About the game
Dead City is a 3D survival game about lasting 50 days in a city full of monsters. If you last 50 days, a rescue helicopter comes to the rooftop. Until then, you search crates, upgrade your bat and craft guns to stay alive.
The screen shows the day count (Day 1...) and a day or night indicator at the top, a health bar and item slots at the bottom, and a small map on one side. Crates, shops, crafting benches and driving all work through prompts that appear when you get close. You can also open a bag and a larger map.
Weapons start with a pistol and go on to a shotgun, an assault rifle, a sniper rifle, an AK rifle and a rocket launcher. The baseball bat, your melee weapon, can be upgraded up to level 5 with emeralds. If you place a gun crafting bench on the ground you can use iron to craft guns and gear, and you can also use placeable items such as turrets, spike traps and mines.
On day 50 the game tells you the helicopter has arrived. You must head for the blue building on the map and escape from the rooftop stairs inside. The game has combat scenes with zombies and guns, so it may not suit young children.
Game info
- Type
- 3D survival (50 days)
- Devices
- Computer and smartphone
- Saving
- Saved in the browser, with Continue
- Internet
- Needed to load the 3D library and fonts
Computer controls
- WASD to move, mouse to look, click to use (attack or shoot), Space to jump
- Keys 1-6 or the mouse wheel to switch what you hold, R to reload, Shift to run
- E for crates, shops, crafting and driving, I for the bag, M for the map
- With the sniper rifle, right-click looks through the scope.
Smartphone controls
- Drag the left side of the screen to move and the right side to look around.
- The Use button helps you aim at a monster near the crosshair.
- Buttons that appear near crates and shops let you interact, and there are also Jump, Aim and Block buttons on the screen.
- The Settings button lets you change the position and size of the control buttons.
Good to know
- The baseball bat can be upgraded up to level 5 with emeralds, which are also used in shop trades.
- Food and water fill the food bar and the water bar, and a medkit restores 40 health.
- Defense goes up with gear such as the leather armor (armor 3) and the iron armor (armor 6).
- Firing the rocket launcher at your feet gives you a rocket jump.
- You can drive a car, and there are shop buildings such as a gun shop.
- The Commands button lets you type practice commands such as /summon, /kill, /time, /heal and /help, and the in-game help lists four monster names: zombie, rusty, gunner and bazooka.
- The shotgun fires a strong spread at close range, the assault rifle fires fast, the sniper rifle pierces several monsters with one shot, and the AK rifle hits hard but kicks a lot.
- Turrets automatically shoot nearby monsters, spike traps hurt and slow monsters that step on them, and mines explode when stepped on.