Games Like Yet Another Zombie Defense

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, put your skills to the test to stay alive as long as possible! Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive?

Why similar: Zombies 80.2%, Tower Defense 5.1%, Survival 3.1%, Co-op 2.7%, Multiplayer 2.3%

Why You'll Like It: A direct remaster that enhances the original's top-down shooting and tower-defense base building with improved visuals.

Team up or face it alone in this top down zombie slaying defense adventure! Featuring up to 4 player online co-op, cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses to build the Ultimate Zombie Defense. Can YOU stop them?

Why similar: Zombies 82.6%, Tower Defense 4.3%, Survival 2.8%, Co-op 2.6%, Multiplayer 1.8%

Why You'll Like It: Features cooperative top-down action where players build defenses by day and fight massive hordes by night.

The Horde is coming, but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your squad, choose their upgrades, and build powerful synergies against thousands of undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break every limit in this deceptively simple but addictive bullet heaven game.

Why similar: Zombies 91.4%, Survival 5%, Top-Down 1.3%, Action 0.7%, Indie 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: Takes the core zombie combat and transforms it into a modern bullet-heaven roguelike experience.

Top down, action packed, multiplayer, zombie shooter. Build your base with friends and see how long you can survive the endless horde of zombies. Level up with friends, or alone, how you die is up to you.

Why similar: Zombies 79.4%, Tower Defense 4.7%, Survival 4.1%, Co-op 3.1%, Multiplayer 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: Combines base-building and strategic placement with frantic cooperative zombie survival.

Over 9000 Zombies! is top-down arcade action blown out of all reasonable proportions. An endless horde of zombies is coming your way, how long can you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 79.6%, Tower Defense 5.1%, Co-op 4%, Survival 3.8%, Multiplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: A chaotic twin-stick shooter that pits you against thousands of zombies with base construction elements.

Nation Red is an ultra fast infinite play arena-based shooter providing an exceptional close-quarter battlefield experience. Fight thousands of zombie mutants and their bosses in frantic bloody gameplay while earning close to 100 perks. Fight in Barricade, Survival or Free Play mode.

Why similar: Zombies 92.4%, Survival 1.9%, Co-op 1.3%, Online Co-Op 1.1%, Action 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A frantic, blood-soaked top-down shooter focusing on pure horde survival against endless waves of the undead.

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

Why similar: Zombies 88%, Multiplayer 2.9%, Co-op 2.9%, Survival 2.3%, Shooter 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down cooperative shooter featuring upgradeable gear and intense wave-based combat.

A toxic waste spill finds its way into the water supply, causing the recently deceased to rise from their graves. Now it's up to you to blast your way through the hordes of undead if you're going to escape the city. On the way to your rescue, you'll search stores and houses for supplies, and trade with other survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 93.7%, Survival 2%, Co-op 1.4%, Local Co-Op 0.9%, Action 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled side-scrolling shooter that captures the gritty, arcade-like feeling of fighting through zombie hordes.

Dead or Alive? Make up your mind, stranger. We don’t like that undead business here in Louisiana…Survive solo or with friends as you look to fulfill your basic needs of food, water and shelter, crafting your own tools and weapons while you secure your camp and face flesh hungry zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 87.4%, Survival 5.9%, Co-op 2.7%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Local Co-Op 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: Focuses on gathering materials, building strongholds, and surviving cooperative campaigns against the infected.

One of the highest rated Xbox Indie Games is now available for PC! How long can you survive in this online co-op wave based shooter? Featuring 35 characters, over 100 weapons, 30 stat-boosting hats, and 6 levels, Zombie Estate 2 is a frantically fun experience to share with friends!

Why similar: Zombies 95.9%, Action 2.5%, Indie 1.6%

Why You'll Like It: Offers fast-paced, blocky top-down wave survival with heavy multiplayer focus and base upgrades.

“A real Gem” – Destructoid at E3 “Offers a different experience for zombie game veterans” – Co-Optimus“Has a lot more going for it than smashing brains and gory, red goo ... With a surprisingly deep crafting system” – GamesRadarYou're shipwrecked on an isolated island, a desperate castaway in a total freakshow world. How will you survive?

Why similar: Zombies 87.5%, Survival 5.7%, Co-op 2.7%, Multiplayer 1.7%, Online Co-Op 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down survival adventure emphasizing crafting, shelter building, and fending off wildlife and zombies.

'Night of the Dead' is an open-world game that combines elements of exploration, tower defense, survival, and crafting. Traverse a world dominated by zombies while collecting various resources and powerful equipment. Build a fortress to survive the hordes of zombies that swarm every night!

Why similar: Zombies 84%, Tower Defense 5.9%, Survival 4.6%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Online Co-Op 2.2%

Why You'll Like It: Blends open-world survival exploration with intense night-time tower defense against massive zombie hordes.

A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense. Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own. Order supplies, throw grenades, order airstrikes and many more... Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.

Why similar: Zombies 87.7%, Tower Defense 4.8%, Survival 2.7%, Multiplayer 1.8%, Strategy 0.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic tower defense game where you place units and use special abilities to halt zombie advances.

Can you survive the horror? … a retro-style survival horror game developed by the two-man indie team of Gonzossm and Iggy Zuk. Survive 30 days and nights in a zombie-infested world by recruiting companions, upgrading weaponry and fortifying your position.

Why similar: Zombies 91.7%, Survival 3.6%, Action 1.4%, Tower Defense 1%, Indie 0.8%

Why You'll Like It: A 2D survival platformer where you fortify your base by day and fend off undead horrors by night.

Project Zomboid is the ultimate in zombie survival. Alone or in MP: you loot, build, craft, fight, farm and fish in a struggle to survive. A hardcore RPG skillset, a vast map, massively customisable sandbox and a cute tutorial raccoon await the unwary. So how will you die? All it takes is a bite..

Why similar: Zombies 87.9%, Survival 6.5%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Co-op 2.4%, Isometric 0.4%

Why You'll Like It: Provides deep, systemic zombie survival and base-building for players looking for a more hardcore experience.

The chances of you surviving this all out war of society and the undead are slim to none. Already, there are millions of the walking dead shambling about, searching for food to eat. There's no known cure. One bite can possibly end it all for you. However, you aren't alone in this nightmare.

Why similar: Zombies 88.7%, Survival 3.5%, Multiplayer 2.5%, Co-op 2.4%, Online Co-Op 1.1%

Why You'll Like It: A hardcore, realistic cooperative survival game where resource management is key to staying alive.

Codename CURE is a first person, co-operative zombie game with support for up to five players, providing dynamic, fast-paced zombie fragging with both objective, and survival-based missions.

Why similar: Zombies 88.8%, Co-op 3.5%, Multiplayer 2.3%, Shooter 2.2%, Online Co-Op 1.7%

Why You'll Like It: A cooperative first-person zombie shooter built around tactical survival objectives.

This Co-op Shooter , has Day and Night levels, multiple maps, players will take on 25 enemy types and numerous bosses, like Gargantuan Monsters and Minibosses every 10 days as you explore, shoot and run for your life against the onslaught of porcine monstrosities.

Why similar: Co-op 22.2%, Multiplayer 21.1%, Shooter 13.2%, Online Co-Op 11.1%, Gore 9.7%

Why You'll Like It: A humorous, action-packed shooter where you defend a farm from endless waves of mutated farm animals.

Fortified is an explosive strategy shooter where players will defend the Earth against a menacing Martian invasion in the 1950s. Play as one-of-four pulp inspired heroes as they fight swarms of terrifying robots with an arsenal of Cold War era weapons and experimental technology.

Why similar: Action 53.7%, Tower Defense 20.6%, Co-op 12.1%, Multiplayer 5.8%, Strategy 2.9%

Why You'll Like It: A retro-styled strategy game blending third-person shooter mechanics with tower defense elements.

6-player co-op survival horror at its finest! Free updates, free special events and a ridiculous amount of fun!

Why similar: Zombies 85.5%, Co-op 4.2%, Survival 3.8%, Multiplayer 2.1%, Online Co-Op 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic cooperative wave-based shooter focused on holding out against terrifying biological horrors.

This is the world after a zombie apocalypse in which the main characters have to go through many perils. It is a story about ordinary people who, when faced with danger, decided not to run away from it, but to fight back. As the story goes along, you will learn what caused the disaster and help other survivors to overcome its aftermath.

Why similar: Zombies 93.5%, Co-op 3.5%, Action 1.1%, Survival 1.1%, Indie 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down action shooter featuring stylized cartoon graphics and frantic horde defense.

Fight for your life in the INDIE SCI-FI FPS game fit for both casual and hard-core gamers with a passion for hunting down hordes of zombies. Prepare yourselves for the incoming nightmare!

Why similar: Zombies 91%, Survival 2.6%, Multiplayer 1.9%, Shooter 1.3%, Action 0.9%

Why You'll Like It: A sci-fi first-person shooter featuring intense horror survival elements and hordes of infected enemies.

Co-operative top-down shooter game available for free. An epic bug hunt featuring a unique blend of co-op play and squad-level tactics.

Why similar: Co-op 58.3%, Shooter 25.9%, Top-Down 15.7%

Why You'll Like It: A top-down tactical cooperative shooter that mirrors the frantic positioning and teamwork of horde survival.

Ascend from your shelter. Ruin everything. Escape the wretched island. ⚔️🔨🎣🌱🌵🍰 Explore. Fight. Level up. Survive. Gather. Craft. Harvest. Hunt. Build. Farm. Solve puzzles. Fish. Cook. Live. Enjoy the bittersweet post-apocalypse.

Why similar: Zombies 90.8%, Survival 6.8%, Top-Down 1.1%, Action 0.8%, Indie 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: An open-world action RPG where you destroy everything to build better gear and survive a zombie-infested island.

They Are Billions is a Steampunk strategy game set on a post-apocalyptic planet. Build and defend colonies to survive against the billions of the infected that seek to annihilate the few remaining living humans. Can humanity survive after the zombie apocalypse?

Why similar: Zombies 87.7%, Survival 5.2%, Tower Defense 5.1%, Strategy 1.3%, Multiplayer 0.3%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic steampunk survival game where massive swarms of infected try to breach your heavily fortified colony.

Versus Squad is a fast action twin-stick shooter from the creator of Nation Red. Build your own sandbox defense and battle thousands of zombie mutants in top down combat! Face up to a dozen bosses. Simultaneously. Collect loot, build and repair. Play single player, on-line or local coop!

Why similar: Zombies 77.4%, Tower Defense 5.4%, Survival 4.6%, Co-op 3.7%, Multiplayer 2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced indie shooter where multiple players fight through dense crowds of hostile mutants.

Dive into the zombie apocalypse with Zombie Panic! Source: a cooperative, survival-horror first-person-shooter. A fast-paced standalone modification.

Why similar: Zombies 88.5%, Survival 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.6%, Co-op 2.2%, Online Co-Op 1%

Why You'll Like It: A classic multiplayer source mod focused on asymmetrical horror and survival against the undead.

The dead have risen and civilization has fallen. Now it's up to you to gather survivors, scavenge for resources and build a community in a post-apocalyptic world – a world where you define what it means to survive in this ultimate zombie survival simulation.

Why similar: Zombies 86.3%, Survival 6%, Co-op 2.9%, Multiplayer 2.8%, Online Co-Op 1.2%

Why You'll Like It: A deep community-building survival game centered around scavenging, fortifying bases, and managing zombie threats.

From the creators of The Last Stand: Union City and Dead Zone comes an all-new singleplayer 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.

Why similar: Zombies 92%, Survival 5.1%, Shooter 1.4%, Top-Down 0.8%, Action 0.6%

Why You'll Like It: A single-player rogue-lite action adventure exploring a post-apocalyptic world filled with infected.

A fully moddable city sandbox with jobs, NPCs, apartments, garages, gangs, and more. Broke Protocol is an open-world action game focused on roleplaying and custom content. Define your goals and identity in a persistent, reactive world where you write your own story.

Why similar: Multiplayer 47%, Shooter 27.8%, Action 11.9%, Indie 7.4%, Casual 5.8%

Thousands of aliens, giant spiders, mutant lizards, and more are on the attack - can you survive the onslaught? Crimsonland is a top-down shooter with a touch of RPG. Unlock over 30 weapons and over 50 perks from quirky to brutal. Complete the quest and show your skills in five survival modes.

Why similar: Zombies 70.2%, Survival 6%, Co-op 6%, Shooter 5.1%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: A classic, pure top-down shooter focused on maximizing firepower against overwhelming swarms of creatures.

Life on Tiny Planet was calm and carefree until a great disaster occurred - Tiny Planet was hit by a meteor! The world fell apart and now its future depends only on you! Use your imagination and creativity: in order to restore Tiny Planet and help its inhabitants you will have to fix a variety of machines and mechanisms as well as solve...

Why similar: Casual 45.6%, Indie 40.5%, Singleplayer 13.9%

Quite a different zombie game - this time YOU are the zombie! Command your infested comrades, fight your way to freedom and let the zombie kind dominate the world! Oh, and you're able to create your own scenarios!

Why similar: Zombies 88.1%, Survival 5.7%, Top-Down 1.9%, Strategy 1.3%, Action 1%

A perfect-information strategy game inspired by RTS, deckbuilders, and board games. Choose from three distinct technology classes and outwit your foes by snowballing your starting resources into a powerful cybernetic army. ABSOLUTELY NO PAY-TO-WIN.

Why similar: Multiplayer 42.4%, Strategy 38.2%, Indie 17.2%, Singleplayer 2.1%

Stories: The Path of Destinies is an Action RPG, an enchanted storybook filled with madcap fantasy tales, each told by a zippy narrator attuned to the player’s choices and actions.

Why similar: Action 50.1%, Indie 29%, Isometric 16.1%, Singleplayer 4.8%

Eador is a universe made of countless shards of land drifting in the Great Nothing. Each of the shards is a little world unto itself, with geography and denizens of its own. The power over the shards is bitterly contested by Masters, the immortal beings mortals believe to be gods.

Why similar: Strategy 95.1%, Indie 2%, Multiplayer 1.5%, Difficult 1%, Singleplayer 0.3%

4-player co-op, zombie slaying, base building, boss battling mayhem! Cleanse the infected wave by wave and upgrade your base with traps & defenses in Ultimate Zombie Defense 2!

Why similar: Zombies 93.5%, Online Co-Op 2.4%, Multiplayer 1.9%, Strategy 1.2%, Action 1%

A Story About My Uncle is a first person platforming adventure game about a boy who searches for his lost uncle, and ends up in a world he couldn’t imagine existed. The movement is a crucial part of the games core gameplay – focusing on swinging through the world with a grappling hook that gives the player a wonderful sense of speed and...

Why similar: Indie 34.9%, Action 15.9%, Multiplayer 14.8%, Casual 12.3%, Singleplayer 11.4%

Defend against hordes of zombies in this fun filled top-down shooter. Build and upgrade your base, unlock powerful guns, and take on challenging bosses with up to 4 players in online co-op. Play minigames to earn bonuses and survive the zombie apocalypse one night at a time!

Why similar: Zombies 89.3%, Co-op 2.7%, Shooter 2.7%, Top-Down 1.4%, Action 1.4%

Insane mix of cars, speed, explosions, blood and zombies! Fight through an epic narrative campaign or test yourself in the Slaughter and Blood Race modes.

Why similar: Zombies 94.8%, Isometric 1.7%, Top-Down 1.6%, Gore 1.2%, Arcade 0.6%

CS2D is a free fast-paced top-down multiplayer shooter. Featuring many different game modes, a built-in map editor and much more.

Why similar: Zombies 74.1%, Multiplayer 9.2%, Shooter 6.9%, Action 2.3%, Survival 2.1%

Choose between different factions, with their own set of expendable soldiers, mechas, and weapons. Protect your brain, mine gold, and destroy the enemy cortex in his bunker complex!

Why similar: Strategy 74.6%, Local Co-Op 6.8%, Action 6.1%, Multiplayer 4.8%, Indie 4.4%

Turbo Pug is back and better than ever! In Turbo Pug DX you'll explore a variety of beautiful, passionately crafted environments. Collect treasures, score boosters, unlock other creatures to play as. Unlock secret mini games. Create custom level skins or enjoy skins created by other players.

Why similar: Indie 93.9%, Casual 3.1%, Difficult 2.8%, Singleplayer 0.2%

7 Days to Die is an open-world game that is a unique combination of first-person shooter, survival horror, tower defense, and role-playing games. Play the definitive zombie survival sandbox RPG that came first. Navezgane awaits!

Why similar: Zombies 82.5%, Survival 6.6%, Tower Defense 4%, Multiplayer 3%, Online Co-Op 1.8%

Contagion isn't your average Zombie Shooter but instead takes a more realistic and different approach to the popular genre with unique characters, environments, weapons, items, and a built in system that makes every round completely unpredictable with resources, objectives, and paths ever changing.

Why similar: Zombies 89.9%, Survival 3.3%, Co-op 3.2%, Shooter 1.4%, Local Co-Op 0.8%

Selected by the fickle finger of fate, Abe™, floor-waxer first class for RuptureFarms, was catapulted into a life of adventure when he overheard plans by his boss, Molluck the Glukkon™, to turn Abe and his fellow Mudokons into Tasty Treats as part of a last-ditch effort to rescue Molluck's failing meat-packing empire.

Why similar: Difficult 29.6%, Action 22.4%, Gore 22.3%, Singleplayer 17.1%, Indie 8.6%

Defend your fortified barricade by night, collect weapons and conduct repairs by day. Survive long enough to make your way through America and towards rescue.

Why similar: Zombies 79%, Tower Defense 5.3%, Survival 4.5%, Co-op 3.2%, Shooter 1.4%

Murderous Pursuits is a kill-or-be-killed Victorian stealth-em-up for 1-8 players in which you must hunt and kill your quarry before your hunters do the same to you, all while avoiding witnesses.

Why similar: Action 79.5%, Multiplayer 10.8%, Strategy 4.4%, Co-op 2.8%, Indie 2.4%

Classic zombie round survival. choose a map and see how many rounds you can survive with friends or alone.

Why similar: Zombies 90.7%, Survival 3.5%, Online Co-Op 2.8%, Shooter 2.1%, Action 1%

Quilly was abducted by aliens, now, he has to fight for his freedom! Destroy cube aliens with guns, bats and inteligence... avoid traps and more. Dead Bits is a first-person shooter with original dubstep soundtrack for Windows and Mac.

Why similar: Zombies 86.5%, Shooter 3.9%, Indie 3.5%, Action 2.6%, Multiplayer 1.5%

Sanctum 2 is the sequel to the world’s first Tower Defense/FPS hybrid game. Pick from four unique character classes and embark on a mission to protect the oxygen-producing Cores from hordes of deadly aliens who are threatened by their existence.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.4%, Co-op 20.7%, Multiplayer 7.7%, Online Co-Op 5.9%, Survival 5.7%

Work together to survive the devastating Dinosaur horde in huge, endless environments.

Why similar: Co-op 29.7%, Multiplayer 27.5%, Online Co-Op 16.7%, Shooter 13%, Action 8.7%

Evolvation is a casual multiplayer and fast-paced and class based space flying shooter developed by a two-man-army (Eric and Jacob) from Amsterdam. Classes are: Highspeed, Fighter, Stealth, Support and Tank. Each class has its own special ability which provides a dynamic gameplay.

Why similar: Multiplayer 36.6%, Action 29.5%, Indie 17.3%, Casual 13.2%, Arcade 3.4%

Co-Op Hero Defense set in a deadly post-apocalyptic Sweden. Team up with your friends and protect the Missile Silo against horrific beasts and outlaws.

Why similar: Survival 26.1%, Co-op 24.1%, Tower Defense 20.4%, Multiplayer 12.2%, Action 6%

Braveland is a turn-based game inspired by old-school strategies with hexagonal battlefield. You will start as a humble warrior's son whose village was cruelly raided and will end as talented commander of your army.

Why similar: Strategy 71%, Casual 28.6%, Singleplayer 0.4%

A rogue-like river journey through the backwaters of a forgotten post-societal America. Forage, craft, evade predators.

Why similar: Survival 83.9%, Indie 5.5%, Action 4.9%, Isometric 2.2%, Difficult 1.7%

Blood, guts, meat. Humanity's waging total war against a horrific zombie apocalypse. Lead one of four of humanity's deadliest survivors against the horde in this first person, wave defense shooter. Load up your guns, set up turrets, sharpen your skills, and maybe you'll make it through the night.

Why similar: Zombies 81.4%, Survival 4.6%, Co-op 4.5%, Multiplayer 3.2%, Online Co-Op 2.7%

Defy Gravity is an action platformer that is a mix between classic platforming and gravity based puzzle solving.

Why similar: Indie 30.4%, Action 23.5%, Difficult 16.7%, Shooter 12%, Casual 9.9%

Take on a city overrun by zombies with 1 to 4 players online — co-op or PvP! Hold the line against running, leaping, spitting hordes. Fight by day, hunt in the dark of night. Tear off limbs and unlock cosmetics with every kill. Stand together... or hunt each other down.

Why similar: Zombies 86.3%, Survival 3.7%, Co-op 3.5%, Online Co-Op 2.1%, Multiplayer 1.9%

No More Room in Hell 2 is an intense 8 player zombie shooter. Overcome the endless undead. Avoid infection. Survive hell together.

Why similar: Zombies 84.1%, Survival 3.9%, Co-op 3.6%, Multiplayer 3%, Online Co-Op 2.1%