Best Free Zombie Games Online: Defense, Shooters and Survival

Zombies have been a staple of games for decades, and browser games use them in several quite different ways. You can defend a base, drive through a horde, shoot your way through a school or play a team mode where one player turns. This guide sorts the zombie games on PlayKovo by what you will actually do.

Defend a position

They Are Coming is the most played zombie game on the site: defend an orphanage from waves of zombies by aiming and shooting, and buying and placing weapons. Mouse or touch is all you need. DEAD FREQUENCY asks you to hold a signal point against endless waves with defences and guns, aiming with the mouse and clicking to place defences. Plants vs Zombies Hybrids turns the idea into a lawn strategy: create hybrid plants, merge defenders and stop endless zombie waves by clicking a plant card and then a lawn tile.

These are the best place to start if you like to think about where to put things. Our tower defense guide covers more of the same style.

Run and shoot

Zombie Shooter 2 and Rise of the Dead share a simple formula: move with WASD or the arrow keys, aim and shoot with the mouse (touch controls are available too), fight off hordes and level up. Rise of the Dead adds a city's dark secret to uncover. Zomblox sends you through a zombie-infested school to save your friends.

Build, craft and survive

Noob Defends the Village has you mine blocks, craft weapons, build a house and defend villagers from zombie hordes in a blocky 3D world. On PC, WASD moves, Space jumps, Shift runs and E crafts. Zomboblox: Survive the City with Friends splits the day: loot by day and build defences by night.

Drive through them

Zombie Derby 2 puts you in an armoured car in a zombie apocalypse, upgrading it as you go. Arrow keys or on-screen gas and brake buttons control it, which also makes it easy on a phone.

Team shooters with infection modes

KS Z is a 3D team FPS with multiple game modes, including an infection mode. It is desktop-only, with WASD, mouse aim and 1 to 4 to switch weapons. Strike Fighters is a 2D team shooter with single player, ranked multiplayer and two-player modes across casual, zombie and other settings.

What to expect

• It is still shooting. Check the game before handing it to a younger player. Our parent checklist helps.
• Waves get harder. The first few are tutorials in disguise. Spend your early money on things that last.
• Upgrades matter more than aim in defence games, and aim matters more in run-and-shoot games.

Quick picks

Browse more in the shooting games category, or read our horror games guide if you want it scarier.