6 Games Like Vampire Survivors for the Browser (5 Playable, Plus Zombie Defence in Alpha)

The developer lists WASD to move and held left-click to shoot. That extra input gives every escape route a purpose: you are threading gaps while choosing where to point your weapon. The HTML5 browser demo asks you to survive a ten-minute monster onslaught, with characters and weapons changing how a run develops.

The demo offers more than 50 upgrades, leaving room to steer a run toward a particular weapon effect rather than simply stack generic damage. The full game, 20 Minutes Till Dawn, is a separate paid Steam release with more characters, weapons, upgrades, and enemies.

The verdict

Choose it when weapon combinations are the draw, but you want to place every shot instead of relying on automatic attacks.

Weapons, spells, armor, and equipment all contribute to a build, so there are several combinations to explore while surviving each horde. The developer describes the game as heavily inspired by Vampire Survivors, making it the most direct thematic and mechanical match in this list.

Between runs, a home base fills with friendly characters who add unlocks and things to manage. The free HTML5 build remains in development; the separate Steam release is still Early Access, and Steam says it has not had a developer update in over three years. The developer also warns that browser saves may not carry over to a download and that some HTML-player sounds are distorted.

The verdict

Start here for the closest browser homage, provided you are comfortable with an in-development game and keeping browser progress separate.

Zombie Defence changes the familiar horde loop into an active shooter: on desktop, move, aim with the cursor, fire, track ammunition, and reload. Killing enemies earns experience, and three-card level-ups mix immediate combat choices with investments in the shelter. A run can strengthen your weapon plan or move the wider campaign forward.

Its Scrap expeditions add city scavenging and extraction alongside separate sector battles and endless scavenging. Scrap picked up on an expedition is retained after extraction or defeat, subject to storage capacity, while shelter upgrades persist. Production stations, weapon crafting, research, workers, and crops for cooking buffs give those resources several uses.

The verdict

Explore Zombie Defence if you want each horde outing to build toward a better-equipped shelter, and prefer direct shooting to automatic attacks.

You bring a weapon and jetpack into bug-filled arenas, using the latter to dodge crowds and cross terrain. The developer's page says you can leave auto-fire on to focus on movement or aim manually when you want more control. Kills also feed a run shop for weapons, utilities, and relics, while amber unlocks abilities that carry between runs.

The playable web entry is a separate demo, build 0.4.1016, rather than the full release. Its welcome screen says progress will not transfer to the full game. The paid Steam version left Early Access and released on September 10, 2024, so the browser page's older pre-release language does not describe the current Steam status.

The verdict

Try the demo for jetpack-driven movement and flexible aiming; the full released game is a separate Steam purchase.

Pilot a neon ship through endless waves of geometric enemies. You choose a starting weapon, unlock more options, build along branching skill trees, and aim for stronger evolutions. The official listing documents WASD or arrow keys for movement and P for the pause menu; its emphasis is on steering through the swarm while deciding how to shape the arsenal.

Crystals buy permanent ship upgrades, so a run feeds a longer progression track as well as its own weapon tree. That gives Stellar Swarm more to return for than a single high score, but the presentation is clean sci-fi arcade action rather than gothic horror or zombie survival. The CrazyGames page was updated in September 2026 and lists desktop, mobile, and tablet browser play.

The verdict

Choose Stellar Swarm when the weapon tree and between-run upgrades matter more than Vampire Survivors' setting.

Here, your build is a party. Move the king with the mouse, then click to recruit heroes such as wizards, hunters, and knights. Their unique abilities work together as they trail behind like a snake, and more kills bring more heroes into the line. That turns route choice into the central skill: the king may fit through a gap, but the followers still need room to make the turn.

King Survivors is a browser roguelike listed for desktop, mobile, and tablet, with mouse movement and clicking as the documented controls. It trades Vampire Survivors' focus on combining weapons and passive items for recruiting roles and keeping a formation intact. Choose it for that movement puzzle; pick another entry here if level-up synergies are the main attraction.

The verdict

Try King Survivors for a horde game about formation and recruitment, not as a one-to-one replacement for Vampire Survivors' weapon builds.