No life support
Our crews do not breathe. Scrubbers, oxygen tanks and pressure regulation are replaced by a single sign on the hatch: KEEP SHUT.
−11,400 kg payload per mission
Zombienautics // Game studio & publisher // Est. 2019
The living stay home.
The dead go further.
Zombienautics is an independent game studio and publisher. We make games about the science of postmortal spaceflight — crews that need no oxygen, no water and no return ticket — and help other studios launch theirs.
8
Games launched or on the pad
3
Partner studios in orbit
2.4M
Players enlisted
0 L
Oxygen consumed per crew-year
Directive 01 // Rationale
Why send the dead?
Zom·bie·nau·tics (n.) — the science of sending the dead where the living cannot follow. It is the premise behind every game we make: a near future in which space agencies stopped sending astronauts and started sending zombies. On paper, it is the most efficient idea in the history of spaceflight. Our games are about what happens next.
No water, no food
The postmortal metabolism runs on stubbornness. Rations are limited to a sealed cooler of motivational meat, opened only for EVA compliance.
Galley module: deleted
Radiation tolerant
Cosmic rays degrade living tissue over time. Our crews' tissue is already degraded. Deep-space dosage limits are now a formality.
Dose limit: not applicable
One-way by design
No reentry vehicle, no splashdown, no ticker-tape parade. Every gram saved on the trip home goes into going further.
Return mass: 0 kg
Directive 02 // Missions
Our games
Zombienautics: Mission Control
A management sim about running a space agency whose crews cannot die, cannot think, and cannot be talked out of eating the flight engineer.
Pandora Deep
Co-op survival horror aboard a colony ship drifting towards the Kuiper belt. The hatch reads OPEN. It shouldn't.
Charnel Station
Survival horror in low Earth orbit. Five crew members went up. Six are on board.
Launch services // Publishing
Your game needs a launch vehicle
Zombienautics publishes games from independent studios: funding, production support, porting, QA, marketing and a launch window that actually holds. You build the payload. We get it into orbit.
Directive 03 // Comms
Latest transmissions
- DEV LOG // ZN-004
Mission Control dev log #1: designing a crew that doesn't take orders
In most management games, you tell your units what to do and they do it. In Zombienautics: Mission Control, your crew is dead, and the dead do not take orders. So we built the crew …
- PUBLISHING // ZN-P04
Announcing Europa Descent with Black Ice Studio
We’re proud to announce our fourth publishing partnership: Europa Descent, a narrative exploration game from Black Ice Studio. Eight dead astronauts. One frozen moon. An …
- MISSION SUPPORT // ZN-P01
Hollow Moon turns three — and the crew is still walking
Three years ago today we launched Hollow Moon with Slow Shamble Games, our very first publishing partner. Since then, players have walked a combined 1.9 billion kilometres across …