Zombies in Space

About

Zombies in Space is a 2D side-scrolling shooter with metroidvania elements set on a massive space station and the enigmatic planet below. You play as a colonist armed with an arsenal of weapons, navigating interconnected levels teeming with hostile creatures. The game blends platforming with fast-paced combat, forcing you to backtrack through upgraded zones to access new areas. Progression focuses on enhancing firepower and movement skills to survive increasingly chaotic encounters and solve environmental puzzles. The story revolves around a corporate-run colony where a dormant alien organism triggers a catastrophic outbreak. What sets it apart is the tight fusion of exploration and action, with each level revealing layers of lore about the station’s collapse and the ancient civilization beneath the planet’s surface. Players praise the game’s polished controls and the way it balances shootouts with strategic upgrades, making it a standout pick for fans of genre-hopping indie action.

Storyline

In the year 2133, humanity has colonized a world beyond our solar system. Made possible by a faster than light engine discovered and solely owned by the Mezen Corporation, colonists have settled on the only habitable planet in the Alpha Centauri system and named it Aurora. To facility research, logistics and trade, a giant space station was constructed in orbit by Mezen, and now is home to tens of thousands. Humanity was not the first race to call Aurora home, as the surface is covered in decaying runes of a long dead, technologically advanced civilization. What killed this ancient race was never discovered... or so we thought. Mezen, who had long known the truth, was running experiments upon the culprit, an invasive organic organism, aboard their orbiting station. Believing the organism to be dead or dormant, the Mezen's scientists accidently awoke this ancient horror and it began to infect all organic matter aboard the station.