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Games Like Zombie Playground™

60+ similar titles based on shared tags and player behavior. Themes include Action, Zombies, Indie, Multiplayer.

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Zombie Playground is a single player or coop online, action arena game with RPG elements. The game combines childhood nostalgia with horrific monsters, visceral combat, and a unique atmosphere straight out of a child’s nightmares.

Reviews: Mixed — 44% — of 349 reviews
Released: 2016-10-31
Developer: stealth.gg
Genres: Action, Adventure, Indie, RPG
Platforms: Windows, Mac
Median playtime: 3.0 hrs
Mean playtime: 4.3 hrs
Players ≥ 1 hr: 93%

Overview

Zombie Playground is a unique blend of childhood nostalgia and visceral, arena-style zombie combat that emphasizes cooperative play and RPG-lite progression. These recommendations focus on games that capture that same stylized, high-energy atmosphere, prioritizing arcade-like action, quirky art directions, and satisfying co-op survival mechanics.

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  1. #1 Zombie Grinder
    97% matchMixed67% of 295 reviews2015
    Dev: TwinDrills
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.7 hrsMean: 14.4 hrs≥1hr: 88%

    A cross-platform, cooperative, multiplayer, zombie death-fest. Slaughter your way through many different maps, game modes and enemies - With tons of weapons and customization options!

    Why similar: Zombies 32.5%, RPG 25.6%, Action 18.3%, Indie 12.9%, Adventure 10.7%

    Why You'll Like It: It shares the same indie, action-oriented approach to zombie survival with light RPG mechanics and cooperative play.

  2. #2 Zombie Party
    96% matchVery Positive85% of 698 reviews2016
    Dev: Peach Pie Productions
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 8.2 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    Zombie Party is a retro rampage of fun and over-the-top action, while still giving the players a deep and engaging Action-RPG Rogue-like experience! Go on a time traveling adventure, or delve deep into procedural dungeons full of gold, loot, and secrets!

    Why similar: Zombies 29.6%, RPG 23.1%, Action 22.3%, Indie 14.1%, Adventure 10.9%

    Why You'll Like It: It mirrors the stylized, arcade-action feel and RPG progression elements found in Zombie Playground.

  3. #3 Trapped Dead: Lockdown
    96% matchMixed54% of 190 reviews2015
    Dev: Bigmoon Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 47%

    A small American town is overrun by the living dead! You manage to enter the town just before the military locks it down and now you must slice and shoot your way through thousands of zombies in order complete your mission in this action-packed Hack & Slash RPG.

    Why similar: RPG 38.6%, Action 23.2%, Zombies 22.6%, Indie 15.6%

    Why You'll Like It: This title offers a similar top-down, RPG-infused zombie slaying experience with a focus on cooperative combat.

  4. #4 Nation Red
    95% matchVery Positive88% of 2,776 reviews2009
    Dev: DiezelPower
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.5 hrsMean: 8.7 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    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 65.2%, Action 19.6%, Indie 10.7%, Horror 4.5%

    Why You'll Like It: This is a quintessential arcade zombie arena shooter that captures the fast-paced, wave-based combat of the seed game.

  5. #5 Deadly 30
    94% matchMostly Positive77% of 1,859 reviews2014
    Dev: Ignatus Zuk and Gonzalo Villagomez
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 3.0 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 47.8%, Action 25.8%, Indie 18.4%, Horror 8%

    Why You'll Like It: It features a distinct, stylized art direction and combines side-scrolling action with RPG-style character upgrades.

  6. #6 Stubbs the Zombie in Rebel Without a Pulse
    93% matchVery Positive87% of 2,508 reviews2021
    Dev: Aspyr
    Windows
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 6.5 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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

    Why similar: Zombies 53.2%, Funny 21.7%, Action 16.1%, Adventure 9%

    Why You'll Like It: It captures the quirky, non-serious tone of zombie fiction while providing satisfying, stylized combat.

  7. #7 Flesh Eaters
    94% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,351 reviews2016
    Dev: S.C. 16 BIT NIGHTS S.R.L.
    Windows
    Median: 2.9 hrsMean: 4.0 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    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 30.6%, Indie 24.9%, RPG 21.2%, Action 14.8%, Adventure 8.5%

    Why You'll Like It: It provides a straightforward indie action experience with RPG elements that fits the core loop of the seed game.

  8. #8 Zombie Panic! Source
    92% matchVery Positive85% of 7,823 reviews2008
    Dev: Zombie Panic! Team
    Windows · Linux
    Median: 54 minMean: 47.7 hrs≥1hr: 49%

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

    Why similar: Zombies 56.7%, Horror 16.1%, Action 15.6%, Indie 7.8%, Adventure 3.9%

    Why You'll Like It: A classic cooperative zombie survival experience that focuses on team coordination and objective-based gameplay.

  9. #9 Zombie Arena
    91% matchMixed68% of 72 reviews2022
    Dev: Start GamesPub: Foga Games
    Windows

    Zombie arena is a multiplayer first person shooter gamer, focused on cooperation to annihilate zombies and various monsters in a post apocalyptic world.

    Why similar: Zombies 54.3%, Action 26.5%, Indie 19.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A direct, action-heavy arena shooter that focuses on the core loop of fighting waves of zombies.

  10. #10 BrainBread 2
    91% matchMostly Positive73% of 5,198 reviews2022
    Dev: Reperio Studios
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 48 minMean: 6.7 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    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 44.4%, RPG 13.2%, Action 11.5%, Horror 10%, Funny 9%

    Why You'll Like It: A free-to-play, multiplayer-focused zombie shooter that prioritizes chaotic, arcade-style action.

  11. #11 Killing Floor
    89% matchOverwhelmingly Positive95% of 68,364 reviews2009
    Dev: Tripwire Interactive
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 5.1 hrsMean: 47.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

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

    Why similar: Zombies 64%, Horror 19.4%, Action 16.6%

    Why You'll Like It: A classic co-op zombie arena shooter that emphasizes team-based survival and RPG-like perk progression.

  12. #12 Zombie Watch
    90% matchMixed42% of 84 reviews2021
    Dev: Wildlak
    Windows

    Top-down open world single player / survival / RPG game with zombies and wildlife.

    Why similar: Zombies 30.1%, RPG 26.9%, Third-Person Shooter 16.8%, Indie 13.9%, Adventure 12.3%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers a more casual, survival-focused take on the zombie genre with RPG elements and exploration.

  13. #13 How to Survive
    89% matchVery Positive83% of 17,095 reviews2014
    Dev: Eko SoftwarePub: 505 Games
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 7.6 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    “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 61.7%, RPG 16.1%, Action 14.7%, Adventure 4.8%, Indie 2.7%

    Why You'll Like It: This game blends zombie survival with deeper RPG elements and crafting, perfect for those who enjoy the progression systems of the seed game.

  14. #14 Hellsplit: Arena
    88% matchVery Positive84% of 3,947 reviews2019
    Dev: Deep Type Games
    Windows
    Median: 1.9 hrsMean: 4.9 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    VR horror-slasher with physically correct combat system and dynamic battles across arenas in the dark fantasy world.

    Why similar: RPG 28%, Zombies 24.5%, Action 22.6%, Horror 13.7%, Funny 11.1%

    Why You'll Like It: It focuses on visceral, arena-based combat that rewards skill and progression, similar to the combat focus of Zombie Playground.

  15. #15 Zedfest
    87% matchVery Positive89% of 216 reviews2023
    Dev: Diagrammet AB
    Windows

    Zedfest is the goriest game show ever created! A hardcore 6 player co-op third-person shooter with the goal to complete objectives while neutralizing Zeds with lots and lots of visceral gore.

    Why similar: Action 31.1%, Indie 23.3%, Third-Person Shooter 19.8%, Zombies 18.6%, Horror 7.3%

    Why You'll Like It: A violent, co-op focused zombie shooter that emphasizes wave-based arena survival.

  16. #16 Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville™
    86% matchMostly Positive71% of 18,433 reviews2020
    Dev: PopCapPub: Electronic Arts
    Windows
    Median: 4.5 hrsMean: 27.3 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    Kick some grass in Plants vs. Zombies: Battle for Neighborville, the wackiest shooter yet!

    Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 40.2%, Zombies 35.1%, Funny 13.3%, Action 11.4%

    Why You'll Like It: It offers a highly stylized, family-friendly aesthetic that masks intense, arena-based shooter combat.

  17. #17 Castle Crashers®
    85% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 136,432 reviews2012
    Dev: The Behemoth
    Windows · Mac
    Median: 4.6 hrsMean: 16.9 hrs≥1hr: 85%

    Hack, slash, and smash your way to victory in this award winning 2D arcade adventure from The Behemoth!

    Why similar: Funny 34.7%, RPG 23.2%, Action 22.9%, Adventure 19.2%

    Why You'll Like It: While not zombie-focused, it perfectly captures the stylized, cooperative, RPG-lite brawler experience that makes Zombie Playground fun.

  18. #18 Risk of Rain (2013)
    84% matchVery Positive93% of 29,779 reviews2013
    Dev: Hopoo GamesPub: Gearbox Publishing
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.8 hrsMean: 14.5 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Risk of Rain is an action platformer with roguelike elements. With permanent death as a primary feature, players will have to play their best to get as far as possible. Fight on a mysterious planet with randomly spawning enemies and bosses, either alone or with 3 friends in online co-op.

    Why similar: Action 41.1%, Indie 36.3%, RPG 22.6%

    Why You'll Like It: It provides a highly stylized, arena-based combat loop with deep RPG progression and cooperative multiplayer.

  19. #19 Survival Zombies The Inverted Evolution
    86% matchMixed58% of 1,107 reviews2017
    Dev: Racing BrosPub: ANPA.US
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 80%

    Survival Zombies is a bloody chaotic survival first person shooter that pits heavily armed players against humanity's greatest fear - hordes of undead.

    Why similar: Zombies 44%, Action 20.6%, Indie 13.9%, Adventure 11.5%, Horror 10%

    Why You'll Like It: An indie action game that focuses on survival and combat against waves of zombies.

  20. #20 Containment Corp, Inc.
    81% matchVery Positive94% of 109 reviews2024
    Dev: Lich & Lily
    Windows

    A co-op horror game where you team up with friends to hunt anomalies and collect rare loot. Customize your loadouts, your looks, and get to work!

    Why similar: Zombies 56.4%, Horror 26.8%, Action 16.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A cooperative zombie survival game that focuses on exploration and wave-based defense.

  21. #21 Zombie Driver HD
    82% matchVery Positive84% of 4,035 reviews2012
    Dev: Exor Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 7.5 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    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 100%

    Why You'll Like It: This game offers an arcade-style, stylized take on zombie combat with a focus on fast-paced action and mission variety.

  22. #22 Killbot
    84% matchMostly Negative39% of 121 reviews2016
    Dev: nobodyshotPub: diman production
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.1 hrs≥1hr: 87%

    ZOMBIE CO-OP SHOOTER

    Why similar: Action 34%, Zombies 31.9%, Indie 20.2%, Adventure 13.9%

    Why You'll Like It: An indie action game that shares the arcade-like, mission-based structure of the seed game.

  23. #23 ZombieFight VR
    83% matchMixed54% of 59 reviews2017
    Dev: Beijing Elysium Interactive Technology Co.,Ltd.
    Windows

    This is a real experience, the screen realistic, operating fever-level exciting, slightly terrorist elements VR shooting game.

    Why similar: RPG 32.7%, Zombies 28.6%, Action 25%, Adventure 13.8%

    Why You'll Like It: It brings the arena-based zombie combat experience into a more immersive, first-person perspective.

  24. #24 Madness Cubed
    82% matchMostly Positive78% of 1,277 reviews2016
    Dev: epic dreamsPub: diman production
    Windows
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 5.5 hrs≥1hr: 93%

    Online shooter with a variety of game modes and a huge arsenal of weapons. Fight with other players, or team up with them to defeat hordes of zombies and mutants!

    Why similar: Action 30.4%, Zombies 30.4%, Indie 16.8%, Adventure 14.6%, Horror 7.8%

    Why You'll Like It: Features a blocky, stylized aesthetic with a focus on multiplayer action and arena combat.

  25. #25 Ice Station Z
    81% matchMostly Positive76% of 204 reviews2021
    Dev: Wobbly Tooth
    Windows

    Thirdperson Open World Zombie Survival.

    Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 49.8%, Zombies 29.9%, Action 13.8%, Adventure 6.4%

    Why You'll Like It: Offers a sandbox-style survival experience with third-person shooting mechanics and cooperative play.

  26. #26 Horror Legends
    80% matchVery Positive90% of 138 reviews2021
    Dev: October Games
    Windows

    Hack, slash, sneak, stalk, and scavenge through this asymmetrical player versus player nightmare as a deadly supernatural Legend or scrappy member of the cast.

    Why similar: Zombies 41.1%, Horror 27.1%, Action 20.1%, Indie 11.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A multiplayer-focused game that leans into the horror-action aesthetic with hero-shooter elements.

  27. #27 Unplagued
    79% matchMostly Negative32% of 4,945 reviews2024
    Dev: Euphoric Brothers
    Windows
    Median: 24 minMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 20%

    Play as plague doctors with your friends in this multiplayer co-op medieval horror! Purge the plague. Create the cure. Escape the mutated creatures. Make the queen proud.

    Why similar: Horror 34.8%, Funny 29.8%, Action 21.4%, Adventure 14.1%

    Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror game that focuses on exploration and survival in a hostile environment.

  28. #28 Tiny Tina's Wonderlands
    78% matchMostly Positive70% of 24,220 reviews2022
    Dev: Gearbox SoftwarePub: 2K
    Windows
    Median: 9.2 hrsMean: 24.0 hrs≥1hr: 91%

    Embark on an epic adventure full of whimsy, wonder, and high-powered weaponry! Roll your own multiclass hero then shoot, loot, slash, and cast on a quest to stop the Dragon Lord.

    Why similar: RPG 49.5%, Action 30.2%, Adventure 20.3%

    Why You'll Like It: It captures the chaotic, stylized, and RPG-heavy shooter experience that fans of unique, non-realistic shooters will enjoy.

  29. #29 Project Unknown
    77% matchVery Positive83% of 893 reviews2025
    Dev: PsychoRavensPub: Nightmare Studios
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 74%

    An online co-op horror game featuring unique playable characters and RPG mechanics. Exorcise ghosts using your special abilities and tools while surviving the supernatural onslaught

    Why similar: Horror 51.3%, Action 26.6%, Indie 22.2%

  30. #30 PONE
    77% matchMostly Positive79% of 244 reviews2025
    Dev: Graggl
    Windows

    A co-op survival horror game where you and your closest friends must work together to survive in an upside down world crawling with the infected.

    Why similar: Action 31.8%, Horror 23.3%, Adventure 18.2%, Zombies 15.3%, Funny 11.4%

  31. #31 Holy Purge : Exorcist
    79% matchMixed69% of 246 reviews2022
    Dev: Celeritas Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.1 hrsMean: 3.5 hrs≥1hr: 65%

    Holy Purge is a co-op horror game where players play as priests who exorcise demons in various scenarios.

    Why similar: Horror 48.2%, Action 26.1%, Indie 25.7%

    Why You'll Like It: A cooperative horror-action game that emphasizes team-based survival against supernatural threats.

  32. #32 Zort
    75% matchVery Positive90% of 13,140 reviews2024
    Dev: Londer Software
    Windows
    Median: 2.7 hrsMean: 3.6 hrs≥1hr: 86%

    Zort is an action, adventure, and horror game that can be played with up to 4 people. Explore maps with your friends and have fun while escaping from various creatures. Experience a realistic horror experience with in-game voice chat with your friends!

    Why similar: Horror 38.5%, Funny 31%, Action 19.3%, Adventure 11.1%

  33. #33 Dollhouse of Dead
    75% matchVery Positive81% of 148 reviews2025
    Dev: Renderise GamesPub: Renderise
    Windows

    In this co-op horror game, your team visits abandoned toy factories. Collect various junk, extract materials from it, create and improve your equipment. And try to survive, because while you are exploring the dark dungeons of factories, bloodthirsty toys are hunting you

    Why similar: Horror 35.7%, Funny 33.4%, Action 23%, Adventure 7.9%

  34. #34 Blood Typers
    73% matchVery Positive95% of 1,012 reviews2025
    Dev: Outer Brain Studios
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.2 hrs≥1hr: 67%

    TYPE TO KILL in this survival horror adventure. Alone or with friends, explore a sprawling cursed film studio as its horror movies bleed into reality. Choose from a roster of characters then plan your escape from this bloody homage to old school horror. But remember... death is just a typo away.

    Why similar: Zombies 57.8%, Horror 27.7%, Adventure 14.6%

  35. #35 Village of Zombies
    76% matchVery Positive85% of 61 reviews2022
    Dev: Marco GamesPub: Hoi 4 Deu
    Windows

    In Village of Zombies you can fight against zombies and mutants together with other players or alone on different maps, the goal is to survive as many levels as possible. The game always starts at level 1 and with each level increase, more zombies and stronger zombies come.

    Why similar: Zombies 33.3%, Third-Person Shooter 32.8%, Horror 14.8%, Action 10.3%, Indie 8.7%

  36. #36 Painted In Blood
    73% matchVery Positive87% of 127 reviews2025
    Dev: MadCraftPub: Perp Games
    Windows

    Trapped in the haunting realm of an artist's twisted nightmare, engage in intense combat with grotesque enemies and monsters, experience unpredictable horror events that unfold dynamically, seamlessly blends classic retro FPS elements with modern elements.

    Why similar: Horror 50%, Zombies 50%

  37. #37 Zombie Parking
    78% matchMostly Positive71% of 115 reviews2016
    Dev: XPAGAME
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.6 hrsMean: 4.4 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    Computer indie-game in the genre of third-person shooter and survival horror.

    Why similar: Action 57.2%, Indie 42.8%

  38. #38 Horror Squad
    76% matchMixed53% of 695 reviews2021
    Dev: Cheesecake Dev
    Windows
    Median: 1.5 hrsMean: 5.6 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    Horror Squad is a 1-4 player online co-op horror game. Assemble your squad to clear the areas cursed by terrifying creatures.

    Why similar: Horror 29.9%, Action 21.6%, Funny 20.4%, Indie 15.6%, Adventure 12.6%

  39. #39 Midnight Mayhem
    73% matchVery Positive80% of 55 reviews2025
    Dev: Gradient Games
    Windows

    Work together to survive against an invisible monster with ever changing abilities. Asymmetric horror game best played with friends! (NO PUBLIC LOBBIES)

    Why similar: Horror 45.5%, Funny 38.4%, Adventure 16.1%

  40. #40 H.I.A: Horror Investigation Agency
    74% matchMixed52% of 452 reviews2024
    Dev: Kekdot
    Windows

    H.I.A: Horror Investigation Agency is a fun multiplayer horror game in which you and co-players have to investigate exciting horror cases. Among finding victims and evidence of the horror event that has taken place, you will be faced with jumpscares and scary monsters along your investigation.

    Why similar: Horror 34.8%, Action 26.5%, Funny 23.2%, Adventure 15.5%

  41. #41 Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now
    74% matchVery Positive90% of 2,415 reviews2014
    Dev: DreamworldsPub: Untold Tales
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.2 hrsMean: 7.7 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    You like top-down-shooter with a film-noir singleplayer campaign, challenging fights against zombies and monsters, gory splatter effects and destructible level environments? Fight your way through an apocalyptic city in the single player story mode, and test your skills in the survival mode.

    Why similar: Zombies 43.6%, Action 18.7%, Horror 15%, Indie 12.9%, Adventure 9.8%

  42. #42 Airtight City 密闭之城1.0
    72% matchVery Positive96% of 411 reviews2021
    Dev: 豆丁儿独立游戏工作室Pub: Little Bean Games
    Windows

    This is a TPS, horror-type action shooting game. The game will draw players into a terrifying dark world with detailed atmosphere rendering and weird story. Here, you are not defenseless, but even with a gun, you can't suppress the trembling from the heart. Game revenue is used for 2.0 development.

    Why similar: Third-Person Shooter 34.6%, Zombies 16.4%, Horror 13.2%, RPG 11.8%, Action 11.1%

  43. #43 PARANOIA PLACE
    69% matchVery Positive88% of 1,521 reviews2025
    Dev: Bloody Pixel Games
    Windows
    Median: 2.4 hrsMean: 3.4 hrs≥1hr: 82%

    PARANOIA PLACE is a 1-3 player online co-op survival horror game. Together or alone, you will need to solve puzzles, find items and run from the bloodthirsty demonic killer.

    Why similar: Horror 100%

  44. #44 Zombieville USA 3D
    68% matchVery Positive94% of 2,215 reviews2025
    Dev: Mika Mobile, Inc.
    Windows
    Median: 4.4 hrsMean: 8.1 hrs≥1hr: 79%

    Zombieville USA 3D is a stylized arcade shooter combining retro gameplay with strikingly polished visuals. Fight through an endless undead horde in the bleak hellscape of suburbia! Choose your weapons, grab a friend, and see how long you can survive.

    Why similar: Zombies 55.1%, Action 24.2%, Funny 20.7%

  45. #45 Nightmare of Decay
    69% matchOverwhelmingly Positive96% of 4,249 reviews2022
    Dev: Checkmaty
    Windows
    Median: 2.6 hrsMean: 5.1 hrs≥1hr: 68%

    A first-person action horror game set in a nightmarish manor infested with zombies, psychotic cultists, and a horde of other horrors. Utilize an assortment of different weapons in a brutal fight for survival as you try to escape from the Nightmare of Decay.

    Why similar: Zombies 39.3%, Horror 24.2%, Action 20.7%, Indie 9.9%, Adventure 5.8%

  46. #46 Fight or Flight
    72% matchMostly Positive71% of 149 reviews2020
    Dev: Outer Planet Studios
    Windows

    Battle Royale and Extraction that blends PvP and PvE, You are a operative that will drop into the infected region and attempt to recover artifacts and eradicate the infected.Each player is pitted against Zombies, Monsters and each other. Online or Single player for practice with bots!

    Why similar: Zombies 48.9%, Horror 31%, Action 20.1%

  47. #47 Undead World
    70% matchVery Positive89% of 131 reviews2023
    Dev: Undead World Team
    Windows · Linux

    Action rpg that containst fast-Paced combat and survival elements. Use your skills to defeat the Undead.

    Why similar: RPG 80.8%, Action 19.2%

  48. #48 Phantom Hysteria
    71% matchMixed63% of 59 reviews2022
    Dev: Lunar Tale Games LLC
    Windows

    Phantom Hysteria thrusts you into the ghost hunting genre. Play solo or co-op with up to four players, where you will have to investigate, banish, and neutralize phantoms with your taped-together gear.

    Why similar: Horror 56.2%, Action 43.8%

  49. #49 PIT OF GOBLIN
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 1,022 reviews2024
    Dev: Friendly Foe
    Windows
    Median: 2.0 hrsMean: 2.7 hrs≥1hr: 72%

    In this online horror co-op, you play as a scrappy goblin, scavenging dungeons, dodging traps, and fleeing monsters to feed the Goblin King-Queen. Team up with goblin pals, or go rogue, as you dive deep and cause chaos! Fail to feed them, and you might be the next meal!

    Why similar: Horror 43.2%, Action 35.6%, Adventure 21.2%

  50. #50 Wounded - The Beginning
    71% matchMostly Positive73% of 291 reviews2019
    Dev: Workbench Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 1.6 hrsMean: 3.9 hrs≥1hr: 55%

    Wounded is a first-person survival horror game, bringing you the old-school indie horror vibe through a detailed and eerie environment.

    Why similar: Zombies 25.3%, Action 22.8%, Horror 22.8%, Indie 15.8%, Adventure 13.3%

  51. #51 Necrosis: Dawn of Dread
    67% matchVery Positive86% of 96 reviews2026
    Dev: Mike Schroder
    Windows

    Necrosis: Dawn of Dread is a full-length co-op survival horror experience inspired by the golden age of zombies. 15+ hours of missions, vehicles, puzzles, with many playable survivors await across a world consumed by the dead. No microtransactions, no shortcuts: just pure survival.

    Why similar: Horror 40.4%, Action 38.6%, Adventure 21%

  52. #52 Putrefaction
    71% matchMixed70% of 491 reviews2015
    Dev: Kazakov Oleg
    Windows
    Median: 3.3 hrsMean: 10.2 hrs≥1hr: 89%

    Putrefaction is a First Person Shooter with horror elements, lots of enemies and weapons, heavily inspired by old-school shooter classics.

    Why similar: Action 32.9%, Horror 25%, Zombies 24.1%, Indie 18%

  53. #53 KUBOOM
    70% matchMixed63% of 4,388 reviews2016
    Dev: nobodyshot
    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 43%

    Cross-platform hurricane online 3D Shooter

    Why similar: Action 58.4%, Adventure 14.4%, Indie 13.7%, Funny 8%, Horror 5.4%

  54. #54 STUFFED
    67% matchMostly Positive79% of 417 reviews2024
    Dev: Waving Bear StudioPub: Amplified Games
    Windows
    Median: 42 minMean: 3.0 hrs≥1hr: 42%

    A spooky teddy bear first-person shooter where you defend your owner from waves of her nightmares. Play solo or join your friends in up to 4 player online co-op.

    Why similar: Zombies 52.7%, Funny 25%, Action 22.3%

  55. #55 Lethal Company
    62% matchOverwhelmingly Positive97% of 503,936 reviews2023
    Dev: Zeekerss
    Windows
    Median: 12.2 hrsMean: 28.7 hrs≥1hr: 94%

    A co-op horror about scavenging at abandoned moons to sell scrap to the Company.

    Why similar: Horror 48.8%, Funny 29.1%, Action 13.1%, Adventure 9.1%

  56. #56 No More Room in Hell 2
    65% matchMixed48% of 17,994 reviews2024
    Dev: Torn Banner Studios
    Windows
    Median: 9.8 hrsMean: 25.6 hrs≥1hr: 90%

    No More Room in Hell 2 is a terrifying 8 player co-op action horror experience. Find your friends in the dark and survive - in a dynamic, endlessly replayable zombie apocalypse.

    Why similar: Zombies 50.8%, Action 17.4%, Horror 16.4%, Indie 11.6%, Adventure 3.8%

  57. #57 John Carpenter's Toxic Commando
    62% matchMostly Positive77% of 5,386 reviews2026
    Dev: Saber InteractivePub: Focus Entertainment
    Windows
    Median: 8.6 hrsMean: 13.4 hrs≥1hr: 92%

    Pick a character and team up with three friends ‘cause it’s time to save the world. Experience intense FPS action as you obliterate hordes of terrifying monsters! You may not be on the best team of mercenaries, but you are… a Toxic Commando!

    Why similar: Zombies 46.8%, Action 15.7%, Horror 14.5%, Funny 13.6%, Adventure 9.4%

  58. #58 Occult
    66% matchMostly Positive71% of 1,944 reviews2022
    Dev: Renderise
    Windows
    Median: 2.3 hrsMean: 3.7 hrs≥1hr: 78%

    Occult is a dynamic cooperative game with elements of horror and quest. You are waiting for a variety of opponents, puzzles and endings!

    Why similar: Horror 58.2%, Action 22.1%, Indie 15.2%, Adventure 4.4%

  59. #59 Kidnapped
    69% matchMixed56% of 563 reviews2015
    Dev: Deceptive Games
    Windows · Mac · Linux
    Median: 3.4 hrsMean: 8.5 hrs≥1hr: 95%

    Kidnapped is a psychological story-driven horror game, featuring emphasis on exploration, puzzle solving and combat. Kidnapped dynamically changes as the player progresses, and aims to unnerve the player. Traverse a two hundred year old manor, dark damp caves, an eerie forest and more.

    Why similar: Action 28.8%, Horror 27.4%, Indie 22.2%, Adventure 21.7%

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