It’s time to load up your shotgun and goal for the top as we take a look at one of the best zombie video games on PS4!

Zombies eh? They’re an everlasting supply of online game terror, and so they make for excellent, guilt-free cannon fodder.

They don’t suppose, they don’t have emotions. They solely need one factor: to feast in your flesh and perhaps even chow down in your juicy mind. 

There are – appropriately – hordes of zombie video games on the market. The PS4 performs host to lots of the greatest examples of video games that includes the shambling undead.

Which are one of the best although? Come with us as we take a look at one of the best PS4 zombie video games!

Let’s kick off this record of one of the best Zombie video games on PS4 with Zombies Ate My Neighbors and Ghoul Patrol!

Fondly remembered 16-bit title Zombies Ate My Neighbors (identified merely as Zombies in PAL areas) made a welcome return not too long ago on this double pack that additionally accommodates its sequel, Ghoul Patrol.

Sadly, Ghoul Patrol is an actual letdown, that includes little of the wit, invention or very good monster film parodies that Zombies Ate My Neighbors is stuffed with.

It’s darker, has boringly convoluted degree design and is simply far much less enjoyable general.

Zombies Ate My Neighbors additionally has a number of weaknesses by way of some unfair gameplay mechanics (dropping neighbors offscreeen or earlier than you have got any approach of rescuing them is as irritating as ever) however will get by on baggage of attraction and realizing wit.

A luridly colored, Hammer Horror fever dream of a sequence, the Zombie Army Trilogy video games started as undead-themed spin-offs of Rebellion’s wonderful Sniper Elite V2 recreation.

Which implies that sure, you do get to see sluggish movement X-Rays of inner organs being turned to mush by bullets. Only this time, these inner organs are already rotting and diseased!

This Trilogy combines Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army, Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2 and a beforehand unreleased third chapter right into a single marketing campaign.

Given that the primary two video games have been primarily based on a title that initially got here out in 2012, the mechanics, degree design and visuals can really feel just a little dated and at occasions.

It does additionally undergo from feeling a bit repetitive, however, with co-op for as much as 4 gamers together with a Horde survival mode, there’s so much right here to love.

Plus, you get to take down a Giant Zombie Hitler. If that’s not a motive for Zombie Army Trilogy to make it onto the Best PS4 Zombie Games record, I don’t know what’s! 

A shock hit indie recreation, the unique How to Survive was a survival and crafting-based motion RPG. With an isometric view and an emphasis on taking pictures fight, it was set on an island riddled with zombies.

How To Survive 2 improves upon the primary recreation in just about each approach, with on-line and native multiplayer choices for as much as 4 gamers being a excessive level – and masking for weaknesses within the recreation’s story.

The New Orleans setting offers it an uncommon really feel in comparison with most different zombie video games, in addition to contrasting with the island setting of the primary How to Survive.

How to Survive 2 continues to be just a little tough across the edges, however for an indie recreation it’s a formidable and absolutely featured expertise.

I feel we are able to all agree that it positively deserves a spot on the Best PS4 Zombie video games record!

Let’s face it, in the event you’re going to struggle again towards the zombie apocalypse you might as properly do it amidst lush surroundings and sizzling climate, proper?

Dead Island: Definitive Edition‘s tropical setting is an appealing one. And it’s an fascinating distinction as a backdrop to a grim outbreak of the undead.

The visceral gore offers the melee-focused fight an actual edge too. In reality, fight being up shut and private is emphasised by the truth that no firearms can be found till later within the recreation’s story.

Though it’s not essentially the most technically achieved recreation, this Definitive Edition does get an audiovisual polish.

With that in thoughts, the primary individual, action-RPG fashion gameplay is unquestionably greatest skilled on the PS4. 

Not solely is it extra technically achieved, however the Definitive Edition additionally accommodates all the authentic recreation’s beforehand launched DLC too!

Originally created and launched as Zombi U for the Wii U again in 2012, that console’s final failure from a gross sales perspective meant that this wonderful first individual survival horror recreation didn’t attain the viewers it deserved.

Thankfully, UbiSoft revived it as Zombi, bringing it again from the useless and into the residing rooms of Xbox One and PS4 house owners in all places.

Though Zombi is fairly tough looks-wise, the gameplay and normal recreation design makes it greater than worthwhile.

In Zombi, your character is weak and can probably die as they make their approach by way of the sport’s post-apocalyptic London setting. 

Yet loss of life just isn’t the top. Once a personality completely dies, the participant takes management of a brand new survivor to proceed.

The better part? The not too long ago killed participant character turns into a zombie.

And if the participant’s new character kills that zombie, they’ll acquire entry to their earlier stock!

It’s a recreation that’s wrapped up in sensible design from high to backside, however is criminally underrated and nonetheless hasn’t discovered the viewers it deserves!

Zombies and parkour in a large city surroundings? Let’s do that!

Dying Light is a recreation from the identical builders who created Dead Island – Techland – however could be very totally different in its really feel.

With Dead Island taking a melee-based first individual strategy on a tropical island, Dying Light sees gamers as undercover brokers endeavor missions in a ruined middle-eastern metropolis. 

The parkour components are extraordinarily properly built-in, permitting for sometimes vertiginous world design.

Zombies are weaker throughout the day and terrifyingly robust at evening. Still, gamers are agile and ready to make use of parkour to get themselves out of hazard in most conditions.

It’s an intriguing, uncommon spin on the zombie apocalypse system, although it has since been surpassed by its latest sequel!

Despite being a Brad Pitt film, World War Z really originated as a faux-account of a ‘real’ zombie apocalypse within the e book by Max Brooks (sure, additionally known as World War Z!).

This wave-based, co-op, third individual shooter sees hordes of zombies throw themselves on the groups of gamers which might be taking them on. 

The zombies are so quite a few that they’ll pile up and climb one another to get to gamers on increased ranges than them.

In a pleasant contact, this mirrors their behaviour in each the movie and the e book.

It’s a quick paced, frantic recreation that takes loads of inspiration from Left 4 Dead. 

However, with the distinctive zombie behaviour and rather more spacious environments, it does really feel like greater than only a pale imitation of the Left 4 Dead video games.

Like the undead cretins within the recreation, the very fact it makes it onto our greatest PS4 zombie video games record is a no brainer!

Though the vast majority of video games that function zombies are bleak, darkish, scary affairs, the identical can’t be mentioned for Plants vs Zombies: Battle for Neighborville.

Originally starting life as a sequence of tower protection video games, the Plants vs Zombies sequence shifted focus with Plants vs Zombies: Garden Warfare, a multiplayer centered third individual shooter.

This third entry within the shooter sequence ditches the Garden Warfare identify, but it’s clearly an evolution of Garden Warfare 2.

Which isn’t a nasty factor in any respect. The sheer variety of recreation modes (together with PvE and PvP), brilliantly various characters and very good, vibrant visuals make for a potent and satisfying shooter.

It’s additionally a uncommon zombie recreation that’s appropriate for all ages too, with its comedic tone, puns and loads of visible gags.

More zombie parkour? Yes please; convey on Dying Light 2!

This belated sequel to the 2015 authentic is about in Europe, so it manages to really feel fairly totally different from the primary Dying Light aesthetically.

This time round, the story reacts to the participant’s narrative selections, giving a way more private really feel to every participant’s playthrough of the sport.

The good parkour and expansive open world design – once more, that includes very vertically-inclined building – units it other than different first individual zombie video games too (simply as the primary recreation did).

Even traversing the sport’s world is a pleasure, due to the addictive and liberating parkour mechanics.

The PS5 model of Dying Light 2 is superb too; it makes an look on our greatest PS5 horror video games record!

Dying Light 2: Stay Human was additionally an enormous industrial success, promoting 5 million copies within the month it was launched!

With the unique Zombie Army Trilogy displaying its age considerably, builders Rebellion went again to the diseased properly, with a fourth outing for the World War II motion horror saga – Zombie Army 4: Dead War.

It’s unbelievable too, with nice use fabricated from improved visuals and sound to make the supernatural wartime motion rather more detailed, gory and darkly humorous than ever earlier than.

The story is superb, the superior B-movie fashion is deeply woven into each rotting orifice and the gameplay is completely tuned. 

Up to 4 gamers can tackle the complete marketing campaign collectively. And you even get to make it possible for zombie Hitler stays useless for good this time.

Well, a minimum of till Zombie Army 5 comes alongside anyway. Let’s face it: sniping rotting physique elements and inner organs simply by no means, ever will get previous!

Originally launched in 1999 as Resident Evil 3: Nemesis, this Resident Evil 3 remake was developed alongside the up to date Resident Evil 2, which arrived on the PS4 in 2019 (and which you’ll quickly see making its personal look on one of the best PS4 zombie video games record!).

It’s not fairly as profitable a remake as Resident Evil 2, nonetheless. Still, it’s an superior recreation in its personal proper.

The authentic recreation was extra action-oriented, seeing protagonist Jill being pursued by an enormous, mutated creature often called Nemesis. 

This remake rearranges some elements of the story and omits sure options that have been current within the PS1 recreation. Though it does add a web-based multiplayer expertise: Resident Evil: Resistance.

It’s a brief recreation however has loads of nice unlockables on provide for replaying the sport. Overall, the action-based focus is much less satisfying compared to Resident Evil 2’s puzzles and exploration-based gameplay.

And because of this, Resident Evil 3 doesn’t fairly attain the heights of its predecessor. 

It continues to be an awesome recreation and does, nonetheless, greater than earn its place on one of the best PS4 zombie video games record!

Though it wasn’t greeted with a universally robust crucial response, Days Gone at all times felt like a vastly underrated recreation.

What issues is that gamers who sunk numerous hours into its immersive, open world actually did appear to understand Days Gone.

According to Jeff Ross, the sport’s director, it offered over 8 million copies by late 2020!

Created by Bend Studio – who have been chargeable for the Syphon Filter video games too – Days Gone sees protagonist Deacon St. John making an attempt to outlive a world overrun with ‘Freakers’.

That’s the sport’s identify for what are mainly varied varieties of zombie.

The third individual motion unfolds with quite a few intertwined, involving story threads, giving Days Gone a extremely robust narrative, together with its wonderful gameplay mechanics.

This Resident Evil 2 remake of the good 1998 sequel – nonetheless, in my humble opinion, the excessive level of the Resident Evil sequence – removes the now-dated, mounted digital camera views and tank controls of the unique, however retains the compelling story intact.

Played from a 3rd individual perspective, the Resident Evil 2 remake additionally permits autosaves on the decrease issue ranges – although if gamers need to protect the issue degree of the unique recreation, they’ll at all times play on Hardcore; this retains the finite typewriter ribbon-based save system of the 1998 title!

Resident Evil 2 boasts some genuinely efficient bounce scares and, regardless of being comparatively quick on a single playthrough.

the 2 playable characters give notably totally different experiences throughout the story – so taking part in by way of as soon as with every is extremely beneficial.

It’s a technical marvel too; Capcom actually went all out to make this remake really feel as bang updated as attainable. It doesn’t even look misplaced subsequent to Resident Evil 7 – which options on our greatest Capcom video games record!

All of which explains precisely why Resident Evil 2 occupies one of many high spots on our greatest PS4 zombie video games record!

Technically talking, the Infected in The Last of Us Remastered – all with the Cordyceps Brain Infection that wipes out a large chunk of humanity – aren’t really zombies.

However, they might as properly be. And with The Last of Us being such a potent exploration of a post-infection apocalypse, it takes loads of the anticipated zombie fiction tropes and tells a remarkably efficient, emotionally highly effective narrative.

It’s additionally an excellent third individual motion journey; the gameplay is nearly as good because the narrative that spurs you ahead. Not for nothing was this our best choice for the greatest zombie video games for PS3!

Despite the truth that this Remastered model arrived on the PS4 solely a yr after the PS3 recreation hit the cabinets, the improved body charge and richer visuals – together with the inclusion of a photograph mode, developer commentary, the multiplayer mode map packs and DLC, make this a worthwhile improve over the unique recreation.

In reality, the Left Behind DLC is a completely gorgeous additional, and it may be performed instantly if desired.

Though The Last of Us usually graces the primary spot on many a ‘best of’ record (together with our personal greatest PS3 exclusives record!), in our opinion there’s a narrative centered recreation that hits the zombie apocalypse goal useless on.

So, let’s discover out which recreation we’ve chosen for the very high of one of the best PS4 zombie video games record!

The outcomes are in, and the zombies have groaned their approval. The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series is formally one of the best zombie recreation on the PS4!

The heartbreaking and deeply affecting narratives in The Walking Dead video games are a giant a part of what makes the sequence so profitable – and in addition why you’ve discovered these tales of survival, sacrifice and hordes of relentless zombies on the high spot of our greatest PS4 zombie video games record!

Telltale Games knocked it out of the park with the very first adaptation of comedian e book The Walking Dead again in 2012. 

Their system of an journey recreation with gentle puzzles and a branching narrative, which performed out in another way relying on the dialogue selections gamers made meant that each playthrough felt significant and private.

When the devastating, emotional ending arrived, it was a intestine punch that many gamers can recall with crystal clear readability even now.

Even extra exceptional is that Telltale continued to ship these extremely involving, extremely gripping experiences over the course of a number of extra video games.

Retaining a way of morality and conserving your family members alive was at all times a bonus on high of that.

The Final Season drops among the extra restrictive linearity of the opposite video games for a extra third-person, motion journey fashion. Still, it retains the flexibility to completely break the participant’s coronary heart and provide numerous selections the place you simply know the result will probably be horrible irrespective of which you go for.

With the alternatives made carrying by way of the complete sequence of video games, performed as a complete from starting to finish The Walking Dead: The Telltale Definitive Series has maybe that strongest steady narrative in any online game sequence, not to mention ‘just’ zombie video games.

Jason – who lives within the UK – has had a lifelong curiosity in video video games, which all began when he found Space Invaders within the early 80s. The first recreation he ever accomplished was Wonder Boy in Monster Land on the Sega Master System – which stays one in every of his proudest gaming achievements. Jason is a passionate author – and has been writing about gaming for the reason that late 90s. He at the moment runs popular culture weblog midlifegamergeek.com, which he updates each day (and has written greater than 700 articles on the weblog alone!).

Outside of video video games, Jason is a eager tabletop gamer, movie buff and comedian e book fan.