Games Like 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 41%, Tower Defense 29.5%, Survival 8.4%, Multiplayer 7.3%, Strategy 5.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar top-down perspective and intense focus on building defensive structures to survive endless zombie waves.

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 44%, Tower Defense 26.1%, Survival 7.9%, Multiplayer 6%, Action 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game mirrors the squad-based survival and tower defense hybrid mechanics found in the seed game.

The zombie apocalypse is upon us and it's up to you to evacuate everyone before they fall prey to the undead. Conduct massive rescue operations with a helping hand from snipers, artillery crews, orbital bombardments, and more.

Why similar: Zombies 38.7%, Tower Defense 31.2%, RTS 8.6%, Multiplayer 6.7%, Strategy 5.9%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a deep tactical experience where you must manage units and rescue civilians from zombie outbreaks using real-time strategy controls.

"Infectonator : Survivors" is a Randomized Permadeath Survival Simulator that combines RTS, Tower Defense, Roguelike, and Management-Simulation gameplay. The goal is to lead a group of survivors in a struggle to stay alive and find rescue in a zombie apocalyptic world.

Why similar: Zombies 49%, Tower Defense 23.4%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 8.1%, Action 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title combines strategy and survival elements, requiring you to manage a group of survivors while navigating a zombie-infested world.

Command a team of 5 elite soldiers against an alien horde of 100,000. Surrounded on all sides, you must outmaneuver and outsmart the enemy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 55%, Strategy 17.4%, RTS 14.7%, Action 5.2%, Top-Down 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: This tactical RTS features small squads fighting against massive, overwhelming alien hordes, capturing the same frantic defensive feel.

In a near future, the world has been devastated by a virus turning humanity into zombies. You are Iron Corps, the last defense of civilization traveling the world to find resources, help people and find answers. Will you survive long enough?

Why similar: Zombies 46.9%, Tower Defense 35.5%, Strategy 11.8%, Action 3.9%, Indie 2%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on tactical unit deployment and managing resources to defend specific zones from zombie incursions.

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 41.3%, Tower Defense 27.1%, Survival 12.9%, RTS 9.7%, Strategy 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A high-stakes RTS that requires careful base building and defensive wall placement to survive massive, encroaching zombie swarms.

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 40.9%, Tower Defense 27.2%, Survival 11.3%, Multiplayer 7.8%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This game blends action and base-building, allowing for the same type of defensive fortification and combat management.

Zombies are invading your home, and the only defense is your arsenal of plants! Armed with an alien nursery-worth of zombie-zapping plants like peashooters and cherry bombs, you'll need to think fast and plant faster to stop dozens of types of zombies dead in their tracks.

Why similar: Zombies 45.7%, Tower Defense 41.7%, Strategy 6.1%, Survival 3.6%, Casual 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: The definitive tower defense experience that shares the core strategic loop of placing units to stop waves of zombies.

Survivor Squad is a Strategy Action game where you control a Squad of up to four survivors and guide them through a highly randomized world looking for supplies to aid you on your journey.

Why similar: Zombies 59.2%, Survival 14.2%, Strategy 10.8%, Multiplayer 6.3%, Action 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It emphasizes squad management and tactical movement, forcing you to make quick decisions to keep your team alive.

Deadly Days is a unique strategic rogue-lite in the zombie apocalypse. Manage and protect a group of survivors and help them to stop the catastrophe. Discover and use a large number of wild and crazy objects, even wilder and crazier survivors, special abilities, and deadly weapons.

Why similar: Zombies 63.9%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 10.7%, Action 5.8%, Casual 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic roguelite that tasks you with managing a group of survivors and their abilities to fend off zombie hordes.

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 37.6%, Tower Defense 28.6%, Survival 11.3%, Strategy 6.5%, Horror 3.5%

Why You'll Like It: A focused defensive strategy game where you manage ammunition and barricades to protect your position from nightly zombie attacks.

Zombie Tower Defense: Join the ongoing war, in an open world, against the undead zombie horde. Choose between multiple powerful heroes all with unique epic gear and skills! With the wide variety of towers you can create your own perfect strategy.

Why similar: Tower Defense 48%, Zombies 42.5%, Strategy 6.3%, Top-Down 1.8%, Indie 1.5%

Why You'll Like It: A straightforward tower defense experience that emphasizes strategic placement and ability usage to survive zombie waves.

Zombo Buster Advance is a tower defense game taking place inside buildings with interchangeable elevators. Deploy, swap and shoot like a boss!

Why similar: Zombies 38.4%, Tower Defense 34.1%, Survival 8.6%, RTS 8.3%, Strategy 7.6%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic tower defense game that focuses on positioning units to effectively counter different types of zombie threats.

In this tug-of-war, casual defense game， you play Leonidas who is the hero-king of Sparta, against hordes of attacking zombies in Thermopylae. Recruit allies and build defenses to stop them!

Why similar: Tower Defense 43.5%, Zombies 36.8%, Strategy 10.6%, Casual 4.1%, Indie 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A simple yet effective strategy game that tasks you with holding a line against waves of zombies using specialized units.

Age of Darkness: Final Stand is a dark fantasy survival RTS where you must illuminate, build and defend humanity’s last bastion against hordes of Nightmares. Set in the remnants of a kingdom consumed by a deadly fog, you decide. Will you hide in the light? Or take back your world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 47.4%, Survival 15.7%, RTS 13.8%, Multiplayer 10.4%, Strategy 9.5%

Why You'll Like It: A survival RTS that challenges you to build defenses and manage units against thousands of enemies simultaneously.

CREEPS CRUMBLE. HEROES RISE. Command a team of renegade heroes and impale, slash, tear and burn through legions of undead hell-bent on world domination. Your mission: to defeat the world’s most powerful vampire, Count Necrosis.

Why similar: Tower Defense 65%, Zombies 16.2%, Strategy 7.6%, Multiplayer 4.6%, Action 3%

Why You'll Like It: It adds an RPG layer to the tower defense genre, allowing for tactical unit upgrades and ability management.

Shoot zombies from terrace like a boss! Zombo Buster Rising Remastered brings you a nostalgic experience of classic 2D side shooting-defense in enhanced build right from your Steam library!

Why similar: Zombies 43%, Tower Defense 39.7%, Action 8.4%, Shooter 4.6%, Indie 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: A fast-paced action-tower defense game that requires quick thinking to manage your defensive line.

If you like tower defense games , this game is for you ! A game is classic addictive tower defense / defense TD, style game and a lot of features. You can build towers, you can use abilities(bombs and soldiers) and you can use hero!

Why similar: Tower Defense 40.5%, Zombies 32.2%, Strategy 17.9%, Casual 5.5%, Indie 4%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a classic strategy experience centered on tower defense and unit management against zombie threats.

“METAL SLUG”, the pinnacle of 2D action-shooting on NEOGEO returns in a brand new strategy game on Steam!

Why similar: Tower Defense 61.3%, Multiplayer 17.9%, Strategy 9.2%, Action 9.1%, Shooter 2.1%

Why You'll Like It: This title uses tower defense mechanics to manage unit deployment in a fast-paced, action-oriented environment.

From the Command & Conquer veterans at Petroglyph comes the first ever survival RTS set in the savage world of Conan the Barbarian. Play solo or team up in multiplayer in Conan Unconquered’s action-packed co-op Mode where you build a shared stronghold and fend off the hordes together.

Why similar: Tower Defense 32.5%, Strategy 22.5%, RTS 18.6%, Multiplayer 12.7%, Survival 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: This RTS-tower defense hybrid requires you to build fortifications and manage troops to survive waves of increasingly difficult enemies.

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 73.1%, Strategy 11.8%, Multiplayer 9.4%, Action 5.7%

Why You'll Like It: A modern iteration of the survival-tower defense hybrid, focusing on cooperative play and base fortification.

YORG.io is a game with an original twist on supply chains and zombies. Your goal is to build a base which survives the night which is when zombies attack. Build and upgrade defensive towers to protect your base and try to survive as long as possible.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.1%, Zombies 35.2%, Strategy 12.7%, Casual 3.2%, Indie 2.7%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on building efficient defensive networks to protect your supply lines from incoming waves.

Get ready for the ULTIMATE tower defense onslaught. Build, deploy, research and upgrade your defenses in this epic, old school RTS inspired sci-fi adventure.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.7%, Zombies 32.9%, Survival 13.6%, Strategy 7.7%, Action 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: A high-quality tower defense game that emphasizes tactical unit placement and survival against overwhelming odds.

Defend, Attack, Survive! Build up your base and defeat the zombies with this unique combination of tower defense, base building and supply chain management. Now with multiplayer, mods and loads of new content!

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.6%, Zombies 28.7%, Multiplayer 10.6%, Strategy 9.2%, RTS 8.7%

Why You'll Like It: A strategic tower defense game that requires careful resource management and base expansion to survive.

Rebuild a ruined city in this post-apocalyptic mix of strategy and simulation. Manage survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, deal with rival gangs, illness, interpersonal strife and zombie attacks.

Why similar: Zombies 66%, Survival 22.4%, Strategy 11.6%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a deeper strategic layer by combining base management and tactical defense in a post-apocalyptic setting.

Kingdoms vs Zombies is a blend of strategy, tower defense, and roguelike gameplay, where you must defend your kingdom against endless hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 38.2%, Zombies 29.1%, Strategy 14.6%, RTS 6.6%, Action 6.2%

Darkness is coming. How long can YOU survive? Build your base by day, defend it by night. Play in online or local co-op. Stay alive as long as you can.

Why similar: Zombies 87.7%, Tower Defense 4.8%, Survival 2.7%, Multiplayer 1.9%, Strategy 0.7%

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 63.3%, Multiplayer 13.4%, Survival 8.8%, Shooter 3.9%, Action 3%

Survive zombie apocalypse! Plunder resources for survival!

Why similar: Zombies 56.3%, Strategy 22.9%, RTS 18%, Indie 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: This game offers a unique RTS perspective on the zombie genre, focusing on tactical management and defense.

"Defence to death" - game in genre "Tower Defence". Defend Your castle from monster! Show Your's strength and wisdom.

Why similar: Tower Defense 37.9%, Zombies 34.5%, Survival 9%, Strategy 8.2%, RTS 6.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game that requires careful planning and unit placement to survive waves of enemies.

Command soldiers, survive zombie waves! A light strategy game mixing turn-based & real-time strategy, bullet hell, and backpack-like mechanics. Fit troops into limited backpack slots, build max firepower, challenge difficulty levels, and defend the last beach. Perfect for tower defense & fans.

Why similar: Tower Defense 46.8%, Zombies 36.6%, Strategy 10.1%, Casual 3.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

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

Why similar: Zombies 63%, Multiplayer 11.8%, Survival 11.1%, Horror 4.2%, Action 3.4%

An endless Tower Defense game of epic heroes vs evil zombies. Unlock and upgrade countless Heroes, artifacts, and technologies to defend against the infinite zombie swarms. Strategize the most effective placement of Heroes to synergize their skills and abilities.

Why similar: Zombies 47.6%, Tower Defense 40.3%, Strategy 8.3%, Top-Down 2%, Casual 1.8%

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 34.6%, Multiplayer 27.1%, Shooter 13.8%, Action 7.7%, Survival 5.2%

Blending horror survival/ Building and tower defence elements Damned Nation gives the player more ways to experience the post apocalypse the ever before.

Why similar: Zombies 42.2%, Tower Defense 24.3%, Survival 12.6%, Strategy 9.7%, Action 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: It blends action and strategy elements, tasking players with defending their position in a hostile, zombie-filled world.

iBomber Defense combines classic tower defense gameplay with intense action and strategy. Keep enemies at bay all over the world using a variety of weapons and tactics, from rattling Machine guns, explosive cannons and awesome anti-aircraft artillery!

Why similar: Tower Defense 78.8%, Strategy 16.4%, Indie 3.3%, Casual 1.5%

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 37.1%, Tower Defense 29.4%, Survival 11.8%, Multiplayer 6.1%, Action 4.2%

Warstone is a Tower Defense game, with RPG, Strategy, and even city building elements. Detailed Hi-res graphics and beautiful illustrations combine with a deep storyline to draw you into the world.

Why similar: Tower Defense 68.6%, Strategy 13.2%, Multiplayer 7.2%, RTS 5.6%, Co-op 2.8%

Stunning detail of levels, in-depth gameplay, finely tuned balance of all levels and turrets. During the game you will hold your defense with your turrets against the massive hordes of enemies.

Why similar: Tower Defense 78.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Indie 3.8%

They Are Coming is a hybrid game that combines roguelike, tower defense, and base building in a side-scrolling shooter format. It offers a straightforward gaming experience for pure enjoyment.

Why similar: Zombies 39.2%, Tower Defense 33.1%, Survival 11.8%, Strategy 6.3%, Shooter 4.4%

City Defense Z combines base-building and base defense in a roguelite progression loop. Build by day, defend by night, and face a growing zombie threat. Every defeat unlocks permanent upgrades, helping you rebuild smarter and push further each time. See how many days you can last.

Why similar: Zombies 40.2%, Tower Defense 32.3%, Survival 12.4%, Strategy 6.6%, Action 3.1%

Zero Zone 2020 is a classic Tower defense game where you will need to defend a home base from swarms of enemies

Why similar: Tower Defense 76.6%, Strategy 15.9%, Action 7.5%

Build your defense base to fight back the undead hordes of Mars and secure the future of the red planet. MarZ is a game of strategy and tactical defense where you must carefully manage your crew and resources as you try to uncover the terrible secrets of the undead.

Why similar: Tower Defense 41.4%, Zombies 37.5%, RTS 9.9%, Strategy 9.1%, Indie 1.6%

Grab a weapon, demolish your enemies, level up, become more powerful, let the gore flow, let the limbs fly. BrainBread 2 introduces a zombie fps mixed with RPG / Arcade elements, the game is very action-packed and generally fast-paced.

Why similar: Zombies 59.1%, Multiplayer 14.2%, Survival 13.5%, Shooter 3.3%, Horror 3.1%

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 77.4%, Survival 8.4%, Action 4.6%, Multiplayer 4%, Indie 1.7%

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 71.3%, Multiplayer 11.7%, Shooter 7.5%, Co-op 4%, Action 4%

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 66.3%, Survival 19.2%, Top-Down 3.8%, Action 3.5%, Indie 2.6%

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 40.9%, Tower Defense 22.5%, Survival 17.4%, Multiplayer 9.5%, Strategy 4.6%

Tower Wars combines elements of tower defense, RTS, and all-out multi-player mayhem to bring you a completely unique experience, delivered with a fun and funny not-so-old world style!

Why similar: Tower Defense 76.2%, Strategy 9.7%, Multiplayer 9%, Co-op 1.9%, Indie 1.5%

You and up to three friends fight to survive the Zombie outbreak in this game inspired by early '80s horror films!

Why similar: Zombies 79%, Strategy 13.4%, Action 6.4%, Co-op 1.3%

Z Rush is an exciting strategic 3D game where your task is to place zombies in such a way that they can destroy all the turrets on the level.

Why similar: Zombies 62.7%, RTS 20.3%, Strategy 11.8%, Indie 3.7%, Singleplayer 1.6%

"Arms Evolution: ZOMBIE DESTROYER" is a unique Roguelite tower defense game. You will slaughter thousands of zombies in the game and enhance your weapon towers through build character in the RPG way. and , the game also offers an idle mode, so you can enjoy building weapons anytime and anywhere.

Why similar: Tower Defense 41.8%, Zombies 37.4%, Survival 8.6%, Strategy 7%, Casual 2.4%

Battle friends over air, land and sea in this epic WW2-themed battle strategy game.

Why similar: Tower Defense 35.6%, Strategy 30.4%, Multiplayer 22.7%, Action 4.3%, Casual 2.5%

Upgrade your Castle and Unlock new tiers of Skills and Weapons to Defend vs Monsters and Bosses across VARIOUS ZONES! Find Rare ITEMS dropped from monsters and bosses and upgrade them to their full potential! Defeat RAID Mega-Bosses to find LEGENDARY items!

Why similar: Tower Defense 79%, Strategy 10.2%, Casual 6.3%, Indie 3.6%, Singleplayer 1%

Dungeon Defenders II is a cooperative Action Tower Defense game packed with roleplaying elements like loot, leveling, and pets.

Why similar: Tower Defense 57.4%, Multiplayer 23.5%, Survival 17.2%, Singleplayer 2%

Firebase Defence is a new spin on the traditional tower defence gameplay. You have to defend yourself from the waves upon waves of incoming enemies. You are free to build, place and manage your available resources and units in any way you want. But failing to balance those will result in defeat!

Why similar: Tower Defense 59.7%, Strategy 16.6%, RTS 8.3%, Action 8%, Indie 3.9%

An endless Tower Defense game of epic Monsters vs evil War Machines. Unlock and upgrade tons of unique elemental Monsters (Water, Air, Earth, and Fire) to defend your home from an infinite swarm of robots. Strategize the most effective placement of Monsters to synergize their elemental abilities.

Why similar: Tower Defense 79.3%, Strategy 16.8%, Casual 3.4%, Singleplayer 0.5%

Defense Grid: The Awakening is a unique spin on tower defense gameplay that will appeal to players of all skill levels. A horde of enemies is invading, and it's up to the player to stop them by strategically building fortification towers around their base.

Why similar: Tower Defense 87.8%, Strategy 9.6%, Indie 1.5%, Singleplayer 1.2%