5 Zombie Flash Games I was Addicted to as a Kid

Rebuild, Last Stand, SAS Zombie Assault, Madness: Project Nexus, and Dead Frontier: Outbreak. Pretty good Zombie Flash games that I think bored people should try out.

Rebuild, and Rebuild 2 by Sarah Northway

If you’re into city building, resource management, and zombie killing, the Rebuild series is a perfect game for you.

Rebuild and Rebuild 2 were games by Sarah Northway that I spent hours and hours on during elementary and high school.

Despite the limitations of the old Adobe Flash Professional (now known as Adobe Animate), Rebuild still delivered a perfect zombie survival and city-building experience while featuring storylines and scenarios that put more life into your community.

Certain scenarios that can arise are negotiation, resource requests, injured survivors, and more. There are more crazy events such as cults being created or illness striking the community.

The gameplay is pretty simple and straightforward. You scout areas and slowly reclaim them when there are no more zombies. Unreclaimed but scouted areas can be scavenged for scraps, cleared off from zombies, and eventually reclaimed. Survivors in areas can also be recruited but not without risk, they may either fight back, refuse, or tell on you to hostile factions.

Aside from your own character, you can also customize your community members by changing their names and equipment. Each character has specialties so make sure to put them at the right job.

If you are lacking manpower in certain areas, you can still reallocate people that may not be the best there. However, they make take some time before becoming experts in their new field.

If you want to know more about the game and its history, Sarah Northway created a website for the game that you can visit right here.

Last Stand, Last Stand 2, and Last Stand: Union City by ConArtist

The Last Stand series by Con Artist is one of the most fun games I have ever played as a kid. The first two entries in the series were basically base defense games albeit structured a little bit differently.

Last Stand and Last Stand 2’s gameplay mainly consists of resource management and “rail shooting.” During the daytime, you will have to allot hours to repair your barricade, search for weapons, or search for survivors.

Repairing your barricades increases your base health, searching for weapons provides you with better equipment while searching for survivors provides you a helping hand to fend off the waves of zombies. However, finding weapons and survivors is not guaranteed so a little bit of luck plays into the game.

At night, you will now have to fend off zombies by shooting them while they are afar or mowing them down with melee weapons when they get too close. Zombies that get too close will tear down your barricade until they are gone, and once they are gone, the next zombies that get too close will immediately kill you.

The gameplay changes a lot in Last Stand: Union City as its elements shift more into those of action and adventure games.

You will now have to explore locations in a sidescrolling fashion, searching for food, clothing, and weapons. Survivors now have a bit more important as some of them have personal requests that need to be fulfilled for your journey to progress.

Think of this entry as the Flash version of State of Decay or Days Gone.

There was also The Last Stand: Dead Zone on Facebook back in the day and I played it a ton. It was not as fun as these ones though.

You can actually get these in Steam with The Last Stand Legacy Collection. There is actually a newer entry in the series as well which is The Last Stand: Aftermath that I am excited to try out.

SAS Zombie Assault 3 by NinjaKiwi

SAS: Zombie Assault 3 is a top-down zombie survival shooter that plays like Call of Duty’s Zombie Modes where you have to fend off multiple waves of undead.

Grinding is part of the game as better equipment and skills are bought and upgraded.

There is a newer entry on Steam so things must have changed a lot from back then.

However, the core gameplay seems to remain the same. You can play in Singleplayer mode or up to 4 players. There are different levels featuring different maps to choose from which keeps things a fair bit interesting. Three game modes are also featured

Honestly, comparing it to Call of Duty’s Zombie Mode seems good enough with describing the game. There is not much that you can expect other than an addicting zombie-killing time.

Madness: Project Nexus by Krinkels, and co.

Madness: Project Nexus is a game by Krinkels, The Swain, cheshyre, Luis, and Rebel666i based on Krinkels’ animation series called Madness.

This game isn’t really a pure zombie game, but tons of enemies here are pretty much undead. From the weak grunts and suited zombies to the large soldiers and even Tricky the Clown.

Madness: Project Nexus features many of the main series’ cast aside from Tricky the Clown such as Hank, Sanford, and Deimos.

You can choose to play the Story or Arena Combat Mode.

Story mode has you control different main series’ characters as they uncover the Nexus Project and Nexus Training program. Arena Combat encourages you to “Crush, Kill, Destroy, and Perfect.” The game simply wants you to grind and create the perfect soldiers. You can improve different stats, equip different weapons, and hire other soldiers.

The Story and Arena Combat modes are both canon and intertwined and you will have to finish the Story mode to eventually understand why the Arena Combat mode exists.

There is a sequel up on Steam, so you can check out the 3D and upgraded version if you are interested.

Dead Frontier: Outbreak and Dead Frontier: Outbreak 2 by JaggedBladeSoft

I was thinking of the original Dead Frontier which was browser-based but it has gone through so many evolutions that it felt a bit hard to justify or explain how it was before.

Thankfully, there were 2 other Dead Frontier games I really enjoyed playing which were Dead Frontier: Outbreak and Dead Frontier: Outbreak 2.

While the original Dead Frontier online and newer Dead Frontier iterations were shooters much like the SAS: Zombie Assault and Resident Evil series, Dead Frontier: Outbreak takes on a text-based adventure where you are a survivor encountering the zombie apocalypse of the first time.

Both games feature branching storylines and different endings which was pretty cool. They were extremely entertaining while being short, so it was a perfect experience for the younger me who had limited time and Megabytes to spend online; back then, we had to use dial-up internet with a dial-up card. I am old, I know.

Anyway, you don’t have to particularly be a fan of the zombie genre or of text-based adventure games to enjoy these two games.