Games like Day Zero

Looking for that same story-driven and dark spark as Day Zero? These games make natural next picks for you.

Zombie Exodus
It starts with a daring escape from a zombie-infested city; it ends at Zombie Exodus, when a horde of zombies swarms outlying settlements like locusts.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
85% of 166 Steam reviews are positive$19.99
The Walking Dead
A five-part story set in Robert Kirkman's Walking Dead universe. You play Lee Everett, a convicted man protecting an orphaned girl named Clementine, and every choice you make under pressure shapes how the survivors around you treat you. Less about shooting zombies, more about what people become when the rules are gone.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
97% of 54,085 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 309$14.99
Survive the Blackout
Survive the Blackout is a narrative survival game set in a dark post-apocalyptic world. Choose Your Own Adventure gameplay, squad-level management, exploration, scavenging, and difficult moral choices. A modern-day tribute to The Oregon Trail.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
56% of 66 Steam reviews are positive$7.99
SubZero
A live-action thriller set in a frozen apocalypse. Three survivors with very different tempers land in your care, and you lead them through a Marina Bay buried in snow, where zombies groan and neighbours turn dangerous. Your choices shape bonds and die modifiers, and a single roll can decide who lives to see dawn.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
92% of 2,711 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 2$9.99
Z-End
Z-End is a multiple choice narrative game. During the zombie apocalypse, you'll encounter the mysterious Faye while searching for new members.What secrets is she hiding? Will she join you? Will you be able to overcome the danger of this world?
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
57% of 37 Steam reviews are positive$3.99
Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator
From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator. Will you survive in the new world? Or will you become just another victim to looters, bandits, or worst of all... The Voracious Dead. There's only one way to find out...
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
99% of 119 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
Human Apocalypse - Reverse Horror Zombie Indie RPG Adventure
A new virus is turning people into brain eating machines, etc. You know the rest. A cure has been found and all the infected people are now normal humans again. What is the problem then? Their skin color is still green. Play as an Ex-Zombie.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
75% of 68 Steam reviews are positive$9.99
Scheming Through The Zombie Apocalypse: The Beginning
Join Hank and Larry, two small defenseless animals, as they manipulate their way through the zombie apocalypse. Meet various characters and get them to scavenge for you while guiding them to "safety." Make life-or-death decisions, bargain, manage inventory, trade, and gamble.
Story-driven, Dark, Replayable
84% of 321 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Zafehouse: Diaries
Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety from the roving undead. A sophisticated engine generates new survivors, towns and content so every adventure is a different experience, and you can use built-in editors to add yourself and...
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
67% of 315 Steam reviews are positive$1.99
The Final Days: I'm Still Alive
Text based survival game. Can you discover the reason for the chaos plaguing the world? Can you survive? Will you be a nice guy? Or a total douche? Is your call.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
67% of 9 Steam reviews are positive$4.99
Survivalist
A year after civilization collapses, hedge fund manager Joe Wheeler leaves his bunker and finds a world of fast zombies, wary survivors and hard choices. Scavenge, farm, trade and build a community in a huge open-world RPG where people remember exactly what you did, and your choices carry real consequences.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
80% of 2,159 Steam reviews are positivePlayers online now: 4$4.99
末日临晓/The Dawn
The Dawn is an interactive game. In the end-time background, how do you survive in the face of various indescribable horror monsters? Faced with the intertwining of human good and evil, what is your choice? In Dawn of the end, everything will have an answer.
Story-driven, Dark, Tense
85% of 27 Steam reviews are positive$4.99

Cheaper than Day Zero

Z-End

Z-End is a multiple choice narrative game. During the zombie apocalypse, you'll encounter the mysterious Faye while searching for new members.What…

$3.99

Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator

From the creators that brought you The Test Trilogy & many other experiences, comes Zombie Apocalypse Survival Simulator.

$1.99

Zafehouse: Diaries

Stuck in a remote, abandoned town, you must lead five survivors with conflicting motivations, fragile relationships and fiery prejudices to safety…

$1.99

Z Diaries

Z Diaries is an interactive zombie fiction game where you read daily diary entries.

$1.50

This War of Mine

Keep a small group of ordinary people alive in a war-torn city, scavenging by night and holding on by day.

$1.99

Zarya-1: Mystery on the Moon

Text based quest, mix of Sci-Fi and horror in the veins of Alien and Dead Space.

$3.99

CurrentDay

Someone knocks at your door every day. You decide who to help, who to turn away—and what it costs.

$2.99

The Last Survivor

The Last Survivor is a serious, narrative-driven visual novel set in a sudden zombie apocalypse.

$1.99

末日竟在我身边 - Zombies Everywhere

When you are holed up alone in a room for 100 days, your food and strength are running out. Outside the corridor, the Walking Dead are walking around.

$1.99