Dead Zed Game

Dead Zed drops you into a fixed defensive position at the edge of a barricaded farmhouse, mouse in hand, as a rural town's dead start climbing over the fence line. You are not exploring — you are holding a spot, tracking targets left to right across the screen and putting bullets into whatever is closest to breaking through. The game runs in day cycles: forty of them in total, each one a wave of zombies that arrives a little bigger and a little tougher than the last.

Between waves the pressure shifts from reflexes to decisions. You send survivors out in search parties to nearby buildings, hoping they come back with better weapons, more ammo, or new people willing to fight — but every search party you send out is a person not standing on your barricade for the next wave, so scavenging always costs you defense. Balancing that trade-off, day after day, is as much the game as the shooting is.

Controls

• Mouse — aim and shoot
• R — reload
• F — toggle fire mode
• 1 / 2 — switch weapon
• M — mute audio

Tips

• Aim for the head. Body shots waste ammo you'll need later in the day when the wave gets thick.
• Don't send every survivor out scavenging at once — a search party is a gap in your defense until it returns.
• Switch weapons rather than reload mid-swarm when you're low; a dry reload with zombies at the fence is how runs end.
• Early days are for stockpiling. The waves get noticeably harder later on, so spend the quiet days building up ammo and people instead of coasting.

It suits players who like their shooting paired with a resource-management layer underneath it — closer to a siege you're slowly losing ground on than a straightforward arcade shooter.