At the end of wave ten, you'll face a boss, and then move onto the next area. When the wave starts, you'll be assaulted by a number of enemies, from the quintessential slime to a giant plant monster, but all look and feel quite distinct. You can also build objects such as enchanting tables, and imbue your weapons with different elements, though this requires some more uncommon items. In building your base, you'll need to use these tools to gather resources before beginning the wave timer, which appears after placing the three vital parts of a base (crafting table, cooking pot, and a flag to protect your base). This is also apparent when switching weapons - you have to hold control and either W, A, S, or D to change between your sword, bow, hammer, and axe respectively, when they could just be assigned to numbers. However, the menu that appears to select the base tile is hard to navigate quickly, and seems geared towards controllers, despite there being no controller option present in the demo.

Generally, base-building is intriguing, with a number of options, more of which I imagine will be in the final release. I went with the central area with the natural mountains to act as a chokepoint, then put up fences and traps to help.

This could be perhaps helped by having some skills that attack in all directions.Īfter the tutorial, I arrived at Miner's Paradise, and soon got to building a base to defend. This makes the combat feel static and awkward, having to line up attacks each time in a clunky fashion in this grid-based style. Is your favourite zombie game for iPhone missing? Let us know in the comments below.Next comes a simple tutorial, and my main issue with the combat is soon revealed - there's no omnidirectional attacks. Rather it's a theme, which can be stretched across all manner of genres, from tower defence to FPS to roguelike RPGs for iOS. 'Zombie games' isn't a genre in itself, of course. But as we're rather partial to a good zombie game ourselves, we're not too bothered. They like games that want you to run them over in a car. They like those that ask you to run away from zombies. People really like games that ask you to pop waves of undead in the head.

All we're trying to say is that zombie games are really popular. There's just something about the whole shuffling undead thing that evidently proves. It'll get straight back up and bite you in the neck. Original article by Jon Mundy, updated by Will Quick. Updated on J- expanded several entries, and added download links for each entry.

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