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We are only including one game per franchise for the sake of variety. With that in mind, let’s take a look at the titles that will make you want to say hello to your aunt Alicia. So when the best zombie games come around once in a blue moon, they’re worth treasuring. For every Left 4 Dead, there’s an innumerable amount of wannabes, such as The Grinder and Revelations 2012 – the best thing about the latter is that it actually came out in 2012. Much like their movie counterparts, there is an awful lot of bilge to wade through until you find some walking cadaver fare worth investing your time into. The rise of zombies at the movies also seemed to herald their surge in popularity on home consoles, leading to it being perhaps the most regularly used form of horror today. The next big zombie IP came during the Xbox 360 era with the release of Dead Rising in 2006, it partly inspired by Dawn of the Dead and boasting a slapstick appeal.įrom there came Left 4 Dead, a beloved co-op shooter that can’t count to three, as well as the likes of The Last of Us, Telltale’s The Walking Dead, and many, many more. One year after the launch of the original Resident Evil, House of the Dead, an arcade shooter, was launched, becoming one of the most successful arcade cabinets in history, spawning plenty of sequels alongside some terrible movies. Seven mainline installments and a couple of quality remakes later and Resident Evil has gone down as quite possibly the most important and beloved horror franchise in history. The horror classic changed that, the first encounter with its shuffling enemies being one of the most unforgettable scenes in gaming history. Up until 1995, the undead had largely been portrayed in a comedic light or nothing to take too seriously. From there, zombies in video games had a bit of a lull, not appearing again in a major way until Wolfenstein 3D’s udnead guards in 1992, and then at the center of the classic Zombies Ate My Neighbours.Īnd then came the big one: Resident Evil. Way back in 1984, Quicksilva released what many have claimed as the very first zombie game, Zombie Zombie, it coming to the ZX Spectrum. The history of zombie games stretches almost as far back as the industry itself. There’s something about being a stocked-up survivor trying to make it through desolate wastelands of civilisation or a gun-toting undead killer that connects with gamers you need only look at how many new zombie games come to Steam each week to see just that.

Zombie games are now more popular than ever, and, as the saying goes: “you can never have too much of a good thing”.