Last updated on January 21st, 2026 at 07:20 pm
Zombie Outbreak Simulator – Simulation Game Review
Zombie Outbreak Simulator is a Simulation/Strategy/Entertainment game from Binary Space Pty Ltd, first launched in 24th May 2012.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 1,646+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Zombie Outbreak Simulator Stand Out
Zombie Outbreak Simulator is a sandbox app where you can customize your own zombie outbreak. Choose from thousands of real locations around the world on Google Maps!
◆ Over 3 million downloads! ◆
• "a killer timewaster" – Gizmodo
• "zombies plus Google Maps equals fun" – Games Radar
• "a splendid idea, no matter how omnipresent zombies may be" – Rock, Paper, Shotgun
• Apple Staff Favorite in the US, Canada, Brazil, Mexico, Spain and 14 other countries!
• Top 5 in Simulation and Strategy on the iPad!
Watch a zombie outbreak unfold in real world environments, and alter the outbreak parameters to your liking. Do you prefer old-school slow movers, or the new fast movers? Is the population armed? How well can they shoot? How many police will be on patrol? Customize your own outbreak then watch the chaos unfold.
Zoom in and out to keep track of the infection as it spreads across the map! Watch from a high satellite view to get an overview of the infection, or zoom right in and watch as civilians run for their lives, shoot at zombies and inevitably become infected. Keep track of the people's only hope – local law enforcement, as they fight back against overwhelming odds.
Join in the action by raining fire from above with Mk81 and Mk82 bombs, delivered by A-10 Tank Killers! Parachute soldiers into the front lines to protect the civilians. Deploy helicopters to rescue civilians before they become overwhelmed.
From the Settings screen you can change the following parameters:
• Civilian numbers
• Civilian armed %
• Civilian accuracy
• Initial zombie numbers
• Zombie outbreak direction (N, E, S, W, Map Wide)
• Zombie speed
• Infection time (how long it takes for infected civs to turn into zombies)
• Number of police
• Police accuracy
• Soldier accuracy
From the Map Select screen you can choose from:
• 15 featured online maps, using Google Maps
• 5 offline maps (play anywhere even without an Internet connection)
• Over 2,500 player maps using Google Maps, created by players of the game at www.class3outbreak.com
This free version of the app contains limited features, with in-app purchases for upgrades to unlock the full functionality. Initially you have access to two maps (one online, one offline), limited outbreak settings, and limited numbers of bombs, soldiers and helicopters.
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Zombie Outbreak Simulator is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 3rd November 2024
Recent improvements include:
Finally after 8 years, a new update for Zombie Outbreak Simulator!
This includes fixes to get the online maps working again, as well as updates to work with newer devices.
Download & Availability
Zombie Outbreak Simulator is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get Zombie Outbreak Simulator 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:
Its a beautiful game we need more features.
Its been over 8-9 years give or take since theres been an update not only if this is to see if you the dev are alive and well but to come back to the game Some new Stuff that could come in like Vehicles machine gun nests barricades would be so sick for the game we would even pay for you to make an update please come back we miss you.
- Spawn civilians, cops, and zombies 2. Weapons system gun drops, variations in guns, a damage system where accuracy is only the shots that hit and either cause damage or kill (and a setting for how much damage zombies can take before dying), gun drops, and some examples of guns include MP5, M60, MAC-10, UZI, M82, Remington 870, and some immovable mounted machine guns like M2 Browning, and a flamethrower that can be used to burn corpses and stop them from coming back 3. Drivable vehicles all sorts of cars civilians, cops, and soldiers can drive, and the civilians use them to try and escape with up to 4 people maximum in cars 4. More explosives – Nerve agent bombs release a gas that will kill all uninfected people on contact, except soldiers because they have gas masks (more on that on number 5), and its a war crime; Napalm will burn everything and stop infected corpses from reanimating (youll see why we put infected corpses soon enough); cluster bombs will explode and sent a circle of smaller bombs around them; and then theres a nuke, we think its self-explanatory, but Ill explain it in simple terms, it kills and cremates EVERYTHING on the map and then leaves a radioactive zone around it that causes damage and eventually kills any people that enter that zone, leaving corpses that, once more, dont reanimate 5. Equipment items gas masks stop people from dying to nerve agents, light armor absorbs only a few shots before breaking (read 7 for penetration details), medium armor absorbs more than light armor before breaking, heavy armor absorbs a lot more than medium armor, and very heavy armor stops a lot of things before breaking, incendiary ammo lights things on fire, explosive ammo gibs everything 6. Military protocols depending on which of the 3 settings are set for military protocols, they will either: kill everyone on sight (search and destroy), all bodies left will not reanimate; kill all zombies and bitten people on sight (kill all infected), which will leave corpses behind that dont reanimate; or kill only zombies and not bitten people (kill only zombies), and theres a checkbox that all soldiers with flamethrowers will cremate all bodies too 7. Penetration system regular bullets have a low chance of piercing through someone, hollow points and soft points do extra damage but dont pierce through at all, light armor piercing goes through light armor and pierces a couple people, armor piercing goes through all armor except very heavy armor and pierces a lot of people, and then depleted uranium core bullets go through all armor and pierce through a very large amount of people 8. Automatic military deployment after enough people have been killed, think 200 people, the military will start randomly deploying to clean the mess up 9. Gangs rival gangs will battle for control over areas using weapons in giant confrontations, you can tell theyre in gangs because theres 6 major colors for gangs: red, blue, purple, yellow, orange, and black, theyll have bandanas on showing their group and theyll all be put as [color] gang member in the civilian tab, theyll fight eachother until the other side is dead, and they leave corpses that dont come back as zombies 10. Automatically start carpet bombing with all the explosives if the automatic military deployment setting is on, this wont be on, after enough time, the government will decide that its a lost cause for the area and just bomb it in the fastest viking funeral ever (we always wanted to make a joke like that lol), theyll send everything, napalm, nerve gas, cluster bombs, and eventually nukes, they wont use nukes immediately though, only after theres less than 3 people alive (counting police officers and soldiers, the amount of people that have to be left alive before the nuke can be dropped can be changed in settings) 11. Remote explosives theyll be remotely detonated with a button on the screen, simultaneously 12. This is more of a list of all the weapons for the equipment system M9, .357 Magnum, Deagle, MP5K, MAC-10, MAC-11 (MAC-10s have 30 round capacity, MAC-11s have 10 round capacity), UZI, Mini UZI, Micro UZI, MP5, M82, M16, M40, Remington 870, M2 Browning, Skorpion, MP7, M60, M240, M249, TEC 9, TEC 22, Ruger 10/22, Mauser C96, S&W Model 10, M4, and Ruger Redhawk Note: if a person dies from anything that isnt a zombie, even if they were infected, the corpse will not get back up.
BEST game we've played even better than rimworld no way we hate this game.
Humvees tactical units more airstrike options missiles and soldiers and new maps and better quality stuff and could have a wave style where it gets harder and harder and more stuff in general its such a good game please add more.
Bought the game a long time ago. Was pleased to find an update recently when we looked it back up. Much welcome fixes after 8 years. Would love to see some new features at some point, fingers crossed.
There is nothing on mobile like this PLEASE dont leave it to did ive spent money on this game several time please add new content.
Long time no see we decided to get the game back and we found out how to get the pass back :/ literally just press restore. This game is really good especially imagination wise and with the update highly recommend this game.
Infinite zombies would be really cool so you wouldnt run out of zombies It sounds really cool but overall this is pretty much five stars.
This game is very fun in our opinion. It is for a short amount of time but then all of a sudden it gets boring quickly, if they updated it alittle and or added SWAT, or advanced cops with new weapons we think it would be so much fun,.
This is an amazing game maybe one of the best Ive played but there is one thing we dont like about it you have to pay for almost every thing to unlock setting pay to have infinite troops pay more bombs? Pay want extract people through helicopter well you have to pay. Want new locations sorry but you have to pay. There is a way to watch a long ad and get ten of everything but that is pretty boring if you even have the patience to do that if you could have a sand box mode and have everything unlocked but one map we would still play that rather than having to pay For everything. Please at least lower the prices. Please fix this we under stand the game needs money but our pockets are completely empty our pockets nothing over here under our desk nothing and whats this behind your ear nothing please.
It well be faster and can u make it 1$ for unlimited soldiers.
It doesnt let us watch the adds for more weapons because it keeps saying we have a connection issue but our WI-FI is working so we dont know whats going on but its kinda annoying.
This game is great, but we had a few ideas of what would be great to add, 1: a fence or barricade, it would be nice to have a fence to block off a area to prevent zombies from passing through 2: more helicopters to extract survivors with, the normal helicopter is small but the option from a bigger helicopter would be great for extracting more people 3: the normal option for dropping in soldiers doesnt make sense, a whole plane for 1 person doesnt make sense, a helicopter would make more sense. Thats all we have right now but if we have more ideas then we will post them here.
We actually love this game even though its pretty basic hope you still keep updating for the remaining fans.
We really like the game its immersive and interactive but sometimes there are NPC bugs and graphical bugs and you should consider expanding from just having troops and evacuation helicopters, maybe consider putting a armored military unit not something crazy something probably like a bearcat or Humvee with a mounted machine gun and to keep it realistic and balanced may be considered that you need like five or four zombies and multiple hits from zombies to overwhelm it and maybe consider it with a darker blue icon and maybe consider adding a quarantine years its the same to a soldier with the same precision only this time with a L3 padded hazmat suit making it so it requires at least two or three hits from a zombie before infection and should be separate with a yellow icon but honestly Im just giving ideas to balance the game and make the game more immersive and interactive and you could consider adding more advanced path finding to all of the NPC so NPCs dont get stuck and can properly dodge obstacle and soldier units could use cover or obstacles to their advantage and likely to stick in groups and stay close to armored units and protect evacuation helicopters now these are our ideas that you could implement Im not really asking for anything crazy but you could consider it at least.
Best game Ive played since we were a kid on the App Store. Wish there was a sequel.
Can u add tanks that can be spawned like the soldiers please.
The game is great, but we feel like its missing some stuff. Id like to see a option where you can make it go 2x speed. Also some things that could be improved are being able to use more helicopters and soldiers than just 2 of each. Also, when the helicopters crash we think instead of a crater make it look like the helicopter has actually crashed.
Its like playing on an ant hill and watching all the ants freak out. Very fun, would recommend. :).
The game is amazing but its a semi pay to win like game and if you dont believe us Ill tell you why first of all it says upgrade to get more in tutorial but it costs money almost everything costs money but overall its great just money problem :).
You guys fixed the map glitches and we LOVE it thank yall so much sorry our last review was bad again Thank you.
Support for player and online maps got dropped, and given the last update was 7 years ago, thats never getting fixed. Just aint worth it anymore when most of the maps dont even load Update: developer fixed it out of left field when there were 8 years without updates. That level of care is worth 5 stars on the mobile game market.
While we are ecstatic that an update has come out after 8 whole years, it is unplayable now on both offline and online. NPCs, bullet trails, chunks of map, and icons turn completely black (a black square covers them) after some time playing. IOS 18, IPhone 13. Thank you for saving the large amount of content that was once locked away, but a new issue has arose.
Thank you developer, for updating one of our favorite games after so long. We didnt think there was any chance of the game being updated or fixed. Having access to the online maps again is amazing. Thanks again dev, if theres any other way to show support for this game please let us know.
We were worried the game was dead when it stopped loading online maps, but after so long its been updated and now it works again! Its so nice to know the devs havent forgot about this game, im happy that after all this time we can still get fun out of our time spent on it.
Yesss they finally fixed the online and player maps.
Thank you guys so much for the new update! Ive been wanting this for so long! You guys just made our day.
The game Finally got updated after 8 years.
An overall great game with everything you can do. Adjusting just about everything about it. But the police should have more to it. The police is great but you should add S.W.A.T trucks that youre able to place and watch them drive there and dispatching riot officers there. Or maybe something else that you could adjust. The police should have it so it would be more fun than just a few officers around.
This is a great game! We love the simulation but it could use better navigation mechanics for the zombies since they get stuck in places sometimes. Maybe different types of soldier units too.
The survivor just dont do anything but shoot the zombies. Why cant you just update it and didnt make the survivors build little fortresses.
We would like to say that if you are going to get this game you should be ready to pay do you have fun and we think the developers should let us have more than two thing every time we run out of the thing were starting with.
We really enjoy this game, we remember having it before covid and it was fun even with just two maps available however now it wont let us watch adds for the free items(like Bombs, helicopter, soldiers, etc) as it keeps says please check your internet connection and try again which we do but it keeps giving us this message. Overall great game. Brings backs good memories.
We have internet but no matter what it wont load an ad when we click on the thing for free units (maybe its just us idk).
We got this game 2 years ago, and it was a pretty cool concept and fun to mess around with, but it got dry after a bit, but we would always pop back just to play for a bit. It was sad to see that the developers gave up on the game, but we kept it on our phone just in case. Im happy to see that there is an update and that the developers havent given up, Im curious to see where they start to take this and if they continue to improve and grow the game.
Now that the online map bug is fixed, this game (and the pro version) is amazing to play again! Though we do wish citizen spawning and zombie ai was slightly better. For example, on airport maps, they like to spawn in the grass and on the landing strip. Zombies like to get stuck on walls, and dont like to go towards sound (like gunfire). Also wish there was a melee option for the humans if they cant run away (its range should be slightly longer then the zombies melee) and its kill chance should function the same as the gun accuracy (available to be set by the player).
Im serious. We want another update. Im getting bored of this game so we started looking for a new one.
Its a great game if you want to screw around in a sandbox game, especially if you are into the zombie genre. Though we personally think there are too many micro transactions in this game (This is coming from someone that is essentially broke so take this with a grain of salt.) we firmly believe that there should be a bit more to use in the free version. Otherwise, an amazing game with amazing enjoyment value.
We remember playing this game so much, and today we decided to redownload. We notice they made an update and we thought to ourselves oh thats great! Ive always liked this simple game. Upon downloading the game we noticed they added a paywall for all the maps! This is not like how it was before. We hate how greedy games have gotten, and to learn this game has also went the same path. What a shame.
This app shows how the devs are incompetent 5 hours ago they finally updated and we only got a measly bug patch? Just rude.
This game is awesome we were mad when we found out we had do pay for a game thats tole sound effects until we realized we could just ads the thing is this game lets you choose ads it doesnt force you we totally recommend if you dont try it we will come and find you recommend.
This is an amazing game, we wish the developers would update it more often as it is a great game for anybody whos into simulation type games.
This game is so good but if someone cloud get in touch with the team that made this and tell them to make some more updates that would be awesome and better ai they run it to many buildings and then get stuck. In all awesome buy it.
We love the game all we think you guys should do is add some vehicles like tanks and stuff. The problem for us was that any of the player or online maps we choose are grey. Otherwise this game is awesome.
Please help our google maps isnt connecting its every day we tried reinstalling.
Came back to this game after years of searching and its still fun as ever. We feel the need for more military options.(tanks, medics, using the a10 as a cursor for firing on zombies with bullets).
This is still a good game and you should maybe update it, dont let this die we still play this once in awhile and there is a lot of potential.
You should really make a game exactly like this but instead it has from World War II to present day war simulators dont have to change anything but get rid of the citizens add a couple, Battlefield maps and then you can add zombies if you want but we had two different sides randomly Spond enemy team in a fun team that you can spawn on your own That would be a good game and we dont care how much it is. Ill pay for it. Also, it would be cool if both the pro version free version and the new version we just gave you an idea for how to eat cargo Bob Dad to working machine guns one on each side of a cargo Bob one at the back of the cargo Bob and it drops its own soldiers and picks up survivors. That would be cool to also if you can pick up wounded soldiers, for the new game, we just gave you an idea for that would be cool. Also, at least add some Humvees in both new game and zombie Sim. Also add some transport trucks Im gonna look up theres some huge zombies that can take down helicopters and tanks.
We wish that there could be a mode where if the outbreak gets to big they start to kill civilians too or they would nuke the town.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.7.2
- Size: 102.52 MB
- iOS: 12.0 or later
- Languages: EN
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Horror/Fear Themes, Frequent/Intense Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Binary Space Pty Ltd
Last updated: 3rd November 2024 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Binary Space Pty Ltd