Zombie Homestead: Idle Defense
Build & Defend a Survivor Base
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
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All you do is walk.
Picking up, building and shooting happen on their own.
Run around a zombie-filled town with a tower of supplies on your back, and grow an empty house into a base of your own. It's an idle base-building game with one twist that most cozy builders don't have: guard it, or lose it.
■ Three things to learn
• Walk close, stack it up
Stand on a work pad at the scrapyard or the garden and resources appear. Walk by and they stack up on your back. Stack up to 24 layers, 3 items each.
• Carry it, and it's built
Bring materials to a build site and construction takes care of itself. Garden, workshop, sawmill, canteen, research lab… an empty house turns into a base you can count on. A lab drone can help you haul.
• Carry ammo, and the turrets shoot
You never shoot. Bring ammo to the turrets and wood to the barricades. Hauling is defending.
■ Guard it, or lose it
Zombies walk in from the edge of the map, heading for your warehouse. Barricades stop them, turrets shoot them. Let both run dry and they walk off with your supplies.
Every zombie you repel drops scrap, though. The better you guard, the more you gain. A small tower defense sits right in the middle of your base building.
Four kinds come for you: walkers, runners, tanks and hordes. Take down the rare Jackpot zombie for a big payout.
■ Close the app. Your base keeps going
While the app is closed, your survivors keep working and the zombies keep coming. When you're back, one screen shows what happened. Restock the ammo, start one build, close it again. A session takes 3 to 5 minutes.
You only lose what you gained while you were away. Your stock never drops below what you had when you closed the app.
■ Ten safe zones
A suburban house, gas station, school, mall, farm and military base, then on to the sea: hospital, power plant, shipyard and harbor. When this place won't hold, load the truck and move on. You rebuild every building from scratch, but your cargo, survivors, research and blueprints come with you, so you can upgrade back to your old levels without new research.
■ Radio League: every week, one night, same for everyone
Fix the radio in the school's broadcast room (stage 3) and you're linked to survivors everywhere. Each week, everyone takes on the same Outpost Night. Build and defend for 5 minutes and your score goes up against a league of 30. Promotion and demotion every week. Lose, and your own base is still safe.
■ Change clothes, get stronger
Hit achievements to unlock new outfits, each with its own perk. Courier, Ex-cop, Lookout, Mechanic, Soldier… You can finish the game with achievement outfits alone.
■ Six promises
• No forced ads: the only ads are rewarded ones you choose to watch by tapping a button. No pop-ups, no banners
• Time stops during ads: game time doesn't move while an ad plays
• Your stock has a floor: you only lose what you gained while away. Buildings never get destroyed and there is no game over
• No sign-in: no account needed, jump right in
• Plays offline: the main game works with no signal (only the Radio League, ads and purchases need a connection)
• 7 languages: English, 日本語, 한국어, 简体中文, 繁體中文, Español, Português
■ Made for you if
• You like idle games, cozy builders and colony sims, but just watching numbers go up isn't enough
• You like tower defense but not frantic tapping
• You want a relaxing game you can play one-handed on the train or before bed
• You like zombies but not gore (ours are goofy and vanish in a puff of smoke)
■ Invite a friend, both of you get a survivor
When a friend who starts from your invite link finishes the tutorial, a new survivor shows up at your base and at theirs.
Free to play. You can buy gems (the in-game currency) and a Starter Pack with an outfit. The game is balanced so you can finish it without paying.
Requires iOS 15 or later. Works on iPad.
Official site: https://zombie-homestead.com
How to play, FAQ and contact: see Support on the official site.
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New in 1.1.2
• New opening: hold the gate first
• Rookie Bonus: 7 days of gifts
• Backpack research: 2–3 per stack, residents too
• Turret kills return half the ammo; shoot fleeing zombies to get loot back
• Each cabin level adds a resident (max 5)
• Campfire: travelers help when you're alone
• Fixes: residents no longer jam at a full warehouse; long absences aren't cut at 4h
• Stage 1 needs 40% less; stage 2 first builds half price; stages 7–9 retuned
• Light graphics for slow phones
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Information
- Seller
- VAULT, LIMITED LIABILITY CO.
- Size
- 128.5 MB
- Category
- Simulation
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 6 more
- English, Japanese, Korean, Portuguese, Simplified Chinese, Spanish, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Frequent
Cartoon or Fantasy Violence
Horror/Fear Themes
Contests
Guns or Other Weapons
Contains
Advertising
User-Generated Content
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Starter Pack $4.99
- 1,200 Gems $9.99
- 400 Gems $3.99
- 120 Gems $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 VAULT LLC