Every Infestation game, ranked
All 2 Infestation games we hold, spanning 2016 to 2016: 2 ranked by the GamingPickz Score and plotted below, the rest listed in release order so nothing in the series is missing. Together they carry 59,272 Steam reviews.
Where to start
- For the best-reviewed: Infestation: The New Z (GamingPickz Score 5.4), the highest-rated entry we can score.
The Infestation games on the grid
Compare the whole catalogueThe same 2 games, plotted rather than listed. The two axes below are the ones the ranking is built from, so a game sitting high and right is a game the formula placed near the top. Change either axis to see the field a different way. Where we hold a publisher wordmark, the game is drawn as its mark rather than a dot.
2 games have both
Axes are fitted to these 2 games rather than the full 0 to 100 scale, because a filtered list shares a narrow band and would otherwise sit in one corner. End values are marked. A point on the left edge is the lowest of thesegames, not a low score.
Players. The share of Steam reviews marked positive, pulled toward the catalogue average in proportion to how few reviews stand behind it. A game with 200 reviews moves a long way toward the average; one with 200,000 barely moves at all. Without this a title sitting at 100 percent on nine reviews outranks Half-Life 2 at 98 percent on 278,000.
Popularity. A blend of two things that are not the same. Audience is how many people wrote a Steam review, which is a floor on how many played it. Reach is how many language editions of Wikipedia document the game, which is cultural footprint rather than sales. A game can score high on one and low on the other: a huge free-to-play title has audience without reach, and a landmark console exclusive has reach without a Steam audience at all. Where both exist they are averaged; where only one does, that one carries it.
- PC
Every point links to that game's entry. The value map and the reception map are fixed views of the same data.
How positions are decided
No paid placement, no favouritism, live third-party data
- Placed by the published method, not by us. Every coordinate is computed from the axis definitions and weights printed on this site. Nobody moves a point. See the axes.
- Nothing here is paid for. No sponsored placements, no promoted slots, no arrangement of any kind affects a position. If that ever changes it will be labelled and sit outside the ranking.
- No favouritism, including our own. The 16 games we have written full reviews of are scored by exactly the same formula as the other 1,510, from the same third-party inputs, and they land where it puts them. Our own opinion of a game does not enter its coordinates.
- A position is not an endorsement. It says how a game was received and what it costs, not that we recommend it. Where we do recommend something, it carries a written review with a name on it.
- Fetched from live third-party data. Player sentiment from Steam, critic aggregates as published on store pages, prices checked hourly, attention from Wikipedia. Each figure carries its source and the date it was read, and we do not adjust any of them.
2 best Infestation games, ranked
Ordered by GamingPickz Score. Every figure links back to the source that produced it.
- 1
Infestation: The New Z
Best for: Trying the genre without spending anything
5.4GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceInfestation: The New Z at a glance Released 2016 Studio Fredaikis AB Player sentiment 54% positive of 33,887 Critics No aggregate Price Free Steam Deck unsupported Install size 10 GB Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 54% shrinks to 54.3 on 33,887 reviews, giving 5.4. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Free to download, so trying it costs only time.
- Small install at 10 GB.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Valve rates it Unsupported on the Steam Deck.
- 2
Infestation: Survivor Stories 2020
Best for: Trying the genre without spending anything
4.6GamingPickz Scoremedium confidenceInfestation: Survivor Stories 2020 at a glance Released Not recorded Studio Fredaikis AB Player sentiment 42% positive of 25,385 Critics No aggregate Price Free Steam Deck unknown Install size Not stated Accessibility 0 declared features Raw 42% shrinks to 42.6 on 25,385 reviews, giving 4.6. No critics data, so that weight was redistributed across the rest rather than counted as zero.
What the data supports- Free to download, so trying it costs only time.
Worth checking first- Carries in-game purchases. Check what they cost before committing.
- Flagged for mature content on its store page.
- Multiplayer only. There is no solo mode to fall back on.
Best and worst entry
The best-received Infestation game we can score is Infestation: The New Z at 5.4. The lowest is Infestation: Survivor Stories 2020 at 4.6, a 0.8-point spread across the series. The GamingPickz Score is a composite of player sentiment, critics and popularity, computed the same way for every game.
Cheapest way in, and best value
- Cheapest right now: Infestation: The New Z at Free. Prices are read live from Steam and move.
On a Steam Deck
Valve's own Deck compatibility rating for the Infestation entries on Steam:
- Unsupported: Infestation: The New Z
Platforms across the series
Where the 2 Infestation games have landed, counting every entry we hold:
| Platform family | Entries |
|---|---|
| PC | 2 of 2 |
The Infestation series, game by game
Every Infestation game we hold, in release order. Each description is the game's own, from Steam where it has a listing and Wikipedia for the older entries, never ours.
- 2016
The New Z is a FREE TO PLAY multi-game mode experience. SURVIVE with friends and gather loot, stash and trade. Go into wars against other groups in a massive OPEN WORLD or face them 5 v 5 in COMPETITIVE. (Steam)
- —
Infestation is a Survival Horror MMO that immerses players in a zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic world in which a viral outbreak has decimated the human population leaving in its wake, a nightmare of epic proportion. (Steam)
Infestation, head to head
Two entries side by side on score, price, specs and reception:
Infestation vs other series
How Infestation stacks up against other series in the same genre, as a whole:
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Common questions
How many Infestation games are there?
We hold 2 Infestation games in the catalogue, released between 2016 and 2016. 2 of them carry enough Steam data to rank; the rest are listed in release order below, including console-only entries with no Steam listing.
Which Infestation game is best?
By the GamingPickz Score, Infestation: The New Z rates highest at 5.4. That is a composite of player sentiment, the critic aggregate and popularity, computed the same way for every game, not our opinion. The full ranking is above.
What order should I play the Infestation games in?
Release order is listed below, from 2016 to 2016. For most series that is also story order, but we list dates rather than telling you a canon; the timeline is read from Wikidata.
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