13 years on, unfinishable survival game Project Zomboid is getting a major update with an expanded Kentucky map, animal husbandry, and revised crafting
I poke my head into the Steam forums as though cracking the door on a suspiciously silent mall. It's been six whole years since we last wrote a news article about an isometric prepper frightfest that still features on our list of the best PC survival games. (It's on your list, as well.) Why is now the time to return? Because developers The Indie Stone are about to drop a chonky new version, Build 42, which they are grandly calling "one of the broadest updates in Project Zomboid’s long development history".
- ▪I poke my head into the Steam forums as though cracking the door on a suspiciously silent mall.
- ▪It's been six whole years since we last wrote a news article about an isometric prepper frightfest that still features on our list of the best PC survival games. (It's on your list, as well.) Why is now the time to return?
- ▪Because developers The Indie Stone are about to drop a chonky new version, Build 42, which they are grandly calling "one of the broadest updates in Project Zomboid’s long development history".
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Home News Project Zomboid 13 years on, unfinishable survival game Project Zomboid is getting a major update with an expanded Kentucky map, animal husbandry, and revised crafting Build 42 lands on 29th July Image credit: The Indie Stone <img alt="Edwin Evans-Thirlwell avatar" src="https://assetsio.gnwcdn.com/edwin-portrait.jpg?width=2048&height=2048&fit=bounds&quality=85&format=jpg&auto=webp" style="aspect-ratio: 1" width="767" height="720" > News by Edwin Evans-Thirlwell News Editor Published on July 24, 2026 Follow Project Zomboid I return to Project Zomboid exactly like an emaciated survivor crawling back to the undead-ridden town they abandoned many moons ago, having finally exhausted their wilderness stocks of cabbage and duct tape.
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