List of undead-themed video games

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This is a list of video games with an undead theme. Subjects for an undead theme may include zombies, vampires or ghosts. It also covers demons and werewolves which are death-related and normally allies with undead. Most games with undead are Survival Horror or action adventure

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[edit] Modern horror zombies

These games feature creatures inspired by the archetypal flesh-eating zombies seen in horror films, B-movies and literature (such in the films of George A. Romero, for example). Particular zombie rationale and depictions vary with the source.

  • Several tie-in games based directly on film franchises:
  • Beast Busters - A 1989 arcade gun-game in which the players have to shoot their way out of a zombie-infested city.
  • Blood - A 1997 First-person shooter that introduces zombies and ghouls to an early 20th century setting.
  • CarnEvil - A 1998 arcade game about an undead amusement park given the title, "The Greatest Show Unearthed!"
  • Cold Fear (2005) - A coastguard receives a call to a ship where the military scientist crew are all dead, the dead crew are re-animated by a creature called the exo-cell which gives the corpse an in-satiable hunger for flesh and death.
  • Corpse Killer - A 1994 video game that was released on SEGA CD which featured a gang of hunters/soldiers who flee from a village full of zombies.
  • Dead Head Fred This 2007 game revolves around Fred's missing head while progressing through the game the player can collect an assortment of different heads which all have different abilities.
  • Dead Rising - A 2006 action/adventure title released by Capcom for the Xbox 360 where the player is trapped inside of a mall filled with thousands of zombies.
  • Flesh Feast 3D - 1998 Zombie Hunting PC Game by Sega.
    • Zombie Panic! Source - A Half-Life 2 mod, in which the player battles against various zombies on a team, until killed and become a zombie. Zombie Panic! is a mod for Half-Life by the same developers.
  • House of the Dead series (1996) - Zombie blasting arcade games once famed for their extremely violent portrayal of anti-zombie combat.
  • Infected (2005) - Players assume the role of a New York cop and must rescue civilians from the undead, shoot-em-up.
  • Left 4 Dead (2008) - A multiplayer, Zombie based survival PC game currently in development by Turtle Rock and Valve
  • Resident Evil series (1996-2007) - features typical flesh-eating zombies created by synthetic means, i.e. mutagenic viruses created by the evil Umbrella Corporation. However, Resident Evil 4 features a parasitic type of zombie and some other monsters rather than stereotypical zombies.
  • Stubbs the Zombie in "Rebel Without a Pulse" (2005) - A third-person game played as the zombie, along with an army of converted zombies.
  • Survival Crisis Z
  • Teenage Zombies: Invasion of the Alien Brain Thingys
  • The Oneechanbara series (2000) are hack and slash games involving the female protagonist cutting swathes through an army of undead in modern day Japan.
  • Touch the Dead (2007) - A Nintendo DS game that is an on-rail, first-person shooter that challenges a player to eradicate hundreds of waves of zombies in prisons, swamps, and military bases.
  • Typing of the Dead (1999) - A spin-off/port of House of the Dead that tries to serve as a typing trainer.
  • Urban Dead (2005) - A browser-based MMORPG where players can join either the survivors or the zombies, in the battle for control of a quarantined city.
  • Zombi – A 1990 arcade adventure. Like Dead Rising, it has a zombies-in-shopping-mall theme inspired by the film Dawn of the Dead.
  • Zombies Ate My Neighbors (1993) - A humorous SNES/Sega Genesis game including parodies of many classic B-movie monsters.
  • Zombie Massacre - light gun arcade and Wii game
  • Zombie Revenge (1999) - Arcade beat 'em up where players choose one of three characters to pummel zombies. Also released for the Sega Dreamcast.
  • Zombie Zombie – A 1984 action game with a B-movie inspired plotline.

[edit] Video games with small zombie roles

The following games have zombies, but they are not a central part of the plot.

  • Blood (computer game) - has zombie enemies
  • Castlevania Series - Every game in the Castlevania series has included zombies. Some are infinitely-spawning enemies which are very easy to defeat, while others have been featured as bosses (Beelzebub) or as components to a boss (Legion, Granfalloon).
  • The Carmageddon series, particularly Carmageddon 2 (1998), features a zombie takeover of a large city through which the player must drive, killing zombies along the way. However, it should be noted that this is only in the censored version of the game; the uncensored version contained regular pedestrians as victims instead of zombies.
  • Diablo - Has zombie enemies
  • Doom series (1993) - The player combats gun-wielding, zombies (among other demons) on the moons of Mars, Mars itself, and Earth. In Doom 3, more traditional zombies were added.
  • The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion zombies can be found in some of the game dungeons
  • Ghoul Patrol - Sequal to Zombies Ate My Neighbors
  • Hunter: The Reckoning - Has zombies enemies
  • Metal Slug series (1996-2006) - Zombies appear as enemies and the player character can even be turned into a zombie.
  • Monster Madness: Battle for Suburbia - Has zombie enemies
  • The Half-Life series (1998) has several types of zombies, which are mutated humans controlled by parasitic alien headcrabs. Also, there are several mods for the Half-Life games featuring traditional zombies:
    • BrainBread - A multiplayer Half-Life co-operative mod has players fighting off zombies and becoming zombies themselves.
    • They Hunger, A single-player mod for Half-Life, features a three episode trilogy set in rural USA. The scenario is similar to the classic zombie film Night of the Living Dead. Zombies are also smarter than usual, capable of flying helicopters and using mounted machine guns.
    • Zombie Master - In this Half-Life 2 modification a team of human players must complete an object while defending their base against zombie hordes that are controlled by a "Zombie Master"
  • Nocturne (1999) - In one chapter, The Stranger is dispatched to deal with a zombie outbreak in a small farming community. It is revealed that the zombies are the side-effect of an infestation of a Lovecraftian dark god entombed under the village.
  • Quake (1996) - Zombies are one type of monster that appear throughout the game. They may only be killed with explosives.
  • Both Mortal Kombat Deception and Mortal Kombat Armageddon feature longtime series protagonist Liu Kang as a zombie.

[edit] Revenants

Revenants are based on folklore; these games may have a supernatural or fantasy theme. Unlike the mass-attack cannibalistic zombies of modern horror, revenants rose from the dead for individual purposes.

  • Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem featured four distinct kind of zombies, all relating to ancient and occult gods, and all of varying strengths and alignments to different gods.
  • Revenant, in which the protagonist is a risen soul from Hell, tasked with finding a local King's daughter.
  • Siren - The primary enemies of the game, the "shibito" (屍人?), are people affected by a local religious ritual gone awry. Shibito in the earlier stages appear and behave predominantly like zombies.
  • Legacy of Kain: Defiance features resurrected creatures that rise from the ground or out of the walls by temporarily inhabiting the shells of corpses to escape the Spectral Realm and enter the living world. These creatures aren't seen in the Spectral Realm and are only presented in Raziel's chapters.

[edit] Voodoo zombies

These games use a voodoo background for their zombies.

  • Shadow Man Players assume the role of Mike Leroi, who is cursed to be a zombie slave but has also been chosen to be the Shadow Man. Shadow Man is able to travel between the living world and Deadside. In addition to Shadow Man himself, Deadside is filled with a variety of undead creatures that behave in a more traditional zombie-like fashion.
  • Akuji the Heartless The game centres around the voodoo priest and warrior Akuji (voiced by Richard Roundtree), who had his heart ripped out on his wedding day by his brother, and through the use of voodoo magic is now cursed to wander through hell. Akuji, however, has a chance for redemption: if he traverses hell and collects the souls of his ancestors then the loa Baron Samedi will grant him safe passage out of the underworld.
  • Monkey Island (series) LeChuck is a pirate and the main villain appearing in the Monkey Island series of computer adventure games produced by LucasArts. Undead throughout the series, LeChuck has a different form in each game (evil-ghost-pirate, evil-zombie-pirate, evil-undead-demon-zombie-ghost-pirate and stone giant), and in the fourth and latest game he could transform at will between the three forms

[edit] Fantasy zombies

These fantasy games take the D&D version of the zombie as their basis.

  • Various Dungeons & Dragons based games feature zombies in peripheral roles; for example, Baldur's Gate II features a man returning from the dead as a zombie to wreak vengeance on his family members for a terrible funeral, and Planescape: Torment features a city populated by the undead.
  • Ghosts n' Goblins - This game features an overwhelming abundance of zombies.
  • Thief: The Dark Project admits every kind of undead creature. Zombies appear throughout the game.
  • MediEvil and its remake introduces an Undead player character, Sir Dan a classic Knight but undead.
  • Warcraft III - has a whole undead side

[edit] Other zombies

  • Abomination: The Nemesis Project - Real-time strategy game where the player must defeat increasingly mutated forms of zombies.
  • Alone in the Dark - The game originally believed to spawn the "survival horror" genre of gaming in 1992, most enemies encountered in this game were zombies or other mutant creatures with related features.
  • Dead of the Brain 1 & 2 are two gory digital novels similar to Snatcher concerning a zombie outbreak. Released only in Japan for The FM Towns Marty, MSX2, PC-98, and was the final licensed PC Engine game to be released in 1999.
  • Judge Dredd: Dredd Vs. Death has zombies (labeled as "The Undead") among its villains, who are most notably encountered in a shopping mall a la Dawn Of The Dead. The so-called "Vampires" in the game also appear more like movie zombies, and behave like the infected in 28 Days Later.
  • Legacy of Kain: Soul Reaver features various types of vampires, with one type in particular being zombie-like in regard that their flesh couldn't sustain the rotting souls in their bodies, these being the offspring of Melchiah, whom he; himself, became a gigantic mass of stitched skins ripped from the bodies of his victims.
  • Return to Castle Wolfenstein- Zombies are featured as enemies in the game, typically in ancient tombs and other such places. They attack indiscriminately, and will go after Axis and Allies alike. They have the ability to summon evil spirits, in the form of flying, ethereal skulls, with which to attack the player. Also, one of the bosses is a hulking conglomeration of many zombies fused together, and the console versions feature missions set in Egyptian tombs with animated mummies as enemies. In addition to the normal zombies, there are also armored Zombie Knights, which resemble skeletal Saxon warriors. They come equipped with either a sword or a hatchet, as well as a shield that can deflect gunfire. Unlike normal zombies, they do not rise up again when killed.
  • Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines - Players will encounter zombies at various points in the game. Zombies in this game are portrayed as lumbering, weak undead creatures with a hunger for brains.
  • In the Myth series, "Dark" alighned units are usually a sort of zombie or trapped soul, while precious few are evil spirits or cavemen of a sort.

[edit] Ghosts and spirits

[edit] Mummies

[edit] Vampires

  • Castlevania series -The Castlevania series is about a war between the enchanted family of the Belmonts (originally "Belmondo") and Dracula. Almost every hundred years, Dracula is resurrected and it is up to the Belmonts to defeat him before he unleashes his wrath on the entire world.


[edit] Liches

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[edit] Werewolves

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