Z Steam news

• Latest observed players8 · 24 September 2026 - 12:58:30 UTC
• SteamPulse tracked peak1,066
• Units sold (VGI)No data available
• Revenue (VGI)No data available
• Review score76% positive
• Total reviews1,447
• Release dateJul 4, 2014
• DeveloperTickTock Games
• PublisherRebellion

Genres: Action, Strategy

Company pages: Developer: TickTock GamesPublisher: Rebellion

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Z Steam news

Z news collects recent Steam feed items, update posts, and announcements that SteamPulse can associate with this app.

Latest Steam announcements

• The coolest RTS game of the '90s is yours for less than $1 right now - 9 March 2024

  The late '90s were a real heyday for strategy games. Command and Conquer, C&C Red Alert, StarCraft Brood War, Commandos, Age of Empires 2, Total Annihilation, the original Homeworld - it can be easy to get lost among all the big names. But for my money, to this day, the coolest and the very best RTS game of them all came from British development rockstars The Bitmap Brothers. Fast, brash, funny, and with one of the most distinctive gameplay systems you'll find, Z remains one of my favorite PC games ever, and it's yours right now for under a dollar. Read the rest of the story...

• Have You Played Z? - 1 November 2016

  Have You Played? is an endless stream of game retrospectives. One a day, every day of the year, perhaps for all time. I played Z so long ago that I don’t remember if I really like it. I remember that it threw out the base-building and resource collection of Command & Conquer, which I did like, in favour of a control point system where resources and units were generated by capturing terrain. …

• Trading Cards Now Live! - 10 August 2014

  Our artists have been busy putting together the promotional materials for Z and Z Steel Soldiers and we now have Steam Trading Cards active for both games! There are 11 cards to collect which you can craft in to a swanky Z badge for your profile. Get playing the game to earn your 6 free card drops now :) We're also working on updates for both Z games here on Steam and want to say thanks for all the feedback everyone has been giving.

• Trading Cards Now Live! - 10 August 2014

  Our artists have been busy putting together the promotional materials for Z and Z Steel Soldiers and we now have Steam Trading Cards active for both games! There are 11 cards to collect which you can craft in to a swanky Z badge for your profile. Get playing the game to earn your 6 free card drops now :) We're also working on updates for both Z games here on Steam and want to say thanks for all the feedback everyone has been giving.

• Time for another update - 17 July 2014

  It's update time again! We've collated all of your feedback and have worked through some of the more complex issues that were stopping some people from playing the game. We hope this update improves things for all of our players and we hope to update the game again with low level fixes and gameplay changes in the future. The changes for this update are listed below: - Fixed crash in level 14. - Improved game logic on bridges. - Added windowed mode and fullscreen toggle. - Added screen resolution selection. - Fixed issues with multi-display setups. - Fixed issue where mouse input was offset. - Fixed robot portraits not displaying correctly. - Fixed mouse input issue on right side of screen. - Made FMVs play full screen and at original aspect ratio. Please let us know if this update has improved things for you and please remember to leave us a review if you're happy with the game. We're t…

• Time for another update - 17 July 2014

  It's update time again! We've collated all of your feedback and have worked through some of the more complex issues that were stopping some people from playing the game. We hope this update improves things for all of our players and we hope to update the game again with low level fixes and gameplay changes in the future. The changes for this update are listed below: - Fixed crash in level 14. - Improved game logic on bridges. - Added windowed mode and fullscreen toggle. - Added screen resolution selection. - Fixed issues with multi-display setups. - Fixed issue where mouse input was offset. - Fixed robot portraits not displaying correctly. - Fixed mouse input issue on right side of screen. - Made FMVs play full screen and at original aspect ratio. Please let us know if this update has improved things for you and please remember to leave us a review if you're happy with the game. We're t…

• First Update Released - 9 July 2014

  We're happy to announce that the first update for Z on Steam has been released! We've taken on board all of your feedback and have fixed some of the major issues players had enountered, including: - Windows XP Support - Swapped default actions of left and right mouse buttons (added inverted option if you preferred them as they were). - Made the minimap appear by default (tap the bottom right icon if you don't see it). - Fixed some issues with mouse responsiveness. - Smoothed out and adjusted the auto-pan scrolling. Your feedback has been greatly beneficial and we plan to release further updates in the future to fix other common issues people are encountering as well as actual gameplay bugs. We'd love to know what you'd like to see in future updates too, so let us know. Thanks for playing!

• First Update Released - 9 July 2014

  We're happy to announce that the first update for Z on Steam has been released! We've taken on board all of your feedback and have fixed some of the major issues players had enountered, including: - Windows XP Support - Swapped default actions of left and right mouse buttons (added inverted option if you preferred them as they were). - Made the minimap appear by default (tap the bottom right icon if you don't see it). - Fixed some issues with mouse responsiveness. - Smoothed out and adjusted the auto-pan scrolling. Your feedback has been greatly beneficial and we plan to release further updates in the future to fix other common issues people are encountering as well as actual gameplay bugs. We'd love to know what you'd like to see in future updates too, so let us know. Thanks for playing!

• Update Incoming! - 7 July 2014

  First of all, thanks for all your great feedback on Z – as developers, and massive fans of RTS games to boot, we’re never satisfied, so we welcome and relish the opportunity to make a good game even better. Great game play is our number one goal, and you can help us achieve it. We’re going to be addressing the most important issues in our next update. These include: New option for playing with right of left mouse configuration. Improved responsive mouse controls. Improved Auto-pan scrolling. Z Mini-Map opened automatically, with option to minimise. XP Support - we know that this will make some of you very happy indeed! It’s a great feeling knowing that we can answer some of your questions on the game, and more so when we solve a problem, so let us know how we can help, and we’ll do our very best to push out more updates. Thanks for playing.

• Update Incoming! - 7 July 2014

  First of all, thanks for all your great feedback on Z – as developers, and massive fans of RTS games to boot, we’re never satisfied, so we welcome and relish the opportunity to make a good game even better. Great game play is our number one goal, and you can help us achieve it. We’re going to be addressing the most important issues in our next update. These include: New option for playing with right of left mouse configuration. Improved responsive mouse controls. Improved Auto-pan scrolling. Z Mini-Map opened automatically, with option to minimise. XP Support - we know that this will make some of you very happy indeed! It’s a great feeling knowing that we can answer some of your questions on the game, and more so when we solve a problem, so let us know how we can help, and we’ll do our very best to push out more updates. Thanks for playing.

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