This is a rare accomplishment, and Zombie Night Terror does it better than any game since The Lost Vikings. None of these puzzles are arbitrary or sloppily designed-each one moves the story forward in an interesting way. After the player gets a horde going, the police swoop in and crack down, and suddenly ZNT transforms from a slaughtering simulator to one about trying to keep a precious few zombies alive until they can regroup and find new prey. The tale begins with a simple zombie outbreak, and the various tasks that make up the ensuing levels are all formed by characters believably reacting to the situation. While it may be strange to praise a puzzle game’s story, the developers have accomplished something incredible here-they’ve made a puzzler where each challenge works as a piece of a story. This brings me to the narrative flow, and it’s ZNT‘s best feature. Zombie Night Terror is littered with mini tutorial levels, each one set up to make players grasp a new skill or trick while moving the story forwards and linking things together.

These elements are gradually worked in over the game’s four chapters, and I’ve rarely seen a developer do a better job of teaching the complexities of their game. There are a lot of tools at the player’s disposal to support their zombies-turning them into sprinters, mutating them into three different special types, and even using projectile vomit to infect prey at long range. These aren’t the most complicated tasks, but the game offers so many variations on them and in such a large number of intricately designed stages that it has no trouble delivering 40 different levels which manage to feel completely unique. Objectives tend to fall into two broad categories-reach a certain location, or kill a certain number of foes. The game takes place on a 2D field, with the player having limited control over a group of zombies. Opposing the army of the dead are mad scientists, drug dealers, tenacious survivors, and even a pesky super-mutant who just won’t stay down.

Set in a black & white world with pixel-art graphics, Zombie Night Terror tasks the player with turning the whole world into undead horrors, one torn-out throat at a time. ‘ Lemmings with zombies’ is such a deceptively simple pitch that I’m shocked it’s taken this long for someone to make it a reality. LOW Spending an hour trying to figure out how to defeat a room full of switches.

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