Deadrise.io — Play Free Online

Deadrise.io is a zombie survival shooter built around cooperation rather than a last-one-standing scramble. You drop into a shared arena with other players, and the goal is simple: hold out against wave after wave of undead and keep your weapons a step ahead of them.

Rounds are short and self-contained, which suits the rest of the shelf on 1v1.LOL. Where the headline game is a fast duel against a single opponent, this one hands you a crowd of enemies and a team on your side. It runs in the browser with nothing to install, so you can jump in for one or two waves between longer matches.

How to play

Move with WASD or the mouse, and click to shoot or interact. The game is about surviving as long as you can: zombies keep coming, you clear them, and between rounds you get a chance to upgrade your weapons before the next wave arrives. What you spend those upgrades on decides how far you get, so it is worth a moment of thought each time rather than clicking through.

Other players share the arena and are fighting the same enemies, so the game rewards awareness of where everyone is standing. Covering a flank for someone else is often worth more than chasing one extra kill.

Tips

• Keep moving. Standing still while shooting is the quickest way to get surrounded, and strafing lets you fire and stay out of reach at the same time.
• Put upgrades into a weapon you are comfortable aiming instead of spreading them thinly across everything.
• Stay near other players. A group thins out zombies far faster than you can alone, and you are easier to rescue if things go wrong.
• Use the gap between waves to reposition and plan, not just to shop.

Similar games on 1v1.LOL

If you like the shooting but want other humans as the opposition, Venge.io and Repuls.io are competitive arena shooters, while Bullet Force is a more detailed military-style shooter. Tribals.io and NuggetRoyale.io lean toward the survival and last-one-standing side of the .io genre, which is the format Deadrise.io borrows its arena feel from.

Because a session is quick and the controls are just mouse and keyboard, it works well when you want a bit of shooting without committing to a full match.