Top 15 Zombie Games of All Time

Frantic co-op shooters, lonely open-world survival, and slow-burn narrative epics — every flavor of the undead apocalypse in one place. Which one would you survive with?

1. 1
   The Last of Us

   Naughty Dog's 2013 masterpiece following Joel and Ellie across a post-outbreak America overrun by the Infected.
   1000pts
2. 2
   Dead Rising

   Capcom's 2006 sandbox in which a photojournalist survives a zombie-packed shopping mall using anything at hand.
   653pts
3. 3
   Left 4 Dead 2

   Valve's 2009 co-op shooter about four survivors blasting through hordes across the American South.
   560pts
4. 4
   Dead Island

   Techland's 2011 first-person action-RPG set on a tropical resort island swarming with the infected.
   436pts
5. 5
   Resident Evil 4

   Capcom's genre-defining 2005 action-horror game that redefined the series with its over-the-shoulder combat.
   435pts
6. 6
   Plants vs. Zombies

   PopCap's 2009 tower-defense hit pitting quirky plants against waves of comical invading zombies.
   435pts
7. 7
   The Walking Dead: The Telltale Series

   Telltale's 2012 episodic adventure about Lee and Clementine surviving a harrowing zombie apocalypse.
   356pts
8. 8
   Left 4 Dead

   Valve's original 2008 four-player co-op shooter that pioneered dynamic zombie-horde gameplay.
   356pts
9. 9
   Resident Evil 2 (2019)

   Capcom's acclaimed remake of the 1998 survival-horror classic set in zombie-ravaged Raccoon City.
   356pts
10. 10
    World War Z

    Saber's 2019 co-op shooter famous for swarming hordes that scramble over each other like a tidal wave.
    356pts
11. 11
    Dying Light

    Techland's 2015 open-world game blending parkour traversal with brutal melee combat against the undead.
    261pts
12. 12
    State of Decay 2

    Undead Labs' 2018 survival sim about building and managing a community of survivors in a zombie outbreak.
    261pts
13. 13
    DayZ

    Bohemia's brutal open-world survival game where players scavenge and fight both zombies and each other.
    145pts
14. 14
    Days Gone

    Bend Studio's 2019 open-world game following a drifter through the Pacific Northwest amid massive Freaker hordes.
    145pts
15. 15
    Project Zomboid

    The Indie Stone's hardcore isometric survival sim simulating life and inevitable death in a zombie-stricken town.
    145pts