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SmallZ
SmallZ is a third person zombie survival game. Form a team or go solo to survive from many threats such as zombies, boss zombies and other players. Build fortifications on different buildings or build your own base from scratch. There are plenty of build parts available for you to craft!
What players say
Steam review score and the most-helpful voices, which may include critical ones. Score via Steam as of 2026-09-28.
“This game is the most accurate Detroit Simulator I have ever seen.”
— a player, Steam review · 14 hrs played“the game has a good opportunity even if it still needs a bit of work to be done, greatly support it and would play the latest updates if there will be any”
— a player, Steam review · 4 hrs playedLatest official news
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Free to play
🔥 Important Update 🔥 Creating SmallZ was a personal passion project for me. I aimed to design a game that I'd enjoy playing and share that joy with others. This journey has been filled with highs and
0.6.0 EARLY RELEASE
Greetings, SmallZ community! We are thrilled to announce that after months of intense dedication and hard work, we have rolled out a significant update to SmallZ! 🚀 Our team has been tirelessly workin
Patch 0.5.0
Added: New clouds Freelook (press ALT) MOST vehicles support armor Night vision goggles 13 new helmets 9 new armor All noises now attract zombies Server restart warnings New areas on the map Dedicated
Patch 0.4.2
FIXES CRASHING ISSUE It comes with a heavy heart that we've had to disable vehicle inventories, due to a bug causing the game to crash within the saving/loading code for vehicles. Added 6 new melee we
Patch 0.4.1
Added New zombie optimizations and rendering methods Changed Temporarily removed lights in buildings to increase performance Vehicle spawns upped
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Screenshots
Official Steam store screenshots — click any shot to enlarge.
Facts & details
From the Steam store record, snapshot 2026-09-28.
| Genres | Action, Adventure, Indie, Massively Multiplayer, RPG, Simulation, Strategy, Free To Play, Early Access |
| Player tags | Early Access · Action · Strategy · Shooter · Looter Shooter · Third Person · Building · Cooking · Crafting · Economy · Post-apocalyptic · Survival (SteamSpy community voting) |
| Features | Single-player · Multi-player · MMO · PvP · Online PvP · LAN PvP · Family Sharing |
| Languages | English * * |
| Official site | https://skins.dog |
Minimum system requirements (PC)
Minimum: Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system OS *: Windows 7 Processor: Ryzen 5 1600 Memory: 4096 MB RAM Graphics: GTX 1070ti Network: Broadband Internet connection Storage: 10 GB available space