Game reviews
Editorial assessments of game mechanics, progression and value.
Yet Another Zombie Survivors
PC base game (Steam) · Review score: 8.7 / 10
A generous squad-building bullet heaven with enough choices to make the next apocalypse feel like your own terrible idea.
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State of Decay 2: Juggernaut Edition
PC base game (Juggernaut Edition) · Review score: 8.3 / 10
A supply run matters more when the person carrying the food is someone your community cannot easily replace.
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20 Minutes Till Dawn
Paid PC base game · Review score: 8.6 / 10
Free Android edition · Review score: 8.1 / 10
Premium Android edition · Review score: 8.4 / 10
Premium iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 8.4 / 10
A small magazine, a large crowd, and enough upgrades to change the argument.
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Zombie Waves
Android edition · Review score: 8.0 / 10
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 8.0 / 10
Standard mobile editions overview · Review score: 8.0 / 10
The shooting is easy to approach. Deciding what deserves your upgrades, attention and money is the harder part.
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Brotato
Paid PC base game · Review score: 9.0 / 10
Free Android edition · Review score: 8.2 / 10
Premium Android edition · Review score: 8.8 / 10
Free iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 8.2 / 10
Six weapons, one potato, and a shopping habit with immediate consequences.
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FatalZone
Windows PC base game · Review score: 8.4 / 10
A zombie auto-shooter with something worth bringing home: resources, a better-equipped camp and a mercenary you would rather keep alive. Its strongest hook is what happens between the massacres.
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7 Days to Die
PC base game · Review score: 8.3 / 10
Every supply run is a building decision in disguise. This sprawling survival sandbox makes preparing for disaster almost as important as surviving it.
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The Last Stand: Aftermath
PC base game · Review score: 8.4 / 10
A doomed survivor, a hungry car and one more building to search. Aftermath makes the next run matter before this one is over.
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DYSMANTLE
PC base game · Review score: 8.3 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 8.3 / 10
A crowbar, a suspiciously useful kitchen and an island full of things you will eventually want to break.
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ZERO Sievert
PC base game · Review score: 8.6 / 10
A wonderfully demanding solo scavenger hunt where the most dangerous item in your backpack is the next one you want to add.
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Last Day on Earth: Survival
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 7.8 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 7.8 / 10
Build a better home, pack for a worse neighborhood, and learn when to leave the loot behind. Kefir’s mobile survival game makes preparation compelling and impatience expensive.
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Deadly Days: Roadtrip
PC base game · Review score: 8.1 / 10
A zombie road trip where the luggage does the heavy lifting, and one more loot stop can become a very expensive mistake.
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Fallout Shelter
PC base game · Review score: 8.2 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 8.2 / 10
A cheerful underground dollhouse where every new resident is another staffing decision, and a bigger vault is only better when somebody can keep it running.
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Soulstone Survivors
PC base game · Review score: 8.6 / 10
The monsters eventually stop arriving. The build ideas are considerably less polite.
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Vampire Survivors
PC base game · Review score: 9.1 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 9.1 / 10
Browser demo · Review score: 8.1 / 10
The weapons do the shooting. You handle the traffic, the shopping list and the increasingly unreasonable fireworks.
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Zombie Horde: Build & Survive
Browser edition · Review score: 8.4 / 10
The clever purchase is the one that gives your gun another few seconds to work. This compact defense game makes space a resource worth protecting.
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DEAD TRIGGER 2
Android edition · Review score: 7.4 / 10
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 7.4 / 10
Standard mobile editions overview · Review score: 7.4 / 10
A pocket-sized shooting gallery with a surprisingly demanding workshop. Come for the headshots; stay only if the upgrade routine earns its keep.
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Deep Rock Galactic: Survivor
PC base game · Review score: 8.7 / 10
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 8.5 / 10
The guns fire themselves. Deciding which wall to disappear through is very much your problem.
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Halls of Torment
Free Android edition · Review score: 7.6 / 10
Paid PC base game · Review score: 8.8 / 10
Premium Android edition · Review score: 8.4 / 10
Premium iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 8.5 / 10
A wonderfully gloomy build laboratory where the smartest victory can be sending a useful pair of boots upstairs.
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State of Survival
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 7.4 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 7.4 / 10
Standard mobile editions overview · Review score: 7.4 / 10
A busy zombie strategy game with two speeds: quick hero encounters and a settlement that keeps asking what comes next.
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Escape from Duckov
PC base game · Review score: 8.5 / 10
The best treasure is the thing that finishes your next upgrade. This duck understands the assignment.
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Horde Killer: You vs 100
Browser edition · Review score: 7.9 / 10
One hundred orange pursuers, five weapon slots and a very persuasive argument for keeping an exit open.
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Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare
Browser edition · Review score: 7.2 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 7.1 / 10
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 7.1 / 10
A tight deployment puzzle with a sprawling upgrade bill.
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Nation Red
PC base game · Review score: 8.2 / 10
A compact arena shooter where the next pickup can rescue your run, and the next armed corpse can ruin it.
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Oxygen Not Included
PC base game · Review score: 8.2 / 10
A wonderful colony-management pressure cooker where the emergency is often something you built yesterday.
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RimWorld
PC base game · Review score: 8.1 / 10
Build the shelter, assign the jobs, then discover why the person holding everything together wants to set it on fire.
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Sheltered
PC base game · Review score: 7.5 / 10
Platform editions overview · Review score: 7.5 / 10
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 7.2 / 10
Four people, one bunker and absolutely nobody excused from maintenance duty. Sheltered makes the little jobs matter, sometimes painfully.
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Gunfire Reborn
PC base game · Review score: 8.3 / 10
Android edition · Review score: 8.4 / 10
iPhone / iPad edition · Review score: 8.4 / 10
The best loot is the piece that makes everything else click. This animal-led roguelite shooter gives that idea a very loud vocabulary.
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Valheim
PC base game · Review score: 8.6 / 10
Every dangerous expedition makes the next home improvement look like a brilliant idea.
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They Are Billions
PC base game · Review score: 8.1 / 10
A magnificent zombie siege starts with a much smaller question: can you afford to defend that new patch of grass?
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