Over 9000 Zombies! similar games & best alternatives

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Over 9000 Zombies!

PC (Microsoft Windows) • 2015

Should you play it?

Over 9000 Zombies! is top-down arcade action blown out of all reasonable proportions. An endless horde of zombies is coming your way, how long can you survive?

What works

  • Fun and addictive gameplay
  • Large variety of weapons and turrets
  • Cooperative multiplayer
  • Map editor and steam workshop support
  • Good value for price especially on sale

Things to keep in mind

  • Repetitive gameplay after progression
  • Limited multiplayer to 2 players
  • Some bugs and desync issues in multiplayer
  • Lack of story and deeper content
  • Walls and turrets can be weak and unbalanced

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • Zombie Estate 2

  • Temtem: Swarm

  • 20XX

  • NeuroVoider

  • Tanks: The Crusades

  • Heroes of Hammerwatch II

More story-driven

Games that feels like Over 9000 Zombies! but with deeper narrative immersion

  • Sephiria

  • Ninjin: Clash of Carrots

  • Ancient Kingdoms

  • Streets of Rogue

  • Crypt of the NecroDancer

  • Serious Sam's Bogus Detour

Less competitive

Games that feels like Over 9000 Zombies! but with less competition against others

  • Rogue Heroes: Ruins of Tasos

  • Hammerwatch

  • Tinkerlands

  • Last Group Out

  • Ikki Unite

  • Heroes of Hammerwatch

Less intimate

Games that feels like Over 9000 Zombies! but with less focus on close relationships

  • Enter the Gungeon

  • Nuclear Throne

  • Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

  • Chronicon

  • Pocket Rogues

  • Iron Fisticle

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

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Similarity map

Each dot is a game placed from its motivation profile relative to this page’s game. Direction shows which motivation differs most; distance along that axis shows how large the gap is.

  • Purple star: this page’s game at the centre — everything is relative to it.
  • Direction: each axis is a main motivational difference vs this game (e.g. more / less competitive).
  • Distance on an axis: how large that difference is (ring scales show +/− points).
  • Coloured chips: click to highlight games that mainly differ on that motivation; click again to reset.
  • Dotted line: link between this page’s game and the one selected for comparison.
  • Hover a dot to preview that game in the panel on the right; click to keep that comparison.
  • Scroll or double-click the chart to zoom.

How to read the map This is a polar difference map: direction = which motivation differs, and distance = how much (same units as the sidebar deltas).

Over 9000 Zombies!: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Competition, Status, Fellowship, Domination. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Intimacy, Cooperation. It leans lower than usual among comparable games on Story.

Last update: 04/08/2026