Gaming: New Quarantine Zone: The Last Check Review 2026
Some clever and grisly medical examination systems, but not enough base management and side activities to remain engaging for long.
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What is it? A first-person sim where you're a zombie plague "doctor"Release date: January 12, 2026Expect to pay: $20/£17Developer: Brigada GamesPublisher: Devolver DigitalReviewed on: Intel i7 9700K, RTX 4070 Ti, 16GB RAMSteam Deck: PlayableLink: Steam
Don't try to hide a hand grenade in your butt. That may sound like advice so obvious that it need never be said, but in zombie outbreak management sim Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, people try to conceal live grenades in their asses so often I'm starting to worry kids will think it's just something that gets done.
Kids, don't do it. Don't hide a hand grenade in your butt. It's dangerous and, I have to imagine, quite uncomfortable.
In Quarantine Zone: The Last Check, you're a… well, I can't really call you a doctor, though 95% of your job is performing medical exams. You're in charge of screening the survivors of a zombie apocalypse as they enter a military outpost, making sure they're not infected by the zombie virus or other illnesses or hiding explosives in their butts, before letting them in.
It's a great idea for a game, sort of a grisly Papers, Please, and examining people's disgusting rashes, bloodshot eyes, and gooey internal organs for telltale signs of a virus is yucky fun—for at least a few hours. Sad, then, that examinations get repetitive pretty quickly and the base management systems are so slight they barely even matter. I finished Quarantine Zone's campaign in under 12 hours, but I ran out of patience before I ran out of patients.
One by one, survivors line up at the checkpoint for your exam and you take a look at whoever is first in line. Are their eyes clear, bloodshot, a bit yellow? How about their skin: do they have a rash, bruises, cuts, or some indication they've been bitten by a zombie? Check their pulse and temperature, whack them with a hammer to see if their reflexes seem normal, and compare their symptoms to what you know about the virus. And don't forget to look through their backpacks and their butts for contraband.
If they seem healthy, send them to the survivor camp where you'll ship them out on trucks at the end of the week. If they've got th
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