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Game
Game2022Published by indie.io
Blood And Zombies
Developer Wild Monkey
Blood, guts, meat. Humanity's waging total war against a horrific zombie apocalypse. Lead one of four of humanity's deadliest survivors against the horde in this first person, wave defense shooter. Load up your guns, set up turrets, sharpen your skills, and maybe you'll make it through the night. From the Steam store page
190 reactions from 2 sources (Steam reviews, Bluesky) · newest Sep 19, 2026 · last updated Oct 7, 2026 · How this works
Audience score
37
Rotten
70 positive · 118 negative
95% range 31–44%
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| Steam reviews | 70 | 118 | 0 |
| Bluesky * | 0 | 0 | 0 |
* shown, not counted in the score (label accuracy below our 85% bar or not yet audited).
2 newer reactions are still waiting for a label.
Steam's own rating
Mixed
247 of 472 reviews positive (all languages, per Valve)
What people are saying
Mixed reception: some find it fun despite jank, others call it a buggy asset flip.
Many players enjoy the game's core loop of shooting zombies and building defenses, calling it surprisingly fun and addictive despite its flaws. One reviewer notes it has 'no right being as fun as it is' (R2), while another says it 'became very addictive and fun' after learning the mechanics (R6). [2][6]
However, a larger portion criticizes the game as a buggy, low-effort asset flip with poor mechanics and limited content. Complaints include 'clunky controls, terrible flaky building mechanics' (R33), enemies spawning on the player (R27), and the game being 'boring' and 'not something I would recommend' (R17). [33][27][17]
Praised fun despite jank · addictive gameplay
Criticised buggy mechanics · asset flip quality · repetitive content
Summary drafted by an AI model from the 36 reactions it cites ([n] links open each post), then checked by code: every paragraph cites real posts and every quote is verbatim. Written Oct 7, 2026. Method
Reactions
60 of 190 · most liked firstAnother run-of-the-mill first person endless zombie shooter with tower defense features. It has everything you'd expect from this genre: different guns and equipment to protect yourself against the hoards of zombies, 4 characters each with their own skill tree, a few maps to choose from and multiplayer to play with your friends. I was surprised the game isn't really buggy or glichty which is always good, however, if you decide to play in the corner of a map some zombies might not go up to you…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The peak of low effort crap • Goofy animations, those zombies surf over the ground without moving their legs. • Very repetitive use of assets, really, 5 identical bags of trash on one square meter. • Leveldesign 404 I paid 0.99€ for this and i am still thinking about things i would have been better off buying instead: • a box of staple pins • a cork coaster • 5 bags of baking powder • some rubberbands
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is "Yet another zombie defense" turned into 3D asset flip. Nothing works properly, guns suck, turrets don't work half of the time, zombies have no animations. I got this game from a bundle that was cheaper than the game I wanted from that bundle, so I actually saved money by getting this game - and I still think I didn't get enough to play or recommend this game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Within minutes of starting up the game, a zombie rat had bitten me, shoving me through the wall and under the map. That's when I knew I was in for a good time. The game vomits up boring and awful looking zombie asset which you shoot to earn money and build things. That sounds great in theory, but in practice it's surprisingly dull. You know how you hear something that sounds fun, but then you do it and, within moments of starting you come to understand that the theory is far more…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This piece of crap, Unity asset flip, generic-ass zombie shooter has no right being as fun as it is.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Thoughts I picked this game up on sale, but looking at the total price i think it's to much. This game to me, was boring, it's not something I would recommend to anyone. No idea why this is reviewed so highly. I do wish the dev's good luck, and with enough time and effort it could become something really enjoyable. Story📖 None. Gameplay🎮 Wave based Survival. Difficulty💪 Can get hard in higher levels.…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Save yourself the headache and go find a game that delivers on its promises. There are plenty of other, similar titles of the genre out there that'll give you a worthwhile experience. Don't settle on this one. You'll regret it. Other complaints include the lack of character progression and the absence of a backstory for the heroes. Despite being marketed as a hybrid game, the tower defense elements and first-person shooter mechanics fail to harmonize effectively. Moreover, several bugs and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I got the game for $1. It might be worth that, but honestly it's more frustrating than not. This is far closer to an internal alpha build of a real game than something anyone should pay money for. I'll try to keep my criticism constructive. Pros - Guns feel weighty - Some animations are quite decent Cons - "Base" building is a core aspect of surviving waves but placement of objects is finicky - Place guns are useful but feel way too slow - Levels are all cramped and finding a place to build…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Overall impression: Well, this is a tower defense zombie shooter? It's a weird combination as the maps are very closed. It's also very easy to climb on lamps or edges of the map where zombies can't hit us. It's a okay game to play for a few hours or at least to the point of getting all the achievements.⭐⭐⭐(3/6) Story: No story, just kill zombies in some very small towns. This makes the game have no goal, so no reason to play. ⭐(1/6) Graphics elements: They are definitely something to complain…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game has one of the most annoying enemies in all of gaming, those rats should just disappear from existence. I saw the trailer and I thought the game looked pretty cool, well it's not. It's a bare bones game that simply isn't worth half the asking price. Life lesson, don't buy games while your drunk.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I love the concept, and I may revisit at a later date. But, I really cannot recommend this game at this point. It kept resetting my mouse sensitivity as well. Placing blocks and turrets, is very wonky. I was also selling things that I didn't intend to sell, even though I was pointing directly at what I wanted to sell. First impressions always matter to me with any game, so it didn't take too long. So, refund for now.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I will give credit where credit is due; For what appears to be a first time developer with only the single game under their belt (so likely just a single person, or small group of friends), the level design is quite respectable. For a game and dev at this level, you'd expect there to have been less care taken with something as seemingly small as that, but these guys score on that account. As for the rest of the game... It's mind numbingly dull. It's honestly not worth your time. I've been…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →All in all, it's basically an FPS, zombie, tower defense. It has the basics of what could be a pretty solid game, but the dev seems to have stopped working on it altogether. What we're left with is an unfinished, buggy game. For that reason, I cannot recommend... I can for achievement hunters though! It only takes a few hours to 100% and it somehow counts towards the player profile.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I'm surprised this game has positive reviews. Normally, this kind of game would have very negative reviews instead of mostly positive ones. I don't even know where to start. At first, i thought we could play a bit à la Left 4 Dead, get from point A to point B, from B to C and it continues. Actually, it has only a survival mode and it sure is bad just like the whole game. I dislike Call of Duty and Killing Floor and love Left 4 Dead but i'd say go play Killing Floor or Call of Duty zombie mode…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →a great idea for a game, killing floor with base building its too bad its bugged as all hell near to the point of being unplayable. If this were a alpha test i'd be stoked for this game but as a finished product I can not recommend it. to the developers please polish this game up it could be a competitor to back for blood, killing floor, wwz, ect. good concept bad execution.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is okay, nothing to special, it is janky a little bit but it is okay if a part of a bundle or on sale, solid 3+hours of playtime to get the achievements if you have friends to play with even more just don't aim down the sight you are way more accurate hip firing
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →this game is sh*t and I love it
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Written By Hidden Gems Review : https://store.steampowered.com/curator/38624426/, Follow me! Blood And Zombies is a FPS/Tower defense game. I wish there is a middle button. I have to say the first hours I have plenty of fun but gets boring really quick, the graphics and the controls are not the best but still building a great variety of towers and defend againts the horde for me it's allways fun. The problem it's when you find a spot and you keep there wave after wave and in the end feels…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Enemies spawn right on you. Rats spawn right on you. Why build a base when an enemy can spawn 1m behind you. Stupid mechanics, ruins the game.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Like Left 4 Dead, this game's way more fun with friends, especially if you all appreciate "so bad, it's good." But unlike Left 4 Dead -- which has fun characters, funny dialogue, and memorable settings -- this game's bland, buggy, and not offering much to single players.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →---{PC Requirements}--- ☐ Check if you can run paint ☑ Potato ☐ Decent ☐ Fast ☐ Rich boi ☐ Ask NASA if they have a spare computer ---(Proton)--- ☐ Steam Linux Runtime ☑ Latest Proton (8.0-5) ☐ Other Proton (version) ☐ Latest Proton Custom GE (version) ☐ Other Proton Custom GE (version) ☐ Played on Windows ---(Protontricks)--- ☐ Protontricks used ☑ Protontricks not used ------ ☑ Done ☐ Done (comes in Episodes) ☐ Done (Further DLC, expansions planned) ☐ Early access (regular updates) ☐…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blood And Zombies has clunky controls, terrible flaky building mechanics, and laughable audio. The trailer makes the game look so much better than it what it really is. The graphics and animations are severely lacking. Wait until its in the bargain bin or just AVOID!
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The trailer makes the game look better than it actually is. The graphics and animations are lacking. The building in this game is alright, however there are a lot of spots where the object just breaks and you can't have defences there as a result. There really is no customisation when it comes to the graphics or even the crosshair. With the buildings there were always issues for me and my friends to enter them as for some reason the doors weren't well clipped and you would just get stuck trying…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Bad. The concept is great but there's a lot of stuff that even in the tiny bit of time I played, was just... bad. ~You can't rebind controls at all ~Enemies hit you even when you're 10 feet up in the air and they're facing away from you ~Automatic guns don't properly pick up on the enemies ~Enemies just kind of appear on higher ground instead of climbing in any way It's just a lot of clearly amateur stuff. Don't bother with it.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blood and Zombies is a badly made Early Access Unity based first person wave survival shooter with a lightweight building element as you can construct obstacles to help you fight off waves of zombies. Ho hum. Gameplay consists of running around a city block and shooting waves of samey zombies. While you can customise controls and the graphics to some extent, most of the art assets look to be asset flipped. Gameplay is clunky and unpolished. Every time you get hit there's a water filter…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Last update in 2022, no dev activity, website gone. The game cannot be played offline with initial install. It needs to download a level from somewhere. The problem with that is that there is now way of knowing from where it's downloading that level because the dev is gone. With no dev around to ask, that in-game forced download is suspicious as hell. It was only just recently that another game was taken over by a malicious actor who installed malware with a surprise update. So i can't…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A decent mix of base defense and zombie shooting, but it never really stood out from similar games. The combat is serviceable, and building up defenses can be satisfying for a while. However, the content feels a bit limited, and the gameplay starts to feel repetitive after a few runs. Not bad, just average.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game has the right idea but the execution is just horrible. The animations are terrible, the sound effects are terrible, enemy design is bland and uninspired, weapons feel wrong to use (you can snipe enemies with an smg). Just pushed through to get all achievements for completion but other than that.... DONT bother with this game! 2/10
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's very jank, but also very cheap. I got this as a part of a Humble Bundle and it was a pleasant enough time getting the achievements. With some more polish, would have more potential. But don't count on it. As-is, don't pay more than $2 for it, but have fun if you do
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Absolute trash. Feels like a zombie horde shooter alpha test. Basic functionality is there but poorly implemented. When building things, they randomly snap to points and wont let go. some of these points are laughably far from your cursor. Some of these point are inside walls, buildings, or your other structures which causes them to explode and your resources are simply lost. Sometimes for no reason it just wont snap to anything and you cant build your structure in an obviously unobstructed…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is one of the worst I have played. Such poor optimisation and for a lot of the time you can't even see what or where to shoot, especially close up. Zombies are bullet sponges even when you shoot them in the head. The cost of the base aids are prohibitive and the upgrades and gun changes and ammo cost unbalance the game. All up such a poor game when in fact if the devs took time to polish it, the game could be good as the concept itself is ok.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →If you've read any of my reviews before you know I usually leave a thoughtful and detailed pros and cons list, along with my recommendation. Blood and Zombies will receive no such treatment. Instead I'll leave you with some fond memories I had playing Blood and Zombies in no particular order: * The 0% map loading screen as you first start the game. * The realization this isn't 2005 and I hadn't traveled back in time to play B&Z. * I paid full price for this game. * After 15 minutes in one…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →*splatter* *groan* *boom* 🏆 Overall ❤️❤️❤️ Surprisingly good! Better than you'd expect. 🎮 Gameplay ❤️❤️❤️ "Left 4 Dead 2" horde shooter meets "Sanctum 2" Tower Defense. Controls smoothly. 📖 Story 🖤🖤🖤 Nonexistent. 🎨 Graphics ❤️🖤🖤 Could look worse for what it is. 🎵 Sound / Music ❤️🖤🖤 Classic zombie shootin'. 😤 Difficulty 💔💔🖤 The hordes get increasingly difficult to beat - try co-op ;) ↩ Replayability ❤️❤️🖤 Co-op is surprisingly fun and engaging for multiple…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Uses Epic Online Service (Spyware).
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It is a meh game at best in its current state. The game consists of a few looping zombie audios, poor implantation of the building mechanics, to odd things that happens in the game that gives it a feel of a lack of polish to the overall quality. The audio, oh the zombie's sounds, it just keep looping over and over when there is even one left on the map. Can you imagine a few 2-3 seconds of voice lines playing over and over on top of each other for the entire level, I can tell you it gets…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Took a chance on this one after randomly scrolling on Steam. It took a couple games for me to figure out the mechanics but after i did it became very addictive and fun. The game needs a couple tweaks like being able to manually rotate traps, physics for stacking blocks, and some updates to show level progression per round or match. If you are into zombie games and/or tower defense I recommend giving this a shot. Also for Steam Deck users the game plays decently at 60fps with high settings…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really wanted to give it a go, but it is so scuffed. I spent 30 minutes in a game and it was so painful... needs to be polished, glitchy assets, hitbox doesn't make any sense. etc. Needed to be refunded. Hopefully in the future it will become better than what it is right now! I saw a lot of potential for it, I just don't think I'll be able to hold on to it and wait for improvements.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Blood And Zombies offers a hybrid first person shooter/tower defense gameplay with a zombie apocalypse theme. I like the premise, and though it's basic, it's a good idea. However, the actual product left me underwhelmed. I went in with incredibly low expectations, other than to hopefully have a dumb but fun experience, and came out of it disinterested and wishing I'd played something else instead. If I had to compare this game to something else, I would say it's like a cross between Killing…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →You ever wanted to just shoot a lot of zombies for no reason? And do you like tower defense games like Orcs Must Die or Sanctum? You'll want to give this one a whirl if so.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →2/10 it cant be that bad can it?? it could.... and it was.... tons of waves in the same tiny space no melee of any kind play time past 14 minutes is afk card farming
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I have no idea why or how this has mostly positive reviews but this wouldn't be much fun even if it was free. It looks and plays much like a game on a browser would be played, animations are awful and gunplay is as basic as it gets. The game is just wave defense with the ability to buy equipment and weapons to survive longer, but all of this is just a filler to a soulless and ugly product. The sale pricing is absurd, let alone the full asking price, at most get it for a dollar, I got it from a…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Buggy everywhere. Stiff movements. Inconsistent levels of difficulty everytime I logged on and played the game. I spent 50 hours in the game and after a few releases the devs still haven't fix the initial bugs.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →It's hard to rotate objects, and zombies stand still sometimes running in place, and there's hardly anywhere to build as it turns red, and the timer for waves to build is short when it comes to high rounds. Refunded for now. Definitely wouldn't recommend paying full price unless you don't care that zombies run in place sometimes or not able to build as it difficult to rotate objects and can't build anywhere as it will turn red. It says file missing for stream overlay but achievements still…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Good Horde mode type game. If you like zombie games yeah pick this up.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Not worth, i highly suggest not picking it up unless youre going for a 1-and-done drunk party play with some friends.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →My brothers, I want to help protect the cats For every 100 point we put a laser machine gun to kill zombies Stay human and help cats ／＞ フ | _ _ l ／` ミ＿xノ / | / ヽ ﾉ │ | | | ／￣| | | | | (￣ヽ＿_ヽ_)__) ＼二つ
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Don't recommend spending money on this, you can get the same experience if not a better one from Roblox.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →At first I thought this was just a free to play game or some cheapo game. I've been buying a lot of different games on sale and have been trying them out lately. This game is worth about $5.00. It gets boring very quickly in my opinion. There's some sort of perk tree and a few different characters in the game. Nice variety of zombies and weapons. There doesn't seem to be any story. Setups in the trailer videos are really expensive or maybe I just suck at building a cost effective base. Pick it…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →the game is not fast and not furious. very little family 3.5/10 - vin deisel
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Terrible game, everything is barebones, from animations to enemy AI. The guns dont have animations to ADS, the maps are the same, just re-skined, the game is unbalanced in the amount of money you get, shooting guns dont feel good, low enemy variation. Honestly i cant mention a single good thing about this. MAYBE if they invested more time making it, it could be better. I love wave shooters, killing floor 2 is the game i most played in steam, just get it instead of this. The fact that they are…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I received this very cheapily in a combo with HumanitZ (which is by the same publisher apparently)... I read the reviews beforehand and figured it wouldn't be anything too crazy, but since this genre doesn't have too many games, I figured why not at least try it. I wasn't going to write a review until I saw the full retail price... $15 for this!? That's not a lot of money, but this also isn't much of a game... Zero customization. You can't change keybindings. I didn't know it was possible to…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →This game is nuts on multiple levels. No tutorial or explanation of what you are doing but after some trial, error, and binding keys on the Steam Deck (hoping I understood what they did at the same time) because there was no community profile setup (will upload once I am done) I finally figured it out after about 10-15 rounds of dying. Basically it is a tower defense game and first person shooter hybrid. Works well. Spent about 2 hours last night taking waves of really stupid AI zombies…
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →I really like this game, it has nice graphics and it's very easy to uninstall.
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Horrible control and horrible building. Building is pretty much useless since so many things that get placed break, even though they are shown as being able to be placed.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Incredibly buggy and janky. Cool idea but implementation needs a lot more work.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Only played a bit close to release and it was fun then, just came back yesterday and the game's content has skyrocketed, so wreckomendead now!
positive · reviewer's own thumbsView post →Real bare bones game. A lot problems in combat and building mechanics. No real reward in playing and you can't acquire enough to build anything substantial even the low level zombies can smash through the highest quality block in a couple swipes, the higher level ones don't even have to be near the blocks to destroy the lot of them. Zombies glitch and become indestructible, destroyed the tanks on the flame thrower zombies and the not only didn't die but could still use the flame throwers and…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →A generic wave based horde shooter with building mechanics unfortunately it's so poorly thought out and untested that you can beat it by not playing i don't know if it actually is one, but it does have the hallmarks of an asset flip, and will break itself under its own weight, just like any other asset flip. The obvious idea is to buy blocks to create outposts and place sentries to help you defend it. In reality, you can easily glitch yourself beyond the maps boundaries on the very first…
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →definitely not worth the price point; game is clunky. zombies break now and then and get caught walking in place. animations are odd. you cant aim grenades and if you throw them upwards in the slightest they will just explode in the air. building is stilted and a lot of your defenses can kill you/break other placed defenses. 100%-able within less than 4 hours. would not recommend; feels like it was created within a few hours for a school project or something.
negative · reviewer's own thumbsView post →The most weakly made rip-off of Killing Floor. I can tell the devs put ZERO effort into this game.
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