Common themes include player running through a landscape teeming with zombies and moving left or right to dodge them.

The player has no choice but to move forward and get as far as possible (or up to the destination point) before dying.

The first main installment in the series released in December 2012 to "critical acclaim".

[1] The second main installment was released for Android, Apple, and the Nintendo Switch.

[7][8] Released exclusively for Netflix subscribers, a modified version of the previous installment Into the Dead 2.