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 46.5%, Villain Protagonist 20.7% ★, Strategy 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 8.6%, Indie 3.8%

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 42.6% ★, Gore 18.2%, Pixel Graphics 12.9%, Horror 9.2%, Puzzle 5.1%

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 37.2% ★, Zombies 34.3%, Villain Protagonist 23.4% ★, Action 2.6%, Funny 1%

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

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 34.6%, Villain Protagonist 32.2% ★, Strategy 10.1%, 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.

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 43.4% ★, Zombies 25%, Villain Protagonist 18.7% ★, Strategy 5.6%, 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.

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 45.5%, Villain Protagonist 43.8% ★, Action 4.7%, Indie 3.7%, 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.

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 22.6%, Pixel Graphics 20.2%, Gore 16.4%, Great Soundtrack 12.9%, Action 5.8%

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.

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 62.8%, Pixel Graphics 16%, Great Soundtrack 5.1%, 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.

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 32.3% ★, Pixel Graphics 18.1%, Strategy 13.3%, Gore 12.5%, 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.

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 27.7%, Villain Protagonist 23.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 22.8%, Indie 8%, 2D 6.9%

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 13.9%, Great Soundtrack 4.8%, 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%, Pixel Graphics 39.5%, Survival 8.9%, Singleplayer 5.6%

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.

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 70.3% ★, Strategy 24.4%, Funny 2.7%, Singleplayer 2.6%

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.

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 57.2%, Strategy 14.6%, Pixel Graphics 9.9%, Action 6.5%, Indie 6.1%

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 45.5%, Action 20.7%, 2D 18%, Singleplayer 9.6%, Funny 6.3%

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.

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 6.3%, Indie 4.9%, Action 4.5%

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.

"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 58.8%, Strategy 14.8%, Pixel Graphics 11.4%, Gore 4.6%, Indie 3.7%

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

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 60.2%, Pixel Graphics 19.5%, Action 6.6%, 2D 4.9%, Indie 4.2%

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: Villain Protagonist 45% ★, Strategy 44.9%, Action 6.7%, Singleplayer 3.4%

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

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

Why similar: Zombies 55.2%, Strategy 27.6%, Action 9.7%, Indie 7.5%

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.

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 65%, Gore 14.3%, Indie 10.5%, 2D 6.1%, Singleplayer 4.1%

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

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 96.1%, 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 71.9%, Strategy 22.1%, Indie 6%

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 54.4%, Gore 18.4%, Horror 7.8%, Indie 5%, Puzzle 4.3%

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.

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 70.7%, Pixel Graphics 12.7%, Action 5.5%, Indie 4%, 2D 2.3%

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

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 47.7%, Action 21.1%, Comedy 11.3%, Indie 9.3%, Great Soundtrack 4.5%

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

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 62.3%, Great Soundtrack 14.1%, Indie 8.2%, 2D 7%, Difficult 3.1%

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 34%, Strategy 32.6%, Survival 13.2%, Indie 5.9%, 2D 5.8%

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 63.5%, 2D 17.4%, Indie 10%, Singleplayer 4.6%, Funny 4.5%

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.

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 45.9%, Villain Protagonist 25.3% ★, Gore 13.1%, Strategy 8.3%, Action 4.7%

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

Why similar: Zombies 73.6%, Strategy 19%, 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.

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 66.7%, Action 8.9%, Indie 6.8%, Horror 6%, Gore 4.3%

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 54.2%, Strategy 27.3%, Action 9.1%, Indie 6.9%, Singleplayer 1.4%

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 46.1%, Gore 12.3%, Pixel Graphics 11.2%, Horror 9%, Action 9%

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 46.1%, Puzzle 17.2%, Horror 8%, Strategy 7%, Action 6.2%

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 69.7%, Indie 15%, Action 8.3%, Pixel Graphics 4.5%, Survival 1.5%

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 66.1%, Strategy 10.2%, Pixel Graphics 8.9%, Indie 4%, Retro 1.9%

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 33.7% ★, Gore 33%, Strategy 22.8%, Indie 7.7%, Comedy 2.8%

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 26.7% ★, Pixel Graphics 18.9%, Strategy 17%, Gore 9.9%, Great Soundtrack 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 57.9%, Strategy 22%, Pixel Graphics 6.6%, 2D 5%, Survival 3.9%

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 71.1%, Pixel Graphics 9.1%, Action 8.5%, Indie 5.2%, 2D 4.8%

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 73.5%, Gore 13.7%, Action 7.5%, Indie 4.8%, Singleplayer 0.5%

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

Why similar: Zombies 65.5%, Gore 14%, Action 12.9%, Survival 4%, Indie 2.9%

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 58.2%, Gore 18.7%, Horror 10.2%, Action 5.1%, Indie 2.7%

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 68.7%, Gore 12.5%, Horror 8.3%, Action 4.3%, Indie 2.6%

"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 64.7%, Pixel Graphics 17.2%, Strategy 15.2%, 2D 2.9%

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 67.3%, Gore 11.9%, Strategy 9.4%, Action 8.1%, Survival 2%

Kill all the damn zombies in different game modes!

Why similar: Zombies 42.6%, Gore 25.3%, Strategy 17.3%, Action 7.6%, Indie 5.8%

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 51.7%, Gore 12.2%, Pixel Graphics 10.7%, Action 7.4%, Indie 6.2%

BUTCHER is a fast-paced, blood-soaked 2D shooter where carnage is the only way forward. Become a ruthless cyborg tasked with eradicating humanity, leaving nothing but blood, guts, and destruction in your wake. There's no such thing as too much violence in this grim, retro-styled gorefest.

Why similar: Gore 27.6%, Villain Protagonist 22.9% ★, Pixel Graphics 16.8%, Action 9.5%, Indie 6.1%

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 44.7%, Horror 12%, Pixel Graphics 11.7%, Gore 11.2%, Action 4.7%

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 35.7%, Horror 13%, Strategy 12.4%, Puzzle 11.1%, Pixel Graphics 10.8%

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 29.5% ★, Strategy 17.2%, Pixel Graphics 14.3%, Gore 11.2%, Horror 11.1%

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 64.4%, Strategy 15.1%, Pixel Graphics 14.5%, 2D 4.5%, Singleplayer 1.6%

Raise the dead as a fearsome Necromancer in the dark world of The Unliving! Lead your undead armies into the endless fight in this rogue-lite action RPG game. Burn cities to ash with devastating magic spells, slay epic bosses and turn your enemies into morbid servants.

Why similar: Zombies 42.3%, Villain Protagonist 31.1% ★, Pixel Graphics 8.8%, Horror 8.7%, Action 5.5%

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 46.9%, Strategy 25.5%, Action 9.9%, Indie 9.2%, Pixel Graphics 4%

The Horde is coming but you're ready to fight it! Assemble your team and decide upon their enhancements to find the most efficient synergies against thousands of the undead. Survive. Then evolve. Then break all the limits in this deceivingly simple but addictive bullet heaven game.

Why similar: Zombies 81.8%, Indie 6.4%, Action 5.5%, Survival 3.9%, Singleplayer 2.4%