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The Idle Undead is an Idle Clicker game set in a Zombie Apocalypse - Upgrade a base, recruit survivors, play minigames to boost your damage!

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2025 Update - Full Revamp!

Nov 17, 2025

Hey it's been a.... while!

The last post here was in 2023, which was a while ago, Here's what happened!

I was pretty busy with University and generally had a lot going on
The original version of the game was started in college and didn't have much of a plan or direction which meant a lot of bad code and features stacking on top of each other, that it ended up being a really big mess...

So at the start of this year I decided to start again from the beginning with an actual plan and goals, This version

Is a lot more organized, documented and focussed and a lot easier for me (and importantly, other people) to look at and work on without worrying if it'll break some other thing
I'm generally bad at art and if you look at some older blog posts there was a lot of badly made 3D backgrounds and stuff that had no place, This is more focussed on gameplay and has a more basic 2D style

With that out of the way, let's look at the new version!

More Basic Visual Style

It (hopefully) looks a lot more cleaner and focussed, If you look at some old blog posts you'll see how much better it is...

The art is still a massive work in progress but it looks a lot nicer!

Here's everything implemented so far in this new version:

Clicking Zombies, Get Resources to buy stuff, level up, the basics!
Recruiting Survivors to help kill these zombies for you!
A Skill Tree for Upgrading Survivors (and more)
Mini Games, More on that later!
Daily Rewards for Opening the Game!

Survivor Abilities

A cool new thing in this version is survivor abilities, to help make each survivor feel different some of them have some unique effects one example is the Gambler!

As you can see, The gambler has a very fitting ability and can give buffs (or debuffs) at random!

Mini Games

Here's a (very early) example of one of the mini games, Farming!

After all, The survivors you've recruited throughout gameplay need to eat something!

This is a pretty basic mini-game!

Buy seeds!
Plant crops!
Wait for them to grow (They grow even when the games closed!)
Harvest the crops!
Sell them for more resources!
Buy new plots to plant even more!

We also have the Camp, Which grows resources while you are away so you have a little boost when you start playing!

Skill Tree

The skill tree is a way to level up the survivors and make them stronger, You can boost there attack, critical rate (the chance a survivor does double damage) and how often they attack!

There's also other upgrades for stuff like clicking to make your clicks stronger!

What I'm Working On

I have a lot planned, but here's what's next up!

Restarting (name in progress) - A classic clicker game mechanic of starting all over again, but with some bonuses, Currently it will also unlock some new fancy (gambling) mechanics. Gambling with your in game resources of course, The game is still fully free with no microtransactions or anything!
Achievements - Alongside Steam Achievements there will also be an in depth in game achievement system to showcase how far you've come and what you still need to do!
Cards - I talked about this before in the old version of the game (i think...) You'll be offered some cards to pick from with different effects, You can only choose one!

So... Game when??

I'm currently on my last year of uni (yay!) so my focus is 50 50 split between my uni work and The Idle Undead, After I'm done I'll have time to fully focus on the game!

The plan is to release a small demo sometime next year (2026) with a glimpse into the gameplay, that'll end at a certain point (like a level cap...) so I can receive feedback and work on bug fixes and stuff from the demo.

I plan to try and get the game out late 2026 but of course this can change, I plan to do some frequent content updates for a little while after launch to provide new content after which I will focus on new projects. Although, if there's enough interest I will continue development after on the side!
I'd heavily suggest following some of my social accounts to get updates!

Twitter[www.x.com] Instagram[www.instagram.com]

This is less relevant, but I plan on doing some The Idle Undead themed Twitch streams soon but this is less solely game dev focussed, so it might not be as interesting

Twitch[www.twitch.tv]

The Idle Undead

2 Years

Is this ever coming out?

Marx Nocturne

Nov 17, 2025 @ 5:10pm

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Weekly Update - 30th August 2023

Aug 29, 2023

Hello!
Welcome to another Weekly Update, Before we start next week’s goals will be the same as this week's!

Today I’ll show the progress I’ve made in remaking the game’s HUD!

Here’s the concept I made for the new HUD, It’s supposed to look nicer, be more customizable with themes and such, and show more/less information if you want it to!

The right side would be a “Widgets” section, Where you could pin various information you want to see!

The concept shows Active Effects, Notices, Wave Information and Daily Tasks! (Daily Tasks don’t exist yet)

You could also add these currently planned optional ones:
- Stats (Total Enemies Killed, Clicks, Kills per Minute etc.)
- Quick Buy (Favourite Upgrades will show up allowing you to quickly upgrade them without opening the shop)

So far I’ve implemented all but the widgets section into the game, which will be the main focus of this next week as well as working on better controller support!

Here’s what I’ve implemented so far!

As you can see it’s a little bit of a mess but you can see it looks a little nicer from what it used to look like (I hope), the old version is seen below:

It also matches your chosen theme thanks to the work of last week!

I also plan this week to add better controller support mainly with a wheel that will show up when you hold down a button allowing quick access to menus and actions (that you can customize) or with a different method, shown later.

I also want to allow you to set the 0-9 keys to open various menus and actions of your choosing, in the future hopefully allowing you to assign any keys to actions.

To end this week’s update I’ll show 2 concepts I have for better controller support:

The first is a simple wheel, You’d hold down a button and then use the stick to select what you want, Let go and the selected menu opens!

This one is very simple and is used in a lot of games, The second one below I just came up with like 5 seconds ago

The second one is a bit more confusing but would support up to around 16 shortcuts

You’d hold down a part of the d-pad, and the Up button would have 4 other buttons assigned to it.

So you’d hold down the Up button and then press A to open the Shop, But if you held down Right, A might be assigned to something else of your choosing

Does that make sense, I hope so!

Tell me your thoughts and such (If anyone does)
I’ll see you next week!

The Idle Undead

Weekly Update - 23rd August 2023

Aug 22, 2023

Is this a Weekly Update?? oh… must have forgotten about that part, sorry!

Welcome back to another “Weekly” update which if not for my massive general laziness problem, would be an accurate title.

This last week I worked on adding Themes to The Idle Undead which currently only applies to the Main Menu, Which is the only part of the game that has had its UI revamped so far, This week the main HUD will be reworked!

Themes

Cause I like being able to customize the colours of buttons and stuff, I’ve added Themes to The Idle Undead!

Currently there very simple and change the accent colour of certain parts of the UI, Later I could expand it to add different designs to menus and add stuff like a Light Mode!

These are the current colour options I’ve added!
More will be added and some will be changed slightly for reasons such as readability, or cause I have a bias over Orange and Green.
I also plan to allow you to choose the very specific RGB value you like the most in future (You can technically modify the save file and do it now but no, that’s cheating (it isn’t))

Here are some of the themes so far:

When I remake the game’s HUD I will showcase that in some of these themes as well!

Sound Effects

Sound Effects need a lot more time but I’ve spent this week making a long list of the ones I need, Take a little look:

There they all are, There’s quite a bit below this as well!
I plan to add these while I’m doing other work to eventually hopefully have a sound effect for everything on this list (even if some are temporary ones)

I’d also like to create some myself, or find people to help make some at some point!

This Week

This week I plan to remake the game’s HUD to:
- Look Nicer
- Match Your Theme
- Allow Hiding Certain Elements

I also plan to add a wheel to access frequent menus, And allow assigning menus and actions to certain keys!

That’s about all for now!
See you next Monday (as if I'll meet that)
- Oliver Macdonald

The Idle Undead

I would like to test the game out

How do i get in on early access?

Mikiddy

Nov 13, 2023 @ 12:15am

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