15 - DayZ

2013 (PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Microsoft Windows/Xbox Cloud Gaming)

What Is It About: How long can you survive a post-apocalyptic world? A land overrun with an infected "zombie" population, where you compete with other survivors for limited resources. Will you team up with strangers and stay strong together? Or play as a lone wolf to avoid betrayal? This is DayZ – this is your story.

This is the perfect game to test your skills at zombie shooting, plus you'll learn all the basics of surviving in a zombie apocalypse.

Choose this game if you like:

• Install Mods, Head on over to the Steam Workshop, and find a customized server that fits. Join an active community of like-minded players and modify your experience to suit your taste
• Intense PvP action that can break out anywhere at any time, especially in hotspots like abandoned military bases, where heart-pounding firefights are all the rage
• The infected aren’t the only ones you need to worry about – there’s also the wildlife and elements. Evade packs of wolves and frenzied bears

 

14 - Left 4 Dead 2

2009 (Xbox 360/Microsoft Windows/Linux/Mac OS)

What Is It About: Set in the zombie apocalypse, Left 4 Dead 2 (L4D2) is the highly anticipated sequel to the award-winning Left 4 Dead, the #1 co-op game of 2008. This cooperative action horror FPS takes you and your friends through the cities, swamps, and cemeteries of the Deep South, from Savannah to New Orleans.

This game is so much fun to play, whether you like to play with your friends or online. You can practice your leadership skills and deal with the mutated zombies, two steps ahead of the zombie apocalypse. 

(Left 4 Dead 2 trailer)

Choose this game if you like:

• Over 20 new weapons & items headlined by over 10 melee weapons – axe, chainsaw, frying pan, baseball bat – allow you to get up close with the zombies
• Uncommonly infected. Each of the five new campaigns contains at least one new an "uncommonly common" zombie that is exclusive to that campaign.
• Next-generation co-op action gaming from the makers of Half-Life, Portal, Team Fortress, and Counter-Strike

 

13 - GTFO

2019 (Microsoft Windows)

What Is It About: GTFO is an extremely cooperative horror shooter that throws you from gripping suspense to explosive action in a heartbeat. Stealth, strategy, and teamwork are necessary to survive in your deadly, underground prison. Work together or die together.

This game will prepare your scavenging skills when all hell breaksloose. You will love to go on expeditions and dive deeper and deeper.

(GTFO trailer)

Choose this game if you like: 

• A new work order from the Warden means a new Rundown. New Rundowns will drop periodically, bringing your team grisly new ways to suffer
• Stealth and coordination are necessary to survive as you maneuver through the Complex
• A strategy is necessary to clear the Rundown. Before you drop into the Complex, your team needs to decide what gear, boosters, and weapons to bring

 

12 - SAS: Zombie Assault 4

2014 (macOS/iOS/Android/Microsoft Windows/SteamOS)

What Is It About: Purge the undead! Intense action shooter with deep RPG elements, including upgradeable guns and armor, unique class skills, and class special abilities. The entire game can be played single-player or as a 4-player online co-op game, including PvP events like Last Man Standing.

You are going to be a badass zombie killer! And the outfit looks ready to slay. Embrace your new life as a hero.

(SAS: Zombie Assault 4 trailer)

Choose this game if you like: 

• Intense action. Zombies swarm the screen, exploding into bits under your hail of bullets
• Over 160 incredible guns and armor pieces are locked up tight inside increasingly rare strongboxes that you can find in secret rooms or on the mangled remains of your enemies
• The Assault, Medic, and Heavy Gunner classes each have unique upgrade trees, giving each character 19 skills to customize

 

11 - Resident Evil 2

2019 (Nintendo Switch/PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5/Xbox One/Xbox Series X and Series S/Microsoft Windows/Amazon Luna)

What Is It About: A deadly virus engulfs the residents of Raccoon City in September of 1998, plunging the city into chaos as flesh-eating zombies roam the streets looking for survivors. An unparalleled adrenaline rush, a gripping storyline, and unimaginable horrors await you. Witness the return of Resident Evil 2.

In this game, you’re going to play as two characters and find yourself immersed in two different storylines full of action. Be careful or you will spend the whole night awake.

(Resident Evil 2 trailer)

Choose this game if you like:

• Terrifyingly realistic visuals
• A spine-chilling reimagining of a horror classic
• Engage in frenzied combat with enemies, explore dark menacing corridors, solve puzzles to access areas, and collect and use items discovered around the environment in a terrifying constant fight for survival.

 

10 - Killing Floor 2

2016 (PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Microsoft Windows/Linux)

What Is It About: In KILLING FLOOR 2, players descend into continental Europe where the outbreak caused by Horzine Biotech’s failed experiment has quickly spread and gained unstoppable momentum, essentially paralyzing the European Union— Just one month after the events of the original KILLING FLOOR, the specimen clones are everywhere and civilization is in disarray; communications have failed, governments have collapsed, and military forces have been systematically eradicated. The people of Europe know survival and self-preservation too well and the lucky survivors have gone into hiding.

Be the last hope of civilization together with your friends, exterminate the threats and build a safe place for the rest of the world to live in (and of course, be the hero).

(Killing Floor 2 trailer)

Choose this game if you like:

• Unique Blend Of Weaponry - From modern militaristic assault rifles, brutal improvised makeshift weapons, classic historical guns, and off-the-wall “Mad Scientist” weapons KILLING FLOOR 2 has a unique blend of killing tools that will satisfy any gamer
• Visceral Gore - KILLING FLOOR 2 ramps up the gore with a proprietary, high powered persistent blood system bringing new levels of fidelity to the genre
• A multitude of varied playable characters awaits players to choose from as they enter the fray in online co-op mode or solo mode for those willing to brave the horrific specimens alone

 

9 - The Last Stand: Aftermath

2021 (PlayStation 4/PlayStation 5/Microsoft Windows/Xbox Series X and Series S)

What Is It About: From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes to an all-new single-player rogue-lite action adventure. After you become infected by the zombie virus, you set out to explore the post-apocalypse and find hope for your fellow survivors. You can still make a difference. Don't give up.

You are trying to combat the infected, but you are also infected. You’ll try to survive and eventually die and restart as a new player and it will go on and on, you have your first experience dealing with an infection yourself. Hopefully, you’ll learn how not to get infected by the time the apocalypse eventually arrives…

(The Last Stand: Aftermath trailer)

Choose this game if you like:

• Sneak and fight your way through a dangerous post-apocalyptic wasteland
• When one survivor dies, start up again as another, with new unlocks based on progress
• Outwit hordes of rabid infected, some with deadly special abilities

 

8 - Zombie Army 4: Dead War

2020 (Nintendo Switch/PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Google Stadia/Xbox Cloud Gaming/Microsoft Windows/Xbox Series X and Series S)

What Is It About: Hitler’s hordes are back for more in this spine-chilling shooter from the makers of Sniper Elite 4! Abominable occult enemies, epic weapons, and a harrowing new campaign for 1-4 players await in 1940s Europe, as you fight to save humankind from undead Armageddon!

Okay, this is the dream of every zombie hunter, kill zombie Hitler! What could be more satisfying than that? And you can do it over and over again.

(Zombie Army 4: Dead War)

Choose this game if you like:

• Experience the genre-defining ballistics Rebellion made famous in the Sniper Elite series and put it to good use against the shambling hordes of the damned
• When the dead surround you, fight back with enhanced melee combat! Barge through crowds, stomp on heads and dispatch the living dead with fearsome takedown moves
• Harness the power of fire, lightning, and divine essence to upgrade your guns at workbenches, and create homespun hellraisers

 

7 - Unturned

2014 (PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Microsoft Windows/macOS/Xbox Series X and Series S/Linux/GeForce Now/Mac OS)

What Is It About: You're a survivor in the zombie-infested ruins of society, and must work with your friends and forge alliances to remain among the living.

If you like the interface for Minecraft you are going to enjoy this game.

 

(Unturned trailer)

Choose this game if you like:

•  Face and learn to counter special abilities such as invisibility, fire breathing, and lightning attacks
• Fight with every kind of weapon under the sun - swords, machine guns, snipers, missiles, landmines - you name it
• For pure PvP play arena mode in a last-man-standing battle to the death, or PvE for peaceful cooperation

 

6 - World War Z: Aftermath

2021 (PlayStation 5/PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Microsoft Windows/Google Stadia/Xbox Series X and Series S)

What Is It About: World War Z: Aftermath is the ultimate co-op zombie shooter and the next evolution of the original hit World War Z that has now captivated over 15 million players. Fight off hordes of ravenous zombies in intense story episodes across new zombie-ravaged locations around the world.

Remember that movie? You can now live in it! Try your luck and everything you've learned into practice. Good luck!

Choose this game if you like:

• Experience a heart-pounding new perspective with Aftermath’s immersive new First-Person Mode option
• Endure endless waves of increasingly difficult zombies in the new Horde Mode XL game mode, featuring hundreds more zombies on screen than ever before possible
• Take back Vatican City in an epic confrontation in Rome, and join forces with survivors in Russia’s snowbound Kamchatka peninsula in all-new story missions

 

5 - Zombie Shooter

2007 (Android/Microsoft Windows/iOS)

What Is It About: Where is the line between life and death? How far can human science go in trying to understand this? Take part in the great battle to rescue humanity and find out what's happening! The human race is in danger again. This time scientists could not cope with the imminent threat and became monsters themselves.

If you like a good mystery, especially how zombies started showing up, you will love this game. Play to the end to uncover this mystery and try to prevent it in real life!

Choose this game if you like: 

• About 1,000 zombies are on each map, showing up to 100 zombies simultaneously on one playing screen
• Useful gadgets - flashlights, medkits, battle drones, and radar
• Upgrade the available arms with the money earned

 

4 - Yet Another Zombie Defense HD

2017 (Nintendo Switch/PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Microsoft Windows)

What Is It About: Top-down zombie shooter with tower defense elements featuring up to 4 players local and online co-op. Build your base by day, defend it by night, and put your skills to the test to stay alive for as long as possible! The darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

In another arcade zombie game, you have to build your defenses and prepare yourself for a night of a lot of action, which is great training if your friends are planning to begin a zombie apocalypse.

(Yet Another Zombie Defense HD trailer)

Choose this game if you like: 

• Create your own characters and levels - play just the way you like it!
• Mount your favorite firearms on automated turrets and set up traps - they’re not expecting that
• Compete with others and own the Leaderboards

 

3 - Resident Evil 4

2005 (PlayStation 4/PlayStation 2/PlayStation 3/Android/iOS/Nintendo Switch/Nintendo GameCube/Xbox One/Xbox 360/Wii/Oculus Quest 2/Microsoft Windows)

What Is It About: Survival is just the beginning. Six years have passed since the biological disaster in Raccoon City. Leon S. Kennedy, one of the survivors, tracks the president's kidnapped daughter to a secluded European village, where there is something terribly wrong with the locals.

This game will make you feel like you are a true secret agent. And make you a true hero for saving the president’s daughter.

Choose this game if you like:

• Rescue stories
• Be on a secret mission
• Realistic trades

 

2 - Guns, Gore & Cannoli

2015 (Nintendo Switch/PlayStation 4/Xbox One/Microsoft Windows/Mac OS)

What Is It About: Welcome to Thugtown circa 1920, the height of Prohibition.

Prepare yourself for a non-stop, action-packed, completely over-the-top, fast-paced, platform game. Set against the gangster heyday of the roaring twenties. Lose yourself in an exciting, elaborate tale of the underground and underworld. Experience friendship, betrayal, and vengeance, and witness firsthand the rise and fall of a criminal mastermind.

This is survival horror, wiseguy style... Capiche?

You can prepare yourself to deal with the mafia in the zombie apocalypse, and of course, discover the secrets about the outbreak. I’m sure you’ll do just fine!

Choose this game if you like:

• Prepare yourself for a non-stop, action-packed, completely over-the-top, platform game where you have to fight, shoot, blast, and kick your way through a deeply engrossing story
• Despite Prohibition and the imminent Depression, people are ready to drink themselves to (un)dead. Every inch of the game is like a picture straight from the Prohibition era
• Step into the atmospheric, shady world built by HD hand-drawn 2D graphics. Experience fluid animations and cinematic style cutscenes

 

1 - Resident Evil 5 Remastered

2009 (PlayStation 4/Nintendo Switch/PlayStation 3/Xbox One/Android/Microsoft Windows/Xbox 360/NVIDIA Shield Android TV)

What Is It About: The Umbrella Corporation and its crop of lethal viruses have been destroyed and contained. But a new, more dangerous threat has emerged. Years after surviving the events in Raccoon City, Chris Redfield has been fighting the scourge of bio-organic weapons all over the world. Now a member of the Bioterrorism Security Assessment Alliance (BSAA), Chris is sent to Africa to investigate a biological agent that is transforming the populace into aggressive and disturbing creatures. Joined by another local BSAA agent, Sheva Alomar, the two must work together to uncover the truth behind the disturbing turn of events.

This game is great to play with a friend and have a wonderful time, as well as go on a revenge crusade.

Choose this game if you like:

• A revenge storyline
• Action scenes
• Act quick

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