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Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape

Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape

In Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape, a group of humans try to outrun a player-controlled swarm of infected. Everyone spawns in a train station until one is randomly infected and needs to turn fleeing survivors into zombies. Survivors try to escape by train.

Released Sep 27, 2019 Developer TALLBOYS, tinyBuild Publisher tinyBuild Platforms Windows MultiplayerCo-opSurvivalMassively MultiplayerBattle Royale
View on Steam ↗ Free (US · as of 2026-07-26)

What players say

Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Data as of 2026-05-20.

59.2%positive4,497 reviews
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Best game every sad it died.”

— a player, Steam review · 76 hrs played
Recommended · 1 found this helpful

“Pandemic Express - Zombie Escape, developed by TALLBOYS in collaboration with tinyBuild and published by tinyBuild, is built around a deceptively simple but highly volatile idea: drop a large group of players into a map, secretly infect one of them, and let panic and suspicion…”

— a player, Steam review · 13 hrs played
Not recommended · 6 found this helpful

“I remember enjoying this game back in the day. As of this review, The game servers have been shut down. Shame really.”

— a player, Steam review · 84 hrs played
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Achievement stats

Global completion rates across all Steam players — a data view of how far people actually get. Source: Steam official stats · as of 2026-07-25.

27achievements
1.7%median completion
0.9%rarest: Homecoming - Ch.3/3 New Home
64.0% of players 41.7% of players 32.7% of players 18.8% of players 17.9% of players 16.5% of players 6.0% of players 4.5% of players 3.4% of players 2.5% of players 2.5% of players 2.4% of players 2.1% of players 1.7% of players 1.7% of players 1.6% of players 1.5% of players 1.3% of players 1.2% of players 1.2% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 1.0% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 0.9% of players 64.0% 0% most earned rarest
Almost everyone has
64.0%First match — First match
41.7%Сompleted basic tutorial — Complete tutorial
32.7%First successful escape — First successful escape
Rarest badges of honor
0.9%Homecoming - Ch.3/3 New Home — Hidden achievement
0.9%Homecoming - Ch.2/3 Fire, water and... cold copper pipes — Hidden achievement
0.9%Homecoming - Ch.1/3 Chance — Hidden achievement

Price tracking

US-region pricing (USD), sampled twice daily by our own tracker since 2026-07-11. Steam prices vary by region — always confirm your local price on Steam.

Freecurrent · sampled 2026-07-26 08:39 UTC
Freelowest since tracking began2026-07-11

Latest official news

Developer announcements via the Steam news API — links go to the original posts. More across all games on the news hub.

Jan 20, 2026
An important update on Pandemic Express

On Tuesday, 21st of April, we will be delisting Pandemic Express from Steam and disabling all active servers. Owners of Pandemic Express will still see the game in their libraries, however the game wi

Jan 21, 2020
US Servers are Online!

Hey everyone! Good news for the NA players — our US servers are online! Right now you have to choose a server from the server list manually, but in a few days we'll add it to the region selection menu

Jan 16, 2020
Pandemic Express is now free

Pandemic Express, the survival shooter where you try to outrun a player-controlled swarm of infected, is going free to play! Going Free To Play in a nutshell: Pandemic Express is now free You earn sta

Jan 14, 2020
Pandemic Express is going Free on Thursday

Good news everyone! Pandemic Express, the survival shooter where hordes of player controlled zombies hunt down survivors, is going free to play this Thursday! We are doing it in the simplest way possi

Dec 29, 2019
Achievements, Music and Emotes — Update 29/12/2019

Survivors! Long time no see! This is the last update for Pandemic Express this year, but not the last one ever. Today we're introducing achievements, new emotes and music to the game, and we'll kick o

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Screenshots

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Facts & details

From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-05-20.

GenresAction, Indie, Massively Multiplayer
Player tagsMultiplayer · Co-op · Survival · Massively Multiplayer · Battle Royale · Trains · Horror · FPS · Survival Horror · Parkour · PvP · Shooter (SteamSpy community voting)
FeaturesMulti-player · PvP · Online PvP · Family Sharing
LanguagesEnglish
Achievements27
Estimated owners200,000 – 500,000 (SteamSpy)
Official sitehttps://www.pandemicexpress.com/
Minimum system requirements (PC)

Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7/8/10 64bit Processor: Intel i5-2400, AMD FX-6300 Memory: 8 GB RAM Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 550Ti or AMD Radeon HD 7750 DirectX: Version 11 Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 9 GB available space Additional Notes: We highly recommend to have a microphone as this game depends on ingame communication.