Ready to band together with the rest of humanity to fight the legion of the undead? Not sure where to start your noble zombie slaughter? Check out these great online zombie survival games and get your supplies ready—the fight for humanity is raging on.
5. DayZ
If you're the top dog amongst your friends in gritty zombie survivors take on DayZ and give yourself a real challenge. Keep in mind that this game is currently in early access alpha and with their purchase of the game players will be actively supporting DayZ's development.
An unknown infection has wiped out most of the world's population, but luckily for you, you're one of the survivors. Players wander around a wasteland, fighting against crazed survivors and the infected. Each person's experience with the game will be radically different. Players can work solo or team up with others and take on the game how they wish: saving humanity or wreaking havoc of everything in your path.
Carefully, carefully
Survivors got it rough, the game will provide no help to players. There are no tips, tutorials, or any help at all for the living. In a game that lacks second chances, every choice matters. There are no extra lives or game saves, a bad mistake will be your last. If you die you will lose everything and need to start from scratch.
Players have a great deal of customization options in the game. All items and equipment can be improved or made into something else. Weapons and clothing are fully customizable and such objects can be scavenged throughout the environment, providing various amounts of protection against other survivors, the infected, and environment.
DayZ has a bunch of planned features such as vehicles, user mods, updated graphics, and wild life. If you feel up to the challenge, take a stab at DayZ and see where this hellscape will leave you.
4. Dead Frontier
Maybe in this lifetime you didn't get to become a scientist, doctor, or engineer like your parents wanted, but the zombie apocalypse is giving you the chance to live out your parents dreams in Dead Frontier. This expansive browser based game takes place after a pharmaceutical company creates a wonder drug that has terrible zombie inducing side effects. The world quickly falls into chaos and you play as a survivor ready to fight for what's yours.
Dead Frontier offers over 200 weapons and a total of 20 professions to choose from at the start of the game. There are tons of different options to fit various play styles, a player can pick from the production class and be a scientist who creates goods to sell, the service class and work as an engineer who can sell their services, the stat-boost class and be a formerly famous athlete, or the role playing class and be the most bad ass of priests. Players can customize their characters and decide their gender, skin tone, hair style, and facial expression.
You can almost feel the grit
This game has one of the steepest learning curves. There aren't any formal tutorials and players must experiment with lots of trial and error. New players should be ready to spend their first few hours testing out the game play, exploring, and dying tons. Whether players decide to explore the game or their own or within a group, strategy is the key to survival. The player's hunger, health, and ammo must be constantly maintained or death might come along faster than they expected.
3. Lifeless
Can't decide between playing an FPS or zombie apocalypse free for all? Why not both? Lifeless plays as a FPS survival game where players must face off against challenging and intelligent zombies amongst other horrors.
Players are constantly on the brink of death and need to always be alert for any dangers. All of your limbs have a damage meter, a damaged leg will make you slower while a damaged arm will lower your accuracy. Creating and fortifying structures will be of great importance and can at least slow down player's inevitable deaths. These structures will last as long as another player doesn't destroy it. Players will gain experience from killing zombies, crafting, scavenging, building fortifications, and interacting with other players. With each level increased, players will unlock new character traits.
Friend, foe, or random NPC?
Humans will possibly provide the greatest risk of all to players. Certain players can become your allies while others might just want to blow you the heck up. Across the game's world players will encounter NPCs that can ask players to complete quests or are hostile and will also be ready to shoot you in the face. Player's decisions will impact other players and even the NPCs, so think carefully before working with or attacking others.
Stay on the lookout for future updates. The developers plan to add turf and supply battles, environmental dangers, large scale world events, and deeper character progression.
2. 7 Days to Die
Ready to live the post-apocalyptic scenario of your dreams? 7 Days to Die is your gateway to living that zombie survival dream like never before. The game takes place after the fall of civilization in a world that is entirely buildable and equally destructible, combining elements of exploration, scavenging, and base-defense.
With each session the player's world is randomly generated and features expansive cities, mountains, caves, and other forms of wilderness. Players can take this world on alone or with friends at their side to increase their chances of survival. Scavenging is the key to success, players will need to search abandoned cities or take to the wilderness to gather supplies in order to build their own tools, weapons, defenses, and shelters. Anything in the game can be destroyed and scarped for resources. All items and structures need to be carefully made because poorly constructed buildings can fall apart and potentially damage players.
A little bit of fire can do this zombie some good
Players can spend their time growing plants, hunting animals, developing skill trees to enhance abilities, and completing missions for NPCs in exchange for experience and items. The game offers full character customization with body morphing and customizable features such as skin, eye, and hair color.
These factors make 7 Days to Die a truly unique and immersive experience. As the game in currently in its alpha stage, all of these features will be expanded upon in future developments, adding more depth and additional dangers.
1. Dead Island: Epidemic
Ready for a crazy fun hack-and-slash zombie fest? Look no further than Dead Island: Epidemic. Even though this game is free and currently in open beta, it is provides one of the best online zombie killing experiences.
Dead Island: Epidemic has a constantly expanding roster of vibrant characters to choose from. Characters range from specializing in close range combat, ranged combat, support, and a mix of everything in between. Players collect blue prints as they play and each blue print will provide the design for a weapon from six different weapon categories. These weapons have tons of mods and can be given special attributes. Players have an extreme amount of freedom in how they want to customize their gameplay experience and will satisfy even the toughest critic.
Have you ever seen something so beautiful?
Players have two modes to chose from in their zombie slaughter fest, player verses enemy mode and player verses player mode. In PvE: Crossroads players will be teamed up with three other players and will carry out three randomly generated missions. These missions range from gathering supplies, freeing survivors, fighting tons of zombies, and crazy boss fights. At the end of each session Crossroads awards players for how well they did and scales the difficulty of the following mission accordingly. In PvP: Scavenger the game pits three teams consisting of four members each against each other in zombie filled maps. Collecting the most resources is the key to success. Players need to get pretty crafty when it comes to winning the match. Should you and your team form a temporary alliance with another team or slowly build up your lead before destroying the others—the choice is yours.
Dead Island: Epidemic wont disappoint and will only get better with future development.
Ready to fight for your people yet? Or maybe you want to form a group and strategize first? Got any pro tips for the rest of us? Comment below so we can get our battle plans ready.
