I’m getting a little bit annoyed with the number of zombie games on the iPhone. It sometimes seems like every other game is themed around the brain-munching undead. Do we really need yet another one?

Well, maybe not, but Zombie Dash is good enough that I’m able to forgive it the zombie theming.


You’re trapped in a randomly-generated maze full of traps, treasure and zombies. Your only goal is to find the key and get to the exit. Once you do, you get to spend the cash you’ve found on items to help you get through the next level. This goes on, getting gradually harder, until you inevitably die. Then you start again. It’s pretty simple, but it’s very well put together. You use a virtual trackball to move, which seems very strange at first, but which starts to show its worth as you get used to it. If you get hit by a trap or a zombie there’s a quick touch-screen mini game to play, which you need to complete quickly so you don’t lose too much health. There are antidotes to use to regain your health, a spray you can use to make you smell like a zombie and so present a less attractive target and, er, moss burgers, which let you move faster.

Games can go on for a while, so it’s nice that you can exit at any time and restart from exactly where you left off. At the moment I’m on day ten or thereabouts (each level is a game day) and I’m hoping to get a decent score for the online leaderboard. (I was second on the global list with a score of seven days shortly after the game was released, but I’ve no doubt I’m much further down now.)

Worth a look, definitely.