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Generation Zero is a stealth-action shooter where you wage guerilla warfare against lethal mechanical enemies. Explore a vast open world map inspired by the Swedish Cold War era, take part in the resistance alone or with up to three friends in seamless co-op.

Generation Zero® is a open world, survival and co-op game developed by Systemic Reaction™ and published by Avalanche Studios.
Released on March 26th 2019 is available only on Windows in 8 languages: English, French, German, Spanish - Spain, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Japanese and Polish.

It has received 40,504 reviews of which 29,053 were positive and 11,451 were negative resulting in a rating of 7.1 out of 10. 😊

The game is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam, but you can find it for 1.20€ on Gamivo.


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Windows
  • Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
  • OS *: 64bit OS - Windows 7 with Service Pack 1
  • Processor: Intel i5 Quad Core
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM
  • Graphics: nVidia GTX 660 / ATI HD7870 - 2GB VRAM / Intel® Iris™ Pro Graphics 580
  • Storage: 35 GB available space

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Jan. 2026
The first 5 hours of this game is great, but afterwards the games flaws show. At first the story is captivating and then you realize that all you do is go to a bunker, get lame fetch quests, repeat. The machines are pretty fun to fight early game, but after a while the gameplay loop ends up being; shoot, run behind cover, reload, repeat. overall this game is worth the money but don't expect game of the year. Its honestly pretty impressive for an indie studio tho.
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Dec. 2025
ThE gAmE ThAt WaS ReLeAsEd 7 YeArS aGo HaS bEeN aBaNdOnEd By ThE dEvS There's a difference between a live service game and just a game. Get over yourselves and cope more. It's a fun game. It's $25, i got it for $6 on sale. If you're expecting a triple A title for $25 then your opinion already doesn't matter. Go shoot some clankers and build a base.
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Nov. 2025
Generation Zero was the first and probably the best robot fighting game in apocalypse setting I ever played. Not without flaws, like driving physics, but the atmosphere of it is just amazing in every aspect, weather, robots, sound design of those robots, you can feel the mood developers went for pretty well. That's the only game which made me feel scared and tense while praying for my life being stuck inside small countryside house with enemies swarming outside trying to get to you. Seeing Arc Raiders release as another Swedish game, I instantly was reminded of Generation Zero and will definitely revisit it again with friends.
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Oct. 2025
I have a powerful addiction to this game truly, between the 50hrs on steam and the literal hundreds of hours on console. I loved playing this game from its infancy to its abandonment. From running for your life and sneaking by in the early game fearing every engagement, To deliberately hunting down every rival, tank, harvester, lynx, and firebird you can find in the late game. But tragically for how much I love this game it certainly has some flaws. 1. Ammo used to be semi difficult to really scrounge up a lot of at least enough to take down hordes of machines. Now it's in such an over abundance I find myself constantly overweight from just ammo alone. 2. Once you play for awhile the difficultly even on guerrilla just feels too easy, you learn fairly quick how to cheese every single enemy and not even by trying the majority of the time. Which brings me to my next point 3. The enemy a.i. is breaking constantly, (mostly with the larger enemies like tanks and harvesters) they get stuck in some area's or just lose all motor functions in an open field and don't move. Best part is when the a.i. breaks and the bug that has them shoot whatever weapon they have infinitely happen at the same time. 4. In the games' earlier development it had an amazing sense of being totally alone. Finding clues as to what happened to the entire islands' population through both the main story and environmental story telling was a great feeling. There was a point where I thought about the lack of npc's in the world but once they added the main story overhaul the npc's felt so lifeless and under done, there's only a small group of them in a single safe zone that you vist once the entire game. The way they added it just really killed that feeling of being totally alone in a robot war torn world where you are the only one left. And omg please tell Theresia to sthu she talks way too much in the early game. 5. DLC's are quite fairly priced for the amount of content they add imo, but the story add on's feel semi empty of feeling. The FINX Rising DLC just ends so abruptly with really not much more world building behind it, sure you get to actually interact with a sentient killing machine but the random power stations you find around the map have no lore behind them and sometimes are just in area's that they're have no significant reason to be there besides taking up space. The weapon DLC's are noticeably more powerful than all of the vanilla weapons which I guess I sort of understand seeing as you do pay for these weapons, but to the degree that they are stronger is quite overkill. 6. While we're talking about weapons I'll mention the changes they made to looting, finding a new weapon that was in good condition was an amazing find it was new and better and exciting, and had you using different weapons everytime you found one. And this goes along with the over abundance of ammo that you used to run out of ammo for your guns so you had to either find more via looting POI's or change to a different or old weapon you had to keep yourself from getting caught lacking. But back to looting guns, the first time I play years ago on console I went a decent time without finding either an SMG or assault rifle making early game combat harder and riskier. Now it feel's like every 3-4 loot containers I open has a 2-3 star quality automatic weapon in it really losing the sense of early game struggle and fear of getting in a big fight. 7. The base building gimmick was exactly that, a gimmick they added towards the start of the games' death. Gathering resources for building takes forever and isn't fun. Thankfully you aren't required to partake in that part more than once (for a story mission). The a.i. during the base assaults more often than not, just ignores you in favor of breaking down your base walls. As well as coming in ridiculously sized waves on the hard defense missions. Not to mention how long they last omg they take forever for no reason and the rewards dont feel all that worthwhile. 8. WHY DID THEY MAKE THE STASH BOX CARRY BETWEEN CHARACTERS IT COMPLETELY RUINS NEW PLAY THROUGHS WHY AVALANCHE STUDIOS WHYYY Finally the good: 1. Guns feel great to use and blow up bots with 2. Game supports multiple ways of taking fights, sneaking, and escaping combat via lootable and craftable equipment 3. Skill tree is balanced and offers fun special unlockable abilities like hacking smaller machines to fight with you, improved emp affects, and a free self revive once per fight. just to name a few. (Later level exp requirements are a little ludicrous) 4. The experimental weapons and rivals updates were the best thing to happen to this game 5. DLC weapons are fun to use (despite being op) and unique 6. Ignoring the story and just pounding out sidequests or just messing around killing hordes of bots just for fun and to waste time is one of the funest ways to play the game 7. Enemies have variants and different way to interact with said variants. Using runners (or dogs as I call them) as an example, protoype runners rely heavily on their mid to short range smg making pistols and smg's effective against them, while military class runner either have a shotgun or high caliber rifle. Shotgun dogs also very often run at you to jump on you and ragdoll you making shotguns and pistols the go to. While the military dogs with rifles sit back at mid to long ranges making assault rifles and sniper rifles the best way to deal with them. There's even more variants with different fighting styles but I dont wanna spoil everything. 8. A lot of houses are copy paste but very few feel like they dont belong or feel empty 9. Added bikes to get around the map faster at the cost of being loud and drawing attention and needing fuel (aka more ♥♥♥♥ to make you overweight faster) 10. The soviet bots invading the northern parts of the island and fighting the original machines in a turf war style was an amazing add to the liveliness of the world, and a great natural progression seeing as you slowly make your way from south to north via the story and side missions 11. Runs great for all that's happening on screen at one time even for lower end hardware like mine TL:DR Game has flaws, world isn't as great as it once was, was abandoned in a buggy state, and has under gone some questionable changes. But I still suggest picking it up if you have the cash and are looking for a game to just plug into and mess around in for a few hours. You likely wont regret it and will see the greatness though the flaws.
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March 2025
Good graphics, nice bicycle riding and cool robot concept but a bit repetitive, bad inventory management and nothing that grips you to the story, you get bored easily ... It's fun only for a bit.
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Frequently Asked Questions

Generation Zero® is currently priced at 24.99€ on Steam.

Generation Zero® is currently not on sale. You can purchase it for 24.99€ on Steam.

Generation Zero® received 29,053 positive votes out of a total of 40,504 achieving a rating of 7.08.
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Generation Zero® was developed by Systemic Reaction™ and published by Avalanche Studios.

Generation Zero® is playable and fully supported on Windows.

Generation Zero® is not playable on MacOS.

Generation Zero® is not playable on Linux.

Generation Zero® offers both single-player and multi-player modes.

Generation Zero® includes Co-op mode where you can team up with friends.

There are 23 DLCs available for Generation Zero®. Explore additional content available for Generation Zero® on Steam.

Generation Zero® does not support mods via Steam Workshop.

Generation Zero® does not support Steam Remote Play.

Generation Zero® 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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Generation Zero® PEGI 12
Rating
7.1
29,053
11,451
Game modes
Multiplayer
Features
Online players
338
Developer
Systemic Reaction™
Publisher
Avalanche Studios
Release 26 Mar 2019
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