Dead Island: Survivors asks you to defend a very simple base by setting up a variety of creative traps, and then attack zombies with your character. The great thing is that the zombies only attack your base and yourself, which means you do not have to keep repairing or replacing your defences.

A tower defence game without the monotony

Dead Island: Survivors is a base-building game, but you have to defend your base from hordes of zombies as they all take the same path to your base. However, you are able to control a playable character, which turns the game into more of an RPG or strategy game rather than a sad zombie march. The biggest benefit of this is that instead of having zombies destroy your defences one by one, you can harass the hordes, distract them, or cut through them if you have the weapons. The graphics are bog standard without being lazy. Dead Island: Survivors gets more interesting after the first few levels when the annoying adviser has gone away and you can make your own fun. After downloading the game, it asks that you download an extra 1017MB, so make sure you have the space for it.

Far superior to most tower defence games

Dead Island: Survivors is not related to the game Dead Island, but you can tell that the makers were fans because Dead Island: Survivors has the jimmy-rigging weapon feature that Dead Island has. This counts for both the weapons you use as your character, and for defensive weapons you use to protect your base. The biggest downside is that you play your characters with RPG melee fighting mechanics with a strategic map overview and it is difficult with a touchscreen because running and hitting means covering your enemy with your finger.