op · Cross-Platform Multiplayer · Steam Achievements · Stats
LanguagesEnglish * *
Achievements25
Estimated owners20,000 – 50,000 (SteamSpy)
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: OS: Windows 10 or later Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD, 2.5 GHz or faster Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: DirectX 11 or DirectX 12 compatible graphics card DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 14 GB available space