Games Like Zombie Night Terror

A campy, crazy pixelart zombie apocalypse arcade sim where you're the bad guy. Drop your virus and spread it across the globe while you unlock a whole horde of bizarre undead to do your bidding.

Why similar: Zombies 45.9%, Villain Protagonist 20.7% ★, Strategy 11.5%, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Indie 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: This game shares the core premise of managing a global zombie outbreak with a focus on strategic chaos and dark humor.

CARRION is a reverse horror game in which you assume the role of an amorphous creature of unknown origins, stalking and consuming those that imprisoned you.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 41.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Gore 12.6%, Horror 9.3%, Blood 6.4% ★

Why You'll Like It: Like Zombie Night Terror, this game flips the script by letting you play as the monster, focusing on stealth and destruction in a 2D environment.

Be the Zombie. Kick A** and Take Brains.

Why similar: Lemmings 34.6% ★, Zombies 32%, Villain Protagonist 21.9% ★, Gore 6.7%, Action 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: It is a classic villain-protagonist experience where you play as a zombie leading an undead uprising against humanity.

Become a necromancer and raise the dead - Undead Horde is a necromantic action game with elements from RPG, strategy and hack'n'slash. Maraud through the lands of the living, raze their villages and steal their treasures. Ultimately you'll take over the whole kingdom of the living!

Why similar: Zombies 45.2%, Villain Protagonist 44% ★, Action 4.7%, Indie 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.3%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on necromancy and controlling a growing army of minions to conquer the living, mirroring the horde-management mechanics of the seed game.

Swarm the City: Zombie Evolved is a villain protagonist real-time strategy game. You will play as the King of the Dead and rule the world once again by creating zombie legions and destroying human cities. As the King of the Dead, you can infect humans, turn them into zombies and rule the world!

Why similar: Lemmings 43.2% ★, Zombies 25%, Villain Protagonist 18.7% ★, Strategy 5.7%, Horror 3.7%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a similar RTS-style approach to managing a zombie swarm and expanding your influence across a city.

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 34.4%, Villain Protagonist 32.1% ★, Strategy 10.2%, Puzzle 9.6%, Action 3.4%

Why You'll Like It: This title puts you directly in control of zombies in a puzzle-stealth setting, requiring careful planning to infect humans without being destroyed.

DEADBOLT is an extremely challenging stealth-action hybrid that allows you to take control of the reaper to quell the recent undead uprising.

Why similar: Zombies 22.1%, Pixel Graphics 20%, Great Soundtrack 12.3%, Gore 10.2%, Blood 7.5% ★

Why You'll Like It: This 2D tactical game features a dark, pixelated aesthetic and requires careful planning to eliminate targets, much like the strategic puzzles in the seed game.

It's 3:00 a.m. Your neighbours are having a loud party. Stop them. Party Hard is tinyBuild's award-winning stealth strategy game about ruining parties by any means.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 33% ★, Pixel Graphics 18.8%, Strategy 13.9%, Gore 9.7%, Great Soundtrack 6.1%

Why You'll Like It: This game focuses on strategic crowd manipulation and stealth, requiring you to navigate environments to achieve your goals without getting caught.

Control a car full of jerks as they explore cities, recruit weird people, rescue dogs, argue with each other, and face gigantic swarms of slow zombies. Randomly generated for a new story and rare events every time you play!

Why similar: Zombies 62.6%, Pixel Graphics 16.3%, Great Soundtrack 5%, Action 3.8%, Comedy 3.3%

Why You'll Like It: It features a chaotic, humorous take on the zombie apocalypse with a strong emphasis on survival and decision-making.

Humanity is enslaved by an AI… which is awesome, because we’re on the right side of the conflict. Exploit puny humans to extract power and build your own empire!

Why similar: Strategy 27.8%, Villain Protagonist 23.6% ★, Pixel Graphics 23.1%, Indie 8.1%, 2D 7%

Why You'll Like It: This game captures the dark humor and management-heavy gameplay of controlling a population, albeit in a dystopian sci-fi setting.

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 68.3%, Strategy 14.1%, Great Soundtrack 4.6%, Puzzle 3.7%, Comedy 2.8%

Why You'll Like It: As a foundational zombie strategy game, it provides the same addictive tactical defense and offense loops that define the genre.

Gather coins, build defenses and reclaim your fallen Kingdom. Explore and uncover secrets, unlock new technologies and protect your crown versus waves of Greed monsters that come at night. Kingdom is a solo or co-op micro-strategy and tower defense game set in an atmospheric pixel world.

Why similar: Strategy 46.7%, Pixel Graphics 39.2%, Survival 8.3%, Singleplayer 5.8%

Why You'll Like It: While not about zombies, its side-scrolling strategy and management mechanics provide a similar feel to the lane-based tactical gameplay of the seed game.

Travel by train through a dying world. Look after your passengers, keep your train operational, and make sure you can always reach the next station. Make your way through swarms of infected at each station. Explore mysterious and abandoned stations looking for supplies and survivors.

Why similar: Zombies 49.2%, Pixel Graphics 22%, Horror 6.4%, Indie 5%, 2D 4.6%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D pixel-art game captures the bleak, post-apocalyptic atmosphere of a zombie world with a focus on resource management.

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 56.6%, Strategy 14.9%, Pixel Graphics 10.1%, Action 6.5%, Indie 6.3%

Why You'll Like It: A pixel-art zombie roguelite that emphasizes managing a group of survivors and using special abilities to clear levels.

Start your own cult in a land of false prophets, venturing out into diverse and mysterious regions to build a loyal community of woodland Followers and spread your Word to become the one true cult.

Why similar: Strategy 45.9%, Action 20.1%, 2D 18.1%, Singleplayer 9.6%, Funny 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: It blends management and dark humor, tasking you with building a cult of followers while engaging in action-oriented combat.

War for the Overworld is an unholy union of Dungeon Management and Strategy that rewards all those villainous thoughts you’ve been having. Craft your own perilous dungeon and defend it against pesky heroes who keep exploring it and taking your stuff.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 63.2% ★, Strategy 23.6%, Comedy 8.1%, Singleplayer 2.6%, Funny 2.5%

Why You'll Like It: This is a spiritual successor to dungeon-management games that puts you in the role of an evil overlord building a base and commanding minions.

"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 59.1%, Strategy 15.2%, Pixel Graphics 11.6%, Indie 3.9%, Gore 3.6%

Why You'll Like It: This title shifts the focus to survival strategy while maintaining the core theme of managing a zombie-infested world.

Build and manage a medieval graveyard while facing ethical dilemmas and making questionable decisions. Welcome to Graveyard Keeper, the most inaccurate medieval cemetery sim of the year.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 66.5%, Gore 11.9%, Indie 11.1%, 2D 6.4%, Singleplayer 4.2%

Why You'll Like It: It offers a dark, humorous take on management games, focusing on the macabre side of life and death.

Pick your faction, Monster, strategy, and find out who gets to become King of the Undead!

Why similar: Zombies 55.2%, Strategy 27.4%, Action 9.7%, Indie 7.7%

Why You'll Like It: This RTS game allows you to control squads of zombies to destroy human settlements, directly mirroring the seed game's objectives.

Rescue hostages, disarm bombs and save the day in this old school, side-scroller action game with retro graphics and retro sensibilities. Online and Couch Coop Included.

Why similar: Zombies 59.8%, Pixel Graphics 19.7%, Action 6.6%, 2D 5%, Indie 4.3%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D tactical action game requires careful planning and execution, similar to the strategic movement required in the seed game.

Bad guys have all the fun. Discover your dark side as you build an evil underground kingdom and defend it against the forces of good.

Why similar: Strategy 51.8%, Villain Protagonist 36.9% ★, Action 7.4%, Singleplayer 3.9%

Why You'll Like It: The quintessential villain-protagonist strategy game where you build a dungeon and command creatures to defeat heroes.

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 96.2%, Strategy 1.1%, Horror 0.7%, Action 0.6%, Survival 0.5%

Why You'll Like It: It provides a simple, addictive loop of building defenses and managing resources against waves of zombies.

Raw, aggressive hunger - there's nothing like being a Zombie when you want to do some damage! Now you can control your own horde of zombies! Mayhem has never tasted so good . . .

Why similar: Zombies 71.5%, Strategy 22.4%, Indie 6.2%

Why You'll Like It: A strategy game that focuses on the management of a zombie horde to overwhelm human defenses.

A hilariously terrifying adventure filled with laughs, blood, insanity, and of course... hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Zombies 52.4%, Gore 14.2%, Horror 7.6%, Blood 7% ★, Indie 4.9%

Why You'll Like It: A point-and-click adventure game that leans heavily into the dark humor and gore associated with the zombie genre.

You’ve tossed, burned and sliced them by the thousands – now orcs must die more than ever before! Grab a friend and slay orcs in untold numbers in this sequel to the 2011 AIAS Strategy Game of the Year from Robot Entertainment.

Why similar: Strategy 48%, Action 20.7%, Comedy 11.4%, Indie 9.4%, Great Soundtrack 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: It focuses on strategic defense against hordes of enemies, providing a satisfying sense of control over the battlefield.

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 70.8%, Pixel Graphics 13%, Action 5.4%, Indie 4.1%, 2D 2.4%

Why You'll Like It: This 2D side-scrolling shooter captures the retro pixel-art aesthetic and zombie-slaying action of the seed game.

Person of European Heritage #112: Welcome to Relocation Block B, your new home. Your designated role is 'Bouncer'. Work hard, stay out of trouble, and we might let you stay in the UK.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 62.8%, Great Soundtrack 13.7%, Indie 8.3%, 2D 6.9%, Singleplayer 3%

Why You'll Like It: This management-strategy game features a dark, satirical tone and requires quick decision-making under pressure.

Sheltered is a deep and emotional survival management game. You take on the role of protecting four family members who, after a global apocalypse, have found their way to a deserted shelter.

Why similar: Pixel Graphics 30.7%, Strategy 29.5%, Survival 11%, Zombies 10.6%, Indie 5.3%

Why You'll Like It: This survival management game requires you to make difficult decisions to keep your group alive in a post-apocalyptic wasteland.

Only the world’s most ruthless Warden can contain the world’s most ruthless inmates. Design and develop your personalized penitentiary in Prison Architect.

Why similar: Strategy 63.4%, 2D 17.5%, Indie 10%, Singleplayer 4.7%, Funny 4.4%

Why You'll Like It: While a different theme, its deep management and construction mechanics appeal to fans of the strategic planning found in the seed game.

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

Why similar: Zombies 73.3%, Strategy 19.3%, Action 7.4%

Why You'll Like It: A tactical strategy game that tasks you with surviving a zombie outbreak through careful movement and resource usage.

They are coming! Ravenous, insatiable, and absolutely unstoppable zombies, a Wunderwaffe that went horribly wrong. It’s up to you to usher in the age of the zombie, by munching on every brain in sight! Build up a horde, dodge enemy weapons, and gnaw a mark on human history!

Why similar: Zombies 47%, Villain Protagonist 26% ★, Blood 10.9% ★, Strategy 8.7%, Action 4.8%

Face massive zombie swarms in this funny post-apocalyptic tactical sandbox! Do you know what it's like to be surrounded by 100,000 zombies? Well, you're about to find out!

Why similar: Zombies 53.8%, Strategy 27.7%, Action 9%, Indie 7%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 67.2%, Action 8.9%, Indie 7%, Horror 6.1%, Gore 3.5%

Zombie Kill of the Week - Reborn is a challenging, fast paced, 2D survival shooter! Featuring a compelling single player survival mode and cooperative multiplayer for up-to four players, this is one zombie firefight you're not going to want to miss!

Why similar: Zombies 70.8%, Pixel Graphics 9.2%, Action 8.5%, Indie 5.3%, 2D 4.9%

Just choose a character to the liking, get experience to develop skills, earn money and spend it at weapons, medications and useful devices. All of this will be used against thousands of enemies. The zombies fill the game screen, never letting you rest, even for a minute.

Why similar: Zombies 75.4%, Gore 11.3%, Action 7.7%, Indie 5%, Singleplayer 0.5%

The human race is in danger again. This time scientists could not cope the imminent threat and became monsters themselves. Crowds of zombie people filled the secret research base. The dreadful contagion is about to spread earth wide. Use the last chance to save the humanity from total annihilation!

Why similar: Zombies 54.2%, Gore 12.5%, Blood 11.5% ★, Horror 9.7%, Action 4.7%

It's 3am and you just want to get some sleep. Welcome back to Party Hard! Stop parties using hundreds of new ways, incidentally destroy a drug syndicate, and save the Earth from an alien invasion. May the chickens be with you!

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 27% ★, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Strategy 17.7%, Great Soundtrack 8.7%, Gore 7.8%

Control the Powers of Evil to crush the Good Guys! Take control of the revived God of War Raelius, recruit evil minions, build bastions of doom and command your groveling servants.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 36% ★, Gore 27.6%, Strategy 24.9%, Indie 8.4%, Comedy 3.1%

Flesh Eaters is retro style single player RTS zombie survival game with resource gathering and crafting. Zombies are everywhere! You must gather resources to build barricades, upgrade weapons and armour and explore the city under the siege of the dead

Why similar: Zombies 69.4%, Indie 15.3%, Action 8.2%, Pixel Graphics 4.6%, Survival 1.4%

Sea Salt is a dark fantasy reverse horror action-strategy game where you play as the nightmarish force of Dagon by controlling and growing a horde of minions.

Why similar: Villain Protagonist 30.2% ★, Strategy 18%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, Horror 11.5%, Gore 8.7%

Your village must survive for 13 days! Gather resources, expand, explore the underground for riches, and train soldiers to defend against hordes of the undead.

Why similar: Zombies 57.3%, Strategy 22.5%, Pixel Graphics 6.7%, 2D 5.1%, Survival 3.7%

A Huge Wave of Zombies Are Coming! Control hundreds of swarming zombies to conquer the entire city!

Why similar: Zombies 67.2%, Action 13.5%, Gore 11.4%, Survival 3.9%, Indie 3.1%

OMG! Alert! Alert! The City of Redfield has been hit by an outbreak of exploding zombies! For cool and unimportant reasons these suckers literally explode when shot, showering their zombie brethren with gore and causing chain reactions of showering zombie gibs with just a single bullet!

Why similar: Zombies 36.2%, Horror 13.3%, Strategy 12.8%, Puzzle 11.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%

Kill all the damn zombies in different game modes!

Why similar: Zombies 41.7%, Gore 19.2%, Strategy 17.3%, Action 7.4%, Blood 7.3% ★

Arcade-style physics puzzle game where you kill undead & keep villagers alive. Level challenges offer a variety of weapons with their own physical properties. Choose the right weapon and solve puzzles by exploding crates, magnetizing metal, burning, slicing, dicing and bouncing your balls to victory

Why similar: Zombies 45.9%, Puzzle 17.2%, Horror 8%, Strategy 7.1%, Action 6.1%

Post soviet zombies - is an action shooter with a top view, in which you have to get out of the virus infected post-Soviet city for one of the four unique characters. On the way you will meet a variety of zombies, military, marauders and people who need your help in 1993.

Why similar: Zombies 52.7%, Pixel Graphics 11.1%, Gore 10%, Action 7.5%, Indie 6.4%

"Zombie Party" is an anti-superhero-themed strategy game. You need to play the role of a chaotic ability user GRAVEDIGGER, and use your super power to summon the zombie army to destroy the land that is governed by the government and the PARLIAMENT OF FIVE, The established order of power.

Why similar: Zombies 64.2%, Pixel Graphics 17.4%, Strategy 15.4%, 2D 3%

Use necromancy to smash villages, scare townsfolk, and generally cause a ruckus.

Why similar: Zombies 39.1%, Villain Protagonist 35.4% ★, Pixel Graphics 9.3%, Horror 7.9%, 2D 3%

Organ Trail is a retro zombie survival game. Travel westward in a station wagon with 4 of your friends, scavenging for supplies and fending off the undead. Members of your party might die of dysentery or you might have to put them down yourself when they get bit.

Why similar: Zombies 65.7%, Strategy 10.4%, Pixel Graphics 9%, Indie 4.1%, Retro 1.9%

(Multiplayer | COOP) THE FOREST IS DEAD. YOU ARE NOT. Survive. Build. Kill everyone. A world where zombies are smarter than they look. Inventory, crafting, and building are your tools in the war for tomorrow.

Why similar: Zombies 81.8%, Action 7.8%, 2D 5%, Survival 3.8%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Blackout Z' is a super fast top-down view shooter where you face ZOMBIES, SAWS and the DARK. Do you have what it takes to have what it takes to survive the zombie apocalypse with only your gun and an old flashlight?

Why similar: Zombies 46.6%, Pixel Graphics 11.5%, Horror 9.7%, Action 9.5%, Gore 9.2%

Become the villain and raise an army of undead in this real-time reverse tower defense strategy game. Send waves of monsters to battle and aid them with your evil magic until they break your enemies’ defenses. It’s time for you to rule over the continent with an iron fist as its Dark Lord!

Why similar: Strategy 39.7%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, Action 12.1%, 2D 11.3%, Indie 9.5%

A necromancer simulator. Assemble the dead using different body parts while upgrading your tower, combine the abilities of the different fantastic races to fight your way through the hordes of enemies and overrun the ’chosen ones’. To tell the truth, the dead are pretty, uhm, dumb.

Why similar: Zombies 63.9%, Strategy 15.3%, Pixel Graphics 14.6%, 2D 4.6%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Trapped in a buried, forgotten facility, you must reach the core of an ancient machine to rescue your lost lover. System Purge is a challenging, atmospheric 2D platformer.

Why similar: Zombies 45.4%, Horror 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 12.1%, Gore 9.2%, Action 4.8%

Play as the zombies! Infect and Destroy is an indie game in which you play as an infectious disease with the sole purpose of eliminating everyone on Earth. Play as an ultra-intelligent self-aware virus capable of reanimating the dead and turning them into your minions.

Why similar: Zombies 56%, Strategy 24.8%, Action 9.6%, Indie 8%, Survival 1.6%

Envy the Dead is zombie survival roguelike, in which you are leading group of unique, randomly generated characters through destroyed lands, infested with zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 66%, Strategy 19.7%, Horror 8.2%, Indie 3%, Survival 2.1%

Nearly Dead is a 2D open world survival game. It's a game about survivors who try to remain alive in a situation where demons from a different dimension have turned most humans into zombies.

Why similar: Zombies 46.5%, Strategy 25.9%, Action 9.7%, Indie 9.4%, Pixel Graphics 4%