Marrow March

Zombie, skeleton and undead tower defense games

Updated

The dead make good attackers: slow, endless and coming whatever you do. Zombie defense games are many; skeleton armies and undead lords are rarer. These are the ones we would point a friend to.

We make Marrow March, so it is on this list; it is marked as ours and it comes last. The rest are games we would point a friend to.

  1. Plants vs. Zombies: Replanted

    PopCap Games, The Lost Pixels · Windows (Steam) · Paid

    The zombie defense everyone knows, remastered in HD in 2025: plants in lanes against dozens of kinds of zombies coming up your lawn. Plants vs. Zombies 2 is free on iOS and Android.

  2. They Are Billions

    Numantian Games · Windows (Steam) · Paid

    Steampunk colonies after the zombie apocalypse: build walls, gates and towers around your settlement and keep out the infected, all billions of them.

  3. Zombie Defense

    Home Net Games · Windows, Mac, Linux (Steam) · Free

    Recruit soldiers, place them on slots and let them shoot the incoming waves on their own, with supplies, grenades and airstrikes to call in: of everything here, the nearest to how Marrow March plays.

  4. Diplomacy is Not an Option

    Door 407 · Windows (Steam) · Paid

    A medieval town against hordes that come in their thousands, swarms of zombies among them: build the walls, raise an army and see how long you last.

  5. Ultimate Zombie Defense 2

    Terror Dog Studio · Windows, Linux (Steam) · Paid

    Build a base of traps and defenses and hold it, alone or with up to three friends, against waves of the undead and their bosses.

  6. Yet Another Zombie Defense HD

    Awesome Games Studio · Windows (Steam) · Paid

    A top-down shooter with tower defense at its core: build your base by day and defend it by night, alone or with up to four players.

  7. Kingdom Rush Frontiers

    Ironhide Game Studio · Windows, Mac, Linux (Steam) · Paid

    Not an undead game, but its lands reach down into the underworld, and one of its specialised tower upgrades is the Necromancer.

  8. Marrow MarchOur game

    Enes (us) · Desktop browser · Free

    Our game is the skeleton one: a horde of the dead marching on the last wall, 13 kinds of them from the plain Skeleton to the Bone Titan, 4 of them lords at the end of their ages. You place and train the soldiers who hold the wall. Free in a desktop browser.

How we chose

Every pick puts the dead, zombies, skeletons or the infected, on the attacking side and you behind something you must hold. Facts were checked against each game's store on 1 October 2026.

Questions

Are there tower defense games with skeletons?

Few put skeletons at the centre. Marrow March is built around a skeleton horde; Kingdom Rush Frontiers has underworld lands and a Necromancer tower; most other undead tower defense games are about zombies.

What is the best-known zombie tower defense game?

Plants vs. Zombies. They Are Billions and Diplomacy is Not an Option are deeper strategy games built around holding walls against huge hordes.

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