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1996 · RTS · Retro · Robots

How long isZ?

by TickTock Games

4 hours

for the typical playerhalf of them between 1.5 hours and 7.5 hours

On the short side for a strategy game: 4 hours for the typical player, shorter than 814 of 968 strategy games here.

Do the first two hours of Z tell you?

In the first two hours63%recommend it

After that82%recommend it

10 of every 20 thumbs-down came after the window had closed, 10 while a refund was still possible.

How this is counted

Half of its Steam reviewers had played 4 hours or less when they gave their verdict. The middle half sat between 1.5 hours and 7.5 hours.

One token is 1% of its Steam reviews, standing at the hours its author had played. Counted from about 1,480 Steam reviews, by the hours each author had played when they wrote theirs. It is not a time to beat.

31% of its reviews were written inside Steam's two-hour refund window, and 63% of those recommend it. After the window, 82% do. Of the players who gave it a thumbs-down, 51% were already past the window; the typical thumbs-down came 2 hours in.

When would you get there?

4days

At an hour a night, you’d pass the typical player’s 4 hours on Saturday, October 24.

Half of its reviewers had played between 1.5 and 7.5 hours: Oct 22 to Oct 28 at this pace.

How this is counted

The typical player's hours are the hours Steam reviewers had played when they wrote their review, not a time to beat. The days count from today, playing the hours the pace says on each day.

Where do players get filtered in Z?

The filter

Hot Rocks

9 of every 100 players got to this one and no further.

They hold Desert Storm and never earned it.

  1. Launched it100% launched it
  2. Desert StormDesert World conquered−6931% hold it
  3. Hot RocksVolcanic World conqueredFiltered −922% hold it
  4. Ice WarriorArctic World conquered−517% hold it
  5. Monkey MadnessJungle World conquered−314% hold it
  6. Win all levels.Single player game completed−212% hold it
  7. Metropolitan MajorCity World conquered12% hold it
How this is counted

31% of the players who launched Z hold Desert Storm, its first story achievement on Steam, and 12% hold Metropolitan Major, its last. The steepest drop comes between Desert Storm (31%) and Hot Rocks (22%).

Steam's global achievement stats count everyone who ever launched the game, people still playing included. They are not a finish rate. The filter is the steepest drop between two story achievements; the players who never reached the first one barely started, and are never the filter.

Is Z worth it?

Is Z worth it? Yes.

  • Fair price

    About what a typical strategy game charges: $1.75 an hour

  • Liked

    82% recommend it after the refund windowmost strategy games: 88%

How this is counted

At Steam's US list price of $6.99, the typical player's 4 hours come to $1.75 an hour. Past the two-hour refund window, 82% of its Steam reviewers recommend it. An hour of Z costs about what the typical one of 968 strategy games here charges $1.67.

The price is Steam's US list price for the game by itself: not a sale price, a bundle or what anyone paid. The hours are the ones its reviewers had played, not a time to beat. Its kind (strategy games) is named by its strongest Steam tags, a narrow kind before a wide one, among the kinds with at least 20 priced games here; failing that, by its Steam genre. The going rate is the middle hourly cost of those games, and the receipt prices its typical hours at it. The words beside it compare it with its kind: loved is 90% recommending it or more, liked 80%, mixed 65%; it gets played when a quarter fewer of the owners read here never launched it than of its kind's typical game. Whether it holds up is drawn on the hours road above, and counts toward the one-word answer.

Would you like Z?

Give the ball your Steam profile link or name. It reads the games you own most like Z, how long each held you against the typical player, and how long Z would take you. Public profiles only. No account needed, and no library is saved.

How this is counted

It reads how long you tend to stay: across every game you've played whose typical hours it knows (free games left out), how often you went past the typical player and how often you left before half their hours. It glows when you often stay past them, dims when you often leave early, and needs five played games to read at all. Then it shows the games you own most like this one, by the same measure as the shelf of games like it, each with your hours against the typical player's.

Why not a forecast for this game: on 36,766 Steam libraries, how a player did on games like one told little beyond how long they stay in games at all, so those games are shown as evidence and never scored. Nothing of the library is kept.

Games like Z

All 30 games like Z, and which you already own
How this is counted

The same series first, then the games sharing the most of its strongest Steam tags, genres and themes, the ones of a similar typical length ahead. Each case wears the hours its own page leads with.