Quarantine Zone: The Last Check was a breakout hit at one of last year's Steam Next Fest events, garnering more than one million Steam Wishlists thanks to a hot demo, and its winning streak has only continued now that it's properly launched.
For a game set in the thick of a zombie apocalypse, Quarantine Zone surprisingly doesn't cast players as a struggling survivor or a guns-blazing soldier. It instead riffs on indie classic Papers, Please by having players operate a military checkpoint that's in control of who gets to join the ever-growing, titular community and who needs to be turned away based on how likely they are to turn into a brain-eating monster.
At the time of writing, Quarantine Zone is comfortably up there in Steam's Top Sellers list, coming in as the second-highest-charting premium game, behind only EA Sports FC 26, as well as the Steam Deck and some evergreen free-to-play hits.
No surprise there given the zombie sim's pre-release momentum and the more than 1,500 user reviews, which average to a 'Mostly Positive' rating on the storefront.
"A buggy but solid concept, Quarantine Zone actively lets you play a version of the zombie apocalypse you otherwise never really see," one player writes. "Overall, the game is pretty fun. Finding out if people are zombies is a good experience, as well as assigning them/dealing them as you see fit. This, as the actual gameplay loop, is interesting and fun."
What potentially added to Quarantine Zone's success is yesterday's collaboration with the most popular horror multiplayer game around, Dead by Daylight, which added four survivors from DBD into the rotation of people who might try to come through your checkpoint. The collaboration is completely free for all players.
If you're taking control of your own checkpoint, then these are the Quarantine Zone symptoms to watch out for and how to deal with survivors smuggling Quarantine Zone contraband.
