
Yes, this is a survival game, but don’t worry: there’s no crafting. Ultimately, this is the zombie survival game stripped down to its roots.

Furniture can be pushed into doors to help fend off the undead, but you’ll want to find bottlenecks so you can avoid the massive hordes, as those are the things that will swarm and kill you. Melee weapons can break, but even the most durable ones can’t be used without your characters getting tired. Having guns is handy, but ammo is far from unlimited. Siege missions will force you to test your skill and armaments.

You’ll run low on food, fuel, and medkits over time, and having larger groups of survivors means more resources have to be expended to keep everyone alive. Then, you explore different locations, scrounging for supplies while fighting off the undead. You’ve probably read our coverage before, so you have a rough idea on how the game plays, but it’s an action game where you and an ally travel from Florida to Canada, each day running into various trials and travails, such as your car potentially breaking down, or random encounters on the road that rely on your characters’ stats for responses. But that would be short-sighted: Death Road to Canada is another masterpiece from a partnership that keeps cranking out the hits. So, perhaps you might think Death Road to Canada ($14.99) off the bat seems a bit weird for them to do. In fact, that’s the problem: these folks make games that are such pinnacles of what they do that nobody else can even come close. See their previous collaboration Punch Quest (Free), which is still brilliant and so unlike everything else on the App Store. Madgarden, meanwhile, has the strongest collection of unreleased titles perhaps out there, but when he releases something, it tends to be great. Go on and look it up, their worst title is Five Card Quest ($2.99) and even that isn’t so bad. No studio has quite the collection of masterpieces that they do.

I think you could make a strong argument that Rocketcat Games is the greatest developer in the history of mobile games.
