Bodycam v0.9 The Dead & Damned brings Zombies back for good

Reissad released Bodycam v0.9, The Dead & Damned, on November 13, 2026. The update returns the Zombies mode the studio had pulled in early September, and it is here to stay: "Zombies is permanent," reads a heading in the official Steam post.

What v0.9 adds

The new piece is Zombie Trenches, a mode on the Trenches map that the release post calls "simple by design": survive for 10 minutes in a heavy, rain-soaked night. According to the playtest announcement of November 11, Zombies is co-op for up to four players. Village and Asylum return with passes on cleanup, stability, bugs and visuals, and weapon boxes now hand out weapons built with the loadout system from the previous update, Locked & Loaded. The patch notes on Steam add that zombie health no longer scales with waves and that Zombies matches now earn Reissad Points.

The PvP side changes too. Public Pool, which a devlog of November 12 calls the least played map, has been reworked without changing its layout. The TK-9 machine pistol and the Crossbow join the loadout, and players can now keep 7 loadouts instead of 5. A new lobby room offers drone racing and an RC car dirt track with support for FPV radio controllers. Easy Anti-Cheat is live from day one, integrated into PC peer-to-peer matches. PCGamesN quotes Reissad calling it "the first building block" and conceding: "We know it won't stop every cheater."

Still missing is the party system. It "is not part of 0.9", the developer writes, after its tests showed squads kept getting split.

Why Zombies left, and how players respond

Locked & Loaded launched on September 2, and the team shipped six patches through September. In the v0.9 post, Reissad says it "simply didn't have the resources" to test and fix Zombies alongside that update, so it took the mode offline. The returning mode was first meant to stay for three months. PCGamesN reports that it now stays permanently in response to player feedback, and quotes studio leads Luca and Léo saying they have "always loved zombies." Mein-MMO describes The Dead & Damned as a free update.

In the Steam forum, players had protested in threads such as "WHY in the WORLD is Zombies mode temporary again?" Other threads there report anti-cheat kicks and a launch error after the update.

On the charts, Bodycam ranked 38th in Steam's most played list on November 14 with a daily peak of 24,613 players, after rank 153 a week earlier. It is number 1 in the US top sellers and number 3 in the German store. According to SteamDB, the all-time peak is 38,958 players on September 6, 2026. Reviews are arriving faster: 1,754 in 42 hours, about 1,002 a day against 210 before. Of those new reviews, 72 percent are positive, below the overall 81 percent of 75,599 that gives the game a Very Positive rating.

The store describes Bodycam as a tactical multiplayer FPS seen through a body camera, with Deathmatch, Team Deathmatch and Wingman. It shares the FPS, Realistic and Shooter tags with OPERATOR, Insurgency: Sandstorm and Squad.

For anyone tempted to start or return, the game is 20 percent off at $26.65 instead of $33.32, and it is still in Early Access. Squads cannot yet queue together as a party, and some players report anti-cheat and launch problems. Reissad says it expects to share its plans for v0.10, plus a roadmap toward 1.0, in early 2027.