Deadflow — Demo

You are the outbreak.

Deadflow is a minimalist real-time strategy game where you control the zombie outbreak as humanity tries to contain it.

Start with a small infection and turn it into a spreading threat. Guide autonomous hordes, awaken infected civilians behind human defenses, and evolve your outbreak. As civilians evacuate and defenders fight back, choose where to strike—and when.

Spread. Adapt. Overwhelm.

• Influence the horde. Attract nearby zombies toward chosen regions to put pressure where it matters.
• Awaken hidden infections. Turn infected civilians into new outbreaks, opening another front behind the defenses.
• Evolve your outbreak. Spend mutation points on upgrades to strengthen your infection.
• Explore randomly generated maps. Towns, villages, rivers, lakes, and bridges create different opportunities each run.
• React to humanity. Evacuations and defensive responses can disrupt your plans—or help the infection reach somewhere new.
• Control the pace. Pause to assess the situation or speed up the simulation to watch your strategy unfold.

Simple visuals. A growing outbreak. A region fighting to survive.

Play the free demo

This demo is an early look at Deadflow, which is still in development. Expect ongoing changes to balance, visuals, and gameplay, along with some bugs.

Your feedback will help shape the game! Was your first run easy to understand? Did the human defenses feel threatening? Which decisions were the most satisfying?

Leave a comment below or join the Discord to share your thoughts and report bugs. If you encounter an issue, including the map seed and a screenshot will help me investigate.

Coming soon to Steam

Deadflow is coming soon to Steam! In the meantime, join the Discord to follow development, see previews of new features, hear about demo updates, and help shape what comes next.

👉 Join the Deadflow Discord

Follow this itch.io page for future updates—and thanks for playing!