Zombie Exodus vs It's Killing Time
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Zombie Exodus
Engage in a text-based horror adventure where your choices shape your survival story. Build your character, gather resources, and navigate a zombie-infested city to rescue your sister. Explore different paths and endings in this immersive narrative.
- Character customization
- Branching narrative choices
- Resource gathering
- Combat and survival mechanics
- Romance options
- Multiple endings
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Could you survive the Zombie Apocalypse? Build your character and fight your way out of a zombie-filled city to save your sister in this text-based horror fiction story. Choose to be a soldier, athlete, carpenter, minister, or scientist. Play as male or female, gay or straight, and even find romance in the Zombie Apocalypse. Gather supplies and weapons while avoiding the military, bandits, and living dead. Your choices alone control the story. Zombie Exodus includes Parts 1 and 2 for free, in which you search for your sister as the city deals with the viral outbreak turning the living into zombies. Parts 3-5 are optional additions in which you survive in the aftermath of the outbreak. Meet other survivors, scavenge for food and supplies, and make moral decisions affecting your life in the apocalypse. The full game has 750,000 words, 9 unique endings, 25 achievements, and a myriad of paths to play.
It's Killing Time
Engage in an ultra-violent, text-based interactive novel where you become a hired assassin. Travel the globe, make critical choices that shape your story, and build your reputation as you navigate a dangerous world of murder-for-hire.
- Text-based interactive novel
- Choice-driven narrative
- Become a hired assassin
- Travel the world
- Build reputation and wealth
- Multiple character archetypes
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Travel the world, meet interesting new people, and assassinate them for money! "It's Killing Time" is an ultra-violent 140,000-word interactive novel by Eric Bonholtzer, where your choices control the story. It's entirely text-based—without graphics or sound effects—and fueled by the vast, unstoppable power of your imagination. Earn respect, reputation, and wealth as a hired assassin. You'll be dressed to kill, driving an exotic car with outlandish weapons in the trunk. But in the glamorous, fast-paced world of murder-for-hire, you can never know who to trust and who's gunning to take you out. Who will betray you? Whom will you betray? Will you be a spiritual hitman or hitwoman, a ruthless assassin, a total psychopath, or a righteous killer? The choice is yours.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Zombie Exodus at Free against It's Killing Time's $4.99. Zombie Exodus also leads on ratings volume (362 vs 15) and update cadence (every 5 months vs every 13 months). It's Killing Time's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and rating (5.0 vs 4.6). On review sentiment, ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Zombie Exodus is free to download; It's Killing Time costs $4.99 up front. Zombie Exodus sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. It's Killing Time asks for nothing beyond the download.
It's Killing Time holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Zombie Exodus has 362 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 84% of Zombie Exodus's written reviews are positive against 91% of It's Killing Time's.
Zombie Exodus ships an update every 5 months, It's Killing Time every 13 months. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Zombie Exodus | It's Killing Time |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $4.99 |
| Rating | 4.6 (362 ratings) | 5.0 (15 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.4% of reviews | 91.5% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 362 — better | 15 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months — better | Every 13 months |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 12.0 | 12.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Hosted Games LLC | Choice of Games LLC |
Customer experience
Zombie Exodus
It's Killing Time
Bugs and requests
Zombie Exodus
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes at certain story points
- Saved progress not loading correctly
- Compatibility issues on older devices
- Graphical glitches and visual bugs
Requested features
6 requests- Save/load functionality
- Ability to skip/fast-forward text
- More diverse character customization
- Expanded storylines and endings
- Offline mode
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- Cloud sync across devices
It's Killing Time
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Zombie Exodus
- Remove Advertising$4.99
- Part III: Cathedral$4.99
- Part IV: Survival$4.99
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- Part V: Resolution$4.99
It's Killing Time
No in-app purchases
Questions
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