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11. Dead Effect (2013)
Developer: BadFly Interactive
Genre: Horror, action
Theme: Man vs space zombies
Take on zombies in deep space when you play Dead Effect. This Sci-Fi FPS is essentially a port of the mobile game but with improved controls and visuals such as texture and lighting.
The game beings with the player waking up from cryogenic sleep while on board a spaceship. Everyone else has either died or turned into zombies. The player is in control of a member of an Elite unit that was awakened to respond to an emergency situation that erupted on the spacecraft.
Your only support comes from a voice that communicates through consoles, instructing you on what to do.
She’s not feeling the whole head shot thing
As the player progresses through the game's campaign they can find data pads that detail the strange and horrific events that unfolded before you were woken up. Players also have various customization options. When starting the game players can decide their character’s gender which alters the character's model, voice, and starting weapons.
We can’t forget about the importance of weapons in a zombie game. Players have a variety of weapons to use and customize. Among the 14 weapons in the game there's a handgun, shotgun, rifle, bow, and energy weapons. Players can visit shops to improve their weapons by increasing its damage, shortening its reload time, and improving its accuracy.
Dead Effect is a hard deal to pass up when it goes for just $5 dollars on Steam.
10. How to Survive (2013)
Developer: EKO Software
Genre: Horror, Action
Theme: Man vs wild, man vs zombie
Games can teach us valuable lessons, luckily for us we have How to Survive which is ready to give us a crash course on survival. How to Survive is a survival horror RPG where the player is shipwrecked on an island with zombies.
Players take control of one of three characters, each with their own characteristics and skill trees. There is an archer, brawler, and all around character to pick from. If players want to survive they will need to collect pages of a handy survival guide that will teach them extremely useful things. Players will learn that surviving consists of more than just finding resources like water, food, and shelter.
A little zombie brain smashing is good for you
If your character lacks basic resources they will lose strength, fight poorly, and reduce their ability to stay alive. But simply consuming the resources you come across won’t be a simple fix. If the player finds meat they must cook it first because all of the animals on the island are diseased. Also, the meat will attract zombies.
How to Survive has four distinctive and well stocked islands with items. Players can create over 100 handmade weapons and tools, ranging from Molotov cocktails to trusty shotguns. It’s important to have a good arsenal when taking on zombies, wild animals, and animal zombies.
Get ready to prepare yourself for the worst, there’s nothing like a flesh hungry zombie piranha to ruin your day.
9. Dead Frontier (2008)
Developer: Creaky Corpse
Genre: Horror, MMO
Theme: Man vs zombie
Who would have thought that you’d get a second chance at getting your dream job? Become the engineer, doctor, or scientist, like you’ve always wanted in Dead Frontier.
Dead Frontier is an expansive browser based game that takes place after a pharmaceutical company creates a drug that turned people into zombies. Players take control of a survivor trying to get by in a world that has fallen into chaos.
Got to be well dressed and armed to take on hordes of zombies
Players have 20 professions to pick from at the start of the game. There are tons of different options to fit various play styles. A player can pick from the production class and be a scientist who creates goods to sell, the service class and work as an engineer who can sell their services, the stat-boost class and be a formerly famous athlete, or the role playing class and be the toughest of priests. Players can also customize their characters and decide their gender, skin tone, hair style, and facial expression.
Dead Frontier doesn’t offer players any formal tutorials and has one of the steepest learning curves. Players essentially have to learn through lots of trial and error. New players should expect to spend their first few hours testing out the gameplay, exploring, and dying tons.
Regardless if playing the game alone or in a group, strategy is the key to surviving. Players must constantly maintain their character’s health, hunger, and ammo because death will easily strike you down.
8. Contagion (2014)
Developer: Monochrome LLC
Genre: Survival horror, FPS
Theme: Man vs zombie
In zombie games we do whatever we can to survive as long as possible, but what do we do when we turn into one of them? Find out what life is like on the other side with Contagion.
Contagion is a cooperative survival horror FPS where players can pick from eight survivors to control. Each play session is unique with the game’s randomization system and there are three game modes to play: survivor, strong hold, and player vs player. Contagion features multiplayer for up to four players and vs multiplayer for up to eight players.
Are you sure that baseball bat will save you?
Players have access to over 28 vital pieces of equipment, ranging from melee weapons, explosives, firearms, support items, and tools. Like in any zombie game, players will do everything they can to stay human. Regardless of what mode you are playing, when you die you become a zombie and must kill survivors. Player zombies have a number of perks like spiriting and screaming, which gathers more zombies.
A nice bonus for players is that all DLC’s for the game are free, regardless of their release date. Contagion isn’t going to let players go so easily.
7. Project Zomboid (2013)
Developer: The Indie Stone
Genre: RPG, simulation
Theme: Man vs zombie
Get ready for the realist zombie outbreak you’ll ever experience in Project Zombiod. This game plays as one of the most realistic zombie scenarios out there. Players will need to do everything they can to delay their inevitable death for as long as possible and learn that Project Zomboid isn’t for the weak.
Although Project Zomboid’s interface looks simplistic, this game is crazy addictive and is one of the most innovative post-apocalyptic zombie survival games out there. Players will need to flee from the thousands of zombies that have infected the city, explore the vast and ever growing map, and do whatever it takes to survive.
It’s a lovely paint job
This game plays as a massively customizable sandbox. Players will need to scavenge for supplies, farm, fish, cook, craft items, build barricades, and fight. This already difficult game focuses on realistic survival. Not only will players need to keep their health and hunger in check but they will need to withstand boredom, depression, illness, and addictions.
As Project Zomboid is still in early access players can expect many more features and improvements to come. The creators have planned to include new stories, meaningful and varied encounters with NPC survivors, an expansion of the city and countryside, a wilderness survival system, and many more items.
6. Black Mesa (2012)
Developer: Crowbar Collective
Genre: Action, adventure
Theme: Man vs Alien
Who doesn’t love a classic? Black Mesa is a fantastic re-imagining of Half-Life. Players follow Gordon Freeman in his journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility, but without the graphic limitations of the 90s.
Black Mesa features everything we loved about the original Half-Life, tough old-school combat, memorable characters, and a gripping story. This game features a new soundtrack, voice acting, dialogue, puzzles, and visuals. The Steam release of the game also has many fixes, upgrades, and new features since the mod’s original release.
This is all different kinds of nope
This game expands on different parts of the original Half-Life to make the plot and gameplay smoother. Some of the areas in Black Mesa Research Facility are different from in the original game, but this successfully gives players a fresh experience. The game’s real-time scripted sequences are entertaining and can serve as warnings for future dangers, especially when you see some scientists getting dragged off into vents or exploding.
Black Mesa has multiplayer where players can fight their friends in six arena-style maps such as Gasworks and Stalkyard. This game has custom modding tools (the same tools developers use to make mods) that are accessible to players so they create their own maps and mods for single and multiplayer.
Whether you missed the original game or are to fans of Half-Life, Black Mesa is not to be missed.
5. State of Decay (2013)
Developer: Undead Labs
Genre: Survival horror
Theme: Man vs zombie
State of Decay isn’t like zombie games you played before. The secret to success isn’t headshots and massive fire arms, it’s Influence and lots of it.
This game is an action survival game set in an open world. As players travel this world they’ll be searching for supplies, recruiting survivors, and maintaining relationships with the people encountered, in and outside of your party. Naturally, there will be plenty of zombie standoffs along the way.
Isn’t rule one of zombie survival cardio?
State of Decay’s currency is known as Influence. Players acquire Influence by completing missions, upgrading your base, and scavenging items. Influence can be spent sending out radio calls to possible survivors for recruitment, asking for the backup of a fellow survivor, among other things. Players you recruit have particular skills like Wits which is for searching and sneaking or Cardio for running.
Make sure you are always prepared in this game. If a character dies they are gone for good. This will be detrimental for players who lose a character they heavily used. Not only does this character die, but the player will lose their accrued skill points and weapon specialty bonus.
Stay safe and rack up that Influence so you and your party can give zombies a real challenge.
4. F.E.A. R. (2005)
Developer: Monolith Productions, Timegate
Genre: Horror, action
Theme: Man vs the unknown
Let’s get our next horror fix from a classic. F.E.A.R. is ready to take us down a dark and twisted road to fulfill all of our horror needs. As this game is heavily influenced by Japanese horror movies, get ready for some serious scares.
F.E.A.R. begins with a strange and unknown paramilitary force breaking into a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, taking hostages but stating no demands. The government sends in a Special Forces team that gets instantly destroyed. A video feed of the Special Forces massacre shows the team getting torn apart by strange wave of destruction.
Never can have too much armor when taking on evil paranormal forces
In order to combat this unknown enemy the elite First Encounter Assault Recon team (F.E.A.R.), which deals with paranormal situations, is sent out. Players take control of the newest member of F.E.A.R. and must utilize all of their abilities if they want to evaluate and eliminate this unknown threat.
Players are in for a real treat with F.E.A.R.’s combat. Fights take on a cinematic quality as players watch as bullets rip through wood and concrete, dust and debris fill the air, and bodies are torn apart and strewn around the environment. As a member of F.E.A.R. you can kill foes with swift kicks and ultrafast reflexes that can be utilized in quick bursts as everything slows down around you.
Where would we be fighting paranormal forces without some good firearms? Players have access to standard shooter weapons like a pistol, assault rifle, machine gun, and of course a rocket launcher. Keep in mind that there’s a three weapon limit so think carefully about what you’ll bring with you.
You know you want that rocket launcher for some rad kills.
3. Dead Island (2011)
Developer: Techland
Genre: Horror, action
Theme: Man vs zombie
Where would we be without our zombie slaughter games? Totally unprepared for our zombie outbreak daydreams, that’s where. Dead Island is ready to give your zombie dreams a tropical twist.
In the island of Banoi a zombie outbreak occurs, cutting the player off from the rest of the world as they are trapped within the island. If players want to make it out alive they’ll need to fight through the chaos as they try to get off the island. Get ready to take on hordes of gruesome zombies in the open world of Banoi, collect items, create weapon mods, complete side quests, and discover new areas on the island if you want to make it out in one piece.
Take in the sights with Sam B
Dead Island offers players tons of customization options. Players can develop their character’s skills and tactics as they like. Also, players will need to get creative with their weapons since firearms are scarce on the island. Players will need to scavenge for items and turn them into makeshift weapons. Who doesn’t want a blade that does shock damage when faced with zombies?
This game has multiplayer for up to four people where you can your friends can play the entire campaign together. Through the game’s drop in function, players can seamlessly come together to make the ultimate zombie killing squad.
Don’t let the zombies get you down, there’s plenty of ways to fight back on Banoi.
2. Killing Floor 2 (2015)
Developer: Tripwire Interactive
Genre: Horror, FPS
Theme: Man vs zombie
Need a real explosive and gory zombie game? Killing Floor 2 is ready to meet all your zombie slaughterhouse dreams.
This game takes place one month after the original Killing Floor and things have only gotten worse. Society has crumbled with failed communications, an eradicated military, and a collapsed government. In order to take down the zombies that roam the streets, a group of mercenaries and civilians have joined together to do what the government and military can’t.
Maybe now you can hang with the cool kids
Killing Floor 2 has tons of new features such as weapons, characters, and monsters that build upon the original game. Prepare yourself for even more gore than in the first Killing Floor. You’ll be quickly flinging around zombie limbs and organs, while bathing the streets in the remains of your zombie foes.
Players have access to many characters that they can play as in single player and co-op. There are a variety of weapons to pick from and players can control the melee attacks at their disposal. The game features six player co-op for you and your friends to make a zombie killing dream team.
1. Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)
Developer: Valve
Genre: Horror, action
Theme: Man vs zombie
Take on one of the best zombie shooters out there with Left 4 Dead 2. You’ll need to travel throughout the Deep South if you’re going to make it out alive in this game.
Just like in the first game, players will take control of one of four survivors. In order to survive players will need to work as a team. You and your party (AI or human), will need to understand what they need to do and what they need their fellow party members to do. Players and their group members will be able to call for help, ammo, weapons, and health.
You do not want to have that huge flipping zombie steam roll you to death
Left 4 Dead 2 features a more detailed campaign and environments than in the first game. This game has three new special infected and five new uncommon infected. There’s the Jockey who will jump on your head, Charger who rams into you, and Spitter who shoots acid. Players will need to fight through all kinds of zombies to get to the safe houses at the end of each map.
This game contains an entity known as the Director. This is an AI that plans out each stage and adjusts it accordingly to players’ abilities. The amount of enemies, enemy types, and more will be unique to each session. If the Director made things too hard then it will alter the stage a bit to make things easier.
How will the Director treat you, like a zombie killing noob or a worthy adversary?
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