Mud, Mortars & Zombies

Artillery against the dead

Mud, Mortars & Zombies is a PC artillery defense game set in an alternate First World War, where the opposing armies turn their guns on a zombie outbreak. You mark targets with a flare gun while off-map weapons fire and reload automatically. Since shells take time to arrive, you need to aim ahead of moving columns rather than at their current position.

Weapons and timing

You unlock and upgrade artillery, mortars, machine guns, aircraft, incendiaries and a creeping barrage. Each weapon has its own damage, blast radius, accuracy, cooldown and call-in time, so choosing where to spend upgrades also means deciding how quickly you can respond and how far ahead you must aim. The game describes time as the one currency and the main thing to buy.