Atom Zombie Smasher, a 15-year-old recreation, simply acquired up to date out of the blue on Steam

Atom Zombie Smasher has been in my Steam account about so long as I’ve had one. I held out for so long as I may, however finally video games on CD began demanding I set up Steam to run them, so I caved and shortly after acquired Portal and a handful of digital-only indie video games like Audiosurf, Uplink, and Blendo’s zombie tower-defense recreation. It was principally throughout for my free time from then on.

Which is why it is wild, greater than a decade later, to be reminded of Atom Zombie Smasher’s existence by it being patched. This fifteenth anniversary replace is not going to rework the top-down rescue sim the place the zombies are tiny pink squares into The Final of Us 3, nevertheless it does add a horde of little adjustments.

For starters, the place earlier than you would gradual time all the way down to 10%, now you may drop all of it the best way all the way down to 1%. That is so gradual you are principally making Atom Zombie Smasher turn-based, a change I approve of in any techniques recreation. Additionally modified: you may deselect models with the Escape key; the seams round cutscene vignette artwork are gone; and if you’re on the Behind the Scenes display the scroll restrict works so you do not scroll too far and find yourself wanting on the recreation as it might be seen from a passing aeroplane.

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A Mac-specific startup bug has additionally been eliminated, together with outdated social buttons, and a secret reset key that was by no means presupposed to ship. If Atom Zombie Smasher does crash on you now, a kind will pop as much as assist your downside be addressed.

In case you’ve by no means performed Atom Zombie Smasher it is presently 50% off on Steam and properly price a glance. From there developer Blendo Video games went on to make a few of our all-time favorites, like Gravity Bone, Thirty Flights of Loving, and the winner of our Greatest Immersive Sim award in 2025, Pores and skin Deep. Truthfully, I would nonetheless price Atom Zombie Smasher in opposition to any of them.