25 Best Zombie Games of All Time
This article was originally published in 2018 as the "13 Best Zombie Games of All Time," and then updated in 2019 to include 19 games. As we enter 2023, we've revisited and revamped our list, expanding it to 25 and crowning a new king of zombie games.
Zombies make marvelous antagonists. They’re plodding, dark parodies of society’s short-sightedness. They’re plentiful and emotionless eaters of flesh, which makes them perfect cannon fodder for action films and twitch shooters. Their wasted visages serve the purposes of both horror and humor with equal effectiveness. They’ve been a part of the video game landscape for decades, so long they’ve carved out their own subgenre: the “zombie game.”
The still-shambling corpses of the damned have been important to some of gaming’s more notable narratives and innovations. These are the 25 best zombie games of all time.
Zombies Ate My Neighbors is a bizarre and colorful SNES action game from the golden days of LucasArts. It’s a wickedly funny shooter that relies on adorable and bizarre animation for most of the laughs, and the delightful cartoon enemies are half the fun. Before the journey is over you’ll battle space bugs, save cheerleaders, leap on trampolines, and fight a giant baby. Beyond the garish trappings, it’s a very well-designed cooperative shooter that manages to find environmentally destructive uses for everything from squirt guns to rocket launchers. Since the main thrust of each level is rescuing civilians rather than defeating enemies, it also requires a lot more thought to finish than your average arcade-style game, a design innovation that adds a great deal to the challenge and replayability.
Along with Resident Evil, this iconic on-rails arcade shooter helped restore
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