Zombillie similar games & best alternatives

Zombillie

Linux, PC (Microsoft Windows), Mac, Nintendo Switch • 2016

Should you play it?

Help Zobillie reach the legendary meat farm. A long road ahead: a 90 complex levels full of puzzles and traps.

What works

  • Challenging and engaging puzzle gameplay
  • Large number of levels and content
  • Retro-inspired graphics and sound
  • Good use of steam features like achievements and trading cards
  • Addictive for fans of classic snake and pacman games

Things to keep in mind

  • Unresponsive and clunky controls reported
  • Repetitive gameplay and level design
  • High price not justified without discount
  • Lack of narrative depth and social features
  • Frustrating difficulty spikes and bugs

What to play next

Top picks

Games that feels the closest overall

  • TEMBO THE BADASS ELEPHANT

  • Velocity®Ultra

  • Knightmare Tower

  • Rising Hell

  • Freedom Fall

  • Evil Defenders

More expressive

Games that feels like Zombillie but with more self-expression and customization

  • Machick 2

  • Shovel Knight Pocket Dungeon

  • Tangy TD

  • Rogue Empire: Dungeon Crawler RPG

  • SteamWorld Dig 2

  • Shovel Knight Dig

Less status-driven

Games that feels like Zombillie but with less focus on status and recognition

  • Adventures of Pip

  • Renfield: Bring Your Own Blood

  • Morbid: The Seven Acolytes

  • Dwerve

  • Super Mustache

  • Diary of Lucie

More creative

Games that feels like Zombillie but with more room to create and customize

  • Fieldrunners 2

  • MouseCraft

  • Giana Sisters: Twisted Dreams - Rise of the Owlverlord

  • UnderMine

  • Desktop Dungeons: Rewind

  • Sunblaze

Less competitive

Games that feels like Zombillie but with less competition against others

  • Evil Tonight

  • Flynn: Son of Crimson

  • Kingsgrave

  • The Culling Of The Cows

  • Jelly Killer

  • Lovecraft's Untold Stories

Choose your own criteria ->

Similarity map

How to use the graph

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).

Zombillie: A very typical example of its motivational profile. Motivations that often define this kind of title include Exploration, Creativity, Story, Expression. Here, the score leans higher than usual among comparable games on Survival, Status, Violence.

Last update: 03/08/2026