Using these abilities cost a resource that you can recover by killing humans or sacrificing your own units. You gain abilities to stun, explode, and leap quickly at humans, which counteracts some of the more hostile ones that will fight back. Like the lemmings, all units move automatically in one direction, and you have to use designated “Overlord” units to turn them around, boost them to different platforms, provide speed buffs, etc. While parody and self-deprecation is abound, it’s nothing revolutionary unless you hunger for that time of humor.
Each of the game’s 40 levels has a small cutscene that plays with tropes and references to a bunch of other franchises such as The Terminator or IT. Controlling the masses of undead from a dangerous new drug strain dubbed “Romero”, you play as the “bad guys” in ZNT, working their way towards eating every human in sight as well as seeking out the immoral scientist who created the virus. While the pixelated look might invoke premature thoughts of the game being similar to Flash-based zombie offerings on Newgrounds, ZNT is also far more comparable to the Lemmings franchise.
2D pixel-based zombie games are commonplace nowadays, but don’t let the initial appearance and generic title of NoClip’s Zombie Night Terror fool you as it provides a pretty unique experience based on a beloved and familiar puzzle gaming series.