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In They Are Coming online you defend a single fortified position against nightly hordes of the undead — every zombie you drop drips cash you instantly spend on bigger guns, spikes and barricades before the next wave rolls in. It is a side-scrolling shooter welded to roguelike tower defense, so no two survival runs feel the same.

The hook: you have one life. There is no level to "beat" — the game is a race against escalating waves to see how many nights you last while your barricade slowly gets chewed apart. Kill fast, upgrade smart, and reinforce the wall before it breaks.

How the They Are Coming Zombie Defense Loop Works

Each in-game night, zombies charge your base building setup and try to smash the barricade before reaching you. Your job is to destroy them first. Every kill pays out money — the single resource that keeps you alive longer.

Between waves the shop opens. Here you make the run-defining decisions: buy new guns or upgrade existing ones, reinforce obstacles to slow the crowd, and plant mines or grenades where zombies bunch up. Skimp on the wall and you die on the fifth night; skimp on firepower and you drown in bodies. Balancing the two is the whole game.

Best Weapons and Traps in They Are Coming

The arsenal spans Rifle, Assault Rifle, Shotgun, Sniper Rifle, Machine Gun and even a Minigun. When zombies close in, swap to melee — Baseball Bat, Axe, Hammer, Japanese Sword, Chainsaw or Lightsaber. For crowd control, layer Roadblocks, Spike Barriers and Claymore Mines in front of the wall so waves take damage before you even fire.

They Are Coming Controls (Play Online)

Movement uses a virtual joystick on touch devices — hold and drag to walk; there is no sprint, so positioning matters. Tap or aim to fire, use the dedicated reload and melee buttons, and hit the kick button to shove a zombie off you. On PC you handle movement, aiming, reload and weapon-swap with keyboard and mouse. If you're searching they are coming controls for exact keys, the browser build maps them to standard WASD-style input.

Defense Mode vs Sandbox Mode

Defense is the real survival gauntlet where waves scale and money is scarce. Sandbox mode unlocks every weapon and item from the start with no threat of defeat — the best place to learn how to play they are coming, test they are coming best weapons, and rehearse trap layouts before risking a real run. Progression carries between them: guns bought in Defense stay available.

Advanced They Are Coming Survival Tips

• Prioritize wall reinforcement early — a broken barricade ends the run instantly, no matter your gun.
• Funnel zombies through a single lane of Spike Barriers, then drop a Claymore Mine at the choke point.
• Keep a Shotgun or Chainsaw ready for melee-range breaches; the Sniper Rifle is wasteful up close.
• Spend every dollar between waves — banked cash does nothing while the next horde is already forming.

Story & Setting

You play a survivor who returns to an orphanage in a post-apocalyptic world, defending younger siblings from relentless zombie survival waves. That stake is why every night matters.

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• Tap Drift — a quick pick-up-and-play arcade challenge between zombie runs.

Browse more in Action Games or the HTML5 Games hub. When you're ready, plant your traps, load the Minigun, and see how many nights of the horde you can survive.