Quarantine Zone: The Last Check

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a very unique and interesting game with enough gameplay to make you want to boot it up at random to check a few people, just to keep humanity safe. It does have some small issues with soft-lock missions, but that’s not really worth mentioning when you’re having so much fun.

Simulation with an unusual zombie scenario, which nevertheless leaves many opportunities untapped.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a unique approach to the zombie genre, and while it can become repetitive, I still had a lot of fun playing.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check struggles with technical issues and inconsistent challenges. Glitches, visual drops, and clunky mechanics pull you out of the experience, and the game doesn’t always push you to adapt or think in surprising ways. Though it shines in giving players a real sense of authority, a reactive world, and satisfying systems that reward careful observation and decision-making, its current state is difficult to recommend. However, fans of puzzle-management simulations who enjoy moral ambiguity and quiet tension can still have a compelling and worthwhile experience despite its rough edges.

QZTLC is a well-executed mix of horror and bureaucracy. If you’re intrinsically motivated, it’s an absolute delight. But, expansion on the core gameplay might’ve helped it feel a little less repetitive.

Papers, Please! meets zombie apocalypse: Despite wooden shooter interludes and technical sloppiness, the bitterly wicked charm of this thankless checkpoint assignment is convincing.

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check offers a handful of interesting ideas compared to traditional simulation games, but its strengths never extend beyond the initial premise. Brigada Games’ title plays all its cards early on, only to struggle in later sessions with repetitive and shallow mechanics. A more solid framework and more demanding challenges could have alleviated the gameplay’s tedious nature, but in its current state it is hard to recommend, especially at its asking price.

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Cute little indie game for a cheap price, gets repetitive quick but worth the price. Had alot of potential for new mechanics and a deeper story, almost all of the base is unused and some quests are not fun (the graffiti one) this studio has potential I'd love to see Quarantine Zone 2 with much more polished gameplay and story.

Fun but gets really repetitive, real quick. Date Completed: 2026-02-13 Playtime: 9h Enjoyment: 7/10 Recommendation: Yeah

The game's concept is cool, but it's clear the team lacks experience in game design. Every time a new trait appears, some of the old ones suddenly stop appearing altogether. For example, one day you can literally skip the lung check and lose nothing, as everyone (even zombies) will have perfect lungs. Zombies at the base - the same thing. As a result, it becomes boring quite quickly. P.S. The part about repelling the zombie attack on the base turned out really cool, it's a shame so few people bought the Zombie Gunship (iOS) reference.

Bad, bland graphics, no style, bad worldbuilding, bad story, gameplay, somewhat addictive, is plagued by multiple problems: 1) Controls are linked to tools and all the tools are on a single circle, that makes switching between them a pain. 2) Most of the tools mechanics are uninteresting and not complex enough. Most of the base upgrades are increases of capacity for camp/canteen/quarantine, they don't change the way your base operates in a memorable way. 3) Checkpoint personnel, although they stay with you the whole time, have no personalities. The longest story you will see from survivors are about 3 days long and super-basic and the game almost never treats its stories seriously, it is mostly humor content. You won't know a single survivor/checkpoint personnel by name by the end of the game. 4) Graphics-wise game looks fairly bad, but passable, but what ruins it for me is the lack of style, everything is just portrayed in the most default New York apocalypse style possible (Stock Unity models, maybe?). Characters are uninteresting and there are only a few faces for the models (Aside from streamer models (Yeah, they put streamers as survivors by the handful, you'll recognize them even if you've never seen them)) Game tries to be serious with its visual presentation and fails, making the game bland instead, and unserious story-wise, killing the story completely. Together it forms a bland unrealistic 3d checkpoint simulator. Oh, there is also a stupid tower defense mini game where you are the single flying tower (drone) with a minigun, firing at zombies that decided to attack your base that day, other checkpoint personnel is apparently asleep, so you won't even see them firing at stragglers occasionally. For a single dev 5 EUR game it would be all right, for 20 Euro it is a waste.