Solo developer Afonso Quinaz has released Undead Ends, a free iPhone puzzle game where you build dead ends for a shuffling zombie horde. It launched on 9 November 2026, and it’s the second free game from the same developer this month.
You get a handful of barricades, place them so every zombie’s road ends in a pit, a trap, or a closed street, then press GO and watch. According to the developer’s press page, the game is by Afonso Quinaz, a solo developer, and it’s part of his DEADGRID family of games.
How Undead Ends: Zombie Puzzle plays
Undead Ends: Zombie Puzzle carries the tagline “Block the road, trap the horde”. Its App Store page sums up the pitch as “No reflexes, just brains”, and Quinaz says movement is deterministic, with no reflex element at all. One rule keeps the puzzles honest. In a dev.to post, he explains that every zombie except tanks must always have a route to the house. The game refuses any barricade that would trap one outright.
Quinaz says there are 336 handmade levels plus a daily puzzle, and the App Store listing puts the levels across 28 places around the world. Enemies and obstacles include tanks that smash barricades, runners that move two steps at a time, and boomers. Gates, pressure plates, sewer tunnels, cracked roads, and drawbridges complicate the maps. Puzzle packs add 150 boards each, from Easy to Nightmare.
Beyond the main levels, Challenges serves rated puzzles matched to your level, and Duel lets you race another player on the same boards. Streaks, crates, trophies, and hints round it out. The game was previously called DETOUR, according to Quinaz’s privacy policy, and it works offline, though friends, leaderboards, daily boards, Challenges, Duel, and cloud saves require a connection.
The game is free, with ads, in-app purchases, and an optional Undead Ends+ subscription. The ads are rewarded videos you choose to watch plus occasional ads between levels. Undead Ends+ removes them and adds unlimited Challenges, every puzzle pack, step-by-step solution explanations, and five extra hints a week. We couldn’t find a price for it in the App Store listing. On the US App Store, extra puzzle packs cost $1.99 each, hint bundles run from $0.99 to $6.99, and Remove Ads costs $2.99 (all prices in US dollars).
Undead Ends requires iOS 15 or later and an iPhone with an A12 Bionic chip or newer; it’s iPhone-only and takes up 152.4 MB. Neither of Quinaz’s games has been reviewed outside the developer yet, and the App Store doesn’t have enough ratings to show a score.
Clean The Map: City Cleanup
Quinaz’s other new game swaps zombies for litter. Quinaz says Clean The Map: City Cleanup launched on iPhone and iPad on 4 November 2026. It’s an idle cleaning game set in Brightwater, a city left with 10,000,000 pieces of trash after its SUNFEST festival.
You work through 12 tools and trucks, from the Litter Picker to the Mega Vac Truck, across nine districts with 54 recycling points. You can also hire help, from Volunteers and Robo-Vacs to a Clean-up Blimp and an Alien UFO, and play in first or third person. Quinaz says the ads are only optional rewarded videos, and the store lists no in-app purchases. The game is available in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese, and Spanish, requires iOS or iPadOS 15, and takes up 84.7 MB.
Earlier this week, Slipper Missile turned a mum’s flying slipper into a free browser game.
