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2010 PlayStation

A top-down zombie shooter from Housemarque where you fight through hordes using guns, traps and exploding cars. Score multipliers and weapon upgrades drive the arcade-style chase for high scores, including in co-op.

What defines Dead Nation:

  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Action-packed real-time combat
  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Challenging difficulty

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Killing Floor III

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  • Dark, serious atmosphere
  • Co-op or multiplayer
  • Action-packed real-time combat

A cooperative horde shooter set in a grim future where squads fend off waves of mutated Zeds while upgrading classes, weapons and skills. The focus is on fast, gory action rather than narrative.

Sniper Elite: Nazi Zombie Army 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

A co-op third-person shooter for up to four players where you fight through a zombie-overrun Berlin as a sniper. Precision shots, horde pressure and teamwork drive the action.

The Midnight Walkers

Challenging difficulty

A hardcore first-person extraction shooter where you scavenge a huge complex full of zombies and rival players, craft gear and maintain your hideout. Die, and you lose everything.

Resistance 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

A console first-person shooter set in an alternate 1950s, where humanity fights the Chimera invasion across the United States. Besides the campaign, it offers an eight-player class-based co-op mode and large-scale online multiplayer.

Resistance 3

Lavish presentation

A grim first-person shooter set in an alien-ravaged 1950s America, where you fight to survive as Joseph Capelli. Upgradeable weapons, the weapon wheel and a co-op campaign define the experience.

Vigor

Co-op or multiplayer

Vigor is a free-to-play looter shooter set in post-war Norway, where short matches have you scavenging gear, fighting other players and trying to escape alive. A shelter you upgrade between runs ties the sessions together.

Back 4 Blood

Dark, serious atmosphere

A co-op zombie shooter from the Left 4 Dead creators where four Cleaners blast through hordes of Ridden. A card-based deck system reshapes each run, adding build strategy and variety to the chaos.

Alien Breed 2: Assault

Lavish presentation

A top-down sci-fi shooter where you play engineer Conrad fighting through swarms of aliens on a crippled spaceship, upgrading weapons and completing mission objectives, with co-op support.

Killing Floor 2

Dark, serious atmosphere

A brutal co-op wave shooter where up to six players use class-based perks to hold off hordes of grotesque Zed clones, set to a heavy metal soundtrack with slow-motion gore. Each match builds to a nasty boss fight, and leveling perks keeps you coming back.

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