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List of zombie video

games

This is an incomplet e list of video games st rongly feat uring zombies. These games feat ure
creat ures inspired by t he archet ypal flesh-eat ing zombies seen in horror films, B-movies and
lit erat ure; such as in t he films of George A. Romero. Ot her variant s, such as t he fast er running
zombies, are also included.[1][2] Part icular zombie rat ionale and depict ions vary wit h t he
source.

Zombies are common or generic enemies in video games. The ZX Spect rum comput er game
Zombie Zombie, released in Europe in 1984, is considered t o be t he first video game focused
on zombies.[1][3] Zombie games became more prevalent aft er t he release of t he survival horror
game Resident Evil in 1996.[1] This release, coupled wit h t he 1996 light gun shoot er The
House of the Dead, gave rise t o "an int ernat ional craze" for zombies, in t urn impact ing zombie
films.[4] Resident Evil sold 2.75 million copies wit hin t he Unit ed St at es alone,[4] and it s success
result ed in it becoming a major horror franchise encompassing video games, novelizat ions, and
films.[1] The House of the Dead is also credit ed wit h int roducing fast running zombies, dist inct
from Romero's classic slow zombies.[5]

List
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An open-world,
voxel-based, role
playing survival
RPG set in t he
aft ermat h of a
t hird world war.
The player
cont rols a
survivor t rapped
in Arizona in t he
year 2034, where
zombies run
rampant aft er an
Linux, macOS,
unknown virus
7 Days to Die 2013 Windows, PlaySt at ion
infect s t he
4
remaining
surviving
populat ion. The
player must find
food, wat er,
weapons, and
ot her supplies, a
well as craft and
build up defense
t o survive agains
t he relent less
horde of t he
undead.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Overhead shoot e
game where t he
player picks one
of four
charact ers and
Alive 4-Ever 2009 iOS
at t empt s t o
st ave off a
zombie horde
whilst complet in
object ives.[6][7]

A downloadable
t op-down view
shoot er game
wit h role-playing
game element s.
PlaySt at ion 3,
All Zombies Must Die! 2011 Up t o four player
Windows, Xbox 360
must survive a
zombie
apocalypse. The
sequel t o Burn
Zombie Burn!.[8]

Survival horror
game set in an
Old West ghost
t own. Paranorma
invest igat or
Edward Carnby
must rescue
DOS, Mac OS,
Alone in the Dark 3 1994 Emily Hart wood,
Windows
t he ot her
playable
charact er from
Alone in the Dark
from a band of
zombie
out laws.[9]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Downloadable
survival horror
game. A scient is
must escort an
eight -year-old gi
t hrough a cit y
devast at ed by a
PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox
Amy 2012 airborne virus t ha
360
t urns t hose
infect ed int o
zombies. The
scient ist is
infect ed and
must manage he
condit ion.[10]

Light gun game


where players
fight off an alien
Arcade, PlaySt at ion, infest at ion inside
Area 51 1995 Sega Sat urn, Area 51 while
Windows fight ing t he
personnel, who
have been t urned
int o zombies.[11]

Real t ime
st rat egy game
viewed from a
t op-down
perspect ive
Linux, macOS,
Atom Zombie Smasher 2011 where players
Windows
must coordinat e
milit ary unit s in
order t o rescue
civilians from a
zombie horde.[12]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

First person
shoot er, survival
Microsoft Windows, horror game
Back 4 Blood 2021
PlaySt at ion, Xbox which is a spirit u
successor t o Lef
4 Dead.

Light gun game


for up t o t hree
players, who
must shoot t heir
Amiga, Arcade, At ari
Beast Busters 1989 way out of a
ST
zombie-infest ed
cit y wit h
submachine
guns.[13]

First -person
shoot er game se
in t he 1920s. The
player plays as a
undead henchma
on a quest for
Blood 1997 DOS
revenge. Zombie
are common
enemies t he
player will face i
almost every
level.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Vehicular comba
game feat uring
six arenas filled
wit h zombies,
players cont rol
PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox drivers who must
Blood Drive 2010
360 eit her defeat
zombies or ot he
drivers,
dependent on
which level is
being played.[14]

Zombies appear
in waves and
PlaySt at ion 3, must be
Burn, Zombie Burn! 2009
Windows, macOS, dest royed by
being set
alight .[15]

Call of Duty: Black Ops (zombie mode) 2010 PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox First -person
360, Windows shoot er survival
mode of Call of
Duty: Black Ops.
zombie
cooperat ion
mode, t it led
"Zombies", is
included in t he
game. Originally
feat ured in World
at War, it was
revamped t o be
included in Black
Ops. It is a four-
player online and
t wo-player split
screen co-op
Name Year Platform(s) Description
mode (which can
also be unlocked
online). Based on
t he original game
in t he map "Five"
players t ake t he
roles of John F.
Kennedy, Richard
Nixon, Robert
McNamara, and
Fidel Cast ro as
t hey fight
zombies at t he
Pent agon.
Anot her map,
called Kino der
Tot en
("Theat er/Cinem
of t he Dead" in
German), feat ure
t he charact ers
from World at Wa
– Edward
Richt ofen t he
German, Tank
Dempsey t he
American, Takeo
Masaki t he
Japanese, and
Nikolai Belinski
t he Russian.
Limit ed edit ions
of t he game
offer graphically
enhanced
versions of t he
four zombie map
Name Year Platform(s) Description
from World at
War, feat uring t h
newer weapons
from t he rest of
t he game. There
is an unlockable
t op-down, t wo-
st ick arcade-
shoot er version
of Zombies
known as Dead
Ops Arcade.

First -person
shoot er spin off
from t he
Zombies
minigame in Call
of Duty: Black
Call of Duty: Black Ops – Zombies 2011 iOS, Android Ops, up t o four
players can co-
operat e using
voice chat t o
survive t he
zombie
onslaught .[16]

Call of Duty: Black Ops II (zombie mode) 2012 PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox
First -person
360, Windows
shoot er survival
game, part of t h
Call of Duty: Blac
Ops II. Treyarch
has confirmed
t hat t he Zombie
mode will ret urn
for Black Ops II
wit h new game
modes. It s
Name Year Platform(s) Description
predecessors
were Call of Duty
World at War and
Call of Duty: Blac
Ops. This is t he
t hird t ime for t he
Zombies mode t
appear in a Call o
Duty game, and
t he first t ime t o
have game
modes ot her t ha
t he t radit ional
Survival mode.
Treyarch has also
confirmed t hat
Zombies will run
on t he game's
mult iplayer
engine, allowing
for a deeper
communit y
experience, along
wit h new
feat ures. A new
player co-op
game called Grie
is also support ed
feat uring 2 t eam
of 4 players
compet ing t o
survive, unlike Ca
of Duty: World at
War and Call of
Duty: Black Ops,
which only
support ed 4
Name Year Platform(s) Description
player online co-
op. As wit h t he
previous game,
each map
cont ains "East er
eggs" side
quest s, which is
used t o progress
t he st ory.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

First -person
shoot er survival
horror video
game, part of Ca
of Duty: Black
Ops III. Treyarch
confirmed,
zombies will
ret urn in Call of
Duty: Black Ops
III, wit h an
alt ernat ive
expanded
campaign. The
Microsoft Windows,
classic survival
Call of Duty: Black Ops III (zombie mode) 2015 PlaySt at ion 4, Xbox
horde mode from
One
previous t it les
ret urns. The
st oryline from
t he previous
games is also
cont inued as t he
four charact ers;
Tank Dempsey,
Takeo Masaki,
Nikolai Belinski
and Doct or
Edward Richt ofe
at t empt t o save
t he universe.

First -person
shoot er horror-
Microsoft Windows,
t hemed video
Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 (zombie mode) 2018 PlaySt at ion 4, Xbox
game mode, part
One
of Call of Duty:
Black Ops 4.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

First -person
shoot er survival
horror video
game, part of Ca
of Duty: Black
Ops Cold War.
Unlike previous
PlaySt at ion 4, t it les, Call of
Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War (zombie PlaySt at ion 5, Xbox Duty: Black Ops
2020
mode) One, Xbox Series X, Cold War's
Microsoft Windows zombie mode
does not have 4
main
prot agonist s,
inst ead playing a
operat ors from
t he Mult iplayer
mode.

Zombies is a
game mode t hat
is feat ured in Cal
Call of Duty: Infinite Warfare (zombie PlaySt at ion 4, Xbox of Duty: Infinite
2016
mode) One, Windows Warfare. The first
map is called
Zombies in
Spaceland.

Call of Duty: World at War (zombie mode) 2008 PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox First -person
360, Windows shoot er survival
mode of Call of
Duty: World at
War. All versions
but t he Wii
feat ure t he
minigame Nazi
Zombies, which
consist s of 1-4
Name Year Platform(s) Description
players fight ing
an unlimit ed
number of waves
of Nazi zombies.
Players can work
t oget her wit h
ot her people t o
assassinat e t he
zombies in a "co-
op" (cooperat ive
mode eit her
offline wit h t wo
players or online
wit h 2-4 players.
The players gain
point s by injuring
or killing t he
zombies or
repairing
boarded-up
windows, which
are used t o
remove
blockages inside
t he bunker and t
gain access t o
more useful
weapons t han t h
st art ing M1911
pist ol and unlock
more rooms.
Zombies
cont inually break
t he windows t o
gain ent rance an
t o find and beat
t he players; whe
Name Year Platform(s) Description
all players are
damaged enough
t o fall, t he game
is over. Three
ext ra maps for
t he Nazi Zombie
game mode were
added wit h t he
World at War map
packs. These
maps, Shi No
Numa, Verruckt
and Der Riese
added on t o t he
Nacht Der
Unt ot en map
which came wit h
t he game.

First -person
shoot er set
during World War
II where a milit ar
bunker must be
defended from
Call of Duty: World at War – Zombies 2009 iOS
at t acking Nazi
zombie soldiers.
Based on t he
zombie mode of
Call of Duty:
World at War.[17]

Light gun game


set in an undead-
CarnEvil 1998 Arcade infest ed
amusement
park.[18]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Survival horror, an
explosion aboard
a large ship has
released a virus
which t ransforms
Carrier 2000 Dreamcast
t he infect ed int o
mut ant s similar
t o t he Resident
Evil
zombies.[19][20]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Hardcore rogue-
like advent ure
game set in a
post apocalypt ic
world, feat uring a
wide variet y of
zombies as well
as Triffids, Funga
Monst ers, and
ot herworldy
creat ures such a
Flaming Eyes.
The game
feat ures robust
syst ems for
Cataclysm: Dark Days Ahead 2013 PC, Mobile
charact er t rait s,
st at s, skills, and
very wide variet y
of it ems,
vehicles,
buildings, and
map feat ures
randomly
generat ed when
each word is
creat ed. This
game is st ill in
development
wit h an open
source code.[21]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Based on George
Romero's Living
Dead series,[22]
t his first -person
shoot er was
shown at t he
2005 Elect ronic
PlaySt at ion 2,
City of the Dead Cancelled Ent ert ainment
Windows, Xbox
Expo but droppe
from release
schedules when
publisher Hip
Int eract ive
suffered financia
t roubles.[22][23]

Contagion is a
zombie survival
horror t it le by
Monochrome
Games and is t he
Contagion 2014 Windows
spirit ual
successor t o t he
Half-Life 2 mod
Zombie Panic:
Source.

A simplified real-
t ime st rat egy
game in which
Corpse Craft: Incident at Weardd schoolchildren
2008 Browser, Flash, iOS
Academy bat t le each ot he
wit h zombies
t hey
reanimat e.[24]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A live-act ion ligh


gun game
feat uring a
3DO, Sega CD, 32X, soldier who must
Corpse Killer 1994 Sega Sat urn, fight t hrough an
Windows island full of
zombies t o reach
'necrobiologist '
Dr. Hellman.[25]

Survival horror,
t he survivor of a
plane crash in t he
wilds of Canada
discovers t hat
D2 2000 Dreamcast ot her passenger
on t he plane are
being
t ransformed int o
zombie-plant
hybrids.[26]

First -person
shoot er in a Wild
West set t ing. A
t rain robber
t urned vampire
Darkwatch 2005 PlaySt at ion 2, Xbox must defeat
enemies such as
zombies and
skelet ons while
t rying t o reclaim
his humanit y.[27]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An open-world
act ion-advent ure
game where you
play as Deacon
St . John, a Drift e
and bount y
hunt er who woul
rat her risk t he
dangers of t he
broken road t han
live in one of t he
PlaySt at ion 4, "safe" wilderness
Days Gone 2019
Windows encampment s.
The game t akes
place t wo years
aft er a global
pandemic has
killed almost
everyone, but
t ransformed
millions of ot hers
int o what
survivors call
Freakers.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An ARMA 2 mod
which feat ures
survival horror an
shoot er
gameplay in an
open world. The
game is online
mult iplayer.
Players must
DayZ 2012 Windows
feed t heir
charact er as wel
as deal wit h ot he
players and t he
living dead. The
mod now also ha
a st and-alone
version for PC
owners.[28]

Players must
barricade
t hemselves
PlaySt at ion 3, wit hin a building
Dead Block 2011
Windows, Xbox 360 while exploring t
find it ems in orde
t o complet e
each level.[29]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The Dead Effect


series is a horror,
first -person
shoot er, RPG,
zombie game
developed and
published by
BadFly
Int eract ive a.s.
The second
release feat ures
a co-operat ive
2013 (first Mult iplayer and
iOS, Android,
release) PvP Mult i-playe
Microsoft Windows,
Dead Effect series and 2015 t he player has t o
macOS, PlaySt at ion
(second bat t le wit h
4, Xbox One
release) zombies, soldiers
bosses and
cyberdogs t o
gain point s and
cash for buying
and upgrading
weapons, amour,
et c. The game
cont ains a st ory
mode and ot her
missions like
generic, survival,
bio-hazard, et c.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Free browser-
based t op down
massively
mult iplayer online
role-playing gam
set in an open
world. Dead
Front ier t akes
Dead Frontier 2008 Browser
place in a post -
apocalypse
set t ing t eeming
wit h zombies.
Players must
scavenge
supplies in order
t o survive.[30]

Privat e
invest igat or Fred
is murdered, only
t o find himself
reanimat ed and
Dead Head Fred 2007 PlaySt at ion Port able
able t o st eal
enemies' heads
t o perform
different
at t acks.[31]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Single-player or
mult iplayer open
world games wit
role-playing
element s and an
emphasis on
PlaySt at ion 3,
combat .
2011– PlaySt at ion 4,
Dead Island series Upcoming
present Windows, Xbox 360,
releases include
Xbox One
new game in t he
main series, a
st ealt h-focused
spinoff and a
MOBA
game.[32][33]

PlaySt at ion
Net work t win-
st ick shoot er.
The game
det ect s players'
geographic
Dead Nation 2010 PlaySt at ion 3 locat ions and
groups t hem
accordingly wit h
t he game world,
displaying
players' progress
in t hat region.[34]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Third-person
act ion games
which allow t he
player t o dest roy
zombies wit h
iOS, PlaySt at ion 3,
2006– various ordinary
Dead Rising series Wii, Windows, Xbox
present it ems and
360, Xbox One
weapons, from
benches and
lawnmowers t o
guns and
swords.[35][36]

A t hird-person
survival horror
game feat uring
driving game
element s.
Dead Rush Cancelled PlaySt at ion 2, Xbox Announced at E3
2004 and set t o
be released in
2005. It was
cancelled short ly
t hereaft er.[37]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Science fict ion


survival horror
games where
Necromorphs,
generat ed from
corpses infect ed
by an alien
2008– PlaySt at ion 3, Wii,
Dead Space series pat hogen, are t h
2013 Windows, Xbox 360
primary enemy.[3
They are most
effect ively killed
by "st rat egic
dismemberment
cut t ing off t heir
limbs.[39]

Role-playing
game wit h t urn-
based combat
set in t he
fict ional t own of
Splendid, Texas.
Dead State 2014 Windows Players must
defend t heir
shelt er while
foraging for
supplies and
recruit ing
survivors.[40]

Side-scrolling
Deadlight 2012 Windows, Xbox 360 survival-horror
game.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A survival-horror
game t hat t akes
place in an
underwat er
Deep Fear 1998 Sega Sat urn research facilit y
t hat becomes
overt aken by
mut ant zombie-
like creat ures.

The players are


randomly divided
int o groups of 40
and each group is
allocat ed wit hin
small t own wher
t hey must surviv
Die2Nite 2008 Browser as long as
possible. Every
night at midnight
(23:00 game
t ime) t he
zombies launch
an at t ack on t he
t own.

First -person
shoot er survival
horror game wit h
1993-
Doom series MS-DOS, Windows zombies, demons
present s
monst ers and
ot her occult ist
creat ures.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Open World
survival horror
game set in t he
fict ional
quarant ined cit y
of Harran, an
expansive urban
environment
overrun by a
vicious out break
The player is sen
PlaySt at ion 4,
Dying Light 2015 t o infilt rat e t he
Windows, Xbox One
cit y and must
survive by relying
on parkour free-
running and t raps
while scavenging
resources and
craft ing weapon
t o defend agains
t he growing
infect ed
populat ion.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Open World
survival horror
game set in t he
last bast ion of
humanit y, cit y of
Villedor, an
expansive
environment
overrun by a
vicious out break
The player is
PlaySt at ion 5,
gone t o t he cit y
PlaySt at ion 4,
searching for his
Dying Light 2 2022 Windows, Xbox One,
sist er. He must
Xbox Series X/S,
survive by relying
Nint endo Swit ch
on parkour free-
running and t raps
paraglider and
hooker, while
scavenging
resources and
craft ing weapon
t o defend agains
t he growing
infect ed
populat ion.

From a t op-down
perspect ive, t he
player must mak
t heir way t hroug
Entombed 1982 At ari 2600 an endless,
vert ically
scrolling maze
filled wit h
zombies.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The player, as
Ash Williams,
must fight t he
walking dead,
Commodore 64, ZX
The Evil Dead 1984 reanimat ed limbs
Spect rum
and ot her
monst ers while
t rying t o defend
a log cabin.[41]

Act ion game


t rilogy consist ing
of Hail to the
Dreamcast , King, A Fistful of
2000– PlaySt at ion, Boomstick and
Evil Dead series
2005 PlaySt at ion 2, Regeneration. As
Windows, Xbox Williams fight s
against Deadit es
"zombified
demons".[42]

A gory survival
horror game
played from a
t hird person
viewpoint .
PlaySt at ion 3, Cont ains bot h
2014– PlaySt at ion 4, st ealt h and
The Evil Within series
2017 Windows, Xbox 360, act ion
Xbox One sequences.
Zombies must be
dispat ched and
burned t o preven
t hem ret urning t o
life.[43]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Point -and-click
survival horror
game. Main
ant agonist of t he
game is
Springt rap, t he
reanimat ed
corpse of t he
series'
overarching villai
William Aft on.
Aft on was killed
by mechanical
failures of an
animat ronic rabb
cost ume he had
Windows, iOS,
used in
Android, PlaySt at ion
Five Nights at Freddy's 3 2015 commit t ing t he
4, Xbox One,
murders of
Nint endo Swit ch
several children i
t he '80s.
Springt rap/Aft on
reappears in
subsequent
games
progressively
desiccat ed and
damaged as
Scrapt rap (Fredd
Fazbear's Pizzeri
Simulator) and
Burnt rap (Five
Nights at
Freddy's: Security
Breach).
Name Year Platform(s) Description

3D game in whic
t he player must
guide eit her a
t eam of four
charact ers or a
Flesh Feast 1998 Windows single charact er
t hrough 17
st ages of play,
rescuing survivor
and fight ing
zombies.[44]

Players must
barricade
t hemselves
Fort Zombie 2009 Windows wit hin a building
and survive a
zombie
onslaught .[45]

is a side-scrolling
plat forming gam
developed by
Capcom for vide
arcades and has
Amiga, Arcade,
since been
Ghosts and Goblins 1985 Commodore 64,
released on
Commodore 16, NES
several ot her
plat forms. It is
t he first game in
t he Ghosts 'n
Goblins franchise
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Sequel t o
Zombies Ate My
Neighbors. The
local library's
goblin exhibit has
come t o life, t he
Ghoul Patrol 1994 Super NES
ghoul pat rol mus
fight hist orical
figures who have
become zombies
as well as ot her
monst ers.[46]

First -person
shoot er, t he
player dispenses
Gloom 3 1997 Amiga wit h zombies
which explode in
a shower of
limbs.[47]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The Wii version is


a grindhouse
t hemed first -
person
shoot er,[48] t he
PlaySt at ion and
Xbox versions ar
t op-down
shoot er games.
The developer
High Volt age
Soft ware
PlaySt at ion 3, Wii, originally reveale
The Grinder Unreleased
Xbox 360 t he t it le in 2009
as a Wii exclusive
lat er revealing a
different version
for t he ot her
consoles. Since
t hat t ime t he firm
has laid off st aff
leaving t he
st at us of t he
game's
development in
quest ion.[49]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

MMO open world


survival game se
in a post -
apocalypt ic rural
Unit ed St at es
infect ed by t he
H1Z1 out break;
an effect ive and
int ense mut at ion
of t he H1Z1 viru
The player must
survive wit h
H1Z1: Just Survive 2015 Windows emphasis on
mainly craft ing,
cooperat ion, and
scavenging
resources agains
t he swarming
zombie
populat ion,
vicious animals
such as wolves
and bears, and
pot ent ially
host ile survivors
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The player
confront s severa
alien lifeforms
t hat invaded
Eart h due t o a
t eleport
1998– Windows, macOS,
Half-Life series accident . The
2020 Several consoles
most prominent
foes are humans
zombified by
some aliens
called
'headcrabs'.

Plat form game


where t he player
ent ers a mansion
Horror Zombies from the Crypt 1990 Amiga, At ari ST, DOS
full of zombies
and ot her ghast l
creat ures.[50]

Twin-st ick
shoot er game
where t he player
PlaySt at ion 3,
must maint ain
How To Survive 2013 Windows, Xbox 360,
t heir charact er's
Wii U
survival needs. A
craft ing syst em
is included.[51]

Gory light gun


Arcade games o
rails which
Arcade, Dreamcast , feat ure numerou
1996–
The House of the Dead series Sega Sat urn, Wii, zombies.[52] It is
2013
Windows, Xbox credit ed wit h
int roducing fast
running
zombies.[5]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Survival game se
35 years aft er a
zombie
Pre- PlaySt at ion 4, Wii U,
Human Element apocalypse.
release Windows, Xbox One
Players must t ry
t o rebuild
civilizat ion.[53]

Trilogy of act ion


games based on
t he role-playing
game, one or
more players are
2002– GameCube,
Hunter: The Reckoning series t asked wit h
2003 PlaySt at ion 2, Xbox
defeat ing t he
undead evil t hat
manifest s in t he
t own of
Ashcroft .[54][55][5

Released on
Microsoft 's Xbox
Live Indie Games
channel, up t o
four players
shoot droves of
I Made a Game with Zombies in It! 2009 Xbox 360
at t acking
enemies,
including
zombies, while
collect ing powe
ups.[57]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Fast -paced
shoot er game se
t wo weeks
before Christ mas
in New York Cit y.
Players assume
Infected 2005 PlaySt at ion Port able t he role of a
rookie police
officer and must
rescue civilians
from t he
marauding
undead.[58]

A survival horror
game similar t o
DayZ in which t he
player must
survive for as
long as possible.
Infestation: Survivor Stories 2012 Windows A lot of
cont roversy has
surrounded t his
game due t o it s
close
resemblance t o
DayZ.

First -person
shoot er wit h
advent ure game
Isle of the Dead 1993 DOS element s, t he
player is st rande
on an island filled
wit h zombies.[59]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

First -person
shoot er, Judge
Dredd faces
numerous
zombies,
GameCube, vampires and
Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death 2003 PlaySt at ion 2, mut ant s whilst
Windows, Xbox at t empt ing t o
st op Judge
Deat h from
dest roying t he
world's
populat ion.[60][61]

A mult i-player
mod of t he
Unreal Engine
lat er released as
a st andalone
game. Players
assume t he role
Linux, macOS,
Killing Floor or Killing Floor 2 2005 of squad
Windows
members t hat
must st op
increasingly
powerful waves
of zombie-like
clone
soldiers.[62][63]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

First -person
shoot er set
wit hin t he same
universe as t he
George Romero
film Land of the
Dead. Players
cont rol Jack, a
Land of the Dead: Road to Fiddler's Green 2005 Windows, Xbox
farmer who must
fight t hrough
different
environment s in
order t o find
safet y wit hin t he
Cit y of t he
Living.[64]

An overhead-
perspect ive
rescue game in
which t he player
charact er is a
The Last Guy 2008 PlaySt at ion 3 humanit y-loving
zombie who mus
guide civilians t o
escape point s in
monst er-infest e
cit ies.[65]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An act ion-
advent ure
survival horror
video game.
Played from a
t hird-person
perspect ive;
players use
firearms and
improvised
weapons, and ca
use st ealt h t o
defend against
host ile humans
and cannibalist ic
creat ures.
The Last of Us 2013 PlaySt at ion 3 Considered t o be
one of t he
great est video
games of all t ime
it won year-end
accolades,
including mult iple
Game of t he Yea
awards from
several gaming
publicat ions,
crit ics, and game
award shows,
making it one of
t he most
awarded games
hist ory.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Sequel t o The
Last of Us, an
act ion-advent ure
survival horror
video game.
Played from a
t hird-person
perspect ive;
The Last of Us Part II 2020 PlaySt at ion 4 players use
firearms and
improvised
weapons, and ca
use st ealt h t o
defend against
host ile humans
and cannibalist ic
creat ures.

Mult iplayer first -


person shoot er
games in which
four survivors
must cooperat e
2008– macOS, Windows, t o survive agains
Left 4 Dead series
2009 Xbox 360 t he hordes of t h
infect ed and
mut at ed
monst ers in an
apocalypt ic
pandemic.[66][67]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A surreal game
where an
out break of
zombies infect s
many classic fair
t ale set t ings,
Little Red Riding Hood's Zombie BBQ 2008 Nint endo DS
leaving only Lit t l
Red Riding Hood
and Momot arō t o
defend
t hemselves from
t he invasion.[68]

An act ion game


which st ars a
chainsaw-
PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox wielding
Lollipop Chainsaw 2012
360 cheerleader who
must rid her high
school of
zombies.[69]

A science fict ion


survival horror. A
t rio of ast ronaut
must combat
zombies while
Martian Gothic: Unification 2000 PlaySt at ion, Windows solving puzzles
and piecing
t oget her what
happened t o a
research colony
on Mars.[70]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The series st ars


Sir Dan, a
cowardly knight
PlaySt at ion, slain by a wizard'
PlaySt at ion 3, army. 100 years
1998–
MediEvil series PlaySt at ion Port able, lat er t he same
2007
PlaySt at ion 4 wizard cast s a
(remake) spell t o raise an
army of undead,
raising Sir Dan in
t he process.[71]

A survival
sandbox game
where t he player
needs t o survive
Windows, Xbox 360, by building a
Minecraft 2009
iOS shelt er, and
building t ools t o
keep zombies
and ot her
monst ers away.

Graphic advent ur
game. The series
ant agonist ,
Amiga, DOS, FM
Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge 1991 LeChuck t he
Towns, Mac OS
pirat e, is
reanimat ed as a
zombie.[72]

Night Slashers 1993 Arcade


Name Year Platform(s) Description

A survival horror
game based in
t he ninet eent h
cent ury. A devil-
worshipping cult
called 'The
brot herhood of
t he Hecat e'
PlaySt at ion, perform ungodly
Nightmare Creatures 1997-1998 Windows, Nint endo experiment s in
64 London t o t ry t o
creat e super-
humans but
inst ead makes
horrid monst ers.
It cont ains a wid
array of creat ure
including
zombies.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A mult iplayer-
focused survival
game, init ially
creat ed as a
Source Engine
mod. The game
mainly focuses
on co-operat ion
and survival
rat her t han
dispat ching
zombies. Heavily
inspired by
George Romero's
2011– Windows, Linux,
No More Room in Hell Living Dead
present macOS, St eamOS
series, t he
zombies are
mainly slow-
moving and are
dangerous in
large formed
groups, t hough
freshly t urned
cadavers as well
as reanimat ed
children move
fast er due t o t he
lack of rigor
mort is.[73]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Hack and slash


games involving
PlaySt at ion 2,
bikini-clad femal
PlaySt at ion 3,
2000– prot agonist
The OneChanbara series PlaySt at ion 4,
present cut t ing swat hes
PlaySt at ion Port able,
t hrough an army
Wii, Xbox 360
of undead wit h a
kat ana.[74]

A fan remake of
Left 4 Dead.
Unlike t he source
game, a first -
Pixel Force: Left 4 Dead 2010 Windows
person shoot er,
t his game is an
overhead
shoot er.[75]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A real-t ime
st rat egy
simulat ion game
in which t he
player can evolve
different
pat hogens in
order t o ext inct
t he human race.
Players have t he
iOS, Android,
opt ion t o play as
Plague Inc. 2012 Windows Phone,
a zombie plague
Microsoft Windows
called t he Necro
Virus. Once
zombified,
humans cannot
be cured, so an
ant i-zombie forc
called Z-Com
becomes t he
biggest enemy
for t he player.

Tower defence
game feat uring a
homeowner
defending t heir
home against
macOS, Windows, zombies, which
Plants vs. Zombies 2009 Xbox 360, iOS, must be
PlaySt at ion 3 defeat ed by an
assort ment of
plant s wit h
different
offensive
abilit ies.[76]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A t hird person
shoot er game
based on t he
Windows, PlaySt at ion
original Plants vs
Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2014 4, PlaySt at ion 3,
Zombies game. I
Xbox One, Xbox 360
feat ures several
new game
modes.

2016 Windows, PlaySt at ion A sequel t o t he


Plants vs. Zombies: Garden Warfare 2
release 4, Xbox One 2014 game.

The Enslaver, a
t raveller who wa
t urned int o a
zombie t hrough
experiment at ion
PlaySt at ion 3, seeks revenge b
Possession Unreleased
Windows, Xbox 360 convert ing
humans int o
zombies and
commanding
t hem t o at t ack
t he living.[77]

Expansion pack
for first -person
shoot er game
Linux, macOS, Postal 2 feat urin
Postal 2: Apocalypse Weekend 2005
Windows a zombie at t ack
on t he fict it ious
t own of
Paradise.[78]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Touch-cont rolle
mobile game
where players
must quickly
defeat hordes of
zombies, using
Pro Zombie Soccer 2010 iOS, Android soccer balls,
before t he
prot agonist Jax
succumbs t o t he
effect s of t he
zombie
infect ion.[79]

An isomet ric
zombie survival
Pre- Linux, macOS,
Project Zomboid role-playing gam
release Windows
under ongoing
development .[80]

An isomet ric
act ion advent ure
game wit h 13
levels. Zombies,
Apple IIe, At ari 8-bit
spiders and
Realm of Impossibility 1984 family, Commodore
snakes must be
64, ZX Spect rum
avoided in order
t o reclaim t he
crowns st olen by
an evil cleric.[81]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Downloadable
cont ent for t he
open-world wild
west game Red
Dead
Red Dead Redemption: Undead PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox
2010 Redemption.
Nightmare 360
Players t ry t o
find a cure for t h
plague which is
t urning locals int
zombies.[82]

Survival horror
series feat uring
flesh-eat ing
zombies creat ed
1996–
Resident Evil series Various by synt het ic
present
means,[83] such a
infect ion wit h t h
fict ional T-
virus.[84]

First -person
shoot er from t he
Wolfenstein
series, players
fight Nazi soldier
Linux, macOS, and numerous
Return to Castle Wolfenstein 2001 PlaySt at ion 2, zombies. The
Windows, Xbox object of t he
game is t o
prevent t he
raising of an army
of undead
Nazis.[85]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The game uses


full-body cont ro
via t he Kinect
mot ion sensor,
players at t ack
Rise of Nightmares 2011 Xbox 360
zombies using
different t ypes
of weapons
which degrade
over t ime.[86]

Players must
bring down
at t acking
PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox
Rock of the Dead 2010 zombies wit h
360
music by using a
guit ar
cont roller.[87]

Players assume
t he role of Mike
Leroi, who is
cursed t o be a
zombie slave but
has also been
chosen t o be t he
Dreamcast , Nint endo
Shadow Man.[88]
Shadow Man 1999 64, PlaySt at ion,
Shadow Man is
Windows
able t o t ravel
bet ween t he
living world and
Deadside, which
feat ures zombie
and flying
corpses.[89]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

First -person
shoot er, a zombi
out break in
PlaySt at ion 3, Viet nam during
Shellshock 2: Blood Trails 2009
Windows, Xbox 360 t he Viet nam War
is caused by a
virus called
Whit eKnight .[90]

Survival horror
series. The
primary enemies
of t he game,
"shibito" (屍人),
are living dead
2003– PlaySt at ion 2, who can be
Siren series
2008 PlaySt at ion 3 'sight jacked' by
t he player,
allowing t hem t o
observe t he
gameworld
t hrough t he
shibit o's eyes.[91]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A shoot er game
set in space,
cont aining role-
playing and
st rat egy
element s. The
t it ular zombies
emerge lat e in
Space Pirates and Zombies 2011 Windows t he game and
operat e in a
similar manner t o
t he Borg of Star
Trek, by
assimilat ing
space ships and
crew int o an
undead horde.[92

Unlike games
such as Left 4
Dead and Dead
Island, State of
Decay will focus
more on survival,
st ealt h, evasion,
Windows, Xbox Live
State of Decay 2013 dist ract ions,
Arcade
securing t he
player's
resources, and
moving t hrough
t he world t han
act ual zombie
combat .
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Sequel t o State o
Decay. It places
emphasis on how
t he player's
leaderships skills
fare against an
onslaught of
problems, such a
diminishing
survival
resources, group
t rust and morale
zombie
ext erminat ion,
State of Decay 2 2018 Windows, Xbox One base defenses,
and people's
lives. The game
combines
element s of
shoot ers, st ealt h
role-playing and
st rat egy games
and t he game
challenges
players t o surviv
by exploring,
scavenging, and
fight ing t he
undead.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A t hird-person
comedy game
played as t he
t it ular zombie.
Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a macOS, Windows, Humans are
2005
Pulse Xbox, Xbox 360 convert ed int o
zombies when
killed by St ubbs,
creat ing an army
of zombies.[93]

Feat ures t wo
different play
modes, st ory and
arcade, t he
former involves
surviving a
zombie holocaus
Survival Crisis Z 2004 Windows
by scavenging
and int eract ing
wit h ot her
survivors, t he
lat t er is a
st raight forward
shoot er game.[94

One of t he first
survival horror
games,[95] it
feat ured zombie
as enemies
Sweet Home 1989 Family Comput er
represent ing
previous visit ors
who never made
it out of t he
mansion alive.[96]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Plat form game


wit h puzzle
element s, player
cont rol t hree
Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien zombies wit h
2008 Nint endo DS
Brain Thingys! different abilit ies
in order t o t hwar
t he alien brains
which have
invaded Eart h.[97

A t rilogy of
single-player
mods for Half-
Life, t he first is
set in a rural area
of t he Unit ed
They Hunger series 1999 Windows
St at es of
America. Lat er in
t he series
set t ings such as
missile silos are
explored.[98]

The t hird
inst allment of
t he popular t ime
t ravel-t hemed
first -person
shoot er
PS2, Xbox, cont ained
TimeSplitters: Future Perfect 2005
GameCube playable
mult iplayer
charact ers and
enemy AI t hat ar
commonly
referred t o as
Zombies[99]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

On-rail, first -
person shoot er. A
prisoner named
Rob St einer
escapes from jai
while bat t ling
Touch the Dead 2007 Nint endo DS
count less
zombies, t he
player at t acks b
using t he
console's
t ouchscreen.[100

A t ouch t yping
t rainer version of
The Typing of the Dead 1999 Dreamcast , Windows
The House of the
Dead 2.[101]

A hack 'n slash


game feat uring a
t rio of undead
knight s who can
Undead Knights 2009 PlaySt at ion Port able reanimat e t heir
vict ims as
zombies and sen
t hem int o
bat t le.[102]

A mult iplayer
survival game
described by one
crit ic as a
PlaySt at ion 4, Mac, combinat ion of
Unturned 2014 Windows, Xbox One, Dayz and
Xbox Series X Minecraft. The
game uses t he
free-t o-play
payment
model.[103]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A massively
mult iplayer online
game where
players choose
whet her t o play
Urban Dead 2005 Browser as a human
survivor or a
zombie in t he
bat t le for cont ro
of a quarant ined
cit y.[104]

The art ist ic


concept of t he
game is heavily
based on voodoo
cult ure. All
charact ers
Voodoo Kid 1997 Windows
excluding t he
unnamed
prot agonist are
soulless zombies
bounded t o a
ghost ship.[105]

Based on t he
comic series and
Android, iOS, Kindle
being developed
Fire HDX, macOS,
by Tellt ale
PlaySt at ion 3,
Games, t his
The Walking Dead 2012 PlaySt at ion 4, Ouya,
licensed video
PlaySt at ion Vit a,
game is due t o b
Windows, Xbox 360,
"mult i-year, mult
Xbox One
plat form, mult i-
t it le".[106]

PlaySt at ion 3, Wii U,


The Walking Dead: Survival Instinct 2013
Windows, Xbox 360
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The Undead
Scourge race
cont ains classic
flesh-consuming
zombies (Ghouls
and
Mac OS, macOS, Abominat ions).
Warcraft III series 2002-2003
Windows The Forsaken
race in t he lat er
World of Warcraf
MMORPG are
zombies who had
rebelled against
t he Scourge.

Survival St rat egy


Browser Game
current ly in
closed bet a
t est ing. Players
compet e for
World of the Living Dead Resurrection 2013 Browser
resources in orde
t o keep t heir
group of survivor
alive in a zombie
plagued Los
Angeles.[107]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

The game is a co
operat ive, t hird-
person shoot er i
which 4 players
fight against
Microsoft Windows, massive hordes
World War Z 2019 PlaySt at ion 4, Xbox of zombies in
One locat ions
including: New
York, Jerusalem,
Moscow, Tokyo,
and Marseille,
France.

A survival horror
game based on
t he t elevision
series, The X-
Files. The player
The X-Files: Resist or Serve 2004 PlaySt at ion 2 can play as eit he
Fox Mulder or
Dana Scully, who
are invest igat ing
a t own overrun b
zombies.
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Part of Sega's
Yakuza series, t h
mart ial combat
of previous t it les
has been
replaced wit h an
emphasis on gun
Yakuza: Dead Souls 2011 PlaySt at ion 3
bat t les. The cit y
has been
infect ed wit h a
zombie plague
and now a t hird o
t he populat ion
are zombies.[108]

Single-player
t urn-based
st rat egy games,
port rayed most ly
via a map and
diary. The games
require
Zafehouse: Diaries series 2012 Windows management of
survivors'
int erpersonal
relat ionships in
addit ion t o
st andard zombie
survival
act ions.[109]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

Icon-driven
graphic advent ur
inspired by t he
film Dawn of the
Dead. A group of
survivors is
Amiga, Amst rad CPC,
forced t o land
At ari ST, Commodore
Zombi 1986 t heir helicopt er
64, Commodore
at op a zombie
Plus/4, ZX Spect rum
infest ed
shopping mall,
t he vehicle must
be refueled so
t hey can
escape.[110]

A t hird person
Microsoft Windows,
zombie shoot er
Zombie Army Trilogy 2015 PlaySt at ion 4, Xbox
set during world
One
war 2

A t hird person
zombie shoot er
Microsoft Windows,
set during world
Zombie Army 4: Dead War 2020 PlaySt at ion 4, Xbox
war 2. It is a
One
sequel t o Zombi
Army Trilogy.

The player has t o


shoot or
PlaySt at ion 3, Xbox decapit at e
Zombie Apocalypse 2009
360 zombies across
seven different
areas.[111]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An overhead-view
mission-based
driving game
Zombie Driver 2009 Windows
t aking place in a
zombie
apocalypse.[112]

Players act as
t he gunner on an
AC-130U Spect r
gunship. The
object is t o
dest roy as many
zombies and
monst ers as
possible, while
Zombie Gunship 2011 iOS helping as many
human civilians a
possible reach
t he safet y of a
bunker, before
t he zombies
reach t he bunker
or t oo many
friendly fire
incident s occur.

Zombie-t hemed
downloadable
cont ent for
PlaySt at ion 3, Borderlands
The Zombie Island of Dr. Ned 2009
Windows, Xbox 360 feat uring a
swamp island
filled wit h
undead.[113]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A t op-down/t hird
person social
net working
Facebook game.
Players must
Facebook, Google+, repair t heir
Zombie Lane 2011
iOS neighbourhood
aft er a zombie
apocalypse and
locat e t heir
missing wife and
dog.[114]

First -person
shoot er, clone of
t he popular
Zombie Massacre 1998 Amiga
Amiga first
person shoot er
Doom

Shoot 'em up in
which players
cont rol a
disembodied
samurai's head. A
myst erious
met eor called
Zombie Nation 1990 NES
Darc Seed
crashes t o Eart h
and t urns t he
inhabit ant s of t h
Unit ed St at es
int o
zombies.[115][116]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

A mult iplayer
Half-Life 2 mod, i
which players are
divided int o t wo
t eams, survivors
Zombie Panic! Source 2007 Windows
and zombies.
When survivors
are killed, t hey
become
zombies.[117]

A parkour game
where t he player
must ret rieve t he
Zombie Parkour Runner 2011 iOS
it ems st olen
from t hem by
zombies.[118]

Beat 'em up
where players
choose one of
Zombie Revenge 1999 Arcade, Dreamcast
t hree charact ers
t o pummel
zombies.[119]

Downloadable
real-t ime
st rat egy game.
Players cont rol
Zombie Tycoon 2009 PlaySt at ion Port able t hree t eams of
up t o eight
zombies t o
at t ack t he
living.[120]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An Xbox Live
game where
players choose
one of four
Zombie Wranglers 2009 Xbox 360 charact ers t o
"wrangle"
zombies t hrough
t went y
levels.[121]

The player must


rid a cit y of t he
undead by luring
t hem over t he
edge of
st ruct ures. Thes
can be
Zombie Zombie 1984 ZX Spect rum
const ruct ed wit
a helicopt er,
which can be
landed t o allow
t he zombies t o
pursue t he playe
charact er.[122]

Windows Phone,
Zombies 2011
Xbox 360

Shoot er game
played from an
overhead
perspect ive. The
game parodies B
Zombies Ate My Neighbors 1993 Genesis, Super NES
movies and
feat ures zombie
amongst several
ot her t ypes of
monst er.[123]
Name Year Platform(s) Description

An immersive
Zombies, Run! 2012 iOS, Android
running game.

A 2012 survival
horror game. The
player cont rols a
random survivor
who must
ZombiU 2012 Wii U
at t empt t o
survive a zombie
apocalypse
running amok in
London.

A 1998 first
person st ealt h
Thief: The Dark Project 1998 Windows game. Some
missions include
zombies.

A st ealt h game
inspired by t he
Windows, Linux, Thief game
The Dark Mod 2012
macOS series. Some
missions include
zombies.

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