# PNZ: Pacific Northwest Zombies

> PNZ is a co-op zombie shooter set on real Pacific Northwest streets. Fight through Seattle and the whole Puget Sound, from Tacoma to Bremerton to Bellevue, with ferries, light rail and islands, against rounds of the infected. Free for Windows and Mac from Visora Gaming Studio (VGS), up to 24 players. Tagline: "The outbreak hit the Pacific Northwest. Hold the line."

Key facts:

- Name: PNZ: Pacific Northwest Zombies (short form: PNZ). Developer and publisher: Visora Gaming Studio (VGS), Washington State, USA (a trade name of Visora LLC). Studio site: https://visoravgs.com/
- Price: free. Optional in-game items are one-time purchases tied to a VGS account (paid through Stripe).
- Platforms: Windows 10/11 (64-bit, Vulkan) and macOS 11+ (Apple Silicon or Intel, Metal). Windows and Mac always ship the same version on the same day. Solo works offline; multiplayer over the internet or LAN.
- Story: a virus escaped a biotech lab in South Lake Union. At First Hill General, Dr. Imani Reyes is building a vaccine. The Raider warlord Rook holds Belltown, and the final fight is with Patient Zero at the Center Tower.
- Enemies: zombies (Zombie, Runner, Brute and the Alpha boss) and armed human Raiders.
- Real-world maps, built from OpenStreetMap (streets, buildings, transit), USGS 3DEP elevation and real building footprints and heights:
  - Downtown Seattle (included): 2.5 x 2.5 miles, about 6.5 square miles, Pioneer Square to Capitol Hill, with the Space Needle, Smith Tower, the Great Wheel, the waterfront, Link light rail, buses and streetcars.
  - Puget Sound (free in-game download, about 8.5 GB): about 900 square miles of land and water, 139 tiles of 4,096 m, spanning 33 miles north to south (North Seattle to Puyallup) and 28 miles east to west (Bremerton to Bellevue). Tacoma, Bainbridge and Vashon islands, 30+ towns, 6 real walk-on ferry routes, light rail and the Tacoma Narrows bridges.
  - Coming later (no dates), all on the West Coast: Portland, OR; San Francisco, CA; Los Angeles, CA.
- Modes: Survival (hold Pioneer Square against endless rounds of zombies, up to 8 players), Liberation (12-mission open-world story campaign: burn infection hives, set up safe zones, retake the city, up to 8 players), Extraction (free roam for up to 24 players: loot, fight zombies and Raiders, reach the helicopter or lose it all).
- You can enter buildings, climb roofs, ride trains, buses and ferries, and hotwire cars. Day, dusk and night.
- Sign in with a free VGS account (create at https://visoravgs.com/account/) on the game's home screen; purchases, stats and achievements follow the account.
- Browser and phone version: PNZ Lite, the free browser version of PNZ: Pacific Northwest Zombies, at https://pnz-lite.visoravgs.com/ (no install; separate multiplayer from the PC/Mac game).
- Support: team@visoravgs.com

## Links

- [PNZ official site, downloads and changelog](https://pnz.visoravgs.com/)
- [Install and requirements](https://pnz.visoravgs.com/#install)
- [FAQ](https://pnz.visoravgs.com/#faq)
- [PNZ on visoravgs.com](https://visoravgs.com/games/pnz/)
- [VGS account](https://visoravgs.com/account/)
- [PNZ Lite](https://pnz-lite.visoravgs.com/)

## Optional

- [Full text of this site](https://pnz.visoravgs.com/llms-full.txt)
- [Visora Gaming Studio summary](https://visoravgs.com/llms.txt)