Urban Dead

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Synopsis

Urban Dead was a free-to-play HTML/text-based massively multiplayer online role-playing game created by British developer Kevan Davis. Set in a quarantined region of the fictional city of Malton, it dealt with the aftermath of a zombie outbreak. Players entered the game either as a survivor or a zombie, each with different abilities and limitations. Survivors became zombies when they are killed, while zombies could be "revivified" with appropriate technology, returning to life as a survivor – any character played for long would thus spend some time alive and some as a zombie. There were no non-player characters in the game: all survivors and zombies were controlled by players. Urban Dead went live on July 3, 2005, and shut down on March 14, 2025. The shutdown was stated to be the result of the Online Safety Act in the UK, which they stated brought the threat of "corporate-sized fines" to independent solo web projects with social features. On February 20, 2026, a successor project was released, Worldwide Dead, created by a former player of the original game.

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Details

Type

Game

Release date

July 3, 2005

Genres

survival horror

Platforms

web browser

Countries

United Kingdom