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[Top 11] Best Horror FPS Games to Play Today

girlplaysgames — Thu, 15 Apr 2021 01:37:13 +0000

What are the Best FPS games out today?

With all of the stresses that the world has been putting us through these days, I think everyone wants to let loose. And for some of us, there's no better way to do that than by slaughtering demons and zombies with huge, awesome guns.

First-person shooters (FPS) are by far the most popular type of game at the moment, but there are always some that will rise to the top among their peers. Here are the 11 best horror FPS games that you can play right now.

11. Metro Exodus (PC, macOS, Linux, PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Xbox Series X, Stadia, Amazon Luna)

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Moscow, 2035. Arytom is on a quest to prove that human survivors are living outside of Moscow after the nuclear disaster that left the world devastated. After a run-in with a group of soldiers, Artyom and his wife Anna embark on a journey to make contact with other survivors beyond the world they've come to feel safe in.

Fans of the Metro series will love this installment. Because the game's plot takes Artyom outside of Moscow, veteran Metro players will delight in coming across new monsters and challenges, as well as hostile human characters to deal with. The game's unique handmade weapons system returns for this game, but the access to new types of materials has made it even more expansive.

10. Hunt: Showdown (PC, PS4, Xbox One)

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In this unique mashup of Monster Hunter and Hitman, you take the role of a bounty hunter tasked with hunting down mythical creatures and making it back to claim your spoils. You can work alone or team up with other bounty hunters to collect clues and track the monster to its lair. After that, you must use your wits and the tools available to you to kill the beast, collect your bounty, and make it back to the exfiltration point alive.

That type of game on its own would be super fun, but Hunt: Showdown takes it a step further by adding a battle royale element - each match consists of up to 12 bounty hunters, all searching for the same bounty. If you didn't manage to kill the monster you're after, you still have a shot at collecting the reward - if you kill the person who has it and take it from them.

The gameplay concept is wild, and it is incredibly fun. The prospect of trying to track down and kill a dangerous mythical beast while also doing battle with other bounty hunters makes each match a whole new challenge, depending on how your opponents decide to play. This game is especially good for players that are bored of more straightforward games.

9. Resident Evil Village (PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Xbox Series X, Stadia)

Resident Evil Village Teaser Trailer

The latest installment in the Resident Evil franchise hasn't been fully released yet, but what I know about it has me excited. It follows Ethan Winters, the protagonist from Resident Evil 7: Biohazard and, as in the last game, it is made for first-person perspective rather than third-person. The theme is centred around medieval castles and the vampire aesthetic, but Capcom has been pretty secretive about overarching plot details up to this point.

Mechanically, we can assume that it runs much like Resident Evil 7: Biohazard, but I'm excited to see what types of new enemies and environments that the game has in store for us. It's due to be released for all platforms on May 7, 2021.

8. GTFO (PC)

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You're a prisoner - to whom, and for what, you're not sure. All you know is that you have been forced into a mysterious underground complex built inside an ancient crater to scavenge for items and complete objectives for your captor, the mysterious Warden. Surviving will require smarts, teamwork, and more than a little luck.

Though this little gem has yet to be fully released, we had to include it on our list. GTFO is a cooperative FPS that supports up to four players. You and your friends must scavenge for items while exploring the huge complex, killing monsters and solving puzzles as you go. The game is still in early access on Steam, but even this version is worth a try.

I liked the mix of first-person shooter mechanics and puzzle mechanics - it makes the game unique, especially for something that is largely a multiplayer game. I'm really excited to see what the developers do with the game as it gets closer to the release date.

7. Resident Evil 7: Biohazard (PC, PS4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, Amazon Luna, Stadia)

Resident Evil 7: Biohazard Official Trailer

Ethan Winters thought that his wife Mia was dead - she's been missing for three years, after all. But when he receives a strange message from her, he immediately drives out to an abandoned plantation in Louisiana to find his wife. What he finds there is a deranged family that has been infected with a terrifying fungus that makes them into monsters. Ethan must fight to save himself and his allies from the twisted family members and make it out of the plantation alive.

While this game is a bit more of a survival horror game than an FPS, it is still a fantastic entry to our list. The decision to make the game in a first-person view rather than a third-person view like previous games was controversial, but it adds to the claustrophobic atmosphere of the game and the terror that builds when you're being chased or walking through dark areas of the map. The Molded enemies are terrifying, and the various encounters that Ethan has with the Baker family are harrowing, to say the least.

Mechanically, the game calls back to a lot of mechanics that are standards in the Resident Evil franchise, such as finding and blending herbs to make healing salves or solving elaborate environmental puzzles to navigate the setting. In terms of the game's FPS qualities, they exist to bolster the horror elements - for example, needing to manage and conserve ammo adds an extra layer of anxiety to certain boss fights and chase sequences.

6. Black Mesa (PC, Linux)

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Gordon Freeman is a theoretical physicist for Black Mesa. After a sample of strange material tears an interdimensional hole in the facility and allows alien entities to attack Earth, he must fight his way to the surface to try and get help before all hope is lost.

This remake of beloved FPS Half-Life remains mostly true to the source material, though many updates and improvements have been made. Enemies have better AI that makes them more challenging, and some combat spaces have been retooled to give players more directions to take. Half-Life has remained a gaming legend for over 20 years, and this remake is an excellent way for a new generation of gamers to enjoy it.

5. S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl (PC)

S.T.A.L.K.E.R.: Shadow of Chernobyl Trailer

In an alternate timeline, a second disaster at the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone caused the area around it to become otherworldly and dangerous. You only know yourself as The Marked One - you have amnesia, and all you know is that you're attempting to track and kill a mysterious creature called a Strelok inside this mysterious Zone.

S.T.A.L.K.E.R. does include some RPG elements, but it's mostly a first-person survival shooter. It includes the interesting mechanic of attaching artifacts to your character to change their attributes, rather than a traditional XP or upgrade system.

The most interesting thing about S.T.A.L.K.E.R. is that you can come across strange anomalies caused by the second disaster that you must navigate through or around, much like traps. You can use an item called a bolt to try and trigger them from a safe distance or use other means to avoid them; I liked that it added an extra later of strategy beyond just shooting everything you see.

4. Killing Floor 2 (PC, PS4, Xbox One)

Killing Floor 2 Official Trailer

After a European biotech firm's military clone experiment was unleashed on the world, society has started to collapse. As one of the few remaining survivors, you must constantly fight for your life against zombie-like creatures called Zeds. Fight them off with guns and melee weapons, gather supplies, and seal off passages to ensure your safety in this engaging zombie shooter.

This game is yet another cooperative title, which makes it great in these tough times while we quarantine away from our friends. The gameplay is pretty simple - you fight through waves of Zeds that get progressively more difficult until you trigger a boss fight. The game has a range of unique bosses that spawn randomly, and each has its own boss mechanics to figure out and defeat.

What's interesting about this otherwise fairly standard (but still fun) FPS is that there is a class system that players can adhere to - before you start a match, you select a class and its associated perk. Players can earn XP in various classes and get even better boons if they put time and effort into a particular class. I like the class system because it adds the multiplayer dynamic of crafting a party that is effective across the board.

3. Prey (PC, PS4, Xbox One)

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Nothing is ever as it seems...

Welcome to Talos I, a space station in orbit around one of Earth's moons. You're Morgan Yu, and you're supposed to be aboard the station to assist with scientific research. But when you arrive, you discover that the research has not gone as planned and that there are now hostile aliens overrunning the station. Your only choice is to fight for your life.

Prey is a spiritual successor to big names like System Shock and BioShock, and it doesn't disappoint. The atmosphere is terrifying, and I experienced genuine anxiety when interacting with perfectly ordinary objects. The main story campaign is very well-paced, and the two new expansions have added a lot of replayability. Mooncrash is a procedurally generated roguelike mode, and Typhon Hunt is a multiplayer hide-and-seek mode similar to games like Prop Hunt.

If you're looking for an FPS game that has more story elements and RPG mechanics, then look no further. Prey makes your choices feel like they matter in determining outcomes, and the upgrades system came with interesting story tie-ins that made it more than just a means to an end.

2. Doom Eternal (PC, PS4/PS5, Xbox One/Xbox Series X, Nintendo Switch, Stadia)

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The Doom Slayer is back, and he's going to rip and tear every demon that crosses his path. Earth has been devastated by a massive demon invasion, and the only one that could stop the carnage is the Doom Slayer, who has returned after being exiled in a previous game. He must embark on a quest to kill all of the Hell Priests before Earth is destroyed.

2020's blockbuster horror FPS is exactly what we needed during a global pandemic - pure, unadulterated carnage, amazing weapons and gear, and a fantastic soundtrack. Being the Doom Slayer is probably the most powerful feeling I've ever gotten from a video game, and Doom Eternal has made him even more awesome. I love the new "Meat Hook" attachment for the Super Shotgun, which is great for exploring the game's environments or dragging some poor demon into your ripping and tearing grasp.

The game is pure experience, and it's a great place to start if you're new to FPS games, simply because it's just so fun. The mechanics aren't too complicated to pick up quickly, and the thrill of "glory kills" and bloody animations will make even the most timid of gamers howl with victory.

1. Left 4 Dead 2 (PC, macOS, Linux, Xbox 360)

Left 4 Dead 2 Official Trailer

The world is ending. Thousands of zombies stalk city streets. You and your friends must make your way between a network of safehouses to survive. You'll need teamwork, wits, lots of guns, and a healing gnome to make it back alive. Welcome to Left 4 Dead 2.

Left 4 Dead 2 is a very popular horror FPS, mostly because of its excellent cooperative multiplayer mode. Each campaign is made up of between three and five smaller levels - the point of each level is to make it from one safe house to the next. Each player can only carry one item from each category, so teams must work together so that they can effectively navigate the level.

The game also features other multiplayer modes for all sorts of fun - the Versus mode allows some players to take on the role of Infected to try and prevent the other players from completing a level, while the Scavenge mode features a team of four Survivors trying to fill a generator with fuel scattered around the level while a team of Infected players try to stop them.

This focus on cooperative play makes Left 4 Dead 2 unique, but one of the best things about the game is that Valve's AI Director 2.0. can procedurally alter the levels so they're always challenging. The game's tongue-in-cheek sense of humour and wide range of interesting weapons and items can also make it endlessly entertaining, even if you aren't normally an FPS fan.

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Top 11 Games like Killing Floor

Zombiesatemymailbox — Mon, 03 Aug 2015 18:30:20 +0000

Couldn’t get enough of Killing Floor and hunger for some more explosive horror? Check out the top 11 games like Killing Floor and find your newest gaming fix.

Are you a fan of Killing Floor and you don’t know what to do with yourself now that you beat the game? Fear not, you’re about to check out the top 11 games like Killing Floor.

11. Dead Effect (2013)

Developer: BadFly Interactive

Genre: Horror, action

Theme: Man vs space zombies

Take on zombies in deep space when you play Dead Effect. This Sci-Fi FPS is essentially a port of the mobile game but with improved controls and visuals such as texture and lighting.

The game beings with the player waking up from cryogenic sleep while on board a spaceship. Everyone else has either died or turned into zombies. The player is in control of a member of an Elite unit that was awakened to respond to an emergency situation that erupted on the spacecraft.

Your only support comes from a voice that communicates through consoles, instructing you on what to do.

She’s not feeling the whole head shot thing

As the player progresses through the game's campaign they can find data pads that detail the strange and horrific events that unfolded before you were woken up. Players also have various customization options. When starting the game players can decide their character’s gender which alters the character's model, voice, and starting weapons.

We can’t forget about the importance of weapons in a zombie game. Players have a variety of weapons to use and customize. Among the 14 weapons in the game there's a handgun, shotgun, rifle, bow, and energy weapons. Players can visit shops to improve their weapons by increasing its damage, shortening its reload time, and improving its accuracy.

Dead Effect is a hard deal to pass up when it goes for just $5 dollars on Steam.

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10. How to Survive (2013)

Developer: EKO Software

Genre: Horror, Action

Theme: Man vs wild, man vs zombie

Games can teach us valuable lessons, luckily for us we have How to Survive which is ready to give us a crash course on survival. How to Survive is a survival horror RPG where the player is shipwrecked on an island with zombies.

Players take control of one of three characters, each with their own characteristics and skill trees. There is an archer, brawler, and all around character to pick from. If players want to survive they will need to collect pages of a handy survival guide that will teach them extremely useful things. Players will learn that surviving consists of more than just finding resources like water, food, and shelter.

A little zombie brain smashing is good for you

If your character lacks basic resources they will lose strength, fight poorly, and reduce their ability to stay alive. But simply consuming the resources you come across won’t be a simple fix. If the player finds meat they must cook it first because all of the animals on the island are diseased. Also, the meat will attract zombies.

How to Survive has four distinctive and well stocked islands with items. Players can create over 100 handmade weapons and tools, ranging from Molotov cocktails to trusty shotguns. It’s important to have a good arsenal when taking on zombies, wild animals, and animal zombies.

Get ready to prepare yourself for the worst, there’s nothing like a flesh hungry zombie piranha to ruin your day.

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9. Dead Frontier (2008)

Developer: Creaky Corpse

Genre: Horror, MMO

Theme: Man vs zombie

Who would have thought that you’d get a second chance at getting your dream job? Become the engineer, doctor, or scientist, like you’ve always wanted in Dead Frontier.

Dead Frontier is an expansive browser based game that takes place after a pharmaceutical company creates a drug that turned people into zombies. Players take control of a survivor trying to get by in a world that has fallen into chaos.

Got to be well dressed and armed to take on hordes of zombies

Players have 20 professions to pick from at the start of the game. There are tons of different options to fit various play styles. A player can pick from the production class and be a scientist who creates goods to sell, the service class and work as an engineer who can sell their services, the stat-boost class and be a formerly famous athlete, or the role playing class and be the toughest of priests. Players can also customize their characters and decide their gender, skin tone, hair style, and facial expression.

Dead Frontier doesn’t offer players any formal tutorials and has one of the steepest learning curves. Players essentially have to learn through lots of trial and error. New players should expect to spend their first few hours testing out the gameplay, exploring, and dying tons.

Regardless if playing the game alone or in a group, strategy is the key to surviving. Players must constantly maintain their character’s health, hunger, and ammo because death will easily strike you down.

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8. Contagion (2014)

Developer: Monochrome LLC

Genre: Survival horror, FPS

Theme: Man vs zombie

In zombie games we do whatever we can to survive as long as possible, but what do we do when we turn into one of them? Find out what life is like on the other side with Contagion.

Contagion is a cooperative survival horror FPS where players can pick from eight survivors to control. Each play session is unique with the game’s randomization system and there are three game modes to play: survivor, strong hold, and player vs player. Contagion features multiplayer for up to four players and vs multiplayer for up to eight players.

Are you sure that baseball bat will save you?

Players have access to over 28 vital pieces of equipment, ranging from melee weapons, explosives, firearms, support items, and tools. Like in any zombie game, players will do everything they can to stay human. Regardless of what mode you are playing, when you die you become a zombie and must kill survivors. Player zombies have a number of perks like spiriting and screaming, which gathers more zombies.

A nice bonus for players is that all DLC’s for the game are free, regardless of their release date. Contagion isn’t going to let players go so easily.

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7. Project Zomboid (2013)

Developer: The Indie Stone

Genre: RPG, simulation

Theme: Man vs zombie

Get ready for the realist zombie outbreak you’ll ever experience in Project Zombiod. This game plays as one of the most realistic zombie scenarios out there. Players will need to do everything they can to delay their inevitable death for as long as possible and learn that Project Zomboid isn’t for the weak.

Although Project Zomboid’s interface looks simplistic, this game is crazy addictive and is one of the most innovative post-apocalyptic zombie survival games out there. Players will need to flee from the thousands of zombies that have infected the city, explore the vast and ever growing map, and do whatever it takes to survive.

It’s a lovely paint job

This game plays as a massively customizable sandbox. Players will need to scavenge for supplies, farm, fish, cook, craft items, build barricades, and fight. This already difficult game focuses on realistic survival. Not only will players need to keep their health and hunger in check but they will need to withstand boredom, depression, illness, and addictions.

As Project Zomboid is still in early access players can expect many more features and improvements to come. The creators have planned to include new stories, meaningful and varied encounters with NPC survivors, an expansion of the city and countryside, a wilderness survival system, and many more items.

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6. Black Mesa (2012)

Developer: Crowbar Collective

Genre: Action, adventure

Theme: Man vs Alien

Who doesn’t love a classic? Black Mesa is a fantastic re-imagining of Half-Life. Players follow Gordon Freeman in his journey through the Black Mesa Research Facility, but without the graphic limitations of the 90s.

Black Mesa features everything we loved about the original Half-Life, tough old-school combat, memorable characters, and a gripping story. This game features a new soundtrack, voice acting, dialogue, puzzles, and visuals. The Steam release of the game also has many fixes, upgrades, and new features since the mod’s original release.

This is all different kinds of nope

This game expands on different parts of the original Half-Life to make the plot and gameplay smoother. Some of the areas in Black Mesa Research Facility are different from in the original game, but this successfully gives players a fresh experience. The game’s real-time scripted sequences are entertaining and can serve as warnings for future dangers, especially when you see some scientists getting dragged off into vents or exploding.

Black Mesa has multiplayer where players can fight their friends in six arena-style maps such as Gasworks and Stalkyard. This game has custom modding tools (the same tools developers use to make mods) that are accessible to players so they create their own maps and mods for single and multiplayer.

Whether you missed the original game or are to fans of Half-Life, Black Mesa is not to be missed.

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5. State of Decay (2013)

Developer: Undead Labs

Genre: Survival horror

Theme: Man vs zombie

State of Decay isn’t like zombie games you played before. The secret to success isn’t headshots and massive fire arms, it’s Influence and lots of it.

This game is an action survival game set in an open world. As players travel this world they’ll be searching for supplies, recruiting survivors, and maintaining relationships with the people encountered, in and outside of your party. Naturally, there will be plenty of zombie standoffs along the way.

Isn’t rule one of zombie survival cardio?

State of Decay’s currency is known as Influence. Players acquire Influence by completing missions, upgrading your base, and scavenging items. Influence can be spent sending out radio calls to possible survivors for recruitment, asking for the backup of a fellow survivor, among other things. Players you recruit have particular skills like Wits which is for searching and sneaking or Cardio for running.

Make sure you are always prepared in this game. If a character dies they are gone for good. This will be detrimental for players who lose a character they heavily used. Not only does this character die, but the player will lose their accrued skill points and weapon specialty bonus.

Stay safe and rack up that Influence so you and your party can give zombies a real challenge.

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4. F.E.A. R. (2005)

Developer: Monolith Productions, Timegate

Genre: Horror, action

Theme: Man vs the unknown

Let’s get our next horror fix from a classic. F.E.A.R. is ready to take us down a dark and twisted road to fulfill all of our horror needs. As this game is heavily influenced by Japanese horror movies, get ready for some serious scares.

F.E.A.R. begins with a strange and unknown paramilitary force breaking into a multi-billion dollar aerospace compound, taking hostages but stating no demands. The government sends in a Special Forces team that gets instantly destroyed. A video feed of the Special Forces massacre shows the team getting torn apart by strange wave of destruction.

Never can have too much armor when taking on evil paranormal forces

In order to combat this unknown enemy the elite First Encounter Assault Recon team (F.E.A.R.), which deals with paranormal situations, is sent out. Players take control of the newest member of F.E.A.R. and must utilize all of their abilities if they want to evaluate and eliminate this unknown threat.

Players are in for a real treat with F.E.A.R.’s combat. Fights take on a cinematic quality as players watch as bullets rip through wood and concrete, dust and debris fill the air, and bodies are torn apart and strewn around the environment. As a member of F.E.A.R. you can kill foes with swift kicks and ultrafast reflexes that can be utilized in quick bursts as everything slows down around you.

Where would we be fighting paranormal forces without some good firearms? Players have access to standard shooter weapons like a pistol, assault rifle, machine gun, and of course a rocket launcher. Keep in mind that there’s a three weapon limit so think carefully about what you’ll bring with you.

You know you want that rocket launcher for some rad kills.

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3. Dead Island (2011)

Developer: Techland

Genre: Horror, action

Theme: Man vs zombie

Where would we be without our zombie slaughter games? Totally unprepared for our zombie outbreak daydreams, that’s where. Dead Island is ready to give your zombie dreams a tropical twist.

In the island of Banoi a zombie outbreak occurs, cutting the player off from the rest of the world as they are trapped within the island. If players want to make it out alive they’ll need to fight through the chaos as they try to get off the island. Get ready to take on hordes of gruesome zombies in the open world of Banoi, collect items, create weapon mods, complete side quests, and discover new areas on the island if you want to make it out in one piece.

Take in the sights with Sam B

Dead Island offers players tons of customization options. Players can develop their character’s skills and tactics as they like. Also, players will need to get creative with their weapons since firearms are scarce on the island. Players will need to scavenge for items and turn them into makeshift weapons. Who doesn’t want a blade that does shock damage when faced with zombies?

This game has multiplayer for up to four people where you can your friends can play the entire campaign together. Through the game’s drop in function, players can seamlessly come together to make the ultimate zombie killing squad.

Don’t let the zombies get you down, there’s plenty of ways to fight back on Banoi.

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2. Killing Floor 2 (2015)

Developer: Tripwire Interactive

Genre: Horror, FPS

Theme: Man vs zombie

Need a real explosive and gory zombie game? Killing Floor 2 is ready to meet all your zombie slaughterhouse dreams.

This game takes place one month after the original Killing Floor and things have only gotten worse. Society has crumbled with failed communications, an eradicated military, and a collapsed government. In order to take down the zombies that roam the streets, a group of mercenaries and civilians have joined together to do what the government and military can’t.

Maybe now you can hang with the cool kids

Killing Floor 2 has tons of new features such as weapons, characters, and monsters that build upon the original game. Prepare yourself for even more gore than in the first Killing Floor. You’ll be quickly flinging around zombie limbs and organs, while bathing the streets in the remains of your zombie foes.

Players have access to many characters that they can play as in single player and co-op. There are a variety of weapons to pick from and players can control the melee attacks at their disposal. The game features six player co-op for you and your friends to make a zombie killing dream team.

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1. Left 4 Dead 2 (2009)

Developer: Valve

Genre: Horror, action

Theme: Man vs zombie

Take on one of the best zombie shooters out there with Left 4 Dead 2. You’ll need to travel throughout the Deep South if you’re going to make it out alive in this game.

Just like in the first game, players will take control of one of four survivors. In order to survive players will need to work as a team. You and your party (AI or human), will need to understand what they need to do and what they need their fellow party members to do. Players and their group members will be able to call for help, ammo, weapons, and health.

You do not want to have that huge flipping zombie steam roll you to death

Left 4 Dead 2 features a more detailed campaign and environments than in the first game. This game has three new special infected and five new uncommon infected. There’s the Jockey who will jump on your head, Charger who rams into you, and Spitter who shoots acid. Players will need to fight through all kinds of zombies to get to the safe houses at the end of each map.

This game contains an entity known as the Director. This is an AI that plans out each stage and adjusts it accordingly to players’ abilities. The amount of enemies, enemy types, and more will be unique to each session. If the Director made things too hard then it will alter the stage a bit to make things easier.

How will the Director treat you, like a zombie killing noob or a worthy adversary?

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