Last updated on December 13th, 2025 at 10:44 am
Zombie Shop – Simulation Game Review
Zombie Shop is a Simulation/Strategy game from Crazy Panda Limited, first launched in 20th May 2021.
It’s rated 12+ and currently has 2,459+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes Zombie Shop Stand Out
Ah, zombies. Cannot kill what’s already dead, right? But you sure can outsmart them by using your trader’s wits and crafting expertise.
Zombie apocalypse or not, humans love shopping, and they’ll always need a shop to come in for stuff. Natural exchange is all good, but we’ve been building an exchange system based on commodities and money for a few thousand years now, and surely for a reason! So, just because some undead creatures are persistently trying to savor the flavor of your brains, threatening your survival in these dark new circumstances, you shouldn’t give up shopkeeping progress, oh no!
Join this adventure to hone your survival, trading and production skills!
— Become a shopkeeper running the only decent outlet in town seeking to thrive amidst the zombie apocalypse;
— Learn the secrets of post-apocalyptic trade to expand and customize your shop;
— Make friends with Artisans, Scientists, and other town residents to design and produce weapons, armor, and many other useful items from any bits and bobs you can lay your hands on, really;
— Source valuable resources such as Metal, Plastic or Chemicals from different town locations and use them to produce goods;
— Sell items to customers: they need all these Baseball Bats, Flashlights and Cleavers to fend off zombies that are rather annoying in their persistence to eat all the brains;
— Buy items from others as you aim to balance your trade accounts and run your increasingly successful shop;
— Recruit Preppers and send them on dangerous yet exciting Supply Runs for valuables; given the current state of zombie affairs, anything goes—from Super Glue to Mushrooms;
— Create trade Guilds with other players! Join forces to grow and develop an authentic town struggling to survive under constant attacks by undead brain-munchers.
Now, not all heroes wear capes. Not least because someone’s gotta first make those capes for them. Cannot be a coincidence that you are looking to apply yourself as a professional shopkeeper and manufacturer, right?
This Simulation game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, Zombie Shop is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 13th March 2023
Recent improvements include:
With town life bustling, work across its facilities is in full swing, too!
It is now easier to produce things: we've reduced production costs for basic items!
All sorts of improvements and bug fixes, too: just the way we like it.
Download & Availability
Zombie Shop is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
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:
When theres a crowd at the register. Lets say theres one item needs to be produced. We sell the next item to the next customer, the game flips back to the customer whose item is still being produced instead of going to the next sale. This happens ever time you sell something so you have to keep tapping the right or left arrow to get to another customer. Its very tedious. Seems like the game should just chose the next logical sale instead of constanty going back to the same guy whos waiting for their item. Hope that makes sense.
Game is fun as long as you dont mind spending money. Long term the game is a cash pit. You need a lot of materials and time to get anywhere. It needs some adjustment for casual players. Lower requirements for the premium type materials. More perk rewards in supply runs would make the supply runs seem more lucrative. Also needs a way to buy level 3 preppers without using coins. Otherwise its pretty good.
Development has clearly stopped and they will tell you on their discord. Its really sad because it had a lot of potential. So we guess changes in our development roadmap means they are infact done developing the game.
Trying to connect but never connects. Im connected to wifi, thats how we made this review.
Real heroes risk their life for real people. Heroes dont wear capes, use light sabers or throw shields. They fight oppression, racism and injustice.
Sigh this game used to be our favorite. The guild teamwork was awesome, the selling of items was a grind but not a terrible one. Now the guild serves no purpose other than getting guild coins. The prices of items you sell have been nerfed so hard. We have nostalgia for this game because we used to play it so much but its just become so bad and the devs dont release any new updates.
Dead game. Dont believe us? Look at the world chat on the daily. Theyll say it every day. Devs trashed the game and refuse to update it not to mention the packs are like 15-60 dollars and arent even helpful. Dont do it.
Been playing this game a little more over 2 years and its alright but its becoming a dead game. Im in a guild where everyone is active and on every day and its becoming pretty dull. There needs to be more added to keep us here. Plz do something :( we dont want to have to leave.
We grinded out Road Raid and kept progressing when there was only 1 destination open. We were at around level 45-50. The second destination is now unlocked, how ever the destination was still a while away regardless of the time we spent on the Road. Ive finally got to the second destination at level like 65. And Im afraid our preppers will not be able to get to the 3rd destination due to the difficulty.
Ive been stuck at the same road raid lvl for weeks. Meaning theres no way to unlock the next outpost. Trash game. First they ruin prices, then they add events that dont even let you progress. THANKS SO MUCH.
This is our night time chill game before we go to bed, we like it a lot. It would be cool though if you could 1. Filter items to just ones you can produce at that given time (like have enough resources for already) and 2. Scrap items from your inventory and gain resources for them instead of just selling in your shop.
Been playing since the summer time and honestly enjoyed this game over time. We know the developers are working hard on it. Recent updates however have led to many concerns and problems. First off originally when it comes to the town investment contributions were extremely expensive which is as offset by other members of the guild helping out. With the recent update with the road raids they made contributions a solo endeavor. That was fine however it defeated the point of having guilds. Which leads to the next part: guilds. They doubled the amount of members but again have made joint contributions invalid now. The most annoying part before the update was guild members going idle for 3-4 weeks and causing their contributions to be halved so you were spending more time recruiting them playing. They could have just bypassed all of this headache by just removing the penalty for inactive guild members and kept joint contributions. It feels more like a solo game now aside from the weekly guild activities. Since the new outpost can produce coins they have also tripled the repair cost for items. Its also such a chore now to stock up on money as they reduced the items income amount and raised the upgrade costs to the outpost, furniture, and town builds. What is even going on anymore in this game.
Im still in the tutorial stage, and right now the game is trying to show us how to open a loot box supposedly obtained on our first supply run. But, we dont have a loot box, and the game wont let us do anything until we open a box, so its completely unplayable. We cant even log out and start the game on a new account, or even delete our current account.
Everything has been nerfed by nearly 3/4 of its previous prices. Now it takes would take forever to get any progress. Nothing has gone down with it! Inflation hitting hard ingame worse than outgame.
Stay away from this game until the latest update is reverted. They tanked all item prices and the community is mad.
Ive been playing this game for almost a month, and we loved it. If we had a second of free time in our day Id spend it trying to expand our pawn shop and getting better items to unlock. After a bit things start to get really expensive, $4 million to expand the shop, $5 million for another production slot, and thats not even the expensive stuff. Before the update selling items and getting money was a grind, but now you might as well spend actual money on the game to expand your shop, bc the item sell price is now around 60-90% off the before update price. Meaning to make even a measly $100,000 itll take you about 10x longer without making in app purchases. The game is now dying due to the recent updates and people are leaving. We thought it was a really fun and cool game, and we loved playing it. But its sad watching the devs bury a good game bc they want to promote packs that cost money more than make the game fun wether you spend money on it or not.
This game has a fun gameplay loop and zero forced ads which is a 5 star in our book. Pleasing art style as well.
We like the game. We think it could be better with adding more story lines and login rewards back.
Otherwise a great game. Upgrading your store is a grind simply from not being able to unlock or even buy more builders. The game slows down quite a bit from the higher quality items produced, an option in the settings to skip certain grades would be nice. More daily challenges, producing items for free goodies is nice for grinding out early upgrades, but having a challenge where our items cost less or build faster or the store is always full would be amazing as well. Even being able to stock up the new guild coins to by a temporary buff for everyone instead of the available shop items that we personally dont have a need for. We still enjoy the game we just think these would make the game a little smoother without getting to the end game too quickly.
First they update where old players can not get bonus shelves newer players can. They they reduce the furniture anyone can have by 50 but the older players can keep their furniture out as long as they dont change anything. After that they made guilds useless by removing guild donations. Also, almost doubling the cost of late game items making it pointless to play.
Downloaded game today will not connect to servers.
We really like this game until ur recent update…..you moved the purple coins to arcade only…so now if we dont want to use gold coin to refill supplies needed to make items you have blue guild coins…which you have to be in a guild with more than yourself…our guild is us only for the reason we dont want the trauma drama that comes with having others in a guild …been there done that….we like playing at our own pace…we tried the new raiding aspect and Im wondering how long does it run? Our guys are still out raiding….really hate to delete another game because needing guild people associating but we will if thats what is required to do other new aspects of the game..plz put the purple coins back as a choice for supply refill for those of use that dont want the guild trauma drama…Ill keep playing for another month or two to see how things pans out if it continues to be needing guild people Ill delete game.
This update is horrible. Everything costs way more to upgrade. 5 million for your 5th land expansion is ridiculous. Same for resource buildings and masters.
Im pretty much waiting for yall to get a cease and desist from Kabam.
We tried playing this game cuz it actually seemed interesting. We enjoyed Shop Titans and we love zombie themed games so we were really excited. We got to the point where youre forced to make or join a guild and our excitement immediately ended however. Upon attempting to create a guild we are constantly told that the name we chose is already in use. Despite this fact, we cant seem to find any guilds anywhere that Im able to join. As it stands this game is completely unplayable. It disappoints us even more knowing that we bought the starter pack in our excitement for a zombie themed shop game. Now it just feels like we got scammed. Only reason Im giving 5 stars is to make sure the review doesnt get deleted.
Yes it is a clone of other shop games except it has its own twist to it.. ZOMBIES! We play this game when Im relaxing. But over time we have been playing competitively and growing our shop to be one of the best. This game deserves 5 stars! We just hope the developers stay consistent on updates. This can be a top game in the App Store. Join our guild in the game! War Mercs.
We played it and we loved it, the game works and we havent found any bugs at all. We dont normally play games like this but we loved this one we would def recommend.
Ive been enjoying this game so far its pretty much shop Titans with zombies and supply runs! The only reason Im giving 4/5 stars instead of 5/5 is because of the lack of shop decorations and different themes for racks ands stands and the boxes that the decorations take up are a bit wonky like a plant that should take up 1×1 square would take up 4 squares, also different window types depending on price range should increase prestige. Just some minor things that bugged us.
Its like a shop but with zombies :P.
We realize this is just a Shop Titans clone but its playable and definitely doesnt deserve a one star rating.
Our whole problem with shop titan was that it forced you to join a guild and get help from other people. Im an introvert… We like people but we prefer to play by ourselves, and the fact that games like this forces you to play with others upsets us, and is honestly a deal breaker for us.
We have been playing this game for days.
Game is pretty much a clone of shop titans but we enjoy this one much more. The atmosphere and setting easily draws us in more. Id also like to be able to zoom out just a little bit more. Love the game guys. Looking forward to updates.
We love the time ratios of this game. It doesnt require constant attention and yet can still be played all day. Items take seconds to minutes to craft. Longest item ive crafted yet is 15min. Shorted is 3 seconds. Progression is excellent, we havent felt stuck in the game yet. Im able to move along in levels quickly enough too (currently lvl 20). Cons are the lack of decorative features. We havent unlocked more shop decore since level 10ish. So unless we want to place 5 tvs and 3 of the same chairs, theres no better way to increase our shops prestige. Guilds are ok. We wish there was more to do with them. We feel like the investments are cooky. If you switch guilds your buildings go back down in level? Its weird and we dont understand why. It made us waste the $500k that we dumped into those buildings with our first guild. Only to have tk do it AGAIN with our second. We wish you could filter guilds better too. Im level 20 and want to be in a guild with our same level not 5s and 10s. We cant find any guilds that are like that because the recommended ones are only lower level. We wish the bounties were more balanced. Sometimes an easy bounty wants us to craft a tier 3 item 9 times and a hard bounty wants us to craft a tier 1 item 5 times. It needs to balance out. Overall this game has fantastic potential and we will continue to play it.
So Im not to far into the game (just unlocked the recycle station) and for some reason after we have closed the game and re opened it because our phone died the produce button does not work and we cant produce anything and producing items is really the only way to get items without having to do the scavenger missions which gives you random items and takes a while for them to complete. Overall its a fantastic game and is pretty fun but we literally cant play it.
After a couple months playing the game it gets very repetitive, even though youre unlocking new items to sell, it seems like youre just in this loop of crafting and selling. Im lvl. 18 in the game and its felt this way for a bit. We believe adding some type of zombie definitely or fighting that the players can take part in would be a great addition to the game. And maybe add a raid events for the clans to fight a horde of zombies or a boss zombie with our preppers, could be done with donating money or just from the dmg from our preppers. Very fun game but a lot more things could be done to make it feel less brain dead and more action, zombie apocalypse. Great work so far guys.
Only going to give this game 4 stars for two reasons, a slight lack of content and because they dont have the global Shop like Shop Titans. If they managed to add that, this game would be beyond amazing.
Im giving a 4 just because we feel as if there should be a wide variety of things we should be able to do it seems like you hit a plateau after around lvl 12.
We liked the concept but it fails to motivate at all. Nothing really happens except a very slow paced build – crafting, selling, buying furniture etc. And the missions are painfully dull and slow. Feelike this might be good for smart kids, or the opposite. Needs a challenge, faster pace.
Like honestly, a lot of people are into it and leaving because its taking forever to update the stuff that unlocks later in game.
The game is alright, we think we were expecting a bit more going in. The game is basically a lazier approach at Shop Titans, but with Zombies. We say lazy as its pretty much a copy of the original, but with less content given every mission goes to the same exact map with a house, 2 cars and a bus. There is racks, storage, cosmetics and guilds, but not a lot of content there either. If it wasnt for the fact that others can invest in buildings in your guild, those would also be completely useless. What couldve made the game more engaging? Maybe some level of dynamic event where you are actually searching for supplies versus watching the same AI path video or there is a zombie / raider attack on the town and you have to defend it periodically etc. As it stands, the most dynamic piece seems to be in playing the arcade machine in the guild screen where you have a chance to win gear etc. Otherwise its your standard Shop Titan where you make something until it is master-crafted and you pick up new items to make along the way, sometimes making or buying an item that appears blue etc. One minor gripe about both games, we really wish your gear didnt just glow blue, green, purple etc. We know Shop Titans did too, but some of the outfits look decent on the Preppers until theyre glowing green or purple. Having the glow around characters seems like the most last luster way to reward players and show them they accomplished making something. A slightly different color, or slightly different skin mesh would be an improvement.
The game is fun for about 3 days until you start having nicer items and found out the repair cost for your items is $51800 for one KA74 rifle. We just spent $90,000 repairing items for a supply run. Makes us not want to do any supply runs. Game is off balanced in the repair cost. Its starting to become a waste of time with the high unreal repair cost of items.
Unfortunately this is a Titan Shop clone with a zombie theme and poor graphics. This may get pulled so Id hold off before spending any $$. The reason for the 1 star is the fact that every detail, idea and style has been pulled from that game. We mean a few minutes of creativity and you could have made it slightly less of a copy. Literally characters, heros, gear, quests for equipment, classes, rarity coloring, racks for equipment, UI structure. Worker leveling nothing was missed and other than relabeling or reskinning, nothing unique has been brought to the table.
Do you love a 45 minute tutorial? Then this is the game for you.
Could be worse but 1 star is 1 star Poor progression with very little to do because basic resources take days to gather just to unlock new recipes and then it just starts over again. Make resources more plentiful. Repairing could be totally better, its bad now.
Ive been playing this game for about an hour or two and we have had NOTHING TO DO WITH ZOMBIES like a game titled zombie shop you would think there would be zombies.
We hit level 8 and now we cannot continue without joining a guild. The problem is that we cant join a guild because apparently Im not level 8 yet at the top left it says Im level 8unfortunately we are stuck now. We really liked this game too.
$19.99 per 30 days for no ads. Is that a joke? We can pay $14.99 for a RPGMMO and have all inclusive, yet all you give is 30 days no ads. Pathetic. Youll get nothing out of us, we wont watch a single ad.
When you first start playing progression is very quick and has a good feel to it. But eventually tasks stop coming, each crafting category starts taking forever to progress in and the amount of materials provided per min does not change enough as you spend tons to upgrade.
First off this game is amazing we love basically everything about it. We had some ideas that could make the game more well rounded though. First, a guild mail or bulletin board where the leaders and assistants can send messages that stay or go to other peoples mails in the guild say a fallout to invest in a Certain building next etc. Second, maybe a shop design feature where you can go into edit mode and clear everything so you can re organize your entire shop. Thats basically all of it and we know this will probably not get implemented for a while even if this was seen but we just ask that you consider maybe. Keep it up devs the game rocks.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 1.0.5
- Size: 276.94 MB
- iOS: 13.0 or later
- Languages: EN, FR, DE, IT, JA, KO, PT, RU, ZH, ES, ZH
- Content Advisory: Infrequent/Mild Mature/Suggestive Themes, Infrequent/Mild Realistic Violence, Infrequent/Mild Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
- Developer: Crazy Panda Limited
Last updated: 13th March 2023 | Genre: Simulation, Strategy | Developer: Crazy Panda Limited