Zombies for Linux — top best games in the Zombies genre

7 Days to Die - a game in the Zombies genre

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Survival, Online, Open world, Exploration, Sandbox

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2024

Players: 8.2/10

Steam: 85/100

Metacritic: 41/100

Players find themselves in a world gripped by a zombie apocalypse, where the main task is survival. During the day, they search for resources, build shelters and...

Dying Light

Role-playing game, Action, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 27 January 2015

Players: 8.6/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Adventure action game in the open world Dying Light allows you to fully immerse yourself in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You can expect upgrades, RPG...

Left 4 Dead 2

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Linux → 5 July 2013

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 97/100

Metacritic: 89/100

This cooperative first-person horror shooter is set during a zombie apocalypse in the southern United States. Across five campaigns, four survivors travel from...

Dead Island

Role-playing game, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Zombies, Open world, Cooperative (co-op)

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

VGTimes: 8.0/10

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 81/100

Metacritic: 74/100

Dead Island is an action role-playing game with elements of horror, shooter and first-person view. The heroes of the Game are tourists who had to deal with the...

Unturned

Online, Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Sandbox, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2017

Players: 7.8/10

Steam: 90/100

Unturned is a multiplayer sandbox action game with a first-person view. The main goal here is to survive by defending yourself from zombies and hostile players...

No More Room in Hell

Action, Shooter, Horror, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Zombies, Online

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2013

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 88/100

This cooperative first-person survival horror shooter is set in a world collapsing under an unknown disease that turns the dead into the walking undead. Small...

Zombie Panic! Source

Free game, Zombies, Online

Game released: Linux → 3 October 2008

Steam: 85/100

A cooperative, team-based first-person survival-horror shooter set during a zombie apocalypse. Players side with either the survivors or the undead: survivors use...

Death Road to Canada

Role-playing game, Action, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Roguelike, Zombies, Survival

Game released: Linux → 22 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 94/100

Metacritic: 79/100

Death Road to Canada is a top-down action RPG set in a post-apocalyptic world. You will go to the center of a full-scale invasion of the living dead. Having taken...

Dead Island: Riptide

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Cooperative (co-op), Online

Game released: Linux → 31 May 2016

Players: 8.4/10

Steam: 73/100

Metacritic: 60/100

A first-person action game about surviving a zombie apocalypse, continuing the story of Dead Island. After escaping Banoi, the heroes find themselves aboard a...

Dying Light - Enhanced Edition

Action, Horror, First-person view, Collection, Zombies, Survival horror

Game released: Linux → 27 January 2015

Players: 8.8/10

Steam: 94/100

Dying Light — Enhanced Edition — a collection that will include the original Dying Light and The Following add-on. Players have access to a large and...

Zombie Night Terror

Strategy, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 20 July 2016

Players: 6.9/10

Steam: 92/100

Metacritic: 81/100

Zombie Night Terror is a side-view management strategy set in the world of the zombie apocalypse. You have to control a squad of zombies, whose goal is to infect...

Dead Pixels

Zombies, Action, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 December 2012

Steam: 86/100

This zombie action game begins when toxic waste contaminates the water supply and causes the recently deceased to rise from their graves. To escape the city, the...

Final Outpost: Definitive

Survival, Strategy, Top-down view, In real time, Zombies, Post-apocalyptic, Business / Management

Game released: Linux → 23 May 2025

Players: 7.7/10

Steam: 76/100

A post-apocalyptic pixel game in which the gamer controls a group of survivors and defends themselves from zombies. You need to build a settlement, extract...

Splatter - Zombiecalypse Now

Action, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 4 June 2014

Steam: 86/100

An isometric shooter about fighting zombies and monsters in an apocalyptic city. In the story mode, the protagonist moves through levels, meets characters, takes on...

Dead Age

Role-playing game, Horror, Turn-based, Post-apocalyptic, Side view, Zombies, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 14 July 2016

Players: 5.5/10

Steam: 81/100

Dead Age is an action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in a post-apocalyptic setting. You will go to a world where you will forever have to...

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead

Logic, Puzzle, Side view, Post-apocalyptic, Simulation, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 19 November 2020

Steam: 69/100

Bridge Constructor: The Walking Dead is another crossover in the bridge-building puzzle game Bridge Constructor, this time meeting famous characters from the...

BrainBread 2

Free game, Zombies, Online

Game released: Linux → 9 March 2022

Steam: 73/100

A first-person zombie shooter with RPG and arcade elements unfolds amid a conspiracy by CyberCon, whose neuro-hub chips have become mandatory for people. Players...

Survivor Squad

Arcade, Role-playing game, Action, Strategy, Top-down view, Tactics, Roguelike, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 8 November 2013

Steam: 67/100

This tactical action game with strategy elements follows a squad of survivors searching for supplies in a world overrun by the infected. The player commands up to...

Fragile Reflection

Action, Adventure, Third-person view, Indie, Old school, Zombies, Survival horror, Horror

Game released: Linux → 2 September 2025

Players: 9.9/10

Steam: 73/100

The old Japanese town of Nankofuraku is shrouded in a haze of memories and pain. When Karyo Ito returns there to her family, she discovers not a cozy village, but a...

Atom Zombie Smasher

Strategy, In real time, Top-down view, Zombies, Tower Defense (Tower Defense), Procedural generation

Game released: Linux → 15 March 2011

Players: 9/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 75/100

This real-time strategy game is set during a 1961 zombie apocalypse. Players assemble a band of mercenaries to rescue survivors and launch nuclear missiles from...

Dead Age 2

Role-playing game, Horror, Side view, Turn-based, Adventure, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 12 March 2021

Players: 8/10

Steam: 75/100

Dead Age 2 is a continuation of the action role-playing game with turn-based combat and a side view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. 10 years after the first...

Zombie Defense

Free game, Zombies, Tower Defense (Tower Defense)

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2016

Steam: 80/100

This real-time strategy game with tower defense elements centers on holding off waves of zombies. The player recruits soldiers and assigns them to positions, where...

LifeZ - Survival

Action, Isometric, Simulation, Role-playing game, Indie, Post-apocalyptic, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 29 March 2018

Steam: 68/100

LifeZ — Survival is a fun sandbox action game with an isometric camera view in an open world. The game takes place during a zombie apocalypse, where you will...

Escapists: The Walking Dead

Arcade, Adventure, Top-down view, Post-apocalyptic, Zombies, Survival, Indie

Game released: Linux → 30 September 2015

Players: 6.7/10

Steam: 63/100

Metacritic: 65/100

Escapists: The Walking Dead is a pixel adventure based on the famous zombie universe of The Walking Dead. The events of the game follow the canon of the original...

Z Arena

Free game, Shooter, First-person view, Indie, Zombies, Survival horror, Action, Adventure

Game released: Linux → 15 September 2024

Steam: 69/100

A free survival shooter in which the player confronts waves of bloodthirsty zombies that have invaded the planet. There are several modes available in the game...

Organ Trail: Director's Cut

Arcade, Logic, Zombies, Indie, Strategy

Game released: Linux → 19 March 2013

Players: 10/10

Steam: 89/100

Metacritic: 86/100

This retro zombie survival game follows a group of five travelling west in a station wagon. Along the way, the player scavenges for supplies and fights the undead...

Deadly 30

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Horror, Slasher, Platformer, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 8 January 2014

Players: 7.4/10

Steam: 80/100

Deadly 30 is a retro-style survival horror game set in a zombie-infested world, where the goal is to survive 30 days and nights while fighting off waves of the...

Goat Simulator GoatZ

Action, Shooter, DLC, Third-person view, Simulation, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 7 May 2015

Players: 9.2/10

Steam: 84/100

Murder Miners

Action, Shooter, First-person view, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 25 July 2014

Steam: 90/100

A multiplayer first-person shooter built around arenas, destructible and constructible environments, and zombie survival. Its core gameplay takes inspiration from...

Nation Red

Action, Shooter, Top-down view, Zombies, Indie

Game released: Linux → 3 September 2009

Players: 4.2/10

Steam: 90/100

Nation Red is a top-down arena shooter about fighting hordes of zombies and their bosses. After a long lull, the undead return to the Arizona desert, and some are...

Codename CURE

Online, Shooter, First-person view, Free game, Cooperative (co-op), Zombies

Game released: Linux → 31 October 2017

Players: 10/10

Steam: 83/100

Codename CURE is a free-to-play multiplayer shooter with a first-person view. As part of five seriously raging special forces, you will have to fight against hordes...

Sauna of the DEAD

Zombies, Top-down view, Action, Role-playing game, Roguelike, Adventure, Old school, Comedy

Game released: Linux → 4 February 2025

Steam: 97/100

The pixel game, the action of which takes place in the sauna of the underground world, where the main character turned out to be. The character fights with zombies...

Dead Maze

Action, Horror, MMO, Isometric, Post-apocalyptic, Free game, Survival, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 13 February 2018

Players: 10/10

Steam: 67/100

Dead Maze is a free-to-play multiplayer action role-playing game with an isometric camera view in the setting of a zombie apocalypse. Players must team up to...

INFEES

Free game, Shooter, First-person view, Zombies, Post-apocalyptic

Game released: Linux → 22 June 2021

Steam: 64/100

A free-to-play, single-player, voxel-based shooter where players fight off waves of oncoming zombies. The main task is to kill as many enemies as possible. With the...

Blightspire

Shooter, Fantasy, First-person view, Zombies, Gothic, Action

Game released: Linux → 3 June 2025

Steam: 84/100

A dynamic game, the main character of which went to look for treasures in a cursed cemetery. During the search for valuables, the undead began to rise and attack...

Guac & Load

Horror, Simulation, First-person view, Indie, Free game, Zombies, Survival, Shooter

Game released: Linux → 25 November 2025

Steam: 100/100

The player manages a restaurant where true chaos reigns. You will have to cook dishes in the kitchen, deliver orders to guests, and work at the cash register to...

Three Dead Zed

Arcade, Action, Platformer, Post-apocalyptic, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 7 July 2014

Steam: 62/100

Three Dead Zed — a hand-drawn platformer where players are asked to control an experimental zombie. He can transform into other forms, which allows him to...

Dead Sky

Arcade, Action, Shooter, Isometric, Indie, Zombies

Game released: Linux → 22 November 2013

Steam: 37/100

Set amid a mysterious outbreak, this isometric survival shooter takes place in contaminated areas overrun by hordes of mutated creatures. The player fights enemies...

Soulbind: Prologue

Adventure, Action, Roguelike, Top-down view, Metroidvania, Platformer, Fantasy, Zombies, Side view, Slasher

Game released: Linux → 26 April 2024

Steam: 93/100

Prologue set before the story of Soulbind: Tales Of The Underworld. The story reveals the origin of the character and the acquaintance of the companion. The main...

Morbid Inhale

Shooter, Action, Top-down view, Zombies, Old school, Post-apocalyptic, Arcade

Game released: Linux → 6 August 2024

Steam: 81/100

A dynamic top-down shooter where the fight for life turns into a bloody dance of chaos. Hordes of hungry zombies surround, but the hero has a powerful weapon to...

Zombies

Best Games in the Zombies genre for Linux (Game released)