
Respect the Horde Steam Playtest is now open!
The first Respect the Horde Steam Playtest is starting! I'm looking for players to help me test the game, identify what needs improvement, and make sure the experience is ready…




You're outnumbered. Outsmart them. Lure hordes of zombies into deadly traps, shape their path with obstacles, and grow stronger with every kill. But know when to walk away before overconfidence and greed turn your strategy into uncontrollable chaos.
Fighting hundreds of zombies head-on is a good way to run out of bullets.
In Respect the Horde, survival is about using the horde's predictable behavior against it. Build barriers to redirect its path, lure zombies where you want them, and funnel entire crowds into barbed wire, fire and deadly traps.
The bigger the horde, the more important your plan becomes.
Explore abandoned locations for weapons, equipment and resources. Decide where to make your stand, then turn the environment into a defensive setup built to handle hundreds of infected at once.
Place obstacles to shape their path. Combine traps. Create bottlenecks. Keep an escape route open.
Because once the horde starts moving, changing the plan becomes a lot harder.
The more zombies you kill, the greater the rewards, but the further you push, the more dangerous the horde becomes.
You can extract when the objective is complete and bring your rewards home.
Or you can stay.
One more wave.
One more danger level.
One more chance to come back stronger.
The longer you push your luck, the more there is to gain, and the more spectacularly your carefully prepared strategy can fall apart.
The real challenge isn't surviving. It's knowing when to leave.
Survivors who make it home gain experience and learn new skills. Recover new weapons and equipment, improve your base, and prepare your group for increasingly dangerous missions.
But death matters too. Lose a survivor in the field and they'll join the horde until you put an end to their misery.
Every extraction makes the group stronger. Every mistake can make the next mission harder.

Choose where to deploy from the island map, with each location offering different opportunities, advantages and dangers.
Push deeper into infected territory, reclaim regions one mission at a time, and build a path toward taking the island back from the dead.
You don't need enough bullets to kill every zombie. You just need a better plan.
Manipulate the Horde: Redirect hundreds of zombies using barriers, traps and environmental hazards.
Loot, Build, Survive: Explore each area for weapons, ammunition and resources, then use what you find to prepare for the horde.
Risk vs Reward: Stay longer to grow stronger and earn greater rewards, or extract before the horde overwhelms you.
Permanent Progression: Unlock new skills, survivors and equipment to tackle increasingly dangerous missions.
Reclaim the Island: Choose where to deploy next and gradually reclaim the island region by region.
Respect The HordeSteam announcement
The first Respect the Horde Steam Playtest is starting! I'm looking for players to help me test the game, identify what needs improvement, and make sure the experience is ready…
Respect The HordeSteam announcement
You're outnumbered. Outsmart them. Respect the Horde is a top-down extraction shooter / tower defense where fighting hundreds of zombies head-on is a good way to run out of…