Last updated on December 9th, 2025 at 07:29 pm
Live or Die: Zombie Survival – Adventure Game Review
Live or Die: Zombie Survival is a Adventure/Simulation game from Gemjam llc, first launched in 19th November 2018.
It’s rated 17+ and currently has 2,008+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Live or Die: Zombie Survival Stand Out
Hey! Hey, wake up, survivor! Good, you’re alive, we’re glad you’ve made it! Take a breath while we get you up to speed. The apocalypse came when we least expected it and the world as we know it came to an end in mere days… That cursed virus outbreak wiped out almost the entire population leaving behind nothing but post apocalyptic wasteland filled with dangers previously unknown to humanity. The virus killed billions and those who weren’t so lucky turned into the horrifying walking dead – zombies, monsters, mutants. Don’t panic, you are not the last survivor! Our agency did come across other people fighting for their survival every day. Look, we can’t help you with much, we’re already spread too thin, but we will give you knowledge vital to survive. The fight for your survival will be brutal but, hey, if you do survive, you’ll have a million of post apocalypse action stories to pass on to your children! Take this protocol and good luck!
Survival protocol:
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Every survivor must rely on himself above all so start training! Evolve yourself to the max of your abilities, evolve in building, crafting, using armor and weapons and of course evolve in killing zombies, mutants and bloodthirsty monsters. Each day you survive in the open world makes you smarter, each mile you outrun your own death makes you faster, each head you smash to pieces makes you stronger. Evolve, craft, build – learn to survive at any cost, fight for your survival against all odds!
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Even the strongest survivor will die without a proper weapon and armor. Each time you evolve to the next level you’ll unlock more blueprints for crafting. Make the best of them! Find what suits you best – a fast knife to pierce the zombies, a heavy hammer to smash mutants or a loud but effective gun to make the walking dead even deader. Crafting and building are your main means of survival in this harsh apocalypse!
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Remember survivor, no matter how effective you are with your weapon or how hard your armor is you’ll still need to rest to survive this apocalypse. The open world of post apocalyptic wasteland is a very dangerous place, so build your own shelter! Building walls and upgrading them, setting up traps, crafting unpickable locks for doors – do everything to protect yourself from zombies, monsters and mutants. Upgrade your shelter to keep you safe from the walking dead. Survive the day in post apocalyptic wasteland, survive the night in a comfy bed.
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You might have blueprints for building a nuclear station, but not enough resources for building even a creaky barn. Explore and scavenge the open world of wasteland to gather everything you can. Resources are vital for your survival! You’ll need them for building, crafting and upgrading. Zombies, mutants and monsters won’t hesitate before trying to destroy your shelter and turn one more survivor into a walking dead. Don’t wait – explore and scavenge the open world!
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Be careful! The world has changed, it is now a harsh wasteland full of dangerous walking dead. Zombies, mutants and monsters definitely lost in intelligence but gained in strength, speed and ferocity. They WILL try to kill you at every turn, and you WILL have to fight them to survive. Upgrade your weapons and armor, start crafting the best equipment you can and be ready to explore and fight for your survival.
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Many people we getting ready for an apocalypse to come, too bad they were not ready enough. Fortunately for you they left behind many places of interest to scavenge and get unique resources. Look for abandoned labs, military bases, bunkers and loot them before other survivors beat you to it. If they do, however, you can always search for their shelter and rob them of their means for survival… Keep in mind though that trespassers won’t be treated kindly.
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Immerse yourself in this post apocalyptic open world by completing quests and getting unique rewards. Make everything and anything to survive and tell your story!
This Adventure game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Live or Die: Zombie Survival is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 28th November 2024
Recent improvements include:
Bug fixes
Minor updates
Download & Availability
Live or Die: Zombie Survival is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Live or Die: Zombie Survival 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:
Love this game but whenever we try to play on of the other survival island games it send us to this game instead.
We enjoy playing the game, its fun!!!!! BUT LATELY we HAVE BEEN HAVING ISSUES AND CANT PLAY THE GAME SOMETIMES BECAUSE THE APP ALWAYS CLOSES BACK UP. Its really ANNOYING, let along they making us waste money if you wanna continue to play once you run out of energy. Come on with the bull.
So we love survival games we choose to go on your game then it kicked us out so we downloaded it again it keeps doing it thats problem should probably fix it.
Thats all. It wont open anymore.
Crashes all the time!! Lucky if we can even get it to load! Good game when it works.
This one is wasteland survival its exact same game play and it have u do the same thing in wasteland survival.
Ive re-downloaded this game twice now and every time we try to open the app it just kicks us back to our home screen. As in we cant even load anything, the second the app is open Im kicked out.
Crashes every time we wanna play it.
Its a really fun game except the fact that its almost impossible to find a good weapon which makes it hard to stay alive. And every time you die you lose everything you have on you- weapons, clothes, shoes, all of it. Which is frustrating if you spent money on getting some of the stuff you had. Just dont buy anything because its not worth it its a total waste of money.
Its ok not bad but not too good but one thing the bunker we start we wish we could go back there and the loot reset it would be cool and when you fix the bugs and energy drinks/energy Ill be a happy camper :).
We love the game but we need help finding Titian and tungsten ore could you tell us were to find them. The only other thing is that are weapons break otherwise we love this game so much. Im trying to also finish the motorcycle but Im basically trying to say the game needs a guide. If you could fix this we would play so much more and have a more enjoyable time. So please solve this problem . We have a idea that if you go to a place it will tell you what resources that place has. So please accept our Idea.
Dont get us wrong we love the game the features and the gameplay are great.but when the first time download this game it was a horrible experience. Every time we traveled the came crashed.so we deleted it then when we considered giving it another try it was impressive. We wasnt crashing anymore and we had a better gaming experience. This game deserves a lot more respect. Thank you for reading this.
Its an amazing game but 85% of the time the game crashes. Please fix this.
Okay so we had downloaded this game before on our iPhone 5s. It wasnt this version. It was Live or Die Survival- (Reloaded or Evolved?) (Dont be mislead, it was essentially the same thing as now, just without the cool laboratory intro). We had bought in app products, we had things going well in that game. Cool armor, repair kits, guns. A good start. Then the game updated and we lost everything. We never played it for a while after that. Until we got our iPhone 8 and tried to give this game another shot. It said type in a code to load progress. We did that, it started a cool into. And nothing happened. Or at least we never saw our previous in app purchases loaded.. We only rate this game 2 stars because of this, only 2 stars because we find it unplayable (Because we have to grind to get everything back now). Other than that. We enjoy what the devs did to the game. Theyre getting a fan base, and are doing well. However, Developers, if you see this. Do us a favor. At the very least, get rid of the character models light up sunglasses. It annoys us. Put a circle of light around him. And dont make it a purple light. Thanks! Enjoy your game everyone.
This game would be better if it didnt only work on WiFi.
Today was the first day we played and instantly got hooked, we were at a crash site where we unfortunately died , a notification pops up asking if Id like to buy (.99) second chance drones it not only revives you but you done lose any of the things you gathered. Unfortunately we , clicked on it 2x , second time by accident. Sadly we got absolutely nothing. And yes we were connected to a strong WiFi and we also checked our bank and of course money was taken out. We also bought a special forces kit and that too was a no show. All in all its a good game we would just like to know where the hell is all the things we purchased and lost . We would appreciate it if we could get our money back if they are not going to give us or restore what we bought or lost. Very disappointed.
This game made us have to download a other game it this is the worst.
You cant change gender or players name in backpack screen with your inventory. Why? Please fix this its annoying and disappointing.
We just started playing this, yes its similar to others in this genre but we find this fun so far only about an hour into it.
Thats app is not worth it your weapons do last only 2 hits and it breaks and a zombie can kill you faster then you can hit them.
We like the game but we keep losing items that we gather every time the game kicks us out.
Ive made 3 purchases, one of the after uninstalling and reinstalling the game. Yes, Ive check all inboxes and nothing! Cant get further in the game as the home land is out of resources and need better weapons to continue. Really disappointing, and somehow we better get our $9 back.
Decent weapons and loot. Heals are very low to start. Not too much pay for play. Big glitch on iPhone 7 software 12.2. Sometimes you cannot move or strike. It may be when you use a weapon, switch weapons, use a heal, or open your backpack. The way out of the glitch is to open the backpack and close it. Obviously it leads to many deaths and loss of items. Only happens about 5% of time and it possible to survive one weak enemy with full health and decent armor. Big enemies are pretty tough to beat. A tip, graveyard isnt to bad, even for newbies. Suburbs have great drops if you have the heals to survive. Overall good. Just wish we wouldnt lose so many items and so much time/travel points on the glitches.
Just recently did the new update and the app crashes every time we try to open with new updates. Very upset! Ive been with this game for a long while. Hopefully we havent lost all our game results.
…great potential with lots of areas for growth however beware of investing too much into it yet… After months of building up go to move something and it's gone in a blink along with all your built up resources (ie time spent for not).
To much donate required, once youre dead you have big chances to not find your body after respawn, durability of items is very low.
This started out better than last day on earth but it was like we got to strong to fast and now any time we leave the base we get destroyed by another player so now we have no choice but to quit we were about to drop some serious cash on this glad it showed its true colors early.
Really wanted to like the game, have spent money on it, more than we should have. Day 10 login is supposed to be a reanimating drone, instead while looking at the picture of the drone you get an energy drink. The army bases include zombies that are almost impossible to kill, guns wear out rapidly, and the wheel of chance is rigged and almost always just gives out 1 gold piece. If some of the game mechanics were fixed it would be a good game.
We wish we could give this game a 5 star rating, but this last update, has so many problems. Problems like constantly shutting itself off. We just tried to put all our latest finds in their boxes, make more clothing, put more ore in the furnace, and so on, but the game keeps shutting itself off. As for going to the suburbs, which we waited to explore for 2 months, we never get to, without the game once again, shutting itself off. We Love, Love this game, and do not want to uninstall it, but if we cant play it, we may have no choice, and that really upsets us. We have spent around a hundred dollars in total, on the packs and other things, to keep going. Please fix the shutting off problem. Now with this new update(scene download), we cant even access the game. It shuts off at the loading page. Please fix this shutdown problem.
This game is good but we shouldnt lose the stuff we paid for when we die if its like that make stuff more cheaper idk.
Its a good game but needs wepons to start off like two knifes or something.
Would have been 5 stars but been waiting forever on update.
No random spawns for engine parts or wheels. Avoid this game at all costs.
Really enjoying the new location. Tons of loot!! Please dont change a thing. Lol,except opening up the bottom floor.
Now this is what this game should have been glad the developers took it to the next level.
A bit glitchy and not as well made as Some but still fun.
We like games like this. There are a few out that follow the same guidelines and gameplay. We like the different style of weapons that will become available. Our character reminds us of Frank West from the Dead Rising series. This game has great potential to be a fun daily player. We hope that with future updates our characters actions will become more smooth as far as actions go. It is a little choppy right now. Please decrease the travel times. That seems to be a complaint here in other surveys. Keep up the great work and we are looking forward to the current game issues getting a fresh update.
This game had potential until the last update. You cant organize your camp without some random creature showing up that takes 500 hit points to rid, most weapons had their damage cut nearly in half, impossible timelines forcing you to buy energy. We left ldoe for this for the reasons they switched it too. Pay to play/stay alive more than a day. Garbage.
Trash after update. Pure garbage, weapons do less damage, break faster, just trash.
One of the best games Ive played thanks.
Great game! A little slow in the beginning without a weapon or tool but great game after u get stuff/ supplies to start ur self out.
We just started playing this and our quest is to go to the post office? Where the heck is the post office? We dont see it in the map anywhere as an option to go to.
Ive played LDOE: Survival before, and this has the same mechanics. We hope they can change some stuff up, but overall this is pretty good.
Cool game excellent time killer.
It is extremely difficult to make to auto button turn on and off without making the character move instead. Same with the button that makes him crouch. Another oddity is that if you click on a berry to select it, it eats it instead.
Gave it 3 stars for the time being. We like the game but controls are slow to respond. Your life level wont replenish with down time needing to much food to get to a level to survive.(we.e. If we stop playing today and then play 24 hours later our health level is the same. Also you only get 1 chance to respawn and keep your stuff unless you buy more, at least you should get 1 every 24 hour period.
The game is fun, when it works correctly. The game constantly shuts itself down randomly. Die, game shuts down, travel game shuts down, lock your phone, game shuts down. It happens allllll the time and is extremely frustrating when you gotta wait a few minutes to reload the game each time. Do this three or four times a hour. Our other issues is the lack of the ability to increase energy or health. Granted yes clothes increase your defense and what not but even that is limited. Possibly even a gift that temporarily increases it or something. Other then that. It's a fun and hard game. Don't play if you don't like dying a lot.
Game is good but it needs improvements. Controls are difficult to maneuver the guy so it takes time to just get how to walk straight. If you improve the controls, it could be decent.
This game is amazing but the latest update came with a little issue, the little direction joystick has been pushed to the far end of the screen in this update and it really strains the finger to move the character, we use an iphone x so iam not sure if its for all devices but really need to fix this because we have been straining our thumb trying to move.
We picked up on it fast because Ive played other survival games.. This game does you no favors. Need to wait almost a full minute to play after hitting the icon. No thanks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 0.4.81
- Size: 492.43 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: AR, EN, FR, DE, HI, ID, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ES, TH, TR, VI
- Content Advisory: Frequent/Intense Alcohol, Tobacco, or Drug Use or References, Loot Boxes, Frequent/Intense Realistic Violence
- Developer: Gemjam llc
Last updated: 28th November 2024 | Genre: Adventure, Simulation | Developer: Gemjam llc