My Controversial Tier List For BEST Zombie Games Ever

Since I was young, I’ve played many different zombie games from State of Decay to Dying Light, and so I decided to rank them all here today with a few Resident Evil games included!
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[@backboardfilms]

Thanks for watching as always folks :) + I do know the Resident Evil games aren’t zombie games exactly, but originally I had an RE Tier List video planned that I scrapped and worked into this one, sorry for the confusion Feel free to share your favorite or least favorite zombie games as well

[@jaredrobinson7071]

Haven't finished video yet. My top zombie game of all time is Dying Light 1. I honestly don't know that it can be matched. Not even by it's own sequel.

[@ghostlegit]

I prefer dead island but dying light 1 is solid

[@K4yak425]

@@ghostlegit wierdo

[@MrZexyy]

Dying light 1 is by far the best zombie game. Nothing comes close to it IMO, plus it got supported with tons of stuff. Honestly a goat game. I don’t think any game will emulate it for a good while. 😀 RE4 was also my fav RE, played it on the ps2 back in the day, can’t wait for the remake. Also this is your list, you pick whatever you like the most man, don’t let others make you think different, nothing is controversial about your preference. :D

[@gravesoulja1654]

dead island 2 gona be better

[@MrZexyy]

@@gravesoulja1654 It will be fun(hopefully) but it won’t be better. Doesn’t offer as much and doesn’t have the uniqueness.

[@abdullahafzalkhan8414]

​@@MrZexyy true, nothing can beat dying lights 1 atmosphere.

[@TheBigBallsOfFury]

@@gravesoulja1654 didnt age so well I'd imagine

[@fear4201]

Dying light is just fu**ing BETTER

[@Ssilhouette0]

Ss tier for dying light 1 is perfect

[@CyberMonty2077]

“Zombies Ate my Neighbours” was one of the first games I ever played. It was on the Sega Mega Drive. It’s what got me into gaming. :P

[@CyberMonty2077]

Also: would Resident Evil 4 be counted as a zombie game? Don’t get me wrong, it’s a great game, BUT!!! they aren’t zombies. :P The same goes for Resident Evil 7 & 8. There are no zombies in those games.

[@backboardfilms]

@@CyberMonty2077 I planned on making two tier lists. One going over the RE games, and one all zombie games I’ve played as you see here. I decided to scrap the first one and combine it but rolled with the same title as the 2nd video. I know haha, but 95% of the other games are zombie games so it makes sense to just go with that for the title

[@CyberMonty2077]

@@backboardfilms ah I get you! Still a great video and list. You should give “Zombies ate my neighbours” a go if you get a chance to play it. It’s a simple game, but it’s so much fun.

[@ImNot_Yuma]

Nice tier list

[@Egg-scrabble]

One of the most underrated game is evil within

[@mejrikais6002]

A man of great taste i agree with you

[@kadenlewis7432]

Riptide isn’t all jungle, but until you get out of the jungle it does suck. I think you should push through it and finish it some time.

[@backboardfilms]

I will sometime before Dead Island 2 releases

[@NotAHackerr]

7 days to die at D tier is a violation my guy

[@backboardfilms]

It’s an old game that never got the next gen update it deserves. It’s really just not my type of game, and half the time I played it back then I found something frustratingly broken or ridiculous.

[@Flymonster0953]

@@backboardfilms Yeah the devs are kinda ruining the game. its quite sad since I loved that game

[@backboardfilms]

@@Flymonster0953 I can see why people love it. It can be a fun game, it’s just it hasn’t reached its potential in my eyes

[@sanandreasX]

Absolutely love the zombie genre

[@Jonathanainsley69]

🤣😂😂 I remember seeing this live

[@BaehelpDee]

Just made me remember lollipop chainsaw

[@paranoyd70]

Have you played Days Gone? It started out as a Playstation (PS4) exclusive but has since been ported to PC, which many claim is the superior version. The game starts out a bit slow but as you gain skills & upgrade your motorcycle it gets way more fun, imho. The Devs were adamant about saying "they aren't zombies"...but lets be real, they are zombies.

[@kingklipo]

Project Zomboid is SS+ tier!

[@backboardfilms]

I like the game a lot, but like I said it isn’t really for me. I think if I played it with friends I’d feel differently

[@kingklipo]

@@backboardfilms dont worry, its your tier list after all lol

[@samb9540]

I think it makes sense to put dead island on B tier

[@gaminginstinct989]

Bro don't worry , ss tier for dying light 1 is perfect

[@amma_004]

I agree with alot of these

[@noth6957]

Dead Island Dave never gave up...

[@backboardfilms]

He sure didn’t haha. He hasn’t said anything on the channel since

[@DirtyGeorge]

​@@backboardfilms context

[@YoHarlz]

you should revisit robloxian war z (name has now been changed to last light) the game isn’t out yet, but they put pictures an clips out of the environment an ui etc. an it looks so much better from the 1st release of it, but you don’t gotta if you don’t want to, i want to hear your opinion On it tho, wish you all the best now.

[@backboardfilms]

I'm working on a video showcasing some parts of it, so yes, it'll happen soon!

[@kingkuder8427]

State of decay isn't the best zombie story but oh man is the gameplay addicting in either game. I'd personally rate it higher but can respect where it lands on your list. State of decay 2, Dying Light, and Left 4 dead 2 are my choices for top tier.

[@backboardfilms]

I may have to give the State of Decay games another chance

[@Nintendude2013]

@@backboardfilms passed one of the maps on state of decay 2. Found it too tedious. I would probably rate it 3 out of 5. Gameplay was very repetitive..

[@GMBoyYT]

What Deep Silver Had did to dead island and techland Will go down as one of the biggest crimes in gaming history just like EA betraying Titanfall. #SaveDeadIsland #SaveTitanfall

[@TheOneButter]

Deep Silver better watch out for Gabriel Mitchel Boyle and his hashtags

[@GMBoyYT]

@@TheOneButter What? Deep Silver committed a crime by being EA and killing off franchises such as homefront. I don't do any of these Hashtags anymore due to what Happened.

[@kingklipo]

#SaveTitanfall

[@backboardfilms]

I agree with the #SaveTitanfall part… it’s such a shame they canceled that Titanfall story game recently

[@GMBoyYT]

@@backboardfilms The Quote from me: No Titanfall 3 😭😭😭

[@Sly_1Sora]

Honestly I love the dead rising series dead rising 2 off the record is probably like my top favorite games and was the first game I ever played out of the 4 minus dead rising 4 I really love dead rising 3 I would give it a A or low or high B tier but I can see why you didn’t like it after half way

[@Namela2135]

How is there no mention of RE1 in here? I’m assuming it’s because you haven’t played it, but if you’re gonna make a tier list for the best zombie games I feel like you need the play THE zombie game.

[@matthewhughes318]

I still don’t get why re7 is better than re8 I struggle to find reasons even after playing both over again. For some reason I enjoyed 8 more than 7, and no it’s not because it was too scary 😂 I could give the reasons why, but I respect your opinion.

[@crimson634]

Meh not the worst list I'd ever seen. Missing quite a few zombie games. Such as the other Resident Evil games, Zombi, Survivalist, House of the Dead, Dead State, Contagion, Last Stand, Daymare, Obscure, Evil Within, Back 4 Blood and a ton of other indie games. But I can't blame you if you just hadn't played these games, but I think it would have made your list a little more concrete since some of the ones I just mentioned are pretty bad (i.e. Back 4 Blood deserves to be C or even D tier) and it might have elevated some of your other titles if you added some truly bad zombie games.

[@backboardfilms]

No one cares if a list is "concrete"... it's just a bunch of opinions about past games I played. If people make lists just to get validation, then that defeats the whole purpose

[@crimson634]

@@backboardfilms lmao okay bud. Opinions are like assholes and all that crap. Just saying you're missing a ton of truly bad zombie games, but you're also missing quite a few gems. Maybe you should check them out and redo your list in the future.

[@turbodunkcity1078]

Huh, don’t see Unturned in there.

[@backboardfilms]

I completely forgot about it lol I would rate it a D… the developers completely destroyed that game and turned it into a battle royale

[@simPL306]

Uh-oh, controversy alert!!

[@LOLWHY254]

butter

[@crimson634]

State of Decay YOSE belongs in A category...really nothing else like it. Better than Project Zomboid since you know... State of Decay actually has NPCS with DEPTH.

[@backboardfilms]

State of Decay is one of the buggiest / boring survival games i've played. That Depth is nothing compared to the sandbox possibilities within Project Zomboid thanks to mods

[@crimson634]

@@backboardfilms Sorry you feel that way. Project zomboid's NPC mods are pretty shit, unfortunately. They don't have the same level of depth that NPCs in State of Decay present. I'm not sure if you played State of Decay or State of Decay YOSE. If you only played the first State of Decay, then I could see why you would consider it buggy & boring, but State of Decay YOSE is the most updated version with all the DLC, bug fixes and graphical updates. I didn't encounter any bugs at all in the 293 hours that I have in it. Like I stated, I'd easily rank it an A. It has a lot of stuff that is lacking in many other zombie games. The survivor management aspect being the most noteworthy in addition to permadeath.

[@QwertyUiop-ql1hk]

Am I the only one who think that RE:village is better than Re2? Surely, I'm not the only one, right?

[@spy4307]

days gone?

[@backboardfilms]

Never played it

[@spy4307]

@BackBoardFilms fair enough, but i highly suggest you give it a try, its probably in my top 3 favourite zombie games

[@Spidoc]

RE4VR isn’t even close to the best VR game.

[@backboardfilms]

Well yea, it’s my opinion, I love the Resident Evil games as you saw by the rest of the list so of course I’d love it in VR. But feel free to recommend me some other VR GAMES

[@oisindaly2669]

Dying light is simply the best zombie game ever made

[@mukiljk7165]

Days gone is underrated way to much , it's a good open world game. Has a decent story , good graphics and mechanics, I'd say it's the best open world zombie game

[@DefaultChamp]

I can't tell if this is a real list🤣 but I guess every Hass there opinions because my list would be completely different

[@backboardfilms]

Yea, opinions sure do exist

[@deenman23]

dead space???hello?

[@backboardfilms]

I never played it

[@deenman23]

@@backboardfilms dude...go right now get the dead space remaster its hands down the best remaster ever made,its also the closesy action zombie horror game that actualy gives horror vibes without actualy being...you know,a horror game

[@crimson634]

Could be argued that Dead Space isn't technically a zombie game. The space theme kind of puts it more into a space horror game even though the necromorphs are nearly functionally identical to zombies, but people don't consider Halo a "Zombie" game just because the Flood exist, right?

[@heribertovizcaino4682]

I don't know but dead rising has a low chance of getting a remake. Because of dead risng 4 sucking. But resident evil also had a failure and came back with a better game.

[@Athamos]

resident evil 4 is a better zombie game than dead island? oh boy, im done here, don't need to see the rest of the video

[@backboardfilms]

👋🏻

[@ghostlegit]

Resident evil isn't a good zombie game. It's more of a survival horror.

[@Athamos]

@@ghostlegit RE4 is more like a gears of war game than a zombie game, its a joke compare this to dead island

[@ghostlegit]

@@Athamos lmfao it's fine to like resident evil 4 but it's not a zombie game. Resident evil aren't zombie games.

[@backboardfilms]

@@ghostlegit I originally had two tier list videos in the works. One for RE games and one for zombie games. I scrapped the RE one and combined it with this one and just rolled with title for the 2nd video. Trust me, I know lol. The first 3 games are somewhat zombie games though with your more occasional crazier mutations. I look at the RE games as survival horror puzzle games, the first couple at least. Then they become straight up action games until RE7

[@Namela2135]

RE8>RE7

[@offbrandfiji6487]

no cod zombies? lame

[@backboardfilms]

I grew up with Cod Zombies, but there isn't an full on "Cod Zombies game" so it doesn't make much sense to list it here

[@tmvledzep]

You're trolling... RE2R is garbage

[@backboardfilms]

Ok, opinions exist ✨

[@tmvledzep]

@@backboardfilms I think you need to go replay it without rose colored glasses. Every character interaction is terrible and off-key, the dialogue is absurdly atrocious, and the gameplay and controls are deliberately clunky. Its like 90s game design philosophy with modern skin. Atmosphere and graphics might be the only things they nailed with it.

[@QwertyUiop-ql1hk]

@@tmvledzep And like the dude says, there's a reason why opinion exist. I respect his opinion, unlike you, the one who forces someone to follow yours.