Bodycam Worth It? Wait for the Nov 13 Zombies Update

We have not played it. This is a read of Steam's store page, the developer's announcements and dated Steam reviews, each linked below. Steam shows 79% positive over 38,245 English reviews and 86% of 3,274 from the last 30 days, read on November 8.

Screenshot: Steam store page (Reissad)

What you are buying

Bodycam is an Early Access multiplayer shooter that shows everything through a body camera. Its store page promises "No crosshair. No ammo counter. No HUD," and a first-person view built to look like body-camera footage. It launched on Steam on June 7, 2024, from Reissad, which says it began as two brothers working from a bedroom, and it is Windows only.

The modes that matter are PvP (Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch, Versus, Gun Game) and Zombies, the co-op mode that has been switched off since the September update. The September 2 post said Reissad would "reintroduce it for Halloween"; the next date we found is November 13.

That matters for what you get today. If you buy now, you get the PvP game and a loadout system with, in the studio's words, "around 400 attachments". You do not get Zombies, and you do not get anti-cheat.

What changes on November 13

Version 0.9, The Dead & Damned, releases on Friday, November 13. The studio calls it "a smaller, in-between update", and lists what is in it:

• Zombie Trenches, a new Zombies mode on the Trenches map, and the Village and Asylum maps back in Zombies.
• Weapon boxes that drop weapons with random attachments.
• A reworked Public Pool map, which the studio says has been the least played since September.
• Easy Anti-Cheat: "Easy Anti-Cheat arrives with 0.9."
• A drone and RC car room in the lobby, with support for FPV radio controllers, built with the team behind TRYP FPV.
• The crossbow and the TEC-9 machine pistol in the loadout.

The thing it does not include is the party system. The same post says: "The party system won't be in 0.9." For how another game's anti-cheat rollout went down with players, see our Helldivers 2 Easy Anti-Cheat piece.

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Screenshot: Steam store page (Reissad)

How players rate it, and why 79% hides a comeback

The 79% hides two different games. Late 2024 and 2025 reviews are angry about content removal. Sai'Raks, November 12, 2024, 36.4 hours at review time, wrote that "all gear customization bits are wiped, the in-game credits are wiped". ChadleyDoRight, December 29, 2025, 99.2 hours at review time, said "The developers have removed a significant amount of content" and named the Tumbleweed and Oil Rig maps.

ENOWONMAI, December 4, 2025, told buyers not to buy and described the game as "dying with only a few hundred players remaining".

The newer reviews tell another story. GrimmurThingz, November 7: "genuinely one of the best comebacks ive ever seen", crediting the Locked and Loaded update, and "GET IT NOW! it is well worth the money." Steam's last-30-days score is 86%, up from the 79% lifetime figure.

The problems reviewers raise now

Three complaints come up in the recent negative reviews we read.

The first is playing with friends. RageZYX, November 7, recommends the game as "a solid 7.5" but says the party system "doesn't work at all if you want to queue up with friends to a casual or competitive game". The studio's own post agrees: Quick Play and the Server Browser "stay solo queue for now", and "You'll still need to host your own game to play with up to 10 friends."

Muunin, November 7, does not recommend it yet, citing "no party mode and lobbies full of bots" and "Huge potential".

The second is stability. hydrationhydro, November 7: "crashes to frequently to have any good sessions with it. I would buy it when its more stable."

The third is depth. Sherin, November 7, calls it visually impressive but says "there is not much of a game here" and "it gets very repetitive fast", with janky movement off flat ground.

Screenshot: Steam store page (Reissad)

Is anyone still playing?

Yes, more than before September. SteamCharts shows 3,182 playing when we read it, with the last 30 days averaging 2,453 and peaking at 6,179.

Source: SteamCharts, read November 8, 2026. September contains the Locked and Loaded release on September 2.

The crowd spiked with that update, then fell back to under a third of the September average. Whether November 13 brings another spike is not something we can know from here.

PC details, Steam Deck and price

Source: Steam store page, read November 8, 2026.

Valve rates it Unsupported on Steam Deck, citing graphics performance, so handheld play is not the plan. We have not tested it ourselves.

The price is $33.32 on Steam with no discount. We checked Eneba on November 8 and found no listing for Reissad's Bodycam, so we have no key link to give you. The next storewide Steam sale is the Winter Sale, per our Steam sale calendar, and we have not seen a Bodycam price cut announced. What Valve discounted in October is in our Autumn Sale roundup.

Our call: who should wait

Wait until after November 13 if you want Zombies or play with friends. The reason is concrete: the mode is off today, the update that returns it is four days away, and the update adds anti-cheat without the party queue, so your friends still have to host. Waiting costs you nothing, because the price is not changing in those days as far as we can see.

Buy now if solo PvP gunplay with no HUD is the point and you want to learn the attachments first. Many of the positive reviews we read praise how the guns and visuals feel, and none of that depends on November 13.

Skip it for now if you want depth over spectacle or a stable client; a bigger shooter like Battlefield 6 in Season 4 or Valve's MOBA shooter Deadlock may suit you better. Sherin and hydrationhydro are describing problems this update does not claim to fix, and the studio calls 0.9 "a smaller, in-between update".

Short version: give it until the November 13 patch notes, then read the first day of Steam reviews before you spend $33.32. For other games worth waiting on, our Early Access worth-buying list is a reference point, and our co-op picks help if friends are the reason you came.

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What we don't know

We did not play Bodycam, test the Steam Deck or confirm that Zombies mode is switched off for every player today. We do not know when Reissad will ship the party system, whether Easy Anti-Cheat will run cleanly at launch, or what the game will cost after November 13. If Steam's page or the patch notes change on release day, trust them over this page.

References

1. Bodycam on Steam, Steam
2. BODYCAM V0.9 THE DEAD & DAMNED release date and what's coming, Reissad
3. Bodycam Major Update OUT NOW, Reissad
4. Bodycam on SteamCharts, SteamCharts
5. Reissad official site, Reissad
6. Steam upcoming events, Valve