Last updated on January 4th, 2026 at 02:28 am
Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare – Strategy Game Review
Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare is a Strategy/Entertainment/Adventure game from ABE Entertainment Limited, first launched in 8th March 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 56,790+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare Stand Out
DEAD AHEAD: ZOMBIE WARFARE
Resist against the undead in this new tactical survival sequel of Dead Ahead!
Slaughter the undead invasion in one of the most fun survival games of the year! Kill raid after
raid of zombies, collect supplies, look for survivors and most importantly… create your own
legacy!
ZOMBIE INVASION
Defend your bus and don’t let the hungry horde eat the living! Breakthrough barricades on
your way and set up the battle camp to your advantage. Gather your team of gladiators and
send them into battle, use any means necessary to ward off the horde of pixel crazed flesh
eaters! Slash, shoot or burn the dead with barrels, Molotov cocktails, and grenades. Be direct
and explosive or stealth kill your opponents.
USE YOUR BRAINS, DON’T LOSE THEM
Show that you have the real steel to conquer the maps! Finish off as many zombies as you can to
become the ultimate freedom fighter! Command and conquer by using tactically offensive
and defensive moves to obliterate the zombies and barricades! Remember – the rising dead
won’t make it easy for you.
IMPROVE YOUR SKILLS AND GEAR TO STAY ALIVE
Collect items, earn experience, rebuild your bus and complete quests to upgrade your units
and vehicles. The more gear you get, the more zombies you will be able to take on! Become
the ultimate slayer of the undead! Banish the banshees to eternal hell! Contest against other
player’s high scores!
WHAT AWAITS YOU:
- Blood-and-guts action-strategy game with a sense of humor
- Safeguard the bus and your troops at all costs! NO DISCORD ALLOWED!
- A huge world with numerous locations
- Plenty of survivor units and zombies
- Upgrades, special items and optional quests
- Stop the world end
- FUN!
This Strategy game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 30th December 2025
Recent improvements include:
Hello, survivors! Here's what's new in this update:
- Christmas is coming! A ten-day Christmas event starts December 19th with a chance to obtain new units and several unit skins
- A new way to get rid of your exceess items and charms
- An archive for all cutscenes in the game
- New skins for Red Hood, Farmer and Sniper Polina
And lots of other smaller changes!
Download & Availability
Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Dead Ahead: Zombie Warfare on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
Ive always enjoyed mobile zombie survival games, this one in particular scratches a certain itch Ive had for quite sometime. Great animation, decent dialogue, and pretty clean progression system. Gameplay loop is consistent but stays refreshing with new maps and modes that you unlock as u go.
We love how there are different types of zombies and the animations are great and the vibes like the sandstorms are great and its cool how one type of the zombies can only come out when your at a graveyard.
A very good game we like how every skin means a different skill/attribute it is a really thought of game but one thing we didnt understand an item set.
Such a good game to play when youre bored. Ive played it off and on for about two years, and we honestly cant say that Ive found a game quite like it. We gone days playing it for hours and others where we goes weeks without getting on. And yet its still so fun. 10/10 recommend.
We have bern playing this game for 3 years, we wanna give a kudos to the developers who game this game what it is today, constant updates, skins, units, etc show what most games dont have and its devs like you guys! Although the game has been getting a bit harder to play still super fun and exciting.
The game is fun, but the zombies are way too strong and most levels spam enemies at the start, giving you no time to send out anything.
Love it its great tho grindy and a bit p2w.
Can someone explain to us why the hell the game is STOPPING us from playing it with the gas can feature? We downloaded your game TO PLAY IT. WHY STOP ME EVERY 10 MINUTES THAT we PLAY.
Loved the game. Would recommend.
Please get rid of fuel or just make it regenerate faster if you cant get rid of fuel. Please we would enjoy the game more because Im a bad player.
A really addictive game, which has strategy, fun characters, and amazing designs, though it is quite a hard difficulty spike if you don't know what you're doing. Tldr: fun game, good designs, but difficult for new players.
Cant get coins easy without austin (in game purchase).
Pinches morras tetonas y el bombero es un vergas.
Hello our name is Grimm we love this game we really appreciate the art and work put into this awesome game but we have one gripe the fact that we cannot reuse a characters alternate skin maybe if each skin would be able to be used while already existing on another team to be the icing on the cake ohh and of course more slots would be great thank you for your time. Ps . Please give us more dead ahead rider characters, hero was an awesome surprise.
Its fun to play for when you get time off and arent busy much. Its fun to do lots to unlock.
This game is addictively fun and we do enjoy it a lot, our only note being there arent a lot of BIPOC characters. Theres the occasional one but its a predominantly white character selection with important and powerful characters tending to be white.
One criticism: the difficulty curve is vertical. But anyway its still one of the best zombie games out there but we dont have anything else to add so just go figure all the other stuff out by playing the game ;).
We LOVE THE PIXEL ART. Whoever did the pixel art and character designs are responsible for the games success. The amount of characters and builds you can do is amazing and we hope the Free Hugs Zombie gets lots of hugs. All the references to other franchises are great as well. One BIG complaint, is that the AI in this game is extremely frustrating at times. We dont hate it because people and zombies acting unpredictable is kind of charming but it does get really annoying.
We love that you dont HAVE to watch adds, but you can for more rewards. Overall we love the leveling and charm system, as well as the different locations and events.
Great game but it's gonna take forever to get the stuff because everything is behind a paywall. Good to pass the time through.
This is the only game that actually worth grinding the enemies the units all good.
Our second favorite mobile game next to the battle cats, both highly recommended if your a serious moblie gamer.
NGL if this game had offline mode we probably wouldnt be able to focus IRL lol its addicting when you get your units and wanting to level them up.
When the character dies turns into normal zombie self when different skins are put on it, it turns in two different zombies could have bullet resistance or not Different effects like freezing or the blue slime effect turns zombies into a different type to the effect. Zombies So even when your character dies, its still fun to see what it turns into With the different effects, make them stronger and those zombies dont get put in the levels as much so if you want unlock them, you have to have your unit get killed in a certain way Making even your unit, death, exciting and fun to see what you get.
Its funny,we think many people will love the game if they have played it.
Its just really awesome at passing time.
Pretty good game. Simple and satisfying while difficulty entertaining at the same time. Still being worked on a and updated but the dev(s) did a pretty good job and listen to feedback/suggestions and have an interest in making it better. Pretty fun pass time, no mandatory obligation to play every waking moment other than how fun it gets on its own. An excellent and unique feeling game. Easily worth 5 stars. Just wanna clarify something, we see some people on here complaining about how difficult it gets. While that is true, this is what makes it a strategy game. You get to certain parts where how high your units levels/stats are doesnt matter as much as what specific units you use and at what time. The beginning to middle of the game can be somewhat to moderately challenging. Then the end of the game really takes some patience and trial an error and is especially challenging. But another great part about this game is it has an open link straight to the community, you can search on a forum or even ask questions about strategy from other players, devs, and talk about all kinds of general information. So if youre really stuck and trying to get past, you can look up level specific strategy from others on the forum. This game is always changing and adding new stuff and is worth taking a moment to download and try it out. One of the best (if not THE best) and unique games Ive downloaded from the app store.
Awesome fun, love that the developers keep adding a new things so game doesnt get old.
This has to be the best game we ever played.
Took us a while to get good but its cool.
Its the best zombie game Ive ever played. We think Im a little addicted. You have got to play it.
Used to play this game about a year or two ago and its better than we remember,we cant access the account we had on google play which had all our progress since we have transferred to iphone but nonetheless, great game.
Very enjoyable to play and the art makes it all the better. We're addicted to this game ahhhhhh.
We like watching people fight zombies. And we like the new team bonus.
Very fun and hard game went way past our expectations.
We really love the fact that this game actually requires a brain.
Great job in making this game, the graphics and animations fit so well and Im even thinking of getting a tattoo of one of the TMF guys ha keep up the great work and look forward to more games like this. :) love the new update too.
The best game ever is a lot of fun.
Dazw is not if, but one of the most amazing pixel/retro looking games Ive played, it truly does itself well with the enemy and troops designs as well as background details. Ive been playing for some time and it never bores us to play it again.
We dont rate often but this game is epic.
The game is so awesome we've been non stop since we downloaded it lol can't wait to unlock the characters we want to make our team freaking strong.
Game is very fun, very interesting, and engaging we will say you can advance a whole lot faster with money but no need to pay to have fun we just wish there was more rewards personality but overall the game is amazing.
One of our best strategic game in 2025.
This game a super cool artstyle, and the characters have a lot of personality for just being 2d. The animations are also beautiful for the fighting and effects. This game was super awesome, definitely recommend.
Been playing this for a few years now they always reward players throughout the year with coins and in game dollars etc. Definitely have come a long way from when we first started playing.
Do you guys actually play your own games, its fun and all but we dont want to spend our hard earned money on this game so its super challenging all the time. Its fun but we catch ourselves uninstalling it simply because of how difficult it is to get cool characters.
Its like fun and stuff but we feel like the progression slows down a lot after a while also having to wait to play a game is weird.
In this game, you take control of a group of survivors looking for a cure/way out. Very challenging, fun, strategic game, think 'south park phone destroyer' but with zombies, and more of a story. Some in-game purchases required, but other than that: challenging levels, great soundtrack, good character design, fun gameplay style, cool gimmicks and art style, and very nice system all-and-all, would highly recommend.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 4.3.0
- Size: 215.23 MB
- iOS: 15.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Loot Boxes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Profanity or Crude Humor
- Developer: ABE Entertainment Limited
Last updated: 30th December 2025 | Genre: Strategy, Entertainment | Developer: ABE Entertainment Limited