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Content notice: This game features high-intensity fantasy violence where players destroy hordes of zombies using customised magic spells. Visuals include blood splatters, dismemberment, and explosions. The game utilizes a 'Trauma System' which references PTSD and mental health struggles in a stylized, narrative context. Dialogue contains crude humour and occasional references to alcohol.
Last updated 28 Sept 2026
Describe LITERALLY ANYONE/THING and turn it into a zombie-slaying playable hero in seconds! Execute The Ritual, get whipped through time, dodge, weave and hurl spells in this sardonic, horde-survival roguelite. Fix the timeline, save the world, and try not to lose your marbles eh?
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Discover the chaos of YOU vs Zombies, where you can turn any character into a valiant warrior. Navigate through time, dodge magical attacks, and save the world one zombified individual at a time.
About this game
🥩 IT'S TIME TO GENERATE YOUR MEAT SUIT
In YOU vs ZOMBIES, you don't pick your hero from a boring drop-down menu or mess with tedious character-creator face sliders. You execute The Ritual. Describe LITERALLY ANYONE / THING, and our chaotic generation engine will spit out a highly unqualified, personalized, playable meat vessel in seconds.
The apocalypse is efficient, brutal, and has zero regard for your personal comfort. Here is the catch: your choices actually matter, and The Ritual takes your prompts very literally. Describe a hardened, highly-skilled battlemage with spiky purple hair, and you might actually survive the horde. Ask for a monkey in pajamas, and the universe will happily oblige before watching you get instantly shredded.
Get creative, because exactly what you type dictates whether you become a timeline-saving HERO or an absolute ZERO. Spawning as a slice of sentient cheese might sound hilarious for the Discord chat, but remember: zombies don't understand irony. They just understand chewing.
🧟♀️ WAIT, WHY ARE WE DOING THIS? (THE STORY)
Oh, right, the plot. The apocalypse is in full swing, and only 3 wizards are still standing; Ash, an Elvis lovin' deadpan but wise mage with a buttery smooth voice, Morgan, a music-lyric-maverick who loves a good dose of PTSD, and YOU!
It’s time to break the timeline. Embrace the magic of the AI ritual. The dead are walking, and we’re fresh out of human shields.
🗝️ KEY STUFF TO TELL YOUR FRIENDS ABOUT
HERO or ZERO: Experience a brutally tuned vertical slice of personalised spellcasting combat. Our playtest currently gives you an introductory run through of an 8 beat story, with more storylines coming in the main game.
Sardonic Survival: Navigate the collapsing multiverse guided by a system that truly, deeply, does not care if you succeed. You do have ‘friends’ in Ash and Morgan but they don’t do hippy hand holding.
Chaotic Spellcraft: Don't just mash buttons. Tap to quick-fire your personalized spells, or hold your cast to unleash devastating heavy damage, level-clearing ricochets, and split-shots into the horde.
Pure Skill, No Safety Net: You’ve got to sling your spells with top-notch skill to get through our 8 story beats, OR you will be thrown back into the grinder every time you fail. The timeline instantly rewinds back to the start of the level; there are no loading screens to save you here, and any questionable stat boosts and chaotic new abilities also disappear.
A Shifting Apocalypse: The Ritual doesn't just generate your meat suit. It drops you into 24 constantly varied, shifting 3D environments with unpredictable objectives; from desperate survival and wave defense, to frantic searches and brutal boss fights.
🗺️ YOUR EXPECTED TRAJECTORY
The Ritual demands suffering. Here is exactly how your time in the apocalypse is going to play out:
You are abruptly yanked from your mundane life.
You are shoved into a highly unqualified, AI-generated vessel.
You realize you have no weapons, only unstable, chaotic magic.
The undead horde arrives to welcome ahem, eat you.
You die terribly.
The timeline instantly rewinds, forcing you to do it all over again (loading screens, schmolding screens phfft).
You suffer through the hordes, attempting to master your spells.
You finally face a Boss. You will probably die again.
💫 The Ritual takes what you describe and the world we’ve built; its art, biomes, and magic, and turns it into gameplay that’s personal to you. When you start typing, here is what happens behind the scenes to build your unique experience.
During The Ritual, you describe your hero by typing their name, and how they look, plus curious nuggets about what they love, hate, are known for etc. The Ritual takes this information and (using various LLM technologies combined with our handcrafted story bible, gameplay structures, objectives and constraints) creates assets, in real time, to create your gaming experience; a hyper-personalized story starring YOU!
Within a few seconds, The Ritual simultaneously triggers:
A personal story – each hero’s run unfolds differently, with reactive dialogue and shifting scenarios
A stat profile – an archetype chosen to fit your hero, plus a unique buff to a core stat
A voice – battle cries, taunts, and dialogue that match your vibe
A spell kit – a magic school chosen to fit your hero, plus two unique spells
A nemesis – a boss chosen specifically for your hero
A look – 2D character art generated in our distinctive style
Everything reacts to the character YOU imagined
All character visuals are generated using a custom AI model (LoRA) trained exclusively on our own artwork. It understands how we draw faces, hairstyles, armour, and bodies plus the rules, proportions, and style choices behind our art, rather than copying individual images or creating its own.
This means when your character gets generated, it is NOT generic AI art; it is our artistic DNA interpreting your imagination. While The Ritual could find anyone at all in the past, we’ve also implemented layers of safeguards to ensure only true heroes can be recruited to the war effort. The result is a caricature of your hero, rendered in our visual language.
Here is how your story unfolds:
As you progress, the game knows who your hero is and what you’ve already done to decide what comes next. As a wizard in the future you gave up your body to fuel The Ritual, but your magical abilities transfer into the person you possess. Each hero starts with a school of magic, a unique stat buff, unique damage spell, and a unique utility spell. Your stats, magic, and strengths all feed into how the world reacts. You won’t be sent back to the same forest or shopping mall, and earlier choices aren’t forgotten. The game will:
Track your run – locations visited, choices made, and carries consequences forward
Avoid repetition – no recycled missions or copy-paste paths
Shape your objectives– survive, rescue, escort, horde, and more, chosen because they fit your hero and your story
🚨 WE NEED TEST SUBJECTS
Saving the world is a thankless job, but someone has to do it.
We are running active playtests right now to balance the magic and / or break the game. Help us test our AI Hero Generation Ritual in this brutally unfair arcade horde survival gauntlet against some fairly grim looking zombies. We think one of them might be your ex.
👉 Want to play now?
Hit the JOIN PLAYTEST button above on Steam to dive straight into the active playtest and start slinging spells immediately.
👉 Want to go deeper?
Join our Discord and request a private beta key. We’ll send you access to the latest build so you can:
Test new features first
Perform The Ritual up to 10 times per day, so you can throw even more personalized heroes into the apocalypse
Join an exclusive Discord channel for beta feedback, bug reports, build chat, and war-room nonsense
💪 The war effort needs more heroes.
Wishlist the game so the Steam algorithm validates our existential dread, share your weirdest generated heroes, and please leave us your honest feedback so we can keep fighting the zombie scum.
✨ THE MULTIVERSE EXPANDS IN EARLY ACCESS
We are a small indie team working our brains out to bring the full apocalypse to Early Access soon, featuring:
The Meat Locker: Possess bizarre, community-generated heroes (yes, even the cats made of mold and glitter).
The Trauma System: Balance god-tier meta-progression with crippling time-travel psychosis. Now with 30% more existential dread! (Comes with a limited edition emotional void. Tote bag not included, because we refuse to get review-bombed over a canvas sack promised by Fourth Wall Fred, our excited intern).
Multiverse Chaos: Break the timeline, fracture reality, and face the consequences.
Head to our Discord to ask us anything, yes, real human game devs behind every pixel and design choice. We're openly embracing new ways to make new games with new technologies. If you're at least a little bit AI curious, let's see what we can make fun, together, cheers.
System Requirements
Will my PC run this? →Minimum
- OS: Windows 10/11 64 bit
- Processor: Intel Core i5-10600 / AMD Ryzen 5 3600
- Memory: 12 GB RAM
- Graphics: NVIDIA GTX 1660 / AMD RX 5600 XT
- Network: Broadband Internet connection
- Storage: 2 GB available space
- Sound Card: any DirectX-compatible sound device.
- VR Support: None
Supported Languages
Latest news
Patch NotesOfficial
NEW UPDATE! THE DEAD HAVE BEEN BUSY! And they have unionised...
🧟 The Temporal Apocalypse: Patch NotesWelcome back, time-traveling survivors. The timeline is still bleeding, and the undead are still hungry. 🩸 The Gory Details (Gameplay & Enemies)Undead Gossip (Ambient System Update): Zombies are chatty now. If you piss one off, their groans will now trigger nearby undead to join the feast. Brace yourself for a terrifying chain reaction of teeth.Bloated Warning Signs: Exploding zombies (our affectionate "boomers") will now clearly telegraph when they are about to pop. You now have exactly zero excuses for getting covered in corrosive viscera. Run.Embrace the Inevitable: We’ve entirely overhauled the death flow for a far more cinematic demise. Try not to die too much, but enjoy the show when you do.Vital Signs & Possession: Scenarios now kick off with a creepy animation showing your meat-suit being possessed. We've also added a new stat screen and ability cards so you can track your progress as you level up.Subterranean Ambushes: Burrowers have been balanced. Combined with our new cluster spawning system, searching for objectives will now trigger cozy, terrifying group ambushes.The Horde 2.0: We’ve completely revamped the horde gameplay objective. Surviving a relentless tidal wave of rotting flesh has never felt so fresh.👁️ Sights, Sounds & AppendagesFactory Floor Beats: The abandoned Industrial Estate level finally has its own haunting soundtrack. Perfect lo-fi beats to get disembowelled to.All the Better to Grab You With: Both humans and zombies have received custom hands. Fresh Flesh Grafts: All relevant characters have been re-cloned and generated to include our shiny new graphical assets so everyone looks drop-dead gorgeous.🔧 Under the Hood (Fixes & Tweaks)Immovable Objects: Rooted zombies have been hitting the gym and can no longer be pushed around. Peripheral Paranoia: Fixed rendering for widescreen monitors so you can watch the undead flank you in ultrawide, alongside various non-gameplay menu bug fixes.Temporal Tweaks: Sm...Read full article on Community Announcements (Frandroid)Patch NotesOfficial
NEW UPDATE! THE APOCALYPSE JUST GOT UGLIER!
To all you lucky souls already bitten by the beta test build: a brand-new update has just bumbled in!The infection spreads. The horde grows smarter. The apocalypse just got a whole lot uglier.Two new nightmare zones uncovered: The Hotel and The Industrial Estate. Enter if you dare... but don't expect to leave unchanged.A new terror emerges. Burrowing infected now stalk the later stages of the outbreak, erupting from beneath your feet when you least expect it.Mission intro and outro objective text is now created per-story beat, per-hero, instead of being pre-written. Guiding you deeper into a hyper-customized nightmare.Your arsenal has evolved. Grenades have been rebalanced, and ability upgrades now surface more often as you fight to stay alive.Even the dead have style. Every zombie now shambles in their own uniquely cursed pair of shoes.The infection mutates. Zombies grow tougher as the story progresses, forcing you to adapt... or become one of them.Survival upgrades have been rewritten so their effects are clearer when every second counts.A chilling new opening sequence sets the tone for your first descent into the apocalypse, with enemy spawns reworked to match.The runaway inferno returns. The flaming train once again tears through the rural rail yard, incinerating anything in its path.The ambient horde has been improved. The world feels more alive... or rather, more undead than ever.Some powers have been strengthened. "Suck Up" abilities now pull harder, pickup range has increased, and drops linger longer before being reclaimed by the wasteland.Reality has been stitched back together. Restarting a level will no longer let heroes cling to upgrades they shouldn't have.A new typeface rises from the grave, allowing the game to better support a wider range of languages.Countless corpses... countless fixes. Various bugs have been put down for good.The world has shifted. Extensive level flow and environmental improvements make every escape route feel just a little less ...Read full article on Community Announcements (Frandroid)Patch NotesOfficial
🚨BUNKER BROADCAST: Fresh Update!
Greetings from the bunker, survivors!An updated build of YOU vs Zombies is now live and ready for you to test. Here's what you'll find has changed:💣“Spell grenade”💣 attack added to the level up system! Grab this new attack, and level it up with the new modifications available through the level up cards.Burrowing zombies were accelerating across the map at insane speeds and wreaking heroes, fixed!User facing text adjustments, level up screen, beta test screens, other places.Health bars now display increases in health correctlyStart of solid pre-production on story integration, ready for full implementation over the next sprintLots of new sfx added across projectArt passes on some upcoming screensCustomized objective intro and outro lines for Ash and Morgan addedTweaks to some levels to enhance hero movement flow between areasUpdate to fast zombie attacks animationsUpdates to various level bug fixes (navmesh, collision)Read full article on Community Announcements (Susan C)AnnouncementsOfficial
🚨 BUNKER BROADCAST: Join the Beta Test - The Apocalypse Needs More Heroes!
Greetings from the bunker, survivors!A new build of YOU vs Zombies is ready for testing, and this one is looking bloodier, louder, and slightly more hazardous than before.Expect more danger around objective areas, new combat polish, fresh Ritual moments, improved Steam Deck navigation, more destructible chaos, and a whole lot of blood in places blood probably shouldn’t be.Take a look at the latest bunker fixes and patch notes below. We’re also opening up private beta testing for brave players who want to jump into the latest build early, help us break it, survive it, and report back from the apocalypse. 👉 Request access in Discord and we’ll send you a key so you can:Test new features first!Perform The Ritual up to 10 times per day, so you can throw even more personalized heroes into the apocalypse!Join an exclusive Discord channel for beta feedback, bug reports, build chat, and war-room nonsense.The war effort needs more heroes. 💪 Patch NotesTake a look at the latest bunker fixes and patch notes below. 👇🧟 Objective Areas & General Apocalypse EscalationAmbient zombies have infested objective areas where appropriate. Congratulations: getting things done is now even more life-threatening💨 Dash UpdatesNew Dash icons have been added beneath your hero!You now begin each run with 1 Dash charge. Additional charges can be earned through leveling up, assuming you survive long enough.⚔️ Combat, Spells & VFXAdded new visual effects when your Luck stat is high enough to grant an extra level-up card.Blood now correctly splatters across floors, walls, and pretty much any surface unfortunate enough to be nearby when a zombie explodes.Adjusted damage values and visual effects for Ricochet and Split spell upgrades.Added more combat sound effects to help every encounter sound slightly more traumatic.New visual effects added for selected spells.🪄 Ritual, Story & Front-End WeirdnessAdded new script and voice lines for your first encounter with The Ritual.Additional Ritual glyphs have ap...Read full article on Community Announcements (yorubyroo)Patch NotesOfficial
🚨 BUNKER BROADCAST: Join the Beta Test - The Apocalypse Needs More Heroes!
Greetings from the bunker, survivors!A new build of YOU vs Zombies is ready for testing, and this one is looking bloodier, louder, and slightly more hazardous than before.Expect more danger around objective areas, new combat polish, fresh Ritual moments, improved Steam Deck navigation, more destructible chaos, and a whole lot of blood in places blood probably shouldn’t be.Take a look at the latest bunker fixes and patch notes below. We’re also opening up private beta testing for brave players who want to jump into the latest build early, help us break it, survive it, and report back from the apocalypse. 👉 Request access in Discord and we’ll send you a key so you can:Test new features first!Perform The Ritual up to 10 times per day, so you can throw even more personalized heroes into the apocalypse!Join an exclusive Discord channel for beta feedback, bug reports, build chat, and war-room nonsense.The war effort needs more heroes. 💪 Patch NotesTake a look at the latest bunker fixes and patch notes below. 👇🧟 Objective Areas & General Apocalypse EscalationAmbient zombies have infested objective areas where appropriate. Congratulations: getting things done is now even more life-threatening💨 Dash UpdatesNew Dash icons have been added beneath your hero!You now begin each run with 1 Dash charge. Additional charges can be earned through leveling up, assuming you survive long enough.⚔️ Combat, Spells & VFXAdded new visual effects when your Luck stat is high enough to grant an extra level-up card.Blood now correctly splatters across floors, walls, and pretty much any surface unfortunate enough to be nearby when a zombie explodes.Adjusted damage values and visual effects for Ricochet and Split spell upgrades.Added more combat sound effects to help every encounter sound slightly more traumatic.New visual effects added for selected spells.🪄 Ritual, Story & Front-End WeirdnessAdded new script and voice lines for your first encounter with The Ritual.Additional Ritual glyphs have ap...Read full article on Community Announcements (yorubyroo)
