While currently in its Alpha phase, the new Roblox game Michael's Zombies joins a massive crop of zombie-themed games on the free-to-play platform in 2022. Based on the zombie mode from the Call of Duty franchise, the game is a zombie-themed first-person shooter bound to climb to the top of popularity charts once all the bugs and glitches are ironed out later this year.

In the meantime, for Roblox gamers looking for a combination of the most amusing and most harrowingly realistic zombie-themed games available on the platform, the ones that stand out the most tend to offer unique experiences, epic storylines, immersive gameplay, and a whole bunch of baleful bloodshed.

Zombie Uprising

A gun laser trains on a zombie's arm in Zombie Uprising

With more than 480 million visits since its inception in 2020 (per Roblox), Zombie Uprising is the number one destination for survival horror game fans on the free-to-play and download platform. Developed by BRIANO1O, players accrue weapons, upgrade their artillery, and do their best to survive an undead onslaught and upgrade their character by mowing down as many blood-parched zombies as possible.

Garnering more than 2 million favorites to date, Zombie Uprising's BattlePass elevates the experience to a whole new level as players earn extra rewards, cases, income boosts, and ultra-powerful firearms like a Gatling laser gun, Railgun, and more. Fun, enthralling, and wildly popular, Zombie Uprising is not to be missed.

Zombie Strike

A man holds a machine gun over his shoulder in Zombie Strike

With more than 206 million visits and more than 500,00o favorites to date (per Roblox), Zombie Strike is another excellent horror game that supposedly takes its mechanical cues from such popular shooters as Counter-Strike. With an engaging multiplayer mode, players traverse a humongous map using two weapons thanks to its Dual Wield update, allowing players to waylay twice as many zombie ghouls.

Created by Kampfkarren and Megahammer in 2019, the game currently operates on 40 servers, making it easily accessible and highly replayable. With harder bosses to take on, weapons to loot, and new missions to unlock, Zombie Strike is a definite must-play.

Rise Of The Dead

A man points a gun at a zombie in artwork for Rise of the Dead

With a 92% approval rating (per Roblox), Rise of the Dead is a much more immersive zombie-themed horror RPG than the aforementioned shooters. With full-fledged missions, stories, and NPCs to assist amid a frightening zombie apocalypse, the game is for those who really want to take a deep dive into a nightmarish world where crafting, raiding, searching, and looting are just as integral as shooting and stabbing the undead monsters.

Created in 2014 by MXKhronos to feature an awesome Easter Egg mode and SMG Crit Multiplier Mod drops, and rogue human bosses to defeat as well, the updates and improvements to the game always keep the action fresh and ferocious.

Project Lazarus: Zombies

A gun is pointed at yellow-eyed zombies in Zombies: Project Lazarus

Amassing more than 130 million visits and roughly 1.5 million favorites since 2016 (per Roblox), Project Lazarus: Zombies also boasts a 95% approval rate. Makes sense, as who wouldn't want to use a nailgun and ray gun to brain a horde of fiendish flesh-starved reanimators?

Created by Logitech101, Project Lazarus has built a massive fan base as one of Roblox's earliest zombie-themed games (more than 1,400 active users), channeling the highly-acclaimed first-person shooter gameCall of Duty: World At War - Zombies, as a clear thematic and aesthetic influence. Whether building barricades or unlocking new weapons, the co-op shooter is more family-friendly than COD and routinely gets updates, including the most recent one on May 19, 2022.

Field Trip Z

Students storm the hallway in Field Trip Z

Despite its 79% approval rating, Field Trip Z has accrued a staggering 627 million visits since 2020, including 1.4 million favorites (per Roblox). The highly entertaining game recently got updated with a brand new ending reserved only for Pros, which is very hard to complete.

Created by Splitting Points Studio in 2020, the interactive zombie game allows players to determine various possible outcomes based on their in-game decision-making, putting the onus on gamers to make the wisest choices for the smoothest possible playthrough. The stellar story-based game set inside a high school also features puzzles, parkour, and epic boss battles that require cooperation with a team of players, making it extremely replayable.

Undead Defense Tycoon

Promo artwork for Roblox's Undead Defense Tycoon

Most serious Roblox completists will agree that Undead Defense Tycoon is among the best and brightest of its ilk, as it builds on the brand's most iconic Tycoon games. The money-based reward system and sheer variety of different zombies are in part why the game has gained 143 million visits and 624K favorites since its creation in 2020 (per Roblox).

Created By Box Games, the superb survival zombie horror experience puts emphasis on slaying as many undead ghouls as possible to gain monetary rewards which can be used to upgrade items, bolster one's arsenal, and perhaps most importantly, build defensive towers and protective barriers. An exciting mix of offensive and defensive-minded strategies, Undead Defense Tycoon currently boasts a 93% approval rating.

Recoil Zombies

A gun fires at two shadowy zombies in Zombies Recoil

Drastically differing from the cute, blocky graphics Roblox is known for, Recoil Zombies has some of the most viscerally realistic graphics of any zombie-themed game on the platform. As such, the game currently has a 92% approval rating (per Roblox) and should be tried by those looking for a more terrifying free-to-play horror game loaded with macabre visuals.

Created by Bad Skeleton with three distinct Call of Duty maps to choose from - Verruckt, Kino, and Nacht - Recoil Zombies simply tasks players with taking a weapon and defending against relentless onslaughts of bloodthirsty walkers, building barricades, and remaining alive as long as possible, making ideal playthroughs for solo and multiplayer modes.

Zombie Tag

Roblox artwork for Zombie Tag

With a brand new Viking level and chapter added on June 1st, Zombie Tag is another wildly amusing game that continues to reinvent itself. Amassing 40 million visits and 400K favorites since 2020 (per Roblox), the game fuses the childhood fun of freeze tag with the mortifying menace of a zombie incursion. Some players control zombies who try to infect humans, while others play as humans doing their best to avoid infection.

Created by The Gang Stockholm, the number of atmospheric settings in the game goes a long way in keeping the action fresh, including the Tropical arena, Shipwrecked map, horrifying Hospital, and underground Mines. With up to 20 players per server, Zombie Tag is pure fun for the whole family to enjoy, with puzzle-solving, evasion, and key collection much more important than killing ferocious brain-eaters.

Zombie Rush

With more than 662 million visits and more than 4 million favorites since its inception in 2013 (per Roblox), Zombie Rush is one of Roblox's oldest and most durable zombie-themed games. The game has garnered 94% favorability due to its unique third-person shooter layout and the ability for gamers to play as zombie characters. The huge collection of unique weapons that only zombies can wield will have players trying to take out their friends for quite a while.

Created by Beacon Studios in 2013, Zombie Rush really stands out due to its advanced zombie AI that increases the speed and agility of the monsters and makes it harder to kill them and the stellar arsenal upgrades that feature Nuclear Ice Cannons and countless other fun-to-wield weapons.

Zombie Attack

Roblox promo art for Zombie Attack

With basic gameplay functions that everyone and their mother can seemingly master, Zombie Attack is the king of the Roblox zombie game hill, amassing a whopping 1.3 billion visits and more than 5 million favorites since it was created in 2017 (per Roblox). The game currently holds a 93% approval rating.

Created by Zombie Attack Official, the main goal of the ultra-popular game is to build one's character through upgrades, which come about by slaughtering as many flesh-hungry monsters as possible. With a giant collection of weapons and a dependence on other players to keep teams safe, the sheer amount of bosses, levels, and zombie types, the simplicity of the game mechanics mixed with endless content make for a top-notch experience.

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