Undead Ends: Zombie Puzzle

Some puzzle games want fast thumbs. Others let you sit with a board, think it through, and then find out if you were right. If the second kind is more your speed, this one's worth a look.

Undead Ends is a route puzzle with a zombie paint job. Zombies are heading for a house, you get a few barricades, and you place them so every zombie's road ends in a pit or trap before it reaches the door. Then you press GO and watch your plan play out. Nothing depends on reflexes.

The rules are specific enough to reason about, which is what you want from a logic game. Each zombie moves to the neighboring road tile closest to the house, going around barricades. Lines on the board show each route, and a solid line ends at the pit that zombie will fall into. You can't fully wall one in, because the game refuses any barricade that would leave a zombie with no way to the house. Each board also has a par, the fewest barricades that can win, and matching it earns three stars.

The campaign has 336 handmade levels across 28 places around the world. New pieces keep changing the math: tanks ignore barricades and runners move two steps at a time. Gates, pressure plates, sewer tunnels and cracked roads reshape the routes, and so do drawbridges.

There's a new daily puzzle with streaks and times you can compare with friends. Challenges serves rated puzzles matched to your level, and Duel has you race another player on the same boards. If nobody is free after about half a minute, you race a computer opponent, and the game labels it as one.

The download is free on iPhone, and the store lists both advertising and in-app purchases. According to the privacy policy, that means rewarded ads you choose to watch plus occasional ads between levels. Remove Ads is a one-time $2.99, themed puzzle packs are $1.99 each, and hint packs run from $0.99 to $6.99. The optional Undead Ends+ subscription removes ads and adds unlimited Challenges, every puzzle pack, step-by-step solution explanations and 5 extra hints a week. It comes monthly or yearly with a free trial for new subscribers, but the US App Store page doesn't show its price. The App Store also flags the game as containing loot boxes, and crates are among the rewards in its listing.

You don't need an email address to play online. The game creates an anonymous account with a username and avatar, and other players can see those along with your rank and results. Per the same policy, your account, friends list and cloud save sit on Supabase servers in the EU or US, and you can delete the online account from the game's settings. Ads run through Google AdMob, and iOS asks whether they may track you.

It's rated 9+, needs iOS 15 or later on an iPhone with an A12 chip or newer, and is English only. Developer Afonso Quinaz released it in November 2026, so it doesn't have enough App Store ratings yet to show a score. If you enjoy watching a careful plan work or fall apart, give the first few levels a go.