Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I

Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I

Parisi Interactive Games · August 3, 2023 · Casual, Tower Defense, Action, Zombies, Singleplayer

Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I is free to play — no purchase needed. We track it so you know if that ever changes.

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Mostly Negative36% · 22 📉 Recent reviews down 15%
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Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I price

Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I is free to play — there is no purchase price, on Steam or anywhere else we track. We keep watching it, so if it ever stops being free the price history on this page will show when that happened and what it changed to.

About Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I

Project Z is a TopDown view Tower & Defense game, set in a post apocalyptic city from the future. The title is exclusively developed for PC by Parisi Interactive Games. The game system consists of defending a shelter while placing traps to defend yourself from zombie attacks.
We transport you to the year 2025, where a human experiment laboratory tries to develop a substance that would bring the dead back to life. But whose experiment hasn't gone quite right, and now the world isn't what it once knew.
Our character (Leonard) faces alone against waves of zombies whose objective is to attack the shelter, to contain these attacks, Leonard will place traps throughout the levels and use the few weapons that he possesses.
Special features:
  • To get the use of the traps, you must collect lots of money that you will find distributed in the levels or by killing the zombies.
  • The weapons you will use will be provided by non-playable characters
  • Explore the level to get an idea of the key points marked on the map to prepare your defense
  • Play slowly, since the waves are not automatic, you must press the wave call button.
  • Contains moderate violence and gore

Project Z: The beginning of the end. Chapter I — game info

Platforms
Windows
Steam Deck
Unsupported
Player modes
Single-player
PC Game Pass
Not included

What Steam players say

Recent verbatim reviews from Steam — separate from playze.io community reviews below.

Not recommended Feb 27, 2024
First thing is first, for god sakes almighty, you do not release a game in 2023 that only supports up to 1080p. The voice acting and sounds in this game are awful and every time you run there is this loud ass thumping noise that hurt my ears. The movement in this game is also funky and wonky. MOST free games are very bad and this is no exception. Most times you get what you pay for.
1 found this helpful
Not recommended Nov 24, 2023
Number #1 game to hear horrible voices and half the time you don't even understand whats happening. You fight a horde of zombies but its football players with chain saws the game is so horrible i instantly uninstall it
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Not recommended Oct 8, 2025
Gosh, where do I start with this? First of all, when I first launched this game, the intro "cutscene" (Which was a bunch of plot points with an AI-generated voice reading it out, which mispronounced half of the words) was rather long and drawn out, and when it ended it froze my computer! At that point I was not willing to start the game up again out of fear of it crashing my computer a second time, but I eventually decided to open the game again because I had to give this game some form of a chance. In hindsight, I wish had just quit the game then and there because what I was met with after actually getting the game to work was a combination of broken and janky controls, terribly low quality sound effects, even more AI-Generated voicelines that could barely speak properly, as well as a weird glitch that involved the player constantly getting stuck in the ground because of what I'm assuming was really bad world building. Furthermore, during the attack segments the zombies come at you in huge clumps, which destroys your health almost too quickly, as well as the zombies not dying at 0% health, instead they only die [i]after[/i] they have made their final attack, which is just anno…
Not recommended Sep 18, 2025
The controls are awkward and the wave balance is poor.
Not recommended Jul 6, 2025
I first thought how bad could this game be? it was 0/10. when you kill a zombie it finishs it's attack then dies
Not recommended May 16, 2024
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