IndieRPGSimulationEarly Access≤32 playersmoddablenative Linuxsingle-threadProject Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..
By The Indie Stone · Released Nov 8, 2013
Host it here
≈ $10/mo
playing ~12 h/week on the metered plan, billed only while the server is actually up. Always-on is $29.99–$59.98/mo · about $7.50 each split between 4 players, 1–2 cores dedicated, never shared.
Single-thread, CPU-bound; Build 42 raised RAM needs; ~500MB/player.
Get the game
You buy Project Zomboid once from Steam. It is $16.74 there, a one-off purchase. NecroHost rents you the server it runs on, which is the monthly figure above.