Atom Zombie Smasher, a 15-year-old game, just got updated out of the blue on Steam

Atom Zombie Smasher has been in my Steam account about as long as I’ve had one. I held out for as long as I could, but eventually games on CD started demanding I install Steam to run them, so I caved and soon after got Portal and a handful of digital-only indie games like Audiosurf, Uplink, and Blendo’s zombie tower-defense game. It was basically all over for my free time from then on.

Which is why it’s wild, more than a decade later, to be reminded of Atom Zombie Smasher’s existence by it being patched. This 15th anniversary update isn’t going to transform the top-down rescue sim where the zombies are tiny pink squares into The Last of Us 3, but it does add a horde of little changes.