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Bellyflop Games · Published by Bellyflop Games
Content notice: This game contains blood, dismemberment and violence that may not be suitable for all audiences. The blood and dismemberment can both be disabled in the game's settings.
Mixed — 65% positive (288 reviews) · 40 achievements
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
The Horde Wants You Dead is a casual, top-down shooter with up to 4-player online co-op. Ambushed by an angry horde, you and your friends face a fight for survival against thousands of relentless enemies!
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Action, Indie, Casual · 2025 · More £5 - £15 games
Face the fury of an endless horde in The Horde Wants You Dead. This casual, top-down shooter from Bellyflop Games challenges you and your friends to survive wave after wave of enemies, perfect for quick online co-op sessions.
About this game
The CHALLENGE CREATOR is a major update to THE HORDE WANTS YOU DEAD that allows you to setup challenges how you want to. This isn't just about tweaking how big the horde is or how strong enemies are, instead we've exposed most of the game's systems to the Challenge Creator. Create extreme setups, go crazy OP, make fiendishly difficult challenges - The game is entirely in your hands!
THE HORDE WANTS YOU DEAD is a chaotic shoot'em up where you and your squad must survive against hundreds and thousands of angry and fearless enemies. The game is designed to be a challenging experience throughout - you won't find "survivors-like" OP upgrades or magical abilities here - it's just you, your weapon, some grenades and your teammates, as you use all your skill and focus to defeat ever more difficult horde onslaughts.
Test your skills over 5 levels of challenge, with increasing horde size, new enemy types and new weapons. Keep your bullets flying, throw grenades at large groups, roll away from danger. Learn and adapt to different enemies. Use all the tools at your disposal to match their quickly overwhelming numbers. And when you're ready, try Endless mode and see how long you can survive!
Gather your friends and play in 4-player online co-op. Strategize with your squad to focus on tougher enemies or try to split up the horde around the map. Keep each other alive and you might just stand a chance!
With full ragdoll physics for all enemies, send bodies and dismembered limbs flying through the air with a perfectly placed grenade. Watch as blood spurts out from every hit, slash and bullet hole, dynamically covering the arena. Gaze upon the scarred battlefields, littered with cracks and scorch marks - you could almost call it art!
Collect coins from downed enemies to earn supply crates with a selection of upgrades. From more health and faster movement to stronger grenades and lower cooldowns, improve your character and increase your fire power to keep up with the horde. Supplies are limited so pick wisely!
Fighting the horde is hard work but it pays off. Receive XP from kills, assists and wins, level up to gain skill points and then use them to permanently upgrade a stat of your choosing. Every little bit helps!
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
- OS: Windows 10 or newer
- Processor: 4+ cores @ 2+ GHz
- Memory: 4 GB RAM
- Graphics: DX11+
- Storage: 2 GB available space
Recommended
- Requires a 64-bit processor and operating system
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
Update v1.2.1 - Patch Notes
Hey Squad,We took on board the feedback to the enemy attack prediction in the game balancing update and have made changes to make it much less punishing and deadly. It's now much closer to how it was before.Feature ChangesNerfed enemy attack prediction.Bug FixesFixed issue that prevented you being able to shoot enemies that were on top of you with certain weapons.Fixed issue preventing selecting a card when the supply crate has fewer than 3 cards.Creator - Fixed issue that caused cooldowns to go below zero.Creator - Fixed issue that caused gun accuracy to be displayed incorrectly.Demo v1.2.1The demo has been updated with the revelant changes.Read full article on Community Announcements (Bunkins)Patch NotesOfficial
Game Balancing Update!
Hey squad,Happy holidays! We hope you're all enjoying the last few days of 2025!To round out the year, we've got a big game balancing update for you all. This is something long overdue, but we wanted to find the right balance for everything while retaining the challenge of the game.So let's go through the changes and new features...Meta-ProgressionMeta-progression values have been increased considerably for the majority of the skills. This was an area of strong feedback where players felt the values were too low and not impactful enough. With these changes, we aimed to make every upgrade feel like a noticeable improvement in-game. Also, remember that meta-progression not only boosts your starting value but also increases the maximum you can reach with in-game upgrades.Here are the Old -> New values:COMBATFire Rate: 5% -> 25%Weapon Damage: 5% -> 25%Penetration: 5% -> 25%Crit Chance: 10% -> 25%Crit Multiplier: 25% (No change)Grenade Damage: 10% -> 50%Grenade Cooldown: 5% -> 25%MOVEMENTMovement Speed: 5% -> 25%Stamina: 50% (No change)Roll Cooldown: 5% -> 25%Roll Distance: 5% -> 25%Coin Magnet: 50% (No change)HEALTHMax Health: 25% (No change)Med Pack Heal: 25% (No change)Damage Resistance: 5% -> 10%Life Steal: 5% -> 10%Revive Health: 25% (No change)Revive Radius: 50% (No change)Movement SpeedAs a result of the increased meta-progression values, the top movement speed has been increased by 20%, to a new maximum of 75% for a fully upgraded player.New Upgrade Card RNGWe have completely reworked the RNG for upgrade cards in supply crates. We've written a new system that aims to provide a much more balanced selection of card types throughout your games, and now actively tries to avoid situations where you are not offered enough cards of a particular stat.Card Locking and Re-rollingTo complement the new RNG, we've also added two new mechanics for supply crate upgrades.Unwanted set of cards offered? Re-roll! You can now swap your entire set of cards for a new selection, but re...Read full article on Community Announcements (Bunkins)Patch NotesOfficial
Update v1.1.1 - Patch Notes
Hey Squad,It's been great to see everyone excited about the Challenge Creator and coming up with frankly insane weapons and challenges! We've also received a fair number of requests for new options and QoL changes which we're sorting through and will try to accommodate where possible over the coming days and weeks. For now, this patch brings a couple of improvements and some bug fixes to the Creator.Feature ChangesAdded enemy renders to their respective panels in the Horde tab of the Challenge CreatorImproved animation speed adjustments based on the speeds setup for the challengeBug FixesFixed an issue caused by players joining a lobby from an invite whilst loading a challenge in the CreatorFixed some input callbacks being processed when they shouldn'tFixed the end-game screens sometimes pausing for too long before showing the statsFixed equipped weapon changing to default when coming back to the lobby after playing a custom challenge\ Fixed an issue allowing remote players to have their permanent upgrades in custom challengesRead full article on Community Announcements (FretfulShrimp)Patch NotesOfficial
Hotfix v1.1a - Challenge Creator
Hey Squad,Hotfix for some early issues that have been found with the Challenge Creator.Bug FixesFixed issue that could cause a hang with 100% penetration weapons.Fixed invalid cards sometimes being offered in supply crates.Fixed some issues that can occur after deleting challenges on the Workshop.Fixed challenge duplication keeping a reference to the original challenge's Workshop item.Fixed changing region while a search is ongoing in the lobby browser not returning results with the new region applied.Fixed create/update workshop modals allowing users to close them while processing requests to steamRead full article on Community Announcements (Bunkins)AnnouncementsOfficial
The Challenge Creator has arrived!
Hey squad,We're happy to announce the new Challenge Creator is now live!What is the Challenge Creator?Challenge Creator is a major update to The Horde Wants You Dead that allows you, the players, to setup challenges how you want to. This isn't just about tweaking how big the horde is or how strong enemies are, instead we've exposed most of the game's systems to the Challenge Creator. We wanted to give you the ability to alter as much as we reasonably could. Here's what you can play with in the Challenge Creator:Horde - What enemies appear and their spawn patterns.Enemies - Their properties, such as health, speed or attack damage.Players - Their starting stats and how much they can improve with upgrades.Weapons - The selection available to players, and modifying all of their stats.Supply crates - How many should arrive, or disable them entirely.Upgrade cards - What cards appear and the upgrade values they provide.Med Packs - How often they spawn and how much they heal you.Length of the game.Want to become crazy OP and mow down the horde? You can create that.Want to setup a fiendishly difficult challenge for you and your friends? You can do that.Want to tweak the game's existing 1-5 challenge levels? You can do that too - we've provided our current challenge levels as templates for you to start from.Steam Workshop IntegrationThe Challenge Creator is fully integrated with the Steam Workshop to allow you to share, collaborate and rate challenges.Uploading challenges to the Workshop is encouraged but not required. You do not need to upload challenges to the Workshop to be able to host games with your own challenges. Likewise, you do not need to subscribe to any challenge in the Workshop to be able to join a squad.Official Challenge Creator GuideThe Challenge Creator may appear technical and daunting on first sight, but don't fret, as we've written a comprehensive guide to help you. It covers everything from creating new challenges, to explaining all the sections of the C...Read full article on Community Announcements (Bunkins)
