Stop! Hammer time!
Please Hammer Don’t Hurt ‘Em! That’s both the name of MC Hammer’s third studio album and the phrase someone in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check should have said before promoting me to the title of doctor and handing me a large hammer. Unfortunately, they did not, so I am hurting ’em at every opportunity.
Quarantine Zone is a first-person medical sim you’ve probably been seeing clips of for months: it was a huge hit on TikTok following its first demo, and since the full game launched today on Steam you can expect to see a lot more clips, like this one of me carefully examining a guy before clonking him on the head with a hammer.
The sim is a bit like Papers, Please without the papers or the please: you inspect survivors of the zombie apocalypse for signs of infection before letting them into the safety a military outpost, while also doing some light resource management around the base and a bit of fairly rote turret defense beyond the walls.
You begin with just a flashlight to look for signs of a zombie virus as the survivors stagger in, one by one.
