About Survival Tycoon: City of Zombie: Idle Camp Management in a Zombie Apocalypse

Survival Tycoon: City of Zombie puts you in command of a survivor group at the center of a zombie apocalypse. Your job is to protect the barrier, gather resources, and keep your camp alive as the horde closes in. The game blends idle tycoon mechanics with camp management and trap defense, rewarding steady planning as much as active play.

Several scenes show a large cream-colored trailer with an orange awning parked beside a red hatchback on a paved area. Two white and black police cars appear parked parallel behind metal barricades across multiple views. One scene shows a wooden fenced enclosure with several chickens and a patch of green grass inside.

How to Play Survival Tycoon: City of Zombie: Protect the Barrier and Grow Your Camp

The central objective is stopping the zombie horde from breaking through the camp's barrier. From there, the game expands into resource gathering, facility development, and steady camp evolution.

Core Camp Actions

• Protect the barrier: Prevent the zombie horde from breaking into the camp — this is the primary goal at all times.
• Place traps: Drag defensive devices from the bottom panel to the highlighted zones on the battlefield, deploying everything from deadly spikes to massive decoy bombs.
• Complete quests: Follow the quest list to earn resources and grow the camp's economy.
• Upgrade everything: Click on buildings and objects to increase their durability, damage, or income.
• Interact with the map: Click directly on zombies and objects on the map to actively assist your survivors.

Camp Progression

• Relocation and progress: Move between motels and farms, upgrade your camp, and unlock new zones rather than staying in one place.
• Scavenging runs: Send your team out for fuel — every drop of gas counts toward keeping the operation moving.
• Camp evolution: Develop facilities, automate income, and work toward mastering the wasteland.

Controls

• Left-click: Open menus and perform actions
• Click and drag: Install traps by dragging defensive devices from the bottom panel to highlighted zones

Games You Might Like

If zombie survival and base defense keep you coming back, the survival games collection on Playgama has plenty more to explore. Dead Land: Survival shares the post-apocalyptic zombie setting and shelter-building loop that drives Survival Tycoon. For a tighter defensive challenge, Dream Reaper Defense tasks you with building an economy and constructing turrets before increasingly dangerous nightly attacks — a strong match for the trap-and-upgrade rhythm here. Trap Craft puts trap placement front and center as you defend a portal from zombies across six character adventures. Dino Survival swaps the undead for dinosaurs but keeps the base-building and resource-gathering structure familiar to camp management fans. The broader strategy games category is also worth a look if resource management and tactical planning are what draw you in.