Unturned

Unturned

Smartly Dressed Games · July 7, 2017 · Free to Play, Survival, Zombies, Multiplayer, Open World

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About Unturned

✦ AI summary

Survive a zombie apocalypse solo or online by scavenging, crafting, and battling undead across massive sandbox maps while managing hunger, cold, and other players. Build fortified bases, drive vehicles from tanks to helicopters, and experience endless mod-created content that lets you reshape the game entirely.


STAY UNTURNED
You're one of the few not yet turned zombie. Keeping it that way will be a challenge.
  • Go in guns blazing and attract the attention of everything, living and dead.
  • Take a subtle approach sneaking around and making use of distractions.
  • Confront and learn to counter special abilities ranging from invisibility to fire breathing to lightning attacks.

STRUGGLE AGAINST NATURE
Zombies aside nature does plenty to make life hard.
  • Forage wild fruits and vegetables.
  • Hunt animals for pelts and meat, or in some hostile environments become the prey.
  • Fish for food and garbage.
  • Plant a crop and make sure it gets rain.
  • Seek warmth and take shelter from blizzards.

DEAL WITH OTHER PLAYERS
Friend or foe there's a lot of interesting people online.
  • Arrest bandits with handcuffs and blindfold them as a non-lethal strategy.
  • Fight with every kind of weapon under the sun - swords, machine guns, snipers, missiles, landmines - you name it.
  • Raid enemy encampments using charges and detonators and steal their loot.
  • For pure PvP play arena mode in a last man standing battle to the death, or PvE for peaceful cooperation.
  • Roleplay servers encourage everyone to stay in character and tell a story together.

HELP THE NEW SOCIETY
Plenty to do even if you're offline or going solo.
  • Meet, talk and trade with NPCs.
  • Complete quests to aid NPCs and progress the story.
  • Fend off waves of the undead to clear hordes.
  • Secure airdropped supplies.
  • Gear up with gasmasks to scout radioactive deadzones.

FORTIFY YOUR STRONGHOLD
Somewhere to kick back and chillax or a hideout to direct your gang, whatever floats your boat (in this case sometimes literally).
  • Build with barricades, furniture, traps, machinery and more.
  • Board up the windows of existing structures to survive the night.
  • Craft an entirely new structure from supplies you collect.
  • Turn your vehicle into a moving fortress by building on it.

TRAVEL BY LAND, AIR AND SEA
Roll out in style with a fully stocked garage.
  • Land vehicles including tanks, quads and snowmobiles.
  • Air vehicles from helicopters to seaplanes to fighter jets.
  • Sea vehicles such as jetskis and hovercraft.
  • Maintain your vehicles with tires, batteries and fuel.

EXPLORE MASSIVE WORLDS
With 5 officially developed and 1 curated community created sandbox map there's a wide variety of locations to discover:
  • Prince Edward Island (PEI)
  • The Yukon
  • Washington
  • Russia
  • Hawaii
  • Germany

MOD EVERYTHING
From the ground up Unturned was designed for modding.
  • Download player created content ranging from guns to vehicles to huge levels from the workshop, and upload your own.
  • Build custom maps using the in-game level editor. All of the official maps were created with the same free public tools and their assets are open for you to use.
  • Write plugins using built-in or strong third party systems.
  • Get your apparel and skins upvoted in the workshop for consideration to be accepted and sold.
  • Team up with other modders and put together your own update for consideration to be officially adopted.

NEAT STUFF
I think these features are neat and they didn't fit anywhere else. There's many more I want to include but for brevity's sake:
  • Most objects can be destroyed to create new pathways.
  • For immersion you can pick a frequency and use two-way radios to communicate with your squad rather than external voice chat programs.

Unturned — game info

Platforms
Windows, macOS, Linux / SteamOS
Steam Deck
Playable
Player modes
Single-player, Online PvP, Online co-op, LAN
PC Game Pass
Not included
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What Steam players say

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

✦ AI summary

Players praise Unturned for its engaging multiplayer experiences and accessible gameplay with cheat codes, with many appreciating the creative sandbox fun and community interactions. Common complaints focus on the steep learning curve for custom content creation, particularly difficulties importing models from Blender and uploading maps, which deters players interested in modding and map creation.

Recommended Sep 8, 2026
eh
Recommended Sep 8, 2026
great game
Recommended Sep 8, 2026
Very good copy of Rust and Dayz for those who doesnt have money or powerful pc
Recommended Sep 8, 2026
k
Recommended Sep 8, 2026
really funh, its hard to find teamates, you will be killed alot
Recommended Sep 7, 2026
very fun

Patch notes & news

Latest updates from Steam.

Community Announcements · SDGNelson Jun 11, 2026

3.26.3.3 Patch Notes

Sea level checks now use static volumes optimization, blood and paintball splatter decals revised, and fixed workshop tag submission menu localization issue.

Community Announcements · SDGNelson May 7, 2026

3.26.3.2 Patch Notes

Fixed redundant barricade checks that were allowing players to bypass building zone restrictions.

Community Announcements · SDGNelson May 5, 2026

3.26.3.1 Patch Notes

Added option to prevent level skill overrides and enable leveling on restricted maps; improved volume performance with opt-in static volumes setting.

Community Announcements · SDGNelson Apr 30, 2026

California 2

Unturned added an expansive California map with multi-tiered endgame progression and extensive new content.

Community Announcements · SDGNelson Apr 23, 2026

3.26.2.3 Patch Notes

Added quadruple-stacked experienced beret, dialogue testing command, and adjusted sentry behavior to ignore vehicles when owned by passengers; levels can now prevent selection based on dependencies.

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