Quarantine Zone: The Last Check Review – A Zombie Detection Sim Done Right

Do you think you’ve got the sharp eyes to spot the difference between someone with a basic cold and someone who is about to turn into a blood thirsty zombie? Then, do we have the game for you! Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a VR-style… medical simulator? Zombie detection simulator? Ok, we don’t know where Quarantine Zone: The Last Check goes in the genre categories, but it’s something different, ok?

Name: Quarantine Zone: The Last Check
Platform(s): PC
Developer: Brigada Games
Publisher: Digital Devolver
Game Type: Simulator
Mode(s): Single-Player
Release Date: Jan 13, 2026

Story and Setting

There isn’t really too much of a story in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check. The basics are that you are a soldier who is placed in the last Quarantine Zone in the city, and you must check the survivors entering your checkpoint and determine if they are safe to move onto the rest of the zombie-free world, or if you need to end them to stop an outbreak of the undead brain eaters. That’s it. A simple story for a simple game… For the most part.

Graphics and Visual Presentation

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a very simple-looking game on the surface, with a few repeated human models used in the game, and the environment resembles a leftover city set from Resident Evil. Where Quarantine Zone: The Last Check shines is the subtle use of the conditions that separate humans from possible zombies.

Looking for things like the yellowing of eyes, cuts on the body, is that a bruise, or the beginning of rotting? Given that there are different levels to things, this game falls into one of those where you begin to question your own ability to see things as they are, or what they could be. The difference between just one condition is enough to convince you to send someone into the Survivor Camp, Quarantine, or Liquidation, and one mistake could ruin the whole day.

Zombie Detection, Diagnosis, and Decision-Making

Gameplay is where Quarantine Zone: The Last Check really stands out on its own. You start things out slowly, armed with nothing more than a temperature gun, flashlight, and a hammer. You use these items to check for things like bites, differences in eye style, blood, cuts, puss and many other conditions while checking other things like blood pressure, body temperature, and reflexes. Depending on the outcome, which you can check with a very detailed chart, you assign survivors into three different camps: Survivor, Quarantine, and Liquidation; with one more area, Laboratory, opening up a little while later.

The Survivor Camp is where the healthy people go, where they wait for extraction day (which happens every 5 in-game days). Quarantine is where those who might have a cold go to wait and see if it’s really a cold or the zombie virus. If you end up with a zombie in Quarantine, you move them to a cage to be studied, and anyone unfortunate enough to be in the Quarantine Zone with them is cleaned up, and the cell is cleaned out to await the next person. Liquidation is what you think it is: Infected people are sent there to meet their end and save humanity. The final one, Laboratory, is where you look into the virus as it evolves, sacrificing people for the sake of science.

There is a little bit more to Quarantine Zone: The Last Check than just checking people and sending them into the appropriate locations. From time to time, you will be called upon to defend your beloved checkpoint by mowing down the zombie threat from the outside, shooting them with various weapon types in a wave shooter mini game.

Then there is the management of the site. As the one in control, you need to make sure you spend your daily money rewards on things like gas for the power generators, food for the survivors, medical knowledge upgrades, and many other management simulation things that mix things up daily. You’re not going to be sitting on your ass doing nothing in Quarantine Zone: The Last Check.

Replayability and Endless Mode

The main campaign for Quarantine Zone: The Last Check lasts for quite a while; at the time of writing, the whole campaign has not been finished. This is a good thing as it means Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a game that is worth playing over the long run.

However, there is an unlimited run mode, where you can spend forever checking survivors if you wish. This is something that would appeal to the streamer crowd, as Quarantine Zone: The Last Check can become one of those lazy stream day games.

Final Verdict

Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is a damn good game, albeit an interesting one that doesn’t stick to conventional game genres, yet seems like it should be one of those types of games that we should have a classification for.

If you want something different to do on a slow game day, then Quarantine Zone: The Last Check is the perfect game to play. There might be some frustrations here and there with unintentional soft-locks when it comes to the missions you get in the game, but the overall gameplay is clean enough that you won’t mind resetting a day in order to fix the issue.

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