Last updated on December 7th, 2025 at 11:06 am
Zombie Defense HNG – Action Game Review
Zombie Defense HNG is a Action/Strategy game from Teresa Dymek, first launched in 14th November 2017.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 142+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Zombie Defense HNG Stand Out
Today, 7 billion humans live on our planet.
Over 100 billion lived and died on it in the past.
What if just a tenth of them came back… for us?
A modern hybrid of the classic RTS and modern Tower Defense.
Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot incoming waves of zombies by their own.
Manually move soldiers between slots, upgrade slots and soldiers, order supplies,
throw grenades and molotovs, order airstrikes and operate huge bulldozers.
Perfect mix of strategy, tactics and micromanagement.
Earn money on missions and spend them between missions to buy permanent technologies, upgrades, weapons ect.
Features
- 48 missions.
- 5 difficulty modes regular, nightmare, 3 man challenge, TV challenge, Boss Challange.
- 22 types of recruits.
- 150 permanent upgrades between each mission.
- 8 basic enemy types, from shambling creatures, to crawling horrors, to fast predators.
- 2 types of giant mutant zombie bosses for extra action.
- Zombie birds.
- Decoys.
- A gun rack of weapons, from trusty .38s, to deadly shotguns, to ultra-accurate sniper rifles.
- High explosives to turn zombies into pink jelly.
- Molotov cocktails to stop zombies with a blazing inferno.
- Heavy vehicles to crush every zombie in their path.
- Laser-activated turrets.
- Devastating airstrikes.
- Tesla towers.
- Supply deliveries.
- Real-time soldier upgrades, recruitment and trading.
- Infinite mode for hardcore players who crave endless excitement.
- Special challenge modes.
- High replayability allows you to complete each mission and return to it as you please, to earn more money and rise your score.
- Full 3D environment, highways, towns and deserts.
This Action game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Zombie Defense HNG is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 11th October 2025
Recent improvements include:
- Unity security update.
Download & Availability
Zombie Defense HNG is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Zombie Defense HNG 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:
A simple enough gameplay loop without too much repetitiveness beside the last few levels, near nonexistent bugs (and they few that Ive seen just enhance gameplay), theres undoubtedly room for improvement, but in its current state its still phenomenal for how few ads there are.
This game is top tier hidden gem. Classic 10/10.
This game carried our childhood.. Our older brother found it like 10 years later and here we are. Playing it again.
Best zombie since the iPhone 6 thats the crazy part & Im still loving them.
Mostly all the maps the same lol why not different maps an bigger need more space to play either troops.
Its really good, but we think if they worked on it more it could be really good+ or something.
Hope you make a second one of this.
The animation for the reload on all the units are wrong and look unrealistic and would make the game a lot more interesting to watch while you try and defend hordes of zombies if the reload animations and if not all the animations you have on the units looked better.we really like the game so far and Ive always love these tip of games so if you kept on improving the game Im sure it would get a lot more people playing it but theres so much you can do to this game to make it look better and play better so hopefully you read this and maybe fix the game.
Ive played this game multiple times on different devices and loved the game but for some reason game upgrade shop keeps freezing up every time we enter it on our iPhone idk if its just ours or not, but if possible to fix, Id really appreciate it thank Devs.
Nothing much to say. Just really like the game. Please dont give up on it and keep it up.
We recently got this game again and im loving it. We remeber having this as a 7-8 yr old and then our parents got a new phone that we could not play on and we could not find the game til now the point is we spent so much time looking for this great game.
The game is good, very good, we like the gameplay and the physics and the units and machines to destroy the zombies, but we thought you guys can add more soldiers, like a dual pistol soldier, or a unit with a uzi or maybe another commander like Leonidas if you heard of him, and add more upgrades, and more levels and maybe another unit like a laser turret that would be awesome and maybe another idea, you could add a mech on golden upgrade for like $100,000-$200,000.
Yall have ruined the game by only allowing 3 recruits to play back when we had this game a while back we didnt need to pay for more solders to attack the zombies.
Used to play on a tablet got a phone see how amazing its gotten.
We remember playing this game 4 years ago and we loved the mechanics now 4years later we are still hooked on the gameplay.
This has to be the best mobile zombie game in our opinion because it has great physics, tower defence, and the buying of new towers and upgrades. Its our favorite game to play in our free time.
Just why add more types of levels like survival levels where you try to survive zombies for as long as u can. Also more zombie types like ranged or swat zombies that are really strong? Overall this game is great.
We remember playing this game back in 2015, we were always frustrated bc we could never beat levels as a kid.. Now we can beat the levels 5 years later :).
The screen borders dont fit properly and doesnt let us view a good portion of the ui.
Every time we load into a mission we cant see our other items we bought.
This was one of the best tower defense games on Android in our opinion and now that its on IPhones is amazing. It has the exact gameplay as android and we LOVE it.
Good game, but game closes every time we open the app now, please fix.
This game is amazing. We can spend so much time on it. But as soon as we open it, it crashes. Fix the crashing and Ill give 5 stars.
We havent even been playing it for a week and it wont even let us open the app it will let us on the home screen but then kicks us off you need to fix this bug.
Game freezes every time we close it have to uninstall and install over and over.
We go to play the game n it keeps closing out after playing two days its becoming rediculous on u down load a game and cant even play it come on get it fixed we really like this game.
After the most recent update every time we load the game it starts up and then crashes one second later. Tried reinstalling and the same thing continues to happen. This game WAS fun while it still worked.
This game is beyond fun and very well made. We love the upgrading system and how well you can modify your units thank you to whoever made this.
Played on Android and iOS and both are well done. Have noticed a bug when moving a skid, when it spawns a supply crate while moving itvthe crate can't be collected nor does it time out so you no longer can collect supply crates when this happens.
Playing on iphone 6S, when going to an ad to get free money, our screen blacks out. Easy fix – tap HOME once to exit, then tap icon to reenter program, and ad will usually be at the end. Plus, you still get the free money. Now, for the compliment. You know how WAY too many games cut down the reward when you replay stages? This game doesnt do that. GRIND ON, FELLOW GRINDERS.
So we got this game a few months ago and we bought the ad free thing however it says that we have not purchase anything and all our progress was deleted.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 12.9.9
- Size: 343.54 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, PL, PT, RU, ES, TR
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Frequent/Intense Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence, Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes
- Developer: Teresa Dymek
Last updated: 11th October 2025 | Genre: Action, Strategy | Developer: Teresa Dymek