Zombie Cure Lab
Colony management sim about curing zombies and defending your lab
Thera Bytes GmbH · Published by Aerosoft GmbH · Released May 27, 2025
- Reviews
- Mixed
- 68% of 467
- Recent reviews
- Not enough recent
- Playing now
- 3
- peak 24h 4
- Steam Deck
- Playable
- Last update
- 1 year ago
- Jun 7, 2025
What is Zombie Cure Lab?
Zombie Cure Lab is a single-player colony management game set after a zombie outbreak. You build a research facility, assign workers, manage resources and power, capture zombies for treatment, and defend against nightly attacks. Treated zombies become hybrids who can work in the lab as scientists pursue a cure.
For you if...
- +you enjoy managing workers, resources, and production lines
- +you like building defenses against recurring attacks
Not for you if...
- −you prefer direct combat over managing a base
- −you want to avoid balancing worker schedules and resources
What players say
68% of 467 reviews are positive
Players praise the zombie-curing premise, worker management, and progression. They most often complain about bugs and workers getting stuck, and some report severe late-game slowdown or say the game feels unfinished.
Screenshots and trailer
Zombie Cure Lab system requirements
As published by the developer.
Minimum
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel i5-6600k // AMD Ryzen 5 1600
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 970 (4GB) // AMD Radeon RX 480 (8GB)
- Memory
- 8 GB RAM
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
Recommended
- OS
- Windows 10 64-bit
- Processor
- Intel i7-6700k // AMD Ryzen 5 2600
- Graphics
- NVIDIA GeForce GTX 1060 (6GB) // AMD Radeon RX 580 (8GB)
- Memory
- 16 GB RAM
- Storage
- 4 GB available space
- DirectX
- Version 11
PC version details
DRM, required accounts, controller support and Steam features.
- DRM
- None declared on Steam
- Controller
- Keyboard and mouse
- Platforms
- Windows
- Achievements
- 56
- Steam features
- Cloud saves, Family Sharing
Steam Deck: Playable
- Default controller config not fully functional
- Sometimes shows mouse, keyboard or non-Deck controller icons
- Some text entry requires manually opening the on-screen keyboard
- Some in-game text is small and may be hard to read
- Default graphics settings perform well on Steam Deck
Multiplayer and co-op
Languages
Text only: English, French, Italian, German, Spanish - Spain, Polish, Portuguese - Brazil, Russian, Simplified Chinese.
Tags
- Colony Sim
- Zombies
- Science
- Post-apocalyptic
- Resource Management
- Base Building
- Outbreak Sim
- City Builder
- Tower Defense
- Sandbox
- Building
- Economy
- Strategy
- Management
- Simulation
- Time Management
Recent updates
- Jun 7, 2025 · Hotfix 1.01
- May 16, 2025 · Zombie Cure Lab | Major content update dropping on May 27
- May 2, 2025 · Regular Update 0.21.5 [Experimental]
- Apr 4, 2025 · Hotfix 0.21.4 [Experimental]
- Mar 25, 2025 · Experimental Update #2 - Release Preparations
1 DLC available.
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