I thought about the games I enjoyed the most playing a while back, and I remember having the most fun in a game by making a solo custom match in Battlefront 2 and setting it to be an endless horde of rebel assault infantry and me being the last standout heavy-mg trooper in the deathstar's hangar and it was the coolest thing.

You folks have any horde killing games you can recommend? It doesn't matter how good/bad old/new big/small easy-to-get/hard-to-get singleplayer/multiplayer the game is or whether the horde-mode is a teeny gamemode within the game or what the game's all about, I want to make a list to tick off overtime and quality videos to watch on YT in my off-time; To stir the pot, I've got some examples.

Established/Popular

Games like https://rippercasinopokies.com/">Ripper Pokies where you can create your own horde game by setting up a custom match with varying abilities, enemies, weapons, vehicles and so forth; Also Overwatch's workshop mode/Halo's Forge and games with a similar mode.

A pseudo-horror horde killing game like BF2's Ewok hunt mode, AVP 2010, or GTFO where you're either trapped in an small-arena/large-area and have to kill horrifying creatures in the pitch-black with a dinky flashlight to survive or explore around a complex/large arena to look for stuff while killing gremlins or breaching/clearing rooms filled with gremlins specifically.

An online round-based/session-based horde killing game with/without MMO bells & whistles like upgrades, auras, equipment/team/hero synergies or whatever else; RDR2 defending blackwater, https://www.shazam-casino.org/">Shazam, Killing floor 2, World War Z, Spacelords, Warframe, Payday 2, Alien Fireteam Elite and Sniper Elite Zombie Army/deadfall adventures, the last two include traps and deathzones/holes and shiny buttons to activate them with; include games with that if you can.

An improvised horde killing game, like having buddies wear certain gear and have them invade you over and over again or use Nito's covenant in https://www.luckytigerslots.com/">Lucky Tiger.

DukeNukem/Serious-Sam/Doom where the whole game is horde killing in a variety of different sized locations and weapons without upgrades/grinding/exp while parkouring around old-school with crouch/jump, or a self contained medal/challenge/time mode like Doom 2013's horde mode.

Any game where it can be modded in, Fallout/skyrim in particular with modding in hordes of ghouls/draugr in to guard caves/dungeon along the world or roving bands travelling around and infecting whiterun if you don't stop it; Even Multiplayer if it's Skyrim together.

A melee horde killing game like verimintide/Ryse: son of rome where you rely on melee weapons and use ranged weapons sparingly, Even the tutorial arena mini-horde in Witcher 2: Assassin of Kings counts for me.

Games with a mode dedicated to horde killing, like CoD zombies, Gears of War, Mass Effect 3 or some of the Resident Evil games

Online servers dedicated to it like Gmod or similar games.

Even battle-royale style games like PUBG zombies or Evil Dead: The game

Dayz and other survival/simulation/realism games are too slow for me, State of Decay is the closest I'll get to this type of game when I'm in a horde killing game mood.

Speculation/Obscure

Or PvPvE games like Evolve and https://www.kiwipokies.co.nz/">Kiwi Pokies

Or maybe something really cinematic I haven't heard of yet, like holding off incoming german soldiers from your injured buddy with a one-shot pistol with a killer soundtrack and effects but as a whole game/gamemode

Or maybe soley as a vehicle/weapon emplacement/sniper

or maybe a cool misson in a story/campaign game that has you taking out hordes, DarkVoid had this with gun emplacements and climbing up/down a sheer cliff.

or something Top-Down like Relic Hunters Zero, Assault Android Cactus, ANVIL, and Livelock?

or something similar to splatting undead in a car like Crackdown 1/2 or saints row 4 style openworld events/pips? Or like those minigames in Watchdogs 1 you could access from your in-game phone

maybe something action adventure like God of war/Darksiders/Dante's inferno?

something where the horde killing isn't the focus but still a large part of the game? Like going for objectives in Deep Rock Galactic.

or something really out there and thematic like the Earth Defense Force games?

Games like left for dead/back for blood? I've really been racking my brain/scraping the bottom of the barrel for these last few along with stretching the definition of a "Horde killing game".

Edit: Added more games

Have you taken a look at the Starship Troopers: Extermination early access? 

Quote from: rkhigdon on May 25, 2023, 04:35:06 PM
Have you taken a look at the Starship Troopers: Extermination early access?

I remember seeing the trailer, and It was pretty cool! The troopers looked neat with the different specialities; I'm just hoping it's as good or better than playing the StarShip Troopers SQUAD mod since that game is killer to play with buddies.

Go ahead and check out some of the videos.  It's actually a community shooter so maybe a bit larger in scale then you're looking for, but the game has a number of pretty cool features and every game I've played has been pretty tense.

left for dead is very good, but also very dependent on your team. there no solo carrying in that one, so better have some friends. and use vc.

You listed a lot of games, but I don't see 7 Days to Die.

Post apocalypse. You loot a town, kill zombies, build a base, and then every 7 days a zombie horde attacks. Horde size increases over time and is configurable.

It's a cross between Minecraft, Rust, and any tower defense game. The building is block based and there are a huge number of blocks. You can also dig into the ground and terraform. Loads of mods available, too.

Just ignore the fact that it's been in "alpha" for 10 years. It's a complete game, and me and some friends got 100+ hours of enjoyment out of it. Fun alone, too. Lots of jump scares.

You really need to try Ravenfield.  It is done by a small developer and it's only single player, for now.  You and bots battle other bots.  There are vehicles, if you want them and a massive workshop where modders have created maps, models, skins, weapons and game modes similar to what people did with Unreal Tournament many years ago.  You can also choose which weapons both sides use, or even no weapons.  The game also literally says add as high of a count of bots as your computer can handle.  The graphics are toy-like but it is super fun. Some of the skins and vehicles that folks have made are very nice.  I literally played a session of cops versus Antifa.  I and the other boys in blue cleaned up the streets.