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This is an open-world zombie survival game set in a quarantined city. You play as a student left behind due to missing the evacuation convoy. Together with classmates and other survivors, you must defend the school, survive, and await rescue.

Dread Dawn is a zombies, survival and exploration game developed and published by Kioop.
Released on September 30th 2024 is available only on Windows in 6 languages: English, Simplified Chinese, Spanish - Spain, Spanish - Latin America, Japanese and Russian.

It has received 1,975 reviews of which 1,438 were positive and 537 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam, but you can find it for less on Eneba.

The Steam community has classified Dread Dawn into these genres:

Zombies Survival Exploration Sandbox Open World Drama Base-Building Adventure Tower Defense RPG Atmospheric 2.5D Third-Person Shooter Action-Adventure Third Person Isometric Building Story Rich Horror Outbreak Sim

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System requirements

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Windows

OS *: Windows 10/8/7
Processor: 4 core
Memory: 8 GB RAM
Graphics: gtx660
DirectX: Version 9.0
Storage: 26 GB available space
Additional Notes: Please enable your dedicated graphics card.

User reviews & Ratings

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July 2025

Dread Dawn is an experience. I spent three days straight playing through it and figuring out how the systems worked. I can definitely say it's not for everyone, but the dev is active, and currently adding features that the community wants. The game itself is simple focusing on your attempt to defend your school, but the story somewhat is measured, feeling half done, but with enough possible room for expansion. The combat is somewhat simple as well, but satisfying to use combat items like guns and the like, and the use of turrets helps hold off hordes of undead. I would like to see a few different things added, mostly having to do with survivor systems, creating a compound and leading the entire school instead of being relegated into a soldier to basically support. I'd also like to see a finish to the story, the necessitated shift from survival to reclamation and even a possible environment shift from city to jungle. There's a lot of potential here. Graphics are pretty good, the fixed positioning is a fine way to have the player surprised, but I feel like a better system is needed for compression of game files. All in all, considering it's been enough to keep me entertained for 20+ hours, it's easy to rate this 8/10.

March 2025

If you're a zombies game fan, you're ok with 2D games, and you like survival games, I recommend you give this game a try.

Feb. 2025

I've just beaten the game and I'm glad I didn't listen to the bad reviews. This game is actually fun to play. I don't know why people are sh*tting on this game for? Perhaps they played an earlier build that had bugs and whatnot, but my playthrough I did not run into any issues at all. As of this writing it took me about 73 hours to beat the game, granted I've cleared out two of the three maps or major regions. Each map is huge so it will take a very long time to clear them out and search for every little nooks and crannies, so I gave up on the third map and just ran through the main quest line because it does get a bit tedious towards the end by doing the same thing over again, i.e. searching in boxes, containers and cars for loot. The end is also kind of a bit draggy, especially after having grinded two entire maps worth, I just wanted this game to end so I can see the ending. Other than that, overall I'm pleased with this game and I'm glad I've played it.

Dec. 2024

7/10. Its pretty fun after a few hours in where it begins to open up, but the Devs hurt themselves putting this game in full release instead of early access. Now I haven't encounter any more bugs since the latest patches so that's a plus and it got my attention so far with the story missions, side quests and at the same time I can explore at my own leisure. But OMG it so freakin tedious to search a million places for just 1 to 2 items at a time; I mean you can literately search everything. I can see where boredom can set in if you aren't a OCD trash panda. Wish the story had some emotion and depth. I still recommend it or maybe wait a few months. I don't see much else the devs can add to this beside a skill tree that would upgrade your guy, or be able to gain some powers, or more weapons. As long as the dev keeps up with the updates. Just remember to not expect any WOW factor in this.You will get your money worth and its DEI free. lol.

Nov. 2024

The game is pretty good but could you bring back the before the outbreak but for survival mode? Everything starts 20 hours after the initial outbreak so itd be nice to start from the very beginning and watch everything unfold

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Frequently Asked Questions

Dread Dawn is currently priced at 19.50€ on Steam.

Dread Dawn is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 19.50€ on Steam.

Dread Dawn received 1,438 positive votes out of a total of 1,975 achieving a rating of 7.05.

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Dread Dawn was developed and published by Kioop.

Dread Dawn is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Dread Dawn is not playable on MacOS.

Dread Dawn is not playable on Linux.

Dread Dawn is a single-player game.

Dread Dawn does not currently offer any DLC.

Dread Dawn does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Dread Dawn does not support Steam Remote Play.

Dread Dawn is enabled for Steam Family Sharing. This means you can share the game with authorized users from your Steam Library, allowing them to play it on their own accounts. For more details on how the feature works, you can read the original Steam Family Sharing announcement or visit the Steam Family Sharing user guide and FAQ page.

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